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Bonus Fanart (The Weirkey Chronicles)

I screwed up and posted twice. See this post for the chapters, while this one will remain for the fanart from Runcible Technician.

Bondsfungi: Chapters 37-38 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

NOTE: I need more feedback from NGM audiobook listeners. If you have been getting me feedback but haven't covered all the chapters yet, I'm not talking about you (no rush). Those who aren't responding, I hope to hear from you. If this doesn't work, I may need to ask for new volunteers.

Anyway, we are getting into the climactic chapters of Bondsfungi. I generally intended these to be read all at once, and hope readers will be binging by this point, but you'll get the climax in pieces. 2022-05-28 16:48:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Bondsfungi: Chapters 35-36 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

Two pieces of fanart from the subreddit that I forgot to post earlier.

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Chapter 35

Fiyu didn't know what Friend Nauda and Friend Theo had discussed on the first day, but it seemed to have broken down the last barrier between them. The way Friend Nauda carried her pain inside still troubled Fiyu slightly, but she was immensely grateful that Friend Theo was present to help. S...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 33-34 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

I wasn't sure about sharing this, but I value honesty, so I should inform you that my mother has died. This is the end of a long struggle with cancer, so it's not a shock. I'm not requesting sympathy, and you shouldn't feel obligated to comment on this, I'm just letting you know that I won't be prompt in responding to messages.

This chapter was prescheduled and I have prescheduled the next several weeks as well, so chapters should continue without interruption. Please feel free to comme...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 31-32 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

Heads up for NGM audiobook volunteers: you should have received messages from me this weekend. Some have had trouble finding the private message function on Patreon, but if I commented to you about this, take a look! There's no great urgency from my end, but narrators generally want to wrap up projects quickly.

Meanwhile, for everyone, we have more fanart renders from Runcible Technician! This isn't even all of the ones that have been on the Discord, just some I picked out as fun. ^-^ 2022-05-07 19:47:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Bondsfungi: Chapters 29-30 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

We've had such a long string of chapters with fanart, it feels almost weird to go back to normal. Anyway, the chapters this week continue to ramp things up, so I can only apologize about the cliffhangers. I believe this will read smoothly when read all at once, but all of you are going to have to endure a little longer.

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Chapter 29

With every day, Fiyu felt increasing tensions between herself and the remainder of her group. She desperately wished to travel ...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 27-28 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

Runcible Technician hasn't stopped with the fanart renders! More Fiyu and Nauda this time. ^-^

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Chapter 27

The rain hammering into the earth didn't seem to impede the bugs in the slightest, which meant its only effect was to make Nauda miserable. She'd finally managed to escape the majority of them after days of running, with numerous cuts and bites for her efforts. But since the pulsing heart within her heartoak prevented her from bleeding much, they seeme...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 25-26 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

If you didn't see on Discord, Runcible Technician made more fan renders, so I've put them here. ^-^

Meanwhile, there was also a post about NGM audiobooks. That's not going to be the most exciting process, but it will be moving forward. Good to have that done for fans of my earliest series.

All that said, we have chapters like normal. ...

The New Game Minus audiobooks need your votes! (and maybe more)

Coming to you mid-week with something different, so that it doesn't distract from the regular ongoing chapters. Anybody with an opinion on audiobooks can jump in with their opinion, and I could potentially use one or two volunteers with more time/interest.

For those who don't know, New Game Minus was my first trilogy. The narrator chosen for the series did a solid jo...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 23-24 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

The Rainhorn audiobook is out, so we're back to the normal chapter schedule. Please do consider leaving a review or upvoting high quality reviews, if you haven't. Best to get some positive and/or thoughtfully critical reviews upvoted before the first "1/5 lame" review appears.

One more thing before the chapters: we have another piece of fanart! This one is a CG Fiyu, made by patron Runcible ...

Rainhorn is out on Audible!

Travis Baldree has completed the narration of the second book! Please do check it out here:

https://www.audible.com/pd/B09X1YBNFV 

To celebrate, I am... spending my entire weekend on promotion, like this, 2022-04-02 17:11:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Bondsfungi: Chapters 21-22 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

A patron asked me to share their post on the subreddit. I thought this was a nice idea, so if you're interested in seeing more fanart of any of my work, consider leaving suggestions.

Other news: the second audiobook will be coming out soon! Please look forward to that, and support if you want to hear Travis Baldree's Senka voice.

Mea...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 19-20 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

I just posted an essay over at r/progressionfantasy if you want to read it! Just a few thoughts on the subgenre I tried to articulate in a useful way.

Advance apologies that the remainder of this book is going to include more cliffhangers than usual. I think switching between plots will read well in full book form, and hopefully give the back ...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 17-18 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

We've hit a milestone, everyone: Soulhome has passed 1000 ratings on Amazon! A year ago, none of my series had hit 500, and now even the newest book in TWC has passed it. Thank you all for your support. ^-^

I wish that I had some kind of celebration prepared, but nothing is ready. Ages ago I did promise a few people that if a series of mine hit 1000, I'd post another ess...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 15-16 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

I was encouraged to see the positive reaction to last week's chapters. ^-^ Because people generally enjoyed them, of course, but also because of how that ties into my broader plans.

When I was planning this series, before I had written the first, I knew that this set of books would be a potential point of conflict. If I was following the standard model, where the books are largely focused on a protagonist who advances as fast as possible, then the wise decision would have been to compre...

Cover Artist #2 Voting

Take a look at this hypothetical cover for TWC6 (name redacted, sorry):

They also made an alternate version with pencil stylings for the papers:

The artist used the previous covers as references and the goal is to match styles. Please leave an anonymous vote below, but you're welcome to leave com...

