Hey, everyone. Some other cyberpunk authors invited me to a new FB community dedicated to that sort of fiction. I'm not big into FB; I only recently started trying to show my face there as an author, having left FB personally sometime around 2016. That said, it seems like there are a lot of fiction groups out there, and many of them are very hard to self-promote in.
Now, I'm going to ...
2024-03-08 15:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostHere's your delivery :)
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-Plum
Lo’ro gestured to the doors, indicating a commotion, and Ranish Dar turned his gaze that way. He recognized the man coming through, Duvius Black, with his signature midnight robes and feline features covered with silken black hair, impossible to miss....
2024-03-07 19:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo! Enjoy today's chapter. Spoiler: It's a fun one if you like nerding out about cyber gear.
-Plum
When Juliet left Tanaka’s building, she was freshly showered and wearing her usual comfortable clothes—boots, jeans, T-shirt, motorcycle jacket, and the Texan. She might envy Ladia and Honey for their effortless fashion sense, but not enough to want to change things up...
2024-03-06 21:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy the fight :)
-Plum
In his titanic form, Victor figured he weighed close to a couple of thousand pounds, especially with his helmet on, which added to his mass considerably. Even so, when he slammed Lifedrinker into the gargantuopod’s rear-left flank, despite her white-hot axe head and the imbuement of his spirit,...
2024-03-05 20:50:31 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for reading and supporting :)
-Plum
Juliet lay on her back, her room on the gunship dark and quiet, only a few amber LEDs providing any illumination. She’d woken from a dream she couldn’t remember, and now her mind was too busy to go back to sleep. Her AUI said it was 0441, but her mind told her it was time to...
2024-03-04 19:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostHope you're having fun with this arc. Enjoy :)
-Plum
The stairs worked with the same kind of magic Victor had seen in other places. Climbing a few steps seemed to activate it, and then, without any warning, he stumbled onto a landing. He lifted his axe, looking around, startled. His caution was unwarranted; he was in a small, pale marble room with a single door on the far...
2024-03-03 20:44:56 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy the chapter! :)
46 – Deputy
Ward looked around the circle—they’d all stepped away from the campfire, and the travelers, Haley, and the marshal were all standing around Ward as he looked at the contract written in dense script on thick, beige paper. “Listen, you all might want to stand back a little more. I don’t k...
2024-03-02 22:31:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhew, poor Leo really stepped into a hornet's nest last week, didn't he? I love all the feedback and I'm glad to see so many of you invested in Juliet's story and development. I can understand the reactions - I mean, if I weren't the author with some inside scoops, I'd feel similarly. Love the love for Frida and Aya. You know why you guys like them? 'Cause they're NICE! Juliet likes...
2024-03-01 19:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostHope you're having a great day :)
Here's your chapter~
-Plum
Despite his obvious berserk nature, the shelled warrior didn’t grow with his rage, aside from his bulging and swelling muscles. Still, his bruises and scuffs disappeared as his fury fueled his regeneration, and he moved with a ...
2024-02-29 19:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostHere's your chapter :)
I hope you enjoy it. Let me know if everything makes sense or if my explanations or the characters' emotions (you'll see what I mean) don't make sense.
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Plum
“LCC?” Juliet asked, surprised and, if she were honest, a litt...
2024-02-28 19:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostHave a good day :)
-Plum
Victor used the stairs, still visible in the twilight of the dungeon’s night cycle, as a guide, hurrying toward the center of the first level as quickly as he could. The ruined walls seemed to extend all the way to that distant point, and it felt almost like traversing a maze, though an easy on...
2024-02-27 20:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty cool image of Juliet walking through the streets of rainy Callisto.
Cheers,
Plum
Enjoy your front-row tickets :)
-Plum
“They stopped it somehow. Shit!” Leo slammed his fist against a plastic elevator panel.
“Do we try the shaft? Do we get out here?” Juliet was asking herself, Leo, Angel, or even Frida, hoping for inspiration.
“I don’t know. Look at the ceiling. Not sure we can...
2024-02-26 19:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for reading :) Have a great day!
-Plum
EDIT TO ADD: I changed something about this challenge dungeon: The System will award A PORTION of the Energy it takes from a person who is "rescued" to the remaining participants. I want Victor to make gains here (assuming he doesn't die or get rescued), but I don't w...
2024-02-25 21:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post45 – Road Friends
Ward started for the man swinging the axe Haley’s way, but she didn’t need rescuing. In a move that left him blinking, she surged forward and planted a foot in his chest, knocking him sprawling. Meanwhile, the other three mercenaries ran full-out toward them, one with two short swords held ready, one with a spear not unlike Ward’s, and another wi...
