Hi everyone! Lots of discussion around Juliet's use of the lattice lately. I kind of addressed this already at the start of the last post, but after reading what people had to say, I've come away with a bit clearer picture of what I should do going forward. In the past, Juliet has expressed her concerns about reading people's minds for ethical reasons, but she's getting over that, at least where critical information is concerned. Now, I've been trying to hint at the difficulty she...
2023-09-06 10:22:35 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy the chapter - a lot of quick scene shifts, and I feel it might seem disjointed. Let me know if it reads badly, please.
-Plum
Victor was alone in his travel home, sitting on the floor of one of the empty rooms in the basement. He had several tasks to accomplish, and for the first time in a while, he’d told everyone to get on without him. He’d given Kethelket his objective, and the Naghelli prince was working w...
2023-09-05 14:19:11 +0000 UTC
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Have a great week! Love to hear the speculation and the feedback. It's true, Juliet didn't use her psionic abilities much at the bar, and she could have probably stomached spending more time listening to Ray and Larry's thoughts. Let's all remember something, though - those guys were Nick's people. Juliet had no plans to work with either of them. To her, Ray was just a guy she had to tolerate for the evening out. Larry might have been more interesting, but, again, he wasn't there ...
2023-09-04 10:41:12 +0000 UTC
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Whew! It's been a very Victor-centric weekend. I'm ready to write some Cyber Dreams tomorrow :)
Hope you all enjoyed the chapter dump. I'm glad to finally have something to offer my tier-3 Victor supporters.
See you soon,
Plum
“A fire?” Edeya frowned, looking out over the parapet, over the rough ground to the distant milling throng of the undead.
2023-09-03 20:13:46 +0000 UTC
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10/10 for tier 3!
Enjoy! Don't worry - I know it's Sunday, and I owe you another chapter. It'll be here later today. :)
-Plum
“There were beasts and monsters; at least, that’s how Prince Hector characterized them. I wasn’t with his vanguard—I didn’t see the initial settlement. I was allowed through the portal nearly six months after his conquest began. That’s why I’m here, ...
2023-09-03 11:19:59 +0000 UTC
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9/10 for tier 3!
Thanks for reading :)
“What it boils down to,” Victor sighed, closing the command book, the Farscribe book he shared with Rellia, Borrius, and Lam, “is that we need more information. I think I need to speak to Victoria.”
“Isn’t it odd? Her name? I’ve never heard one like it before I met you.” Valla and he sat together in his library. Victor had set up his travel home inside the co...
2023-09-03 10:53:08 +0000 UTC
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8/10 for tier 3! Yay!
Enjoy the chapter :)
Victor didn’t wait for the soldiers to respond or for any of their leaders, Sarl included, to rush forward with questions that might delay their movements. He didn’t know exactly how long Victoria’s command to halt the undead would last, but she’d said minutes, and they were several miles from the keep. They had to move. “Let’s go! Let’s go!” he roared, turning and stompi...
2023-09-03 10:17:04 +0000 UTC
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Yay! 7/10 for tier 3.
Enjoy~
Valla looked to her Core, saw her Energy was dwindling, and cut short her plan to launch another lightning strike into the pack of ghouls that harried one of Victor’s coyotes. The brave, white-gold hounds were beset, as were she and Kethelket. If she looked further than the small circle they made around Victor, she knew the other Naghelli and, likely, the Ninth were also overwhelmed; ther...
2023-09-03 09:23:50 +0000 UTC
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Good Morning! 6/10 for tier 3.
The climb to the top of the keep’s wall was brutal, but whatever had been bombarding him on the ground had stopped, so Victor was thankful for small mercies. He wondered if perhaps the defenders so high up couldn’t see him clinging to the shadows of the black stone monoliths that made up the keep’s wall, especially now that the mist seemed to have made a reappearance, crowding the light of his banner, making it di...
2023-09-03 08:49:33 +0000 UTC
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5/10 for tier 3. Maybe the last one tonight - if so, you'll get the rest tomorrow :)
Cheers,
Plum
“You can’t do it here!” Valla gestured around the forest, at the mists pushing against the light of his banner like it was some kind of palpable barrier.
“I’m not going all the way back to the keep. Besides, the Ninth will be here soon, and you know Borrius and the others are...
