Well, I think it's safe to say that the new tier was indeed a success. Thank you to everyone that upped your pledges to see what was lurking in the dark...
I was notified by one of my new Patron's that I failed to properly set up discord access for Tenebroum PLUS, and they were totally right. It looks like I failed to do that for Golemancer too. That has been corrected now, so if you want...
2023-07-21 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt was on the next to last day before they journeyed north to Siddrimar that priest-candidate Verdenin had a vision. Not far from the warfs, where the squat and ugly toll tower that held the near end of the chain stood, he saw a beautiful temple to Siddrim rising up to shine its light onto the polluted river. To hear him describe it, it was a building of pure light tha...
2023-07-17 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven though he spared a little time trying to locate the mysterious priest that the young guard was quite certain he saw, in the days following his meeting with Brother Verdenin, he never did find anything else. It was as if the strange one-armed man had appeared, spoken to exactly one guard, and then disappeared. Todd never did find the culprit behind the rash...
2023-07-17 14:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostSimon didn’t return to his house to take anything with him. Nothing he’d left behind was worth the ghosts he would see there. He had his sword, and that would be enough to get him where he needed to go. There was nowhere in any world he could find solace, but he did know one place where he could get some answers, and that would have to do for now.
<... 2023-07-17 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThat title makes it sound like a bummer, but it's not. It's just - you know those weeks where you are constantly busy, but when you are done you look around and not much has changed? That's what this week feels like to me. Sound and fury signifying nothing and all that.
You can see from the high points I actually got quite a bit done.
At long last, I have completed my backlog project. You know what that means: new Tenebroum Tier. So, if you want 10 more chapters, you can upgrade your Patreon pledge to Tenebroum PLUS, and if you're happy where you're at, that's fine too. I should also note that the $8 Devoted Reader pledge level will also include 20 advance chapters of Tenebroum now (in addit...
2023-07-10 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIf you talk about any of the below on discord,
2023-07-10 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, so this is the first half the Tenebrou
2023-07-10 13:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlright - with this update Death After Death is now 10 chapters ahead!!! Took long enough, right?
This week I will be launching a new 20 chapter ahead tier for Tenebroum (because 80% of my patrons are here for Tenebroum,) BUT I noticed today that Simon is developing a small following himself, and we are getting close to 10 patrons on Death After Death. So I may have to add a [Dea...
2023-07-10 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe title references my short story stats to date and does not include my novel. Re-Entry is at 2 rejections and counting, but hey - I can look on the bright side, right? Someone somewhere decided that a story I wrote titled Red Skies, was a good fit for their vampire anthology.
So that's something. This anthology pays a percentage of the proceeds, so I likely won't even ma...
2023-07-06 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: You know, when I set myself the goal of a 20-chapter backlog... I had no idea it would take so long to get there. As of today, I am 18 chapters ahead, and this week, if I can find the time to write three chapters, my herculean task will finally be complete. (So, I can start my next herculean task...)
Once the rain star...
2023-07-03 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out not to be goblins. The villagers seemed to know that too, of course, but Simon hadn’t bothered to ask them. Instead, after a quiet ride to the source of the problem, he just tried the same trick he’d used last time. Suffocating them in their lair would be a fairly bloodless victory. Unfortunately, he found out the hard way that this wasn’t going...
2023-07-03 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, in the last couple months I've been hanging out in some author-centric discords and I've learned a lot of things that have helped current stories and will help future stories. Things like Ads and shoutouts have really moved the needle on some of my existing stories. Tenebroum is closing in on 2200 followers, but even Letter of the Law has benefited. It might break 100 before I finish writin...
2023-06-29 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHis walk ever deeper was a timeless monotony, punctuated only by death, as Krulm’venor slew each and every creature that crossed his path. Neither the slow-acting slimes nor the dreaded stone borrers could hope to match the fury he could draw upon at any moment, thanks to the nearly limitless power of the Lich that he was tethered to. At firs...
2023-06-26 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThey went south for three days, though they didn’t go particularly fast to avoid wearing out the horse. Given that now they were sleeping on the hard bed of the wagon between a row of crates and the wall, Simon considered this a real improvement. In his mind, nothing was wrong with being pressed against a woman as lovely as Freya every night, but he knew it wa...
2023-06-26 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostI did it. After three months of waiting patiently it finally happened: I got my first rejection letter for my unpublished Sci-fi novel, Re-entry.
I don't say this with a trace of irony or self-pity. Rejection letters are an important part of the author's journey, and I'm happy to have started. Sadly, I have a friend when publishing contacts who reached out to submit it to some peopl...
