DragonCon was a great success and an excellent time, but I'm suffering in the aftermath lol. Got a bit of the ol' ConCrud (not COVID, thankfully), which has made it VERY difficult to focus on editing and writing. I'm on the mend, but I won't have any chapters the rest of this week while I recover.
However, I'll be slowly going through the work I've gotten done so far, and we will be returning to normal schedule on Monday, September 8th.
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Title: Boon of Bonds Is Active!
Felix struggled to hold his center, standing atop the Fiendstone cliff. They vanished from around him, lost to his senses just as much as the bubbling bellows of the Echo far below. The unstable Mana was the last piece he sensed, a bad taste in his mouth that refused to go away. He followed it, toward the Links that hung bright and mighty just outside of his core space. The instab...
2025-08-31 02:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay! Travel days wipe me out, and being at Dragoncon is another distraction.
Working on getting Friday's chapter done ASAP as well, and hope to have that posted tomorrow or laaaate Friday.
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Adamant Discord!
Felix strained, feet braced against the opalescent edge as tethers of brilliant lightning thundered between his fingers. Steel cables of blue-white, each as thick as his chest, stretched o...
2025-08-28 14:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be at DragonCon starting this Wednesday through next Monday! I'll post my schedule a bit later, if anyone is going to be in town or attending.
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The horizon fell away, a dark violet flame consuming everything in her line of sight. Gabby struggled against it, trying to piece together a semblance of order. It rushed toward them, through berm and barricades. Forests fell, chitin walls collapsed, hurricanes unraveled, and even the g...
2025-08-26 10:01:57 +0000 UTC View PostSlightly longer than usual. This was a heavy one to get done.
We're nearing the end of the Omen Door sequence!
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Gold and crimson swarmed the enormous skeleton that Avet embodied, cladding its bones like jagged armor as it walked across the landscape. Each footfall sundered the earth. Each swing of the god's arms set hurricane winds screaming through the charred clouds. The black fire swarmed, falling from the sk...
2025-08-23 19:15:21 +0000 UTC View PostI spent most of the past few days getting a nest of yellow jackets out of my house. It was...an experience. Editing this chapter was slower as a result.
Enjoy the chapter!
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Gabby pressed herself against the bare wall, her Intent and Will drawn taut as drumskin. The obliteration of the room had twisted tiles and plaster and stone to dust, but it ran up against her Authority. Glitching fragments of light flared against the ...
2025-08-21 04:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Drink,” Evie demanded, tipping a glowing stone vial. Yin held her jaw in his scaled claws, forcing her lips open as the steaming draught poured in.
Vess shook and coughed, shoulders slamming into the broken tiles as she sprayed a cloud of sizzling Mana everywhere. Evie clamped a hand over her mouth, forearm muscles tensing like steel cables. A whirlwind scoured the room for five feet in every direction, encomp...
2025-08-18 21:32:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The Echo of Noctis was unraveling.
Flesh split like an unspooling thread and its blood geysered into the air—yet the Echo’s empty face only laughed. Felix hurled Fiendstone platforms forward, hemming the creature in, but it glitched beyond them, throwing itself onto the Precision Mines that exploded amongst the Moonbeasts.
“Hey!” Wendell cried. “Get off my bombs!”
The Echo roared in pa...
2025-08-15 13:24:25 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Gabby stumbled out of the door, darkness clinging to her like tar for several long steps. It slid from her, recoiling back into the wall that closed behind her. The door vanished.
Gross. She straightened. Back in the inbetween space again.
Like the chamber they’d exited into after the First Door, this one opened into a pillar-flanked alcove. It was a bit bigger than before, though it felt cramped ...
2025-08-14 01:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The Emperor
Stand Before Rigid Authority
The Path Continues.
“The Pathless demands you halt!”
Archie slipped through the Inquisitor like a ghost, his knife lashing out and catching him by the neck just as he cleared his red cloak. The man gurgled and fell, one among hundreds. Blades of light dropped from the sky, skewering into the inlaid tile, but Archie dove through them. He tumbl...