2023-09-02 20:25:01 +0000 UTC
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Here we go! Taking a break to do some shopping. See you with another in a few hours.
4/10 for tier three.
-Plum
Victor grunted as he lifted his helm to his head. He stood outside the gates, Guapo huffing out plumes of hot breath in the chilly morning air. The idea of his spirit horse breathing hot air brought a lot of questions to his mind, but he was distracted from the thought as Valla...
2023-09-02 18:47:46 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy! :)
Victor soon realized he’d been missing out when it came to weapons practice; he’d had access to Kethelket ever since the battle on the plains with the Ridonne, and he’d squandered that time. The Naghelli prince was a dervish with his blades, easily outclassing Victor’s other sparring partners. He was faster, more versatile, and somehow just as strong as Polo. With Midnight, Valla’s skill level was described as “epic,” but Kethelket soon ...
2023-09-02 18:25:39 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy the chapter! Love to hear your thoughts :)
-Plum
Victor wasn’t sure what time he and Valla finally fell asleep. If the soldiers returned, they didn’t bother him, and when he slept, Valla’s soft hair tickling his nose, sharing the same pillow, he’d really slept, deep and untroubled. When he woke, Valla was awake, but she was sitting in bed beside him, writing in one of her Farscribe books. She smiled at him, raising ...
2023-09-02 17:00:43 +0000 UTC
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Exciting days, Victor of Tucson readers! I've finally managed to complete ten additional chapters of VOT and will be posting them for my tier-3 patrons throughout the day today, tomorrow, and maybe Monday. I'm done WRITING the chapters, but not editing. That's why I'm not just posting them all at once. It takes me some time to get through each one as I do my editing pass, so even if I sit at my computer until I'm done, it will take me 10 hours or so. Spoiler alert - I'm not going ...
2023-09-02 16:18:10 +0000 UTC
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The plot thickens . . .
Love to hear your thoughts :)
-Plum
A few drinks and a time-out imposed by the rest of the table pointedly ignoring him did wonders for Ray’s demeanor. Juliet found herself laughing along, listening with interest as Nick and his friends talked about the “old days” when they ran a lot of escort jobs together. She’d been snacking on salty, fried foods from o...
2023-09-01 09:05:36 +0000 UTC
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Here's today's chapter! Let me know what you think :)
-Plum
Lesh’ro’zellan sat by his solitary campfire, and he contemplated. Campfire was a generous term for the handful of smoldering coals and hot rocks. He sat upon a partially petrified log, more stone than wood, and he gently caressed the smooth, polished handle of Belagog, his cudgel. His mind was in turmoil, his usual drive blunted, his heart and soul torn, a...
2023-08-31 12:27:43 +0000 UTC
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Hi, everyone! I noticed that Patreon implemented something called "collections." I don't think I saw this yesterday, so I think it's brand new. They took the "tags" link off the main page (at least for me), so you'll want to click on "collections" to find the book you're currently reading. I've tried to organize them with the most recent books first.
On another note, you might notice the Victor of Tucson Book 4 title and artwork in the collections tab. I think it's pretty cool and proba...
2023-08-30 12:50:50 +0000 UTC
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Good morning, everyone! I hope you enjoy this chapter. I'm trying to showcase a little of Juliet's character growth here. I realize we're on chapter 17 already, but I'm still kind of setting the stage for the "main event" of book 4. There's more to come from this scene at The Raptor Haus.
-Plum
Juliet looked down the narrow, dark street to the bright yellow and blue neon sign proclaiming the building ahead as the Rapto...
2023-08-30 12:27:00 +0000 UTC
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Some more action! I'm glad many of you seemed to enjoy the last chapter; I had a lot of fun writing it. This one was fun, too, but sometimes I get a feeling when I write a chapter, like, "Oh, this is a good one." 6.14 was one of those. Still, I'm enjoying this whole arc; hope you all are too.
It's Tuesday, and on Saturday, I'm hoping to finish the last chapter for tier-3 Victor supporters. That means I'll start releasing them right away, but it won'...
2023-08-29 12:11:28 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy the chapter, everyone. Happy to hear your thoughts.
-Plum
Juliet tried to keep her breaths steady and even, in and out through her nose, watching the readouts and tracking the little blips on the colorful, three-dimensional proximity display at the lower center of her AUI. She’d learned, riding with Nick in the pilot’s seat, that if she breathed too heavily inside her helmet, hot condensation would accumulate...