2024-02-24 22:20:16 +0000 UTC View PostHere's some action to start off your week :)
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-Plum
Juliet led the way out of the lab, barely sparing a glance for the corpo-sec officer she’d shot, but still feeling a wave of relief when she saw her shotgun rounds had taken off his arm and hit his torso; Angel had said he had go...
2024-02-23 20:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you enjoy! I think we're going to have a fun 2nd half of book 7. :)
-Plum
Dar started walking as soon as Victor had put on his armor, compelling him to hurry after him. Their brisk pace didn’t stop Victor from asking questions as they went, “Why so many? Did you say tier nine?”
Dar guided him int...
2024-02-22 18:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostI hope this is making sense. I'll try to spell things out through the narrative in upcoming chapters. Enjoy!
-Plum
Tim did exactly what Frida had expected by contacting the main Life-Ultra offices on Earth. When he asked the limited AI to connect him to the “Quality Oversight Taskforce,” it connected him directly to ...
2024-02-21 20:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this book has been so low on action that I found myself kind of rushing to the next section, summarizing a little more than I usually do. Tell me if this chapter reads badly, please. I could have spent three or four chapters on this content, I think. Like many of you, though, I'm eager for Victor to get into some action.
-Plum
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-Plum
Juliet shrugged. “Frida said I was muscle.”
Leo sighed heavily. “I mean, most execs have their muscle dressed in bullet-resistant suits, not frontline dropship gear.” He sighed and shrugged. “I guess it’ll make a point, huh? We’re supposed to throw ‘em off their game. Don’t worry, I can work with it.” Juliet still ...
2024-02-19 20:32:40 +0000 UTC View PostHere you go - have a nice relaxing read. :)
-Plum
Three days after Ranish Dar healed Edeya’s spirit, Victor woke early in the morning, and his mind wouldn’t let him fall back asleep. He slipped from his bed, donned some comfortable clothes, and picked up the leather shoulder satchel where he’d stowed the dark-stone...
2024-02-18 20:06:42 +0000 UTC View PostHope you enjoy! :)
44 – Messy
The orchard farm had a sort of roadside stand set up where they sold, as Marshal Aldiss had suggested, cider, apple tarts, pies, and, of course, apples. A teenage boy in a tattered straw hat ran the stand and occupied Aldiss while Ward and Haley watered their horses at a nearby trough. There was an...
2024-02-17 22:35:33 +0000 UTC View PostHere's your delivery :)
Juliet was just finishing the rather arduous task of putting on her FlexPlate body armor, alone in her room on the gunship when Frida called. She selected the call on her AUI, and the redhead’s face appeared in a small window. “Hey, Lucky.”
Juliet smiled. “Update already?”
“Yeah, I’m in the parkin...
2024-02-16 19:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy today's chapter :)
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-Plum
It turned out that Fregasius was some sort of being of magic and shadow, fully enveloped by dark robes and a hooded cloak. Victor could see two pale, dim orbs in the depths of the hood that must have been his eyes, but he never...
2024-02-15 20:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Thanks so much to all of you who participated in the poll and discussion about Cyber Dream's future. I read every post, and some of them made me really appreciate what a great group of supporters you are. Thank you so much! I've made a proposal to the publisher, and they're going to speak with Suzy Jackson as soon as they can, so when I have more concrete information, I...
2024-02-14 19:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy today's chapter!
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Plum
Ranish Dar reached down and pulled the rune-inscribed circlet off Edeya’s head, handing it to Lam. “This will only make it harder for her to wake.” He took one of his thumbs, massive beside Edeya’s much smaller form, and gently smoothed some hair away from her face....
2024-02-13 19:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! As you all know, I'm about halfway (or less, not sure yet!) through book five of Cyber Dreams, and my contract with the publisher is for five books. I spoke to them today, and they're willing to get behind more books, but I need to figure out how much more in this series I want to write. That said, if you abhor spoilers, even minor, vague hints at spoilers, don't read any more past...
2024-02-13 18:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostI think I'm breaking my previous records for a lot of conversation in a book. It's fun to write, though, and I think it opens a lot of windows into a character. Hope you're having fun with the book, though ;)
-Plum
Juliet was surprised to find Applebaum waiting at the storage facility, standing beside their unit with the...
2024-02-12 16:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy today's chapter!
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-Plum
After Ranish Dar spoke, the room grew quiet as everyone looked at Victor for a reaction. When he stood there for several seconds, clearly deep in thought, Lam broke the spell and asked, “How many levels will she lose?”
“Unknown.” Ranish peered ...
2024-02-11 21:13:05 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for reading :)
43 - Strange Laws
Later that evening, after they’d gotten their fill of a hearty fieldworker’s stew, Ward and Haley returned to their room and tried to fall asleep. Their good intentions met with the harsh reality of scratchy beds, poor ventilation, and minds awake and alert thanks to their four-hour nap...
2024-02-10 20:17:22 +0000 UTC View Post