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I've been sick... and Cozy Isekai Craftsman is out

So...title. lol.

I've had food poisoning for a few days, which sucks...but at least I was able to get better enough to think straight today.  It has set me back a little bit on some of my projects but thankfully not too much.

Also, Cozy Isekai Craftsman comes out today.  Well, actually tomorrow.  I'm writing this post on the 17th because I'm feeling okay and I want to make sure I can let you all know about this stuff even if my fever comes back.

I'm okay......

Past Life Hero, ch 9

Max found himself in a large stone room. Actually not exactly a room.  It was an empty space with a stone floor. He couldn't see any walls. On top of all the other weirdness, he could tell he hadn't exactly lost consciousness or experienced any sort of transition. One moment he had been back on Earth and the next he was in this new space. Whatever it was.

He wasn’t breathing fast anymore from stress, his heart rate was not up.  It definitely felt like his emotions had been m...

Past Life Hero, ch 8

He did a double take, but the sky was truly red.  A deep crimson, like fresh blood.

"What the..." Max said. He stopped the car, put it in park, and stared upwards. This wasn’t night time with a red moon. No, this was just afternoon and the sky had just gone all nightmare colors.  Max's heart quivered as an ancient memory arose in his mind. He'd seen a sky like this before, but it hadn't been on this world.  That had been one of the scariest moments of his past life.

Patreon update and new chapters

Hi everyone!

Today I'm going to be updating the Patreon in preparation for my launch of Past Life Hero on Royal Road.  I'm aiming for the 16th or 17th to get that started.

I'm posting a new chapter today that will bring us past the 18k word mark in the story, and it'll be the point where the book really starts popping off, too.  The first book of Past Life Hero will be over 150k words and will be the longest book I've written to date.

Tomorrow I plan to post the...

Past Life Hero, ch 7

When Max woke up, he enacted his plan, heading out early to the Jiu-Jitsu dojo. He got there two hours before his class was supposed to start, and Ethan actually had four students there. That was fine with Max. He got the handful of stuff he brought with him out of his car and stowed it against one wall, then sat down to play on his phone and watch Ethan's teaching. For the next hour, he was pleasantly surprised to learn that Ethan was actually an excellent instructor. The four adult students...

Past Life Hero, Chapter 6

After he got off work, Max did exactly what he'd said he would and headed straight for the Jiu Jitsu dojo. Once he got there, Ethan was in the front, and so was another older-looking man who looked enough like him that Max assumed it was his brother.

"Oh, Chad, this is Max," said Ethan.

"Hi," said Max. And then they all shook hands and exchanged the necessary small talk before getting down to business. But Max was pleasantly surprised by how easy Chad was to deal with. It kind of ...

Past Life Hero, ch 5

The next morning, Max's alarm clock woke him up, and he rolled out of bed the same way he usually did, ungracefully. Max was not a morning person, but a lifetime of hard living had taught him how to use the barest grains of mana to help jumpstart his system whenever he needed to wake up.

Back on Albion when he had more mana to work with, he could have more complicated sleep systems in place, even auto rise. But, living in the modern world as he was, on Earth, he couldn't afford much and...

Past Life Hero, ch 4

Tom came back later with a handful of hundred-dollar bills and another six people in tow. Apparently, word was spreading of Max’s challenge. The newcomers wordlessly filed into the four side rooms to watch. Larry held up the money that Tom had handed him. "One thousand dollars right here."

"So who will I be fighting?" Max asked. Inside, he knew that there was no way Larry would personally fight.  There was too much at risk. If Max beat him, then this dojo would crumble, or at lea...

Past Life Hero, ch 3

Max followed along, wondering what was going to happen. If everybody involved continued to be polite and play nice, so would he. But he'd lived a long time and even without his current financial worries, had a very short tolerance for nonsense. For Imperial Dojo's sake, he hoped they were bringing him inside for kind and honorable reasons.

The dojo itself was the nicest that Max had ever seen on earth. There were another double set of doors after the first before entering one large cent...

Past Life Hero blurb

Max was murdered, but now he is mostly over it.

Living on earth as a recent college graduate, he can still perfectly recall his past life on Albion, a sword and sorcery world. He'd been hailed as the "Hero of the World" after crawling his way up from poverty, eventually enjoying great fame and luxury.

But on mana-starved Earth, he's just a guy. His parents need his help, and finding a new job would be more trouble than it's worth.

However, when Earth is suddenly attacked, ch...

Past Life Hero, ch 2

Max decided to start with the martial arts studio that was farthest away from where he lived. He figured that the way the universe worked, if he was going to find any success, it would be with the farthest, least convenient location. When he got into his car and started it up, he stared at the dash for a while, trying to fight a sudden wave of depression. He thought he'd had a half tank of gas, but it was actually only a quarter full. Gas and food prices just kept going up, which meant the am...

Past Life Hero, Ch 1

Max sat glumly, staring at the bill on the table. He sighed, the sound like a leaky balloon, leaned back, and ran his fingers through his short, unkempt hair. I'm not going to be able to do this, he thought. This just isn't working. He contemplated what to do, knowing he had to find a solution.

Out loud he said, "It's tough, dude. This is messed up. Am I doing something wrong?”

The concept of student loan debt had seemed simple at first, but Max had obviously u...

Starting to post chapters now

Sorry for the wait!  I've been working my ass off and getting lots done, I promise.  My priority has just been on creating content, not editing.

Soon, I might need to take a break because of family stuff, but I'll keep trying to get the words out, edited, and posted here.

Some changes will be made to the tiers here on Patreon soon, but everyone reading this as I post it won't really be affected.

