Thresholder, ch 164, Snipe Hunt
A note on scheduling: this was supposed to be the Monday chapter, but it ended up going too long, which is why it became a Thursday chapter. The sched...
2025-03-06 21:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thresholder, ch 163, Collegium
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The Collegium had a large campus in the city, and a fair bit of what might have been green space if not for the pollution. The trees strugg...
2025-03-01 20:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 162, The Fallen City, pt. 2
This was incorrectly posted at ch 161, I had just mistitled the document.
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Perry flew up from the hotel room, back in armor for the fi...
2025-02-25 22:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 161, The Fallen City, pt 1
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The rest of the train ride to Charlonion was uneventful, though that wasn’t to say that there weren’t things to see and learn about. 2025-02-23 03:52:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Thresholder, ch 160, Dreams of the Otherworld
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There were three options on the table with regard to the Inspectors.
Hiding would be easy with the shelf space. Perry could slip in t...
2025-02-19 00:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, Book 1, now available for preorder, and for you
The fully edited first book of Thresholder is available for preorder on Amazon, and will be published on March 25th. It's going to be on Kindle Unlimited, which means getting stubbed on RoyalRoad. The new version of the story has an extra 30K words, roughly six extra chapters, mostly detailing Perry's time in the first two worlds. It's also been rearranged so that the chapters happen more chronologically.
And y...
2025-02-15 22:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 159, A Bath of Light
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The shelf space had been stocked with clothes for women as well as men. That had been the work of a team that Perry hadn’t consulted with...
2025-02-15 19:41:35 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 158, Verdant Moon
Sorry for the late chapter, I rewrote the ending and then got mired in editing. So far, I would say the whole "being back on track in terms of output"...
2025-02-11 20:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 157, Bar Belle
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Marchand was set up in two places. The body was set up, fully assembled, holding a rifle, in Perry’s rented bedroom. He had instructions ...
2025-02-07 01:25:39 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 156, Our Town
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The train was in the station and sitting idle. At some point the day before the engine and the big tank behind it had been moved so that th...
2025-02-03 22:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 155, Walking the Line
Do you like short stories? 2025-01-31 03:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Thresholder, ch 154, Narrow Paths
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Perry didn’t know what “stop them” meant, but he hadn’t even been issued with a weapon, and barely had control of his horse. He had...
2025-01-27 22:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 153, Life on the Range
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Perry sat and listened to stories. He’d gone down to the general store and bought a pencil, a whittling knife to sharpen it with, and a b...
2025-01-23 17:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 152, Strange Company
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“These are the Duelists,” said Wyatt as they walked down the main stretch of Grabler’s Gulch. Buildings stood on either side of the r...
2025-01-20 19:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 151, Tracked
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Perry came out into a world that was completely dark, and it took two whole seconds for him to realize that he didn’t even have a HUD. He...
2025-01-16 17:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 150, Epilogue: Release Valves
It's the end of the world as we know it.
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Casper dressed well for the confrontation, in a tailored suit that he’d procured from one ...
2025-01-13 18:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 149, Epilogue: The Wolf and the Lady Knight
One interlude/epilogue chapter left, then off to Book 5, which I am eager to start work on for that fresh world smell.
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In the end, th...
2025-01-10 19:46:08 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 148, The Charts Unfolded
One epilogue and one interlude left, though I might combine them, or not do one. In case you're curious on the distinction, I think an epilogue as bei...
2025-01-07 06:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 147, Rebound
For whatever reason, this chapter was hell to write. I am really hoping that the next few chapters are not.
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They tested first, before...
2024-12-31 21:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 146, The Flood
Another one of those chapters that, by word count, should probably have been two chapters. This chapter is the third of this "set", the next one will ...
2024-12-10 21:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 145, Stress Fracture
A chapter! Really trying to get back on the horse as far as output is concerned, especially with the holidays coming up, which are always a slow time ...
2024-11-25 20:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 144, Stopgap
There was originally an author's note here, it got moved to it...
2024-11-18 21:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder Update/Notes
Note: This was originally going to be the author's note for the chapter, but it got long, mostly because it's a bunch of stuff I've been thinking about. This is also public, rather than patron-only, so if you have a comment, no current-chapter details please.
I am very tempted to just present this chapter without comment, because I think "writing's not going so well" posts are terrible to both write and read. But I've also been trying to diagnose, so ...
Moderate ...
2024-11-18 21:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostWorth the Candle Update
Worth the Candle is getting stubbed: largely removed from all online platforms to comply with Kindle Unlimited terms. This is for money reasons, and to ensure that the audio books will get made. This means you have a few days to do any archival efforts, such as downloading comments (I have not read many of the comments on AO3 or RR and have no idea if there's anything of value there) or making a copy of the text for personal use.
To comply with Kindle Unlimited terms, it'l...
2024-10-14 06:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 143, Full Contact, pt 2
I have decided that part of the problem with writing is, in fact, Thresholder, or at least writing this part of it. I sit down to write and i...
2024-10-11 08:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 142, Full-Contact, pt 1
Writing continues to be glacially slow. I worry that I've lost a few IQ points somewhere, or that something inside my brain has snapped and broken, which I don't think is a thing that can actual...
2024-09-21 20:14:04 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 141, Expulsion
Well, the good news is that the editing for Thresholder vol. 1 is finished. It's about 30K more words, and reorganized so that everything is in chronological order, and I'll have it to you as so...
2024-09-03 21:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 140, Wag the Dog
Hey, it's a chapter!
I think I'm done with that particular bout of depression, at least so far as I understand my mental state. Got pretty bad there, not going to lie. Now it's just a matt...
2024-08-13 09:46:35 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 139, Queensman
Hey, sorry for the delays, it's the depression. I've been having some ups and downs, and mostly downs. I think part of it is that the depression makes...
2024-07-28 09:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 138, Waiting Games
My apologies again for the inconsistency of the chapters, I've been stressed out and depressed. I've been trying to write some side things to get the ...
2024-07-18 06:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post