2025-08-11 23:41:42 +0000 UTC View PostExtra chapter ended up pushed to Saturday, but we're still here!
Another chapter will be up Monday!
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The Empress.
Growth Follows Abundance.
The Path Continues.
As the dark faded into light, Gabby found herself standing with an army.
This again.
Paladins surrounded her, a sea of waist-high, crimson platemail and upthrust banners marked with the Hierophant’s...
2025-08-09 23:44:27 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
Another chapter will go up late today (Friday 8/8)
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The World.
Walk The Land To See.
The Path Continues.
The sky was streaked with twilight, neither day nor night. Beef stared at the alternating bands of deep blue and pale, lavender-gray not quite understanding it.
It was Hallow that noticed the moons first. A crystalline appendage Extended from his breastplate, pointing heavenw...
2025-08-08 12:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
Another chapter will drop tomorrow (Thursday)!
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The Tower.
Chaos And Revelation.
The Path Continues.
When the darkness and light cleared, Vess found herself standing on a sharp cliff. Below her, storm-tossed seas rattled the bones of the earth, which stretched high into the air in lonely peaks. These were lone islands, cast into shadow by the ceaseless lightning above.
The storms rattle...
2025-08-06 17:33:59 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for your patience.
Expect chapters Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. We'll return to MWF posting next week.
Enjoy!
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The dark spat Gabby out. She stumbled against star-shaped tiles, nearly falling to her knees. For a moment, her body felt too big, too ungainly—she looked down at her large hands, noting the vast distance between them and the floor. She was no longer Human. To her surprise, it was a relief.
... 2025-08-04 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostDue to some personal issues writing has been awfully difficult this week. Everything is fine at Gonnella HQ, but as a result of things the chapters that would normally go up for each Tier for today will be delayed.
But never fear: next week I’ll be posting four chapters, one on Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/and Friday.
Thanks for your patience. Times are tough. Hug your loved ones close.
2025-08-01 00:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Arclights!” Loquis called in a tone to shatter rock. “Prep your volleys! Elemental Surge!”
The killing grounds outside the walls were wreathed in greasy smoke that drifted between dimly glowing shards of pockmarked stone. The last wave of enemies had been fierce and more were on the way, but for the moment his Talons had time to breathe.
The Captain of the Fiend’s Claws stood upon the Fiendstone ba...
2025-07-30 22:27:10 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Sonata of Dominance!
Fiendstone bars erupted from the jagged pillar fronting the Echo of Noctis—it split, branching across its shoulders and neck like a restraining hand. Felix hauled back on a tether of lightning, zipping away from the creature’s blind swing.
At its chest, the breach beside the ornate Omen Door sealed shut.
They made it in. Felix pasted a grin over the fear in his...
2025-07-29 06:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Blade of light met dark flesh in glittering arcs that drew a sizzling black ichor from their wounds. It burned where it dropped, small purple fires sprouting on grass, dirt, and roots alike.
Gabby pulled back, barely dodging the claws of a cat-like monstrosity before counterattacking up and through its gut. Or she tried to, anyway. The creature was too fast, twisting its body in unnatural ways to evade her thrust—all...
2025-07-25 19:49:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Strength.
Courage Of Arm And Heart.
Choices Define Us.
The Path Begins.
Disorientation was the first thing Gabby felt when she exited her doorway. The world swam around her, flooded by smearing light. Nothing was solid, not until the blobs in the distance slammed to ground, formed suddenly into rigid structures dotted by stars.
No. Windows.
Clouds rushed in, knotted an...
2025-07-23 20:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostLitRPG Con has wrapped up and it was a blast. Met so many cool fans over the three days and had a lot of fun speaking on panels and playing some casual games. We also sold out all of the paperbacks I brought within the first two hours of the first day! Not to be daunted, we got some more in the next day, but we sold out of those just as fast.
I'm currently in the Denver airport, working off of iffy WIFI to upload this chapter. Took a bit, but enjoy!