2023-08-28 12:05:41 +0000 UTC
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And the fighting continues!
-Plum
“Are you mad? We have no mounts! We’ll be caught flatfooted, outnumbered, fools for their feint!” Sarl’s face betrayed the conflict he felt, standing up to Victor, a man to whom he owed so much.
“They aren’t feinting, Sarl! They must have scouts or magic or . . . something! They must know that the fifth cohort is coming around from the east. They’ll crush them, just...
2023-08-27 09:54:27 +0000 UTC
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Something of an interlude chapter. Enjoy!
PS - I'll be making some revisions to the last couple of chapters to change the fact that Juliet and Nick aren't wearing helmets in his interceptor. Some people have pointed out, rightly, that it would be a silly risk to take when there's a good chance your hull could be breached.
Thanks!
-Plum
Juliet sat in the crowded diner...
2023-08-25 11:41:15 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy the fighting! No rest for our tired heroes . . .
-Plum
At the baron’s words, Victor pounced. His already smoldering rage flared like coals under a bellows, and, in his blood-red vision, he could focus on only one thing: the cowardly liar with the smoking, bleeding flesh before him. In the light of his banner, much of the baron’s supernatural vitality seemed to have fled, and when Victor fell upon him, he smas...
2023-08-24 12:49:40 +0000 UTC
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Man, second night of insomnia this week. Well, enjoy the chapter! If I don't respond much today, it's because my brain finally turned off, and I fell asleep :D Let me know if this chapter's action is understandable. I tried to make it a little hectic to convey Juliet's POV.
-Plum
Juliet stood in the lobby adjacent to Lady Hawk’s berth on Callisto and looked at the little, wedge-shaped ship through the viewpo...
2023-08-23 08:10:48 +0000 UTC
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Here's a bloody one. Enjoy!
-Plum
Victor and Eric circled each other, Lifedrinker light and ready to strike, held crosswise before Victor while Eric deftly stroked the air as if testing it with his broad blade of black smoke. Victor definitely had a reach advantage on the smaller man, but he wanted to test him, wanted to see what sort of style he would fight with. Was he about to face another lightning-fast opponent, or was the d...
2023-08-22 11:59:40 +0000 UTC
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Here's today's chapter! Enjoy - Do me a favor and help me decide if the date I picked for the mission card makes sense. I know I could go back and meticulously try to calculate things (I still might,) but I figure if we're in the ballpark, it's probably good, right? I know she was doing the Grave job around Novemberish in 2107, right? Maybe June for this job is too far? Witness one of my weaknesses - remembering numbers and dates.
-Plum
2023-08-21 11:40:40 +0000 UTC
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Making his available to my patrons between the takedown on RR and the release on KU. By the way, it comes out on 9/18 :)
Don't forget: this is the rough copy from RR - no copyedits, etc.
Cheers,
Plum
2023-08-21 11:07:59 +0000 UTC
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Here's today's installment! Enjoy :)
-Plum
The place was abuzz with activity when Victor, Valla, and Edeya burst into the courtyard. Soldiers were hurrying to the ramparts, and sergeants were shouting orders. Victor scanned the area for Sarl, but too many people in similar uniforms crowded the confines between the rampart walls. Finally, his eyes settled on a thicker cluster of Naghelli on the ramparts over the gate, a...
2023-08-20 07:05:08 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday, all. I hope you enjoy this chapter - it was kind of fun to write. Let me know what you think!
-Plum
“How long ‘til we ship out?” Juliet had a comfortable buzz, was on her second beer, and found herself feeling more relaxed, her smiles coming easier in the club as she listened to Nick talk about his ship, his time flying with Alice and life in general around Jupiter.
“Got an escort job starti...
2023-08-18 12:57:02 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy the chapter!
-Plum
Victor hung the flag, or banner, he supposed, over his shoulder and looked around at the expectant faces of the soldiers gathered in the courtyard. “Well done, everyone! We’ve captured our first outpost and driven the enemy deeper into their conquered lands. Once again, the legion has the exploits of the Glorious Ninth to live up to!”
The soldiers cheered his words, pumping fi...
2023-08-17 09:42:25 +0000 UTC
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