Simply walking toward the stand of trees in the distance wasn’t quite the stroll in the park that Thaden had hoped for. Not more than 100 feet from where he’d taken control of the Beezards, his army was attacked by 3 giant Mutated Beezard Warriors that seemed to float up from the flowers despite there not being any room for them to hide, which were each the size of ...
2026-01-15 22:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostWalking through the dungeon entrance was as strange as it always was, though he certainly wasn’t expecting what ended up being on the other side. Based on the underground location, he had figured that the dungeon would be based around caves or dark spaces, but he was almost immediately blinded by the bright sunlight as he emerged into a vast sea of calf-length grass a...
2026-01-15 18:43:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe area around Teglir was interesting because, at first glance, it didn’t seem like it could sustain as many Adventurers that operated out of the city. The immediate area, for approximately 50 miles around, was pretty much all cleared land that had functional farm fields spread around it. As Thaden had learned earlier, the farm communes that ran the farming ope...
2026-01-15 00:07:09 +0000 UTC View PostThaden dug into his breakfast with gusto, the food better than he expected for a buffet-style format in the Coalition’s dining area. It made sense for the food to be made in mass quantities like it was given the sheer amount of Adventurers filling the massive cafeteria-style room, but it had still surprised him to learn that it was a buffet. Of course, with thou...
2026-01-13 21:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you. I really appreciate you working with me on this.”
Thaden had been surprised to learn that the Teglir Branch Leader of the Adventurer’s Coalition was only Diamond Badge Rank, as he expected her to have at least Platinum, if not Platinum+ like his own. As such, Eleria – the Coalition Leader – was unable to provide him a Platinum-Ranked Ba...
2026-01-12 22:33:02 +0000 UTC View Post“So where exactly is the—” Thaden began to ask as they rounded a corner after passing through an incredibly busy street in the city, but he cut himself off as his vision caught the sight ahead of him. So far, beyond the walls protecting the city, the buildings hadn’t appeared too different from the ones he’d seen in Felith or Purbooth, though on a grander scal...
2026-01-12 18:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe release of The Affinity Collector went pretty well! Now that it's done I can finally focus on finishing the rest of Healer Arc 2, which I'm hoping to have completed by the end of January. I'm approximately halfway done with it, so it's definitely possible :)
Next week, I don't believe I have any other plans other than to write -- so I'm shooting for 10 chapters! The following Sunda...
2026-01-09 22:25:59 +0000 UTC View PostThaden had visited the cities that had been created on the developmental world of Tarth, and at the time, he had considered them fairly massive when compared to the various towns that dotted the Region that he’d ended up in. Unlike those cities, which apparently only had a few decades of time to be completely built and furnished by the natives before the Contenders ar...
2026-01-09 22:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostThaden stood along the railing around the rear of the ship, looking down at the water that passed underneath the vessel as the river gradually curved in a northeasterly direction. Unlike what he’d experienced when he first encountered the waterway, the only living things inside the water were normal-looking fish that wouldn’t have looked out of place in any river on...
2026-01-08 22:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
You can now pick up the first book in the Octaeteris Cycle series, The Affinity Collector, on eBook, KU, paperback, and hardcover!
Amazon US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5LV2BM8
Amazon UK: www.amazon.c...
2026-01-07 14:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“See anything yet? They usually start up around here, don’t they?”
Garney looked up from his position along the bow of the Rivercat where he’d been focused on the water below, only to see the ship’s captain nervously looking around at the Adventurer Party he had hired to escort them to Fanebridge to deliver a shipment. The route was a common one th...
2026-01-06 20:43:51 +0000 UTC View Post(As a heads-up, this is the final chapter of Healer Arc 2 Book 1 for my $2 Patrons until the book is completely written; at that point, I'll gradually release all the chapters leading up to its publication on Amazon.)
“Are you sure this will work?” Thaden asked, glancing over at Sadia who was back in her giant squirrel form.
She spread her hands...
2026-01-05 22:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Thaden a few seconds to shift his mindset away from his Competency Advancements to the larger world around him, but once he was able to comprehend what he was looking at, he immediately understood why Sadia needed his attention.
“Where did this come from?” he asked, confused, while he climbed down from the back of the large wolf. As soon as he was one ...
2026-01-05 17:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs mentioned last Friday, I have taken down all of the chapters for The Affinity Collector/8 Year Story to comply with KU guidelines. If anyone was still reading it, message me and I'll get you a copy that you can continue reading.
2026-01-05 15:41:53 +0000 UTC View PostI hope everyone is having a great New Year!
I was only able to get 1 chapter done today because it was a bit more involved with creating some spells and whatnot, and it was about 50% longer than my typical chapter. Still, I'm happy with how the story is going and my progress, and I'm shooting for a late February release for it on kindle.
Next week, I have the release of The Affinit...
