Thresholder, ch 183, What Remains
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Richter had been a fan of cryonics, and talked about it often. She had plenty of money, and had set herself up to be frozen after she died,...
2025-11-11 00:21:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thresholder, ch 182, We Have a YouTube Channel
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Perry had always known that politics was an absolute fucking nightmare, but he hadn’t realized how bad it was on the inside until he star...
2025-11-05 07:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 181, Home Movies
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Perry was passing through Spokane when he decided that he was going home after all. There was no particular impetus for it, except that the...
2025-11-03 20:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 180, Back to the Future
I'm really trying to get Thresholder finished while not rushing what the narrative demands. Because the schedule is shot to hell, the chapters will be...
2025-11-01 21:40:51 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 179, Quarry
We're getting there.
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Perry was braced near the exit hatch for the whole last part of the trip as Dirk guided them down into the crevasse...
2025-10-29 20:49:31 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 178, Visions
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With Grayspear dead, Anaksi wasn’t needed inside the shelf space. She was welcomed aboard the Farfinder, assigned a bunk, and gi...
2025-10-11 00:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 177, Conflict
This is not how one wants to read/write a web serial, I'm aware of that. (Agares should be publishing its next batch soon, I regret introducing submar...
2025-09-20 19:38:16 +0000 UTC View PostAGARES, Release 6
My plan is to finish up the arc (almost certainly next release) and then do some edits, particularly some continuity stuff. I've been slightly distrac...
2025-08-14 20:51:19 +0000 UTC View PostAGARES, Release 5
We're back! Slight delay on this one that was caused by me reading through (and working on) The Timewise Tales, a novel I wrote and never finished back in 2011. I'm planning to put a few more words into that to try to get it ready for a Patreon-only release: it's early, flawed, but readable, and the main character arcs are basically done, it just needs to capstone, plus a little not-too-serious massaging.
Anyway, this is AGARES, ch 35-42, 22k words.
Thresholder, ch 176, Culture Clash
My aim is for a new chapter of Thresholder at least once a week, ideally on Mondays (today is Tuesday).
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Perry came out of th...
2025-07-22 21:21:55 +0000 UTC View PostAGARES, Release 4
Finally back home. The smart thing to do would be to space out the releases a bit to prepare for any potential times of famine, but nah, not going to do that, really trying to reduce the amount that this project in particular feels like doing work (which currently is ... mostly none?).
This is ch 30-34, ~15K words.
2025-07-20 18:03:28 +0000 UTC View PostAGARES, Release 3
Just got done with a family reunion at a cabin in the woods with no wifi and just my crappy little laptop, now at a different relative's house for a visit, but with an actual desk. I have a rule that I shouldn't post things while traveling unless they're cued and ready to go, but what is AGARES if not breaking rules?
I'm going to try to break these into manageable chunks for posting purposes. Right now, the master copy of AGARES is sitting at 92K words, which would be, uh 35K words sinc...
2025-07-19 20:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostAGARES, Release 2
I've been thinking a little bit about how these releases are going to look, and have decided that each is going to be their own doc, even though I'm writing this all in One Big Doc. Hopefully that works for you. I'll also be doing an epub, which is just a quick and dirty "save as epub" that hopefully GDocs has a good implementation of. Plausibly there will be "the whole thing" checkpoints, I don't know about that, I'm really trying to keep my overhead low on this.
Avant-Garde Autopilot Rotogravure Express: System-Go!
I shared in the update five days ago that I was working on an idea that had taken me, that of a litRPG that's written from the point of view of the System. It has a long name now, which is never to be referenced: just call it Agares or AGARES if you must (the "Go!" is a directive, like you're throwing a Poké Ball).
I wasn't sure whether I was going to write more of it, but I wrote another 32K words in the last five days.
And you can 2025-07-05 21:20:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Thresholder, Book 3: Esperide
The third book of Thresholder is now out on Amazon in ebook, KU, and audiobook species. Audiobook will follow at some later date. Editing on this was largely copy-editing, with not many changes to the overall flow and content, in part because I was quite happy with this how this book turned out.
