Hey all!
Real quick announcement, Book 2, Fugitive, is now available for preorder!
You can find it here.
I've also just commissioned the cover for book 3. I'm expecting to see it mid-late July.
And finally! Fugitive's audiobook is scheduled to...
Samira
“Alright, now check each of the lines one last time. If they’re still clear, then come back down and we can start installing the core,” I shouted up to Aurora, before taking a step back to let her down off the reactor.
“Where did you learn to do all this?” Suriel asked, and I ...
2023-06-02 01:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostThea
Bryce continued to chant in the background while the other six of us, plus Sanya, were gathered together in the hall outside our room.
“You sure you want to come with us?” I asked Leila, who was the one standing closest to me. “I’m pretty sure we can handle things without you guys...
2023-05-30 21:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostContent Warning: threats of forced suicide
Bryce
“I don’t understand.” Sakeem frowned as he brought a data-pad over to me. The curly-haired human was smart, he just wasn’t quite getting it.
“Alright, look, these columns are your monthly expenses. Those are your projected aver...
2023-05-27 03:43:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19 - Waking Reunion
Ithnaa
“Hey, hottie, how’re you feeling?” A soft voice brushed away the haze of sleep, and I opened my eyes with a tired smile.
“Sora, you’re still alive. That’s good.” My throat was dry, and it was weirdly hard to think straight. To make matters worse, when I tried to ...
2023-05-25 00:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostAnali
“What the fuck was that?” I asked Zen after the silence got to be too much. “Why was she even here?”
“I warned you to stay away. You should have listened.”
“You told me to be scarce for a few days, not that the bitch who’s hunting me suddenly became a regular at your dam...
2023-05-20 10:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostSuriel
“Grab a seat Anali, I’ll let--” Thea stood up onto the chair she had been sitting in and grabbed the half-elf’s neck before slamming her head into the bartop in one fluid motion. Morgan just stared at the scene with her mouth half-open while the room went eerily quiet.
Bryce stood ...
2023-05-17 23:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
I shambled to the end of the oversized bed and fell forward, landing face first into the sheets. Thea laughed before doing the same. I pulled her into an awkward hug and let out a quiet groan.
“You okay, princess? You seem more tired than usual.”
“Thea, I haven’t slept in an actual ...
2023-05-15 07:37:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I wanted to give you a quick update to let you know that chapter 16 probably won't be out until tomorrow night.
I wrote it out, but then decided that I wanted to move that part of the story to a later chapter for pacing reasons. That means I have an extra chapter sitting in my pocket, but I also need to write out the real c...
2023-05-12 23:10:33 +0000 UTC View PostSora
“Hey, Sami, you ready to head back? We’re going to miss the deadline if we don’t leave soon.” I had to lean over at an awkward angle to look under the bulkhead where Sami was working. She managed to shove herself so far in there that I could only see her feet.
“Sorry Sora, but this wirin...
2023-05-10 08:50:07 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“You banished four of my guards. Explain yourself,” Captain Aoyama demanded, and Zen visibly tensed despite trying his best to keep his cool.
Apparently, he had only just realized what us standing there actually meant for the people guarding the door. Or maybe he just somehow forgot that ...
2023-05-05 01:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13 - Zen
Bryce
I spent the next half-hour or so checking Thea’s meridians for damage, and as far as I could tell, there wasn't any. In fact, they looked far healthier than they had just a week before when I finished rebuilding them. That was obviously a good sign, but I wasn’t exactly sure what contribute...
2023-05-02 04:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“Why does being told to do what we were already planning on doing make me not want to do it anymore?” I asked Bryce as we left Penn’s Pretty Prick.
“Because you have a problem with authority,” she pointed out as we came to a stop a few meters from the entrance, and I scoffed.
“Bulls...
2023-04-28 01:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
I quickly adjusted the contract with Suriel to provide him with twenty percent of my mana. It was a lot, especially considering that I hadn’t adjusted the amount that Leila was receiving. Which meant, with Thea’s pact taking thirty-five percent, I had less than a quarter of my maximum le...
2023-04-24 23:44:09 +0000 UTC View PostI don't want to catch anybody off guard, so! Here's a quick reminder that payments are scheduled to unpause tomorrow.
In other news, RoyalRoad chapters will begin posting again tomorrow morning along with chapter 11 being released on here later tonight.
It feels good to be caught up again! I'm going to try to get a bit of a lea...
