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Chapter 30

“Let me guess. Big, red, and horny decided to stay in his own room?” Lethelin asked when Allora returned without him.

Mitchell looked up from where he was trying to arrange his sleeping area between the cot and Lethelin’s mat against the far wall and saw the pained look on the elf’s face. 

“What happened?” he asked. 

Allora drew in a deep breath and said,...

Chapter 31

Rather than the deep and ominous intonation Mitchell had expected, Dakath’s voice was almost lilting and feminine. It was clearly male, but it was the kind of male he used to see on K-pop boy band members back home. However, while they had been sculpted by the finest plastic surgeons in South Korea, Dakath’s masculine beauty was all natural. If it weren’t for the unusually long and pointe...

False Alarm

You may have received an email that said Chapter 32 was just published. This is a false alarm. Once again, I hit submit without scheduling it and had to delete it and redo the post. Apologies.

To Discord or not to Discord?

I don't know if this is presumptive or not, but would any of you guys be interested in a Discord? If so, I can probably figure out how to create one. I know a lot of authors have their own Discord but they're usually more established by the time they do that. I'd love to hear your thoughts as this group is the most invested in my work.

Chapter 29

Lethelin shifted slightly as she watched the inn’s common room. Yarlest saw to a few more customers who wished a warm bed for the night and there were a handful of others that came and went in the hour or so since Mitchell and Allora left, regulars from the looks of them, but otherwise things were uneventful. She could have wished for a better stool but there was nothing for it. 

S...

Chapter 28

Allora glanced at the paper in the darkness and checked some of the buildings, and then indicated that they should take the left at the next intersection. 

“You can read that?” Mitchell asked.

She glanced at him briefly before returning her gaze to scan their surroundings. 

“Elves usually have better senses than humans,” Allora answered quietly. “We are gen...

My disappointment is immesurable...

And my day is ruined.

Not really. But, in working with the artist to design the third book cover with the as-yet un-introduced third love interest, I sometimes get bummed out that magic isn't real. I spend so much time creating this fantasy world and these characters in my head that when I snap out of it to work on mundane things it's sort of a let-down. No magic here, just my job and la...

Chapter 27

Mitchell supposed he had been somewhat spoiled by The Maiden’s Mist in Basari, but even taking that into consideration, this hovel they now found themselves in seemed an absurdly far way down to travel. For all he knew, there were more inns like this than bathhouses like the last one, but he hoped not. It smelled like sour sweat and rancid beer, for one. And a haze of smoke clung to the low c...

Chapter 26

“We will need to be careful as we enter the town,” Allora said as their destination, a small clump of buildings nestled tightly into the foot of the Skybreaker Peaks, grew slowly larger in the distance. They had diverted from the Diran Road two days prior for a route that had become progressively roughly the farther north they went. The idea was that one of the smaller, less frequented mini...

New Artwork for books 1 & 2!

After a lot of back and forth and trouble with international payments that involved having funds frozen by the US government (not kidding), I finally have the covers back for the first two books. Now to start on the third. But, in the meantime, enjoy the new versions of Allora and Lethelin. And who will be on book 3, you might ask? You'll find out in book 2 when that character is introduced. 2024-06-24 02:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 25

“Is that important?” Lethelin asked, looking more bemused than worried now.

“She is searching for me. If she finds me, she will take me back to Kazig.” 

Mitchell looked to Allora who understood the question on his face. 

“Kazig is to the north of Iletish and northeast of Awenor.” 

“It’s one of the few places the people of the other seven ki...

Chapter 24

Mitchell flexed his hand as they stepped out of the Dragon Academy into the desert sunlight. The palatial building reminded Mitchell of an old English manor except it was constructed mostly out of the pale stone which was common in Iletish. Revos said it was sponsored by the Iletishian royal family and that anyone could apply for admittance. If a family was too poor to pay the fees then the stu...

Find the Easter Egg

If you've read any amount of Haremlit or LitRPG of the isekai variety, then you know it's quite common for a main character from modern-day Earth to drop pop culture references like beads to a busty woman at a Mardi Gras parade. Done well, it's fun and can add a nice bit of zing to the situation. But often it is not done well. It becomes a crutch, an author will overuse it, and it just gets tir...

Chapter 23

Mitchell walked to the door and stared at the two small crystals set into the stone. They were obviously some sort of mechanism to control it but they weren’t labeled. Not that he would have been able to understand the language if they had been. Learning to read and write was just another thing on his ever-growing list of things to do.  

One crystal was yellow, the other red, ...

Chapter 22

A door chime sounded as Lethelin was finishing brushing her hair. It was indecent the amount of soap she had needed to get the filth out of her hair but it felt so good to finally be clean again. Lethelin looked up and saw it was not Mitchell’s door that had chimed, but the other one. That meant either Allora or Revos. 