As always, any reviews are highly appreciated.
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2025-07-05 20:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate
INT. Therapist’s Office. THRESHOLDER sits on one end of the couch, while ALEXANDER sits on the other. The therapist, JESSICA, sits across from them with a notebook and a pen.
JESSICA: Alright, we said that we would take a little time. How has it been?
ALEXANDER: If I’m being honest, it’s been one of the most productive two months of my life.
THRESHOLDER: (rolling eyes) Right.
JESSICA: But you haven’t been working on Thresholder, is that right?
THRESHOLDER...
2025-06-30 18:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 175, Repairs
It's been a while, sorry. I was in Berkeley for LessOnline/Manifest, and got a lot of work done on things that weren't Thresholder, maybe bec...
2025-06-12 17:09:21 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder: The Great Arc, now in ebook!
The second book of Thresholder, the Great Arc, is now available on Amazon as ebook, paperback, and on Kindle Unlimited!
If you've been holding off on reading it, Thresholder is divided up into different worlds, and this is the second major arc, following Perry as he visits a xianxia ringworld. It's got martial arts, fan-favorite Maya Singh, some of ...
2025-05-20 13:46:57 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 174, Rescue from Without
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Perry flew out from the city. He had the jar with the piece of yarn, and held it away from his body, but the link to Queenie was silent. Hi...
2025-05-19 23:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 173, The Eight Worlds of Queenie, pt 2
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I got spat out with the rifle and worried that it would be taken from me straight away, but I was in a forest with big old trees, not in a ...
2025-05-13 19:23:35 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 172, The Eight Worlds of Queenie, pt 1
Turns out that I'm still sick. No idea what the body is doing right now, but I had a fever last night for some stupid reason and my joints were all ac...
2025-05-06 21:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 171, Trades
I'm still recovering from being sick, back to about 90% capacity by my best estimation. My best guess is still that it was influenza, so I'm drinking ...
2025-04-29 20:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostOut Sick
I was feeling a little bit sick when I posted the last chapter a week ago, and had joked with my wife that it was one of the weakest colds that I'd ever had ... and then I just kept getting worse. I'm fairly sure now that it was influenza, our whole house had it, and my son ended up with dual ear infections. I'm on the mend now, at maybe 70% capacity.
I have a policy of not doing publishable writing when I'm sick, mostly because I think that it comes out bad, which makes sense, because ...
2025-04-25 17:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 170, The Great Awakening
Alright, I made this post twice, because my mouse has been double-clicking for whatever reason, and the "Next" button gets immediately replaced by the...
2025-04-17 21:24:49 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 169, On Practical Applications of Knowledge
Sorry for the late chapter, I'm traveling and just didn't get as much editing time on the plane as I thought I would. (I've also been working on editi...
2025-03-30 18:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, Book 1, now on Amazon
The first book of Thresholder is now available on Amazon, either through Kindle Unlimited, for regular ebook purchase, as a paperback, or as a full cast audiobook. As previously mentioned when I posted the ebook here for patrons, the newly revised first book has a lot of extra content, mostly to flesh out the early part of the story and be more of an "action flash forward" then "in media res".
2025-03-25 20:51:05 +0000 UTC
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Thresholder, ch 168, Returned to Sender
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The first stop of the night was at the workshop, so Marchand could do a sonic scan of the device. This didn’t take terribly long, and Per...
2025-03-25 20:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 167, Compromised
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Inside Perry’s hotel room, two women were failing the Bechdel test.
“The front desk didn’t report him leaving,” said one of t...
2025-03-21 19:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 166, Midnight Rituals
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The moon was shattered across the sky. In places, you could see the remnants of a curve, but the whole thing had come apart, like a goblet ...
2025-03-17 08:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 165, The Cloven Soul
If you haven't been following the Worth the Candle webcomic, it's 2025-03-12 07:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post