[Author's Note - This is the Royal Road story I have planned, foreshadowed, and talked about. In the timeline of the Divine Apostasy series, this story starts at the end of The Eighth Harmony. It runs parallel to the Divine Apostasy series and there is overlap between the two stories. I hope you enjoy it.]
Chapter 3
“That’s rude,” the girl replied in perfect Spanish. She looked up and locked eyes with Ash. “And also, true.”
Ash swallowed hard. He’d had no indicat...
2024-02-03 10:12:51 +0000 UTC
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[Author's Note - This is the Royal Road story I have planned, foreshadowed, and talked about. In the timeline of the Divine Apostasy series, this story starts at the end of The Eighth Harmony. It runs parallel to the Divine Apostasy series and there is overlap between the two stories. I hope you enjoy it.]
Chapter 2
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2024-02-03 10:10:36 +0000 UTC
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[Author's Note - This is the Royal Road story I have planned, foreshadowed, and talked about. In the timeline of the Divine Apostasy series, this story starts at the end of The Eighth Harmony. It runs parallel to the Divine Apostasy series and there is overlap between this story and book 9 around chapter 11 or 12. I hope you enjoy it.]
Chapter 1
Ash knelt next to the open bedroom window careful not to let himself be visible from outside. He leaned against his stuffed bug-out-bag a...
2024-02-03 10:06:53 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
I started on the final revision this week for book nine, and I only have two weeks left before Travis will need it. I commissioned a map of Grave, which is something I know everyone has wanted for a long time. I’ll post the progress as I get it.
The major items in book ten are mostly identified, and once the revision of book nine is done I’ll get those book ten beats finalized.
As book nine comes to a close, I naturally get asked questions about how long the series w...
2024-01-27 08:19:12 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-27 08:17:25 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-27 08:12:18 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-27 08:08:25 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
The most exciting thing to happen this week was that I got the cover back for book 10. I think after tonight’s chapters everyone will know what it’s named. I’ll post it in a couple of weeks when it is all finalized. I think it turned out awesome and I hope you agree. For the first time, I’ll have a pre-order available for a book before the previous one releases.
I expect edits to come back on book 9 late this week and then I’ll have around two weeks to go over the en...
2024-01-20 06:18:24 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-20 06:16:22 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-20 06:07:57 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-20 06:03:24 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
This week I greatly expanded the Prologue of Book 9 and sent in my ideas for the Book 10 cover to the artist. The rest of the time was spent on the Royal Road book as I solidified some world-building items that caused some rewriting of what I did six months ago.
As you probably saw from my posts, I had to get on TikTok because someone was impersonating me and contacting other authors to try and sell them a marketing service. Probably the same people did this to me on Instagram...
2024-01-13 09:11:50 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-13 09:09:18 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-13 09:06:34 +0000 UTC
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[Author's note-fixed the years in the mental step training error mentioned in the comments.]
Prologue
Rami exited Xavier’s energy chamber and transformed from her Celestial form into her natural one before tapping her chest with a claw, activating a hidden tattoo. A portal appeared that led to her lair, and she flew through it, exiting two hundred fifty thousand miles above the planet’s surface. Fractal had needed something to practice his tattoo crafting skills on and she had...
2024-01-13 09:01:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey!
I finally handed off book 9 to the editor. It ended up being the longest book to date, coming in at 180k words. That is 10k longer than the previous record held by The Sixth Rune. It also has the longest chapter I’ve ever written, which I couldn’t break up because it’s the epilogue. So the epilogue in book 9 is the equivalent of 3 normal chapters!
As expected, since it has happened to me with every single book so far, I encountered the “this book is terrible”…”w...
2024-01-06 08:26:01 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-06 08:23:49 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-06 08:17:59 +0000 UTC
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2024-01-06 08:13:40 +0000 UTC
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[Author's Note: I made significant changes to the Realm Zipper encounter and added some necessary foreshadowing for later books. What I posted below is the end of Chapter 38, all of 39, and the beginning of 40.]
Everyone remained quiet as Ruwen contemplated the lines of approaching destruction.
Ruwen had two recalls—Bookmark and Holy Rapture.
Effect: Bookmark: Set location and, once per day, instantly return there....
2024-01-06 08:09:20 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to wish you a Happy New Year and express my hopes that 2024 is the best year of your life.
My plans for this year include book 9's release on March 1st and book 10's in August or September. I also have high hopes to finally write a parallel side story and release it on Royal Road and Patreon.
Thank you for supporting me and the story. You are what makes this all worthwhile.
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2024-01-01 21:52:22 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
We were at a relative’s house this week and I didn’t get nearly as much editing done as I wanted. I need to give book 9 over to the editor at the start of the new year, so that basically gives me this weekend to finish the revisions.
In fact, I just got home from traveling all day. As you can imagine, air travel with a 3 year old and a 10 month old is hard. And the little one got pretty sick before we left. It’s been a long day so I’m not even going to reread the chapt...
2023-12-30 08:27:10 +0000 UTC
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2023-12-30 08:25:09 +0000 UTC
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2023-12-30 08:22:27 +0000 UTC
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2023-12-30 08:19:28 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
Another very productive week for the Divine Apostasy story. I dictated the rest of book nine, and only have a small wrap-up scene and half the epilogue left. I hope to revise all that and fix a couple of problematic scenes earlier in the book by the end of the year. That will give the editor time to go through the book and for me to do another revision before handing it over to Travis around mid-February. Then, book nine will launch on March 1st!
For the holidays, we traveled ...
2023-12-23 08:40:47 +0000 UTC
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2023-12-23 08:36:14 +0000 UTC
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2023-12-23 08:27:39 +0000 UTC
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2023-12-23 08:20:50 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
For those of you who have read these updates for a while you know I complain about my productivity. Probably a lot. Certainly, too much. I try and be real with you about how my weeks go and my struggles and since so many of those struggles relate to productivity, I guess some complaining couldn’t be helped.
A new issue appeared a couple of weeks ago. Pain in my wrist and forearm from typing threatened to further decrease my productivity. It scared me.
Scared me enough ...
2023-12-16 11:56:14 +0000 UTC
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