She tied the robe around her diminutive form and went over to ...

Name a character!

Character names are always things that I'm in short supply of. Sometimes I'll use online name generators, but I thought, since I have patrons, why not let you guys pick a name. So, if you'd like to submit a name that you'd like to see in the story, drop it down below in a comment. You can specify that it be a good guy or bad guy. As long as it's something appropriate for a fantasy setting (i.e....

Chapter 21

The inside of the Maiden’s Mist reminded Mitchell of a fancy hotel lobby. The air was substantially cooler than the humid desert heat outside, so much so that Mitchell wondered if they had somehow discovered air conditioning without the benefit of electricity. Probably something magical, he concluded. He was irritated for a moment at being born into a universe that had almost no mana but the ...

Chapter 20

Mitchell broke the kiss and stepped back from Lethelin feeling dizzy. As he blinked the water from his eyes and looked down at her, she was just coming out of the trance of their first kiss. Her grass-green eyes met his, droplets of mist clinging to each eyelash. Neither said anything for a moment. 

“Why did you do that?” Lethelin asked, sounding a little winded.

Upcoming Ad Campaign

My follow count on RoyalRoad has been in the 60s for the last week or two and I think it's time to run my first ad. I'd like to get it over 100 and hopefully that will allow it to build some momentum and other authors might reach out to me for swaps.

In conversation, meme ads apparently do pretty well on the platform and I can make those myself. My original plan was to have to pay an arti...

Spruced Up Blurb

I never much liked the original blurb but was busy with other things so I never seemed to get around to updating it. But I just finished up ch.53 and was thinking on it and decided to go ahead and do it now.

"Mitchell had anticipated a simple, fun night out with friends, watching an old movie. Instead, after their abrupt cancellation, a stunning woman with mesmerizing purple eyes and a p...

Chapter 19

Allora pocketed the five gold fangs, eight silver scales, and three copper talons she received from the sale of their enchanted water barrel and a few other things they no longer needed and emerged back into the harsh sunlight where Revos waited impatiently. Cambions weren’t always well regarded and she hadn’t wanted to make the shopkeeper nervous so she had asked him to wait outside. ...

Chapter 18

Just inside the gate was an open square that had three roads leading off from the entrance. The left and right diverged off at roughly forty-five-degree angles into the city and the other went straight ahead. The streets were cobbled and worn smooth by the passage of thousands of feet and wagon wheels. As Mitchell gazed down the avenue, he saw that further into the city, there were taller build...

New Cover for Book 1?

Here's what the artist has sent, sans the slight attitude in the email, which was good. It's got all the same elements as the original, as well as the pose, which I specified, as it's relevant to both who Allora is and the story itself. And the breasts are definitely bigger. So, for my whole two patrons, what do you think? Myself, I like the general feel of it. This Allora has a bit of a cleane...

More cover art drama

The artist doing the new cover sent me a first draft of his work, and he didn't follow clearly given instructions. Then he said he didn't get those instructions, so I had to copy/past the instructions I sent him last week in an email that he received and replied to. He's not impressing me with his professionalism, so I figure he's got one more chance and if he's still being standoffish and acti...

New Cover Artist

I've given the go-ahead for an artist to design new covers for the series. He or she works with AI-created content a lot, but their visuals are beautiful. I've been assured that there will be no weird AI artifacts in the work and that it will be polished and professional. They promised that they would do a much better job than the original artist while still working within my requirements for t...

Chapter 17

Mitchell wasn’t sure what to make of his first actual town in this new world. On the one hand, the people here were, for the most part, human-shaped, even if they were in a larger variety of body sizes than one might find on Earth. But on the other hand, he expected something more… alien or unusual. People everywhere needed four walls and a roof and once that was decided he supposed there w...

Chapter 16

“We are going to go through the first three basic sword movements but this time I want you to hold the light cantrip spellform in your mind as you perform each one. Hold it but don’t release it. Do you understand?” 

Mitchell nodded and Lethelin saw him set his feet, bring his practice sword into the ready position, and a look of concentration descended over him as it always did...

Slight delay

Next update will be delayed by a few hours, but will be up before the end of Friday. Apologies.

Well, that sucks.

My cover artist has dropped off the face of the earth. He's absent from his socials and his website has been taken down. Unfortunately, the third book cover (The Onyx Throne is a planned trilogy) was never completed, and he had just agreed to do some artwork for the Patreon and for ads I wanted to run on Royal Road. So now, I have to find a artist and have the first two covers redone, and the t...

Chapter 15

The clorvol moved much faster on the hard-packed road than it had over land. It wasn’t as fast as a horse, which Mitchell saw they had an equivalent in this world, a creature called a jivi. As their wagon joined the Diran Road, Mitchell got his first opportunity to see something other than his companions and their now-dead captors. 

He had learned that while Lethelin was a human, R...