Cover Artist #1 Voting

Take a look at this hypothetical cover for Bondsfungi:

The artist used the previous covers as references and the goal is to match styles. Please leave an anonymous vote below, but you're welcome to leave comments as well. I hope to work with one of these two artists, but will go back to the drawing board if necessary.

Bondsfungi: Chapters 13-14 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

Today's update will be a little unusual. Due to the limits on how many things you can put in one Patreon post, I need to make several (First Cover, Second Cover). These are non-trivial: I have been working to find replacement artists for TWC covers! There will be two poll posts in which you can see the new covers and vote on them. Feel f...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 11-12 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

Early chapters because I may get too busy later today.

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Chapter 11

Over the course of his lives across multiple worlds, Theo had stepped into a number of dressing rooms, but never with anything at stake. Technically he stood in the dressing room of Hessika and Oland's shop, but as he pulled the items of clothing on one at a time, he stepped into his soul and did some of the most delicate soulcrafting of his life.

The problem was that he was working wi...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 9-10 (The Weirkey Chronicles) + TBS3 Cover

First, check out the image above! This is my design for the cover of the third book in The Brightest Shadow. While I'm pretty happy with the overall concept, and this WIP is mostly done, it's still a WIP. Feel free to mention anything that looks off, or just your thoughts in general.

As for this week's chapters, they include some information that has been withheld for a long time (though it's not what everyone is speculating about lately). This subplot began in the third book and will e...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 7-8 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

The AMA is still ongoing! It's quieted down enough that I hopefully won't bungle this chapter upload, but I expect continued activity for some time.

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Chapter 7

The auction house was a terrible place to read, which made Theo feel foolish with a book in his hands. It would have been even worse on the main floor, instead of i...

I'm doing an AMA with four other fantasy authors!

The headline is in the title: r/fantasy invited me to one of their AMA-styled panels, so please stop by if you want to ask me something. There are also four other authors who write progression fantasy, some of them much more popular than I am, so check it out!

Links and info:

• The AMA link: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/slbma0/stabby...
  2022-02-05 17:22:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Bondsfungi: Chapters 5-6 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

Release periods are not healthy for me mentally. Chasmfall is selling better than Archcrafter, lots of new people are enjoying Soulhome, and the Patreon is over 600 people for the first time. All of that is good, but my productivity is shot.

Fortunately, many chapters of TWC5 are prepared. Thanks to everyone who has enjoyed the series. ^-^

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Chapter 5

Under six months until the Ruling City Wargames. Every morning when Theo awoke he mentally counted the...

Chasmfall Release Time!

The fourth book is finally out on Amazon! Link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QK2DPMX 

One of you has already left a review, and I'm very grateful for that! Reviews, copies, or reading on Kindle Unlimited all help. I've been saying this everywhere, but I'm crossing my fingers that the people who have caught up on the series will give the new book a try. TWC has reached more readers than any...

Soulcrafting 103

Lamsey actually created this last year, there just hasn't been a free week to release it until now! Reminder: you should see 14 images, not just one. There should be a slideshow feature.

The plan is to release the fourth book next weekend! Please look forward to announcements of that, but I suppose I'll leave further information for later. That said, I think the tutorial should stand pretty well on its own, so I'll leave it there. Hope you enjoy. ^-^

Bondsfungi: Chapters 3-4 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

We're getting close to the release of the fourth book, but it looks like I can squeeze a couple more chapters in. Hope you enjoy!

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Chapter 3

The city of Saan Fraskin was shaded for the majority of the day thanks to the enormous half-sphere of stone that curved over the seaward side of the city. Where the coastal location might make a city a valuable port on another world, on Fithe it caused a war zone. In times long past the defensive wall had been created ...

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2022, everyone! By coincidence, Saturday falls on the first day of the year.

As I write this between 2021 and 2022, I find myself on other kinds of fences as well. This year gave me some reasons for cynicism, but there's also been an outpouring of enthusiasm for TWC. I'll do the best I can in 2022 and we'll see how things go.

Here's what you can expect over the coming year:

TWC4 Release: It's happening later this month! A ton of new people have go...

Holiday presents!

Happy holidays, everyone! Wherever and whenever this post finds you, I hope that you're doing well. ^-^ I come bearing presents, with something for every tier:

• Above, you can see fancy new blueprint images for Theo and Nauda, again courtesy of Lamsey. Theo is getting near the completion of the first stage of his blueprint, Nauda has a huge amount of rebuilding in store for her in the next book, and Fiyu will get a major focus in the book after that!
• For $5 backers, I've f...
  2021-12-25 17:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Chasmfall (TWC4) Patron Rewards

This is some time after the chapters ended, but it took time to put together the final versions of the fourth book. As usual, I've provided PDF, mobi, and epub versions in a little bundle so they're more convenient to read:

https://mega.nz/file/isVhVCjL#E4kGetgKwF19qdWXvu6TDW2aiibG9pEYHl_9gh3HT2g 

There will be an official Amazon release, but this is for patrons. ...

Bondsfungi: Chapters 1-2 (The Weirkey Chronicles)

Nothing like an audiobook launch to erode my motivation. It might be premature to make calculations now, but the numbers so far look disappointing. Of course, I'll keep my promise of doing audiobooks for the first three books, and I'm in this for the long haul. I'm mainly disgruntled about the book being (in my opinion) misrepresented by angry readers.

The current phase will pass as I focus on creative work. B...