Cheers!

We need to have a talk. Please vote on the poll.

Hi folks!  I'm looking for input.  Apologies for any spelling or grammar mistakes.  I'm just kind of getting this thing out in a stream of consciousness.

So...long post here but I want to make sure I communicate my conundrum clearly.  It's going to take a little bit of background before I ask your opinions.

I am working on 3 different books right now.  Delvers LLC 6, Apocalypse Cultivation 3, and a new series, Past Life Hero.  This is possible becau...

WIP update

Quick WIP update:

I am way behind this year because of family stuff that was outside of my contorol.  However, I just got a second wind and over the last few days I've been writing faster than every before in my life.  At this pace, I might be able to still hit my end of year goals.

Right now I am working on a new series + Apocalypse Cultivation 3 + Delvers LLC 6

Delvers LLC 6 is going to be the longest book in the series by far, so I want to give myself plenty of ...

Sponsored Apocalypse mini arc 3

With this, the book is finally done.  Yay!

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The Mill had two main entrances.  A pretty serious fence topped with razor wire surrounded the property.  Gray and his team were entering in the front.

Each glass double door had been smashed and the goblins had covered the opening with their own special brand of building.  One door had been destroyed.

The lobby was about what someone who’d seen a goblin base before might imagine.  ...

Faceted art, final

I really like how this came out! What do you all think?

Sponsored Apocalypse mini arc 2

Gray’s shoulders grew more tense as the jeep drove further away from the relative safety of the main roads into town.  He thought about the brave men and women who’d been out all night already, hunting monsters.  A mix of admiration for the hunters and shame for himself ran through his shoulders like a wave.

The town’s new hunters went out into the dark practically blind.  Lord knew enough of them had already died, sacrificing themselves for their community or a des...

Sponsored Apocalypse, mini arc 1

Hi everyone!

I'm finishing up the book.

This mini arc will go before the last chapter of the book.  To avoid confusing everyone, I'm going to just tell you this up front and then post the chapters here together.

At the end of this mini arc, the story picks up from Miles' perspective again in what was Chapter 34.

All three chapters are from the perspective of Gray, the weary but dutiful sheriff. :)

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Gray White pinched the bridge of his nose and ...

Art: Faceted, new rough draft!

The artist is figuring out how to make it glitter :P

Savage Webs, Apocalypse Cultivation 2 audio is out!

As per title, it's out.

I'm still kind of scratching my head a little bit about the first few salty reviews that say nothing happens, or that it's too confusing.

Like, I'd always thought readers were readers--audio book readers are the same general folks as ebooks readers.  But the reviews for the ebook are pretty positive across the board.

Usually the audio reviews for a book I put out are pretty close to the ebook reviews...

Anyway, if you pick up the audio ...

Apocalypse Cultivation and Sponsored Apocalypse art: Faceted

First draft of a Faceted!

Sponsored Apocalypse update

Hey folks!

I'm actually thinking about adding another chapter or two to the story.  The ending right now is decent, but I think I want a different tone.

Sponsored Apocalypes, ch 34 (end of book 1)

The next morning when I woke up, I felt like something had kicked me in the head and between the shoulder blades, my whole body hurt. I also felt strange tingly pains in my fingertips.

I checked my status screen just to make sure that nothing had changed. Nothing had.  I hadn't gotten any new system notifications either. I'd set my internal alarm clock for only a few hours and it looked like it was just past dawn.  There was light in my borrowed attic.  I laid on my back ...

Sponsored Apocalypse ch 33

In the halls of Anubis, Ahmes the priest, otherwise known as “Melvin,” looked up from his new series of embalming records and felt a sense of familiar satisfaction.  Shades of dead priests wandered around the halls, still serving after death and happy about it.  The halls of Anubis were always full of both the living and the dead.

Suddenly, Ahmes felt a new presence.

Only a moment before it had only been his brothers, his fellow priests, and the god in this room. &nb...

Sponsored Apocalypse, Ch 32

I clicked on the class message to acknowledge it.  

A new notification read:

[You have been granted a choice between five classes]

[Choose wisely]

I looked at the list of classes.

[Classes:

Dark Contractor

Neutral Anarchist

Curse  Warrior

Mystic Arbalest

Brave Adventurer]

I drilled into all of the classes to see what other information there would be but none of them really explained what sort of benefits they offered...

Sponsored Apocalypse, ch 31

The blast didn't make me pass out, but it came close.  I’d been expecting a stronger explosion but nothing like this.  Even with the vast majority of the blast being confined inside the tunnel, it felt like all my bones had been stretched apart.  It felt like my brain rallied around in my head.  This close to such a large explosion, I suspected I had my superhuman toughness to think for my insides not being jelly.

I could vaguely see some system prompts pass across...

Sponsored Apocalypse Ch 30

I hovered over the button and took a breath before pressing it.  “Big money, big money,” I whispered.  I felt like a dork, but nobody was there to watch me.

The skill I was awarded made me sigh in disappointment.  No exploding bullets or anything cool for this one, I thought.

[Transfiguration: Alcohol to Water]

Instantly turn alcohol into water at the point of touch.

Since the apocalypse started, this was by far the most useless abi...

Sponsored Apocalypse, ch 29

As I was moving back the way i’d just came I got yet another level up notification.  Geeze, I thought.  Bacon is really going crazy.

I was currently level 34.

And suddenly, there was a new system notification that flashed across my vision:

[New title achieved: Goblin Vanquisher]

You are responsible for the eradication of an absolutely astonishing number of goblins in a very short amount of time. After your world’s integration, you w...