2026-01-02 22:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostThaden seemed to have gotten away from the town of Purbooth without the members of the Local Legion stopping him, but he wasn’t going to let his temporary success get to his head.
“When they find that you’ve left, it’s more than likely that they’re going to come after you. I would suggest putting as much distance between you as possible.” 2026-01-02 22:04:05 +0000 UTC View Post
(Only 1 chapter today; I forgot that I had to do some end-of-year accounting this morning)
The destruction of Felith didn’t happen in a vacuum. Unlike the “native” citizens that inhabited Tarth, who were implicitly instructed – or ordered – to essentially take whatever disasters befell them without reaction, the world of Plangea ...
2026-01-01 22:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year!
It wasn’t the first, and likely wouldn’t be the last, time that he’d spent the night in a tree to keep him safe from the denizens of the jungle. The biggest difference between his experiences before and his most recent night was the size of the trees he had to climb, as the ones in the jungle were a bit smaller than he was used to an...
2025-12-31 23:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostThaden didn’t hurry. As much as he probably should’ve hoofed it after his Party left him behind, to theoretically join them in finding out exactly what was going on, the fact that he was moving toward where he felt the whiff of the System heading made his steps hesitant. Who could blame him, though, given his past relationship with the all-powerful en...
2025-12-31 18:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe extraction process was done quickly upon the numerous corpses around the final cave, despite there being hundreds of them, and soon enough they were heading into the only place that hadn’t been explored as of yet: The place where the Boss had broken through the wall. The darkness inside it had retreated somewhat, allowing them to see that it led to a much ...
2025-12-30 19:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostThaden and the rest of his Party quickly discovered that while the Gremklins were essentially immune to their own Blasters blowing up, that didn’t extend to the explosive traps that they encountered along their way through the dungeon. With his group of enthralled monsters leading the way as essentially disposable mine detectors, Thaden had them sweep back and forth al...
2025-12-29 23:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe sensation of passing through the dungeon’s threshold was familiar to what Thaden was used to on Tarth; there was a brief moment of transition where everything seemed to freeze as he took a step forward, a stutter in the passage of time that held him hostage to the whims of the transitionary plane. Because he wasn’t the Party Leader, he didn’t have any input on ...
2025-12-29 18:56:38 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, everyone!
I attempted to write more today, but with all the Christmas prep, I couldn't get my head into it, so I decided to cut it short. I spent a few hours posting and promoting my free eBooks, so if you haven't seen the post yet, download a bunch of them before Christmas ends!
I'm taking the rest of the week off, and on Sunday I'll be wrapping up the last of T...
2025-12-24 19:54:21 +0000 UTC View Post
For Christmas Eve and Christmas only, December 24-25, you can pick up 52 of my eBooks for FREE!
You can find all 13 of the box sets I'm giving away on my author page,
www.amazon.com/author/brooksjonathan
and then just sort by Price: Low to High to see them all...
2025-12-24 15:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Branch Leader for the Felith Adventurer’s Coalition worked extremely quickly, so much so that Thaden barely had a chance to catch his breath after his stressful conversation with her. He had done his best to fake as much confidence as he could during their talk, and at the end, it seemed like he had succeeded in creating a mysterious objective for himself being in ...
2025-12-23 22:34:18 +0000 UTC View PostI got started on the second Healer Arc! It's only 5 chapters so far, but once the holidays are over, I'm hoping to have a lot more time to work on it.
Next week, I have a funeral and a birthday party to go to over the weekend, so I likely won't be getting any work done. On Monday, I'll only have a small portion of the day to work, as I have some familial obligations, so there may or may...
2025-12-19 23:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostRivella looked across the table at the pale-skinned, fur-less Human as she tried to reconcile what she was visually seeing and what the System was telling her about this individual. Initially, when she’d first seen him, he appeared as if he’d just come from the fields, dirty and exhausted-looking, which she later learned was exactly where he’d been; the fact that h...
2025-12-19 23:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that the Adventurer Coalition building had rooms for rent, or in the case of Thaden, his Platinum+ Rank status allowed him to stay for free. Even though the Coalition having rooms for the Adventurers to stay inside had been common in Tarth, he’d heard no mention of it since he’d arrived in the town or Felith, nor did the building seem to have space for ...
2025-12-19 17:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostBecause he wasn’t technically part of the Coalition and therefore didn’t have access to the entirety of the building, Thaden hadn’t been up to the second floor. Now that he was finally there, he realized that he wasn’t missing much; the entirety of the second floor was basically nothing more than a nearly empty attic, illuminated by a singular box on a pedestal s...
2025-12-18 19:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The second and final Magical Fusion Collection, which includes books 5-8, is now available on eBook, KU, paperback, and a 69-hour (nice) audiobook!
Amazon (eBook) US: www.amazon.com/dp/B0D572LM4X
Amazon (eBook) UK: 2025-12-17 14:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post