I'll be over here,...
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The Hermit.
To Be Alone Is To See.
Choices Define Us.
The Path Begins.
As papers shuffled and chairs scooted across carpeted floors, Elowen stepped away from the second-largest conference room in her building with a sense of deep, tired resignation. Co-workers filed by her, murmuring greetings at best, and most often with downcast heads and shuffling feet as they retreated into their cubicles,...
2025-07-19 12:33:56 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be going to Denver, CO to attend LitRPG Con this weekend! July 18th-20th. I'll be doing panels, signing books, and otherwise hanging out with friends and fans. If you can make the trip, I'd love to see some folks there!
I already have Friday and Monday's chapters drafted, I just have to edit them, so there will be no interruption in uploads.
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"Blighted Night…"
The curse leaped ...
2025-07-16 19:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The creature moved fast but Vess was leagues beyond it.
“On The Wing!”
She vanished from its path as it charged a tight line into her four poster bed, plowing through her down-stuffed mattress like a reaping wind. Feathers burst everywhere and were cast aside as it whirled in place, hunting for her—only to find a spear stabbing down into its chest.
“Draconic Stormfall!”
Vess dropped from...
2025-07-14 20:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post3k words on this one! Enjoy!
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The Devil.
Shadows Bind The Heart.
Choices Define Us.
The Path Begins.
Evie stepped through her door and immediately felt smaller. It was a strange sensation. She wasn't a particularly tall woman, but being a full hand span shorter and rail thin was noticeable as she stepped into the room. A rough-hewn table was to her side, set on uneven legs and flanked by two stool...
2025-07-11 17:01:52 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Temperance.
Life Seeks Balance.
Choices Define Us.
The Path Begins.
Ondine hated the heat.
It was lovely to be back on Earth, but she hadn’t been so fortunate with where—or when—she’d been transported. Felix had mentioned the first door was about the past, and it seemed he was right: she had been sent back to her vacation to the US. A few years back, during a time of d...
2025-07-09 19:51:37 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! * * * * * The Lovers. To Know Another Is To Know Ourselves. Choices Define Us. The Path Begins. Beef was happy. He was at the zoo
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The Lovers.
To Know Another Is To Know Ourselves.
Choices Define Us.
The Path Begins.
Beef was happy.
He was at the zoo, a place that had always brought him a certain amount of joy as a child. Back then, he would have had to be pr...
2025-07-07 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! * * * * The Chariot Take The Reins, Seize Momentum, Guide Your Fate. Choices Define Us. The Path Begins. “This is sooo nice,” Kevi
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The Chariot
Take The Reins, Seize Momentum, Guide Your Fate.
Choices Define Us.
The Path Begins.
“This is sooo nice,” Kevin said. “Pass me the soda.”
“Mmf.” Shadow made noises around the snack cake he had stuffed into his mout...
2025-07-04 22:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The Hanged Man.
Within Disaster Lies Renewed Perspective.
Choices Define Us.
The Path Begins.
When the light cleared, Archie felt immediately unsteady. His body felt heavy and he squinted against a wash of bright sunlight. He took a breath, still a little blinded by the sunbeam, and couldn’t fight off the stretch that pulled at his spine and shoulders. Archie stretched his limbs, enjoyin...
2025-07-02 17:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay! Release days are all consuming. Enjoy! * * * * “There,” the slender Sylphaen said as she withdrew her hand. “It is don
Sorry for the delay! Release days are all consuming.
Enjoy!
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“There,” the slender Sylphaen said as she withdrew her hand. “It is done.”
Where she’d reached there was no longer a jagged hole, but a solid stone wall that didn’t budge as Gabby pressed her armored fingers ag...
2025-07-01 21:59:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Fiends!
It Is Release Day!
The ebook for Chains - Unbound Book 11 has released today on KU and Amazon! Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DJDCK7NF
Look at that gorgeous cover! Luciano knocked it outta the park.
(The Audiobook will be up soon. Its be...