2023-04-24 18:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostSanya
“Sora, what do you want me to do?” I asked them again as Bryce, or uh, Captain Bryce, finished giving out orders and people started to stand up. Normally, calling a ship’s captain ‘captain’ wasn’t the thing to do on Paradise unless you were on their crew, or you were doing a bit of sexy r...
2023-04-21 19:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostSora
“But you have to admit, she has good bones.” The dwarf smiled up at me as he swelled with what had to be false pride. “Get a half decent mechanic working on her, and she’ll last you the rest of your life.”
“Yeah, because you’ll die the first time you try to shift, and it doesn’t...
2023-04-19 06:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostSamira
“Sami!” Thea shot up out of the booth to give me a crushing hug, which I returned as best as I could. She somehow felt even stronger than before, and even though she obviously wasn’t trying to hurt me, I was still finding it difficult to breathe.
“Thea, be careful, you’re stra...
2023-04-13 18:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“Shit,” I cursed under my breath as I split my attention between the trio of pirates and the twins. Aurora was gritting her teeth and obviously pissed, but Leila was the one I was really worried about. She was just standing there in silence, trying to control her breathing.
...
2023-04-09 03:38:23 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“That’s not what I asked, Captain Virra. I need to know who knows you, not who you are. You can’t land here unless someone vouches for you.”
We were sitting just outside of Paradise, trying to negotiate a place to land. The station, if it could even be called a station, was actually tens of...
2023-04-04 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“No, Thea, you cheat. I’m not playing with you anymore,” Leila complained as she continued to stare at the data-pad Bryce had lent her, and I just rolled my eyes. We’d been stuck on the tiny shuttle for the last three days, and still had two more days until we reached Paradise. Thankfully, the shut...
2023-03-31 09:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostI've updated chapter 2 to save Thea's heels.
In actuality, I didn't like removing the contents of Thea's ring so soon after revealing how much money was inside it. It felt like a bit of a reverse deus ex machina--a diabolus ex machina, if you will--despite it not originally being intended that way.
I also wanted to preserve the c...
Okay, so I just finished editing Fugitive and I'm planning to start on new Operative chapters tomorrow.
I've been doing some plot farming, and I think I'm going to rewrite Chapter 02 - Stranded. Having the contents of Thea's ring be destroyed i...
Hey all!
I'm sure you've noticed that A Guide to Becoming a Pirate Queen is currently 3 chapters behind, and that's been something of an unfortunate trend with my writing on Patreon.
I've been doing something of a mental retrospective after finishing the last book and I'm honestly feeling somewhat overwhelmed with writing stor...
2023-02-16 00:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 04 - Escape, Part 2
Sora
I left the vault as I adjusted the leather satchel on my shoulder. It was a bit dated, and definitely not my usual style, but I made it work. Besides, it wasn’t like I was bringing it along for the fashion. I just needed some way to safely carry my core, along with a few other trink...
2023-02-10 06:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostSamira
“Okay, are you ready?” Sora asked, and I nodded hesitantly. So they uncapped a small vial of smelling salts under Krom’s nose. The orc struggled against the overly tight restraints as he cursed and tried to move his head away from the vial.
We hadn’t had any way to bind him other tha...
2023-02-08 05:28:26 +0000 UTC View PostBryce, three days prior
I stepped through the portal and took in the dimly lit room around me, or rather, what was left of it. Whoever took Sora and Samira had ransacked the place. The sheets were torn off the bed, and the only thing left of the art was the bust of Teolix that Thea had vandalized when we first...
2023-02-02 03:33:46 +0000 UTC View PostOkay! So, I did a little bit of editing for the last 2 chapters, as recommended by a few amazing readers.
Chapter - 62 - I dropped the scene on the ship, instead ending the book with the crew entering the portal. I did it this way because it felt...
A few of my Amazon-centric readers have reminded me that while Patron and RoyalRoad won't have to wait all that long for book 3, they're probably going to have to wait months... SO, I've decided the revisit the end of the last chapter to make it less... evil?
Which is taking me a bit to revise. I'm going to get it rewritten then push up t...
Epilogue - An Offer You Can’t Refuse
Sora
“There we go. They should be coming around now.” A feminine voice spoke, and I felt the familiar cooling sensation of an IV forcing something into my arm. “In fact, they can probably already hear you.”
The feeling in the rest of my body slowly returned, spread...
2023-01-23 21:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post