2023-06-22 08:41:07 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum is back to one time a week for a while. I plan another half a dozen bonus chapters during the rest of the year (1 for Halloween, several for the end of the arc whenever that hits, just like we did with Arc 1)
In the meantime, I am focusing on backlog. I finished Ch. 67 this week, so I am 15 chapters ahead. I'd like to get that to 22 ahead (20 for a new tier, 2 for buffer.) Then ...
2023-06-19 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSeven Chapters ahead! Just three more weeks at this pace and i will fall over dead (or finally slow down as we reach 10 chapters ahead. One of the two!)
Freya tried asking him questions several times as they navigated the small, slippery ledge through the vile sewers, but each time Simon shushed her. He’d already done his best to explain to her that ...
2023-06-19 13:58:10 +0000 UTC View PostWell, I did it. I made it another year, and for the first time in my life, I didn't let writing stay something I would do later. Later it a dangerous thing, and I for many years it was always when I was going to do my writing. After I'd read more. After I'd outlined more. After everything else that was more important was done.
But we never really get there do we? If you don...
2023-06-14 07:05:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the rest of the story if anyone feels like a spot of supernatural horror. 11,500. I rather like how it turned out.
Now the Marquess was leaning forward and hanging on her every word as Josephine continued to tell her story.
“So he was just sitting there, surrounded by mirrors?” he asked thoughtfully as he considered her...
2023-06-12 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThough it was hard, Todd forced himself to watch as his superiors put the people of Fallravea to the question. It was an ugly business that went so slowly at first that they could only redeem a few souls each day as the cultists and blasphemers denied they were ever involved in any of the terrible activities that the Templars had uncovered. The butcher who ha...
2023-06-12 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs Simon took his time killing the two encroaching zombies and moving the table to re-enforce the broken window before more could join them, he tried to remember what had happened next the last time he was here. Even though he’d have sworn that every detail of those wonderful few days had burned their way into his brain, he was surprised to fin...
2023-06-12 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostRoyal Road is having a contest for the month of June, and the grand prize is a $1000 advertising credit, which is enough to run an ad for about... 1.3 years. It would be nice to have, since I would never spend so much on advertising. So I decided to write a short to take a shot at it.
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This was the second time it had caused the city of Fallravea to burn, and it was glorious. The Lich had done little else but watch things unravel once the Templars had made their appearance. The fighting and the dying had been interesting in their own way, but the longer things unraveled, the better things got. Even though the scents of death had barely begu...
2023-06-05 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAlright Death After Death is now 5 chapters ahead, as promised! This number will continue to rise by about 1 a week until we are 10 full chapters ahead in about a month. Thanks for reading!
For Simon, killing goblins was easy. Staying safe while he did it was a little more complicated, but that hadn’t been important before now. After al...
2023-06-05 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Anime wasn't my first choice for Jon, but what can you do right? The original cover was hopelessly dated for these sites, so hopefully this will see some new interest into Letter of the Law. Whatever it is they say about books and covers... it's not true - at least not on the internet.
This cover will definitely get more drafts, so feedback welcome. I do have a dream cover ...
2023-06-03 07:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is one of the candidates for my next story. I don't actually plan of working on something new for a few months, but sometimes I need to start something just to get it out of my head.
The Long Way Down is meant to be a fast-paced thrill ride of a story, so it's pretty unlike some of my other projects. It would be an AR death game in the style of Running Man or Squ...
2023-06-01 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostToo much? Not enough? I like how Ch. 56 turned out, but I welcome feedback!
They continued deeper into the darkness after that. As the sound of water got louder, the hair became more humid until water began to drip from the ceiling of the narrow winding passage. They waited for the next attack to come at any moment. Instead, the terrible fury of the zombi...
2023-05-29 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTwo chapters brings Death After Death to 3 ahead of the public. I have three chapters on my schedule for next week, so if everything goes well, then next week Death After Death will finally be 5 ahead. I will of course keep posting extra chapters until it is 10 chapters ahead.
He could still taste the stew on his tongue as he made his usual breakfast o...
2023-05-29 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostSome quick story specific updates below. I also have two half-finished first chapters for future projects that might yet be my next project. I will post them sometime in the next weeks for feedback. The Garden Path is the yin themed xianxia I mentioned previously, and The Long Way Down, is a cyberpunk death game (Squid Games/Running Man) sort of thing. Whatever I decide my nex...
2023-05-27 19:37:55 +0000 UTC View Post