Samira
“This is a stupid plan,” I muttered, for perhaps the 80th time. This sort of subterfuge was exactly the sort of thing Sora was good at, not me. I’ve always been terrible at lying, and it didn't matter how many hours they spent cleaning me up. There was no way anybody was going to believe...
2022-07-22 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThea
I laughed through the coughing fit as I handed the vaporizer back to La’akea. The dragon was in her human form with dark sun-touched skin, silver hair and faintly glowing eyes the color of aged copper. She had a big body that seemed to be designed specifically to give the perfect hug, I had met he...
2022-07-20 06:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostSora
“You don’t have to eat it if you don’t want to,” I said. “We can always ask the captain to cook us something.”
Sami blanched at that thought, but continued to poke at her food in silence. I didn’t consider myself to be a terrible cook, but I was nowhere near as good as Th...
2022-07-20 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
I finished the incantation, and there was a bright flash of blinding light. When I opened my eyes again I saw a small yellow rubber duck with horns sitting in the middle of the summoning circle.
“Well, at least this one has devil horns,” Sora commented. “That’s an improvement, right?...
2022-07-18 06:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“-her… fucking shit, not again.”
I was standing alone in the middle of a pretty fancy looking office. There was a desk on the far side of the room, and two large windows. One to my right and one behind me. The other two walls were taken up entirely by tall bookshelves...
2022-07-18 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, sorry for the re-announcement, but I wanted to separate this from the book 2 prologue, to make the prologue easier to find for the people who don't care about this sort of housekeeping thing.
First of which, y'all rock. I can't thank you enough for supporting me and I'm constantly amazed when somebody enjoys my writing enough to g...
2022-07-15 20:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostSamira
“You seriously couldn’t steal any instructions with this stupid thing?” I asked for probably the 18th time in the last 8 hours. I was in the med-lab with Sora, and we were trying to put together one of the manufacturing pods they had stolen from the doll factory.
The whole thing...
2022-07-15 06:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“Hey, Thea? Would you mind explaining why a quarter of the station just depressurized?” I continued to type at the terminal while I ignored the sirens and flashing lights. Sections of the station were flashing red on my heads-up display, including the elevator that I needed to get back to t...
2022-07-15 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
So, the first book goes out to the editor tomorrow (!!!!) and I've just heard back from Thea, my cover artist (no relation), about getting the print and audiobook covers finished up once I have the final word count. That'll hopefully be sometime in early August. I've also talked to her about getting the book 2 cover started, but I...
2022-07-14 16:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostKai
“This always feels so wrong,” I smiled as I stepped over a couple of humans who were getting to know each other extremely well.
Walking through one of Chorus’s temples was always perilous. The entanglement of mortal limbs created a kind of sexy obstacle course and the psychotropic incens...
2022-07-13 06:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostThea
Rajak’s stupid bald head rolled onto the floor, and I let out a sigh of relief. We’d actually done it. He was dead.
Nikko and two other pack members, whose names I couldn’t remember, were on the ground. They were still breathing and from what I knew about shifters, that me...
2022-07-13 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
The four heavily armored guards near the throne opened fire on our group and Rajak lifted a hand in the air with a palm facing outwards. Dozens of azure spears manifested, floating in the air around the djinn.
The members of the pack reacted quickly. Daria and Rashka ra...
2022-07-11 06:20:15 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
Lysc was pissed. Dezra and Mazi were dead, and Thea was crying over the corpse of their murderer. It wasn’t a good look, and I hadn’t even told her about the bomb yet.
“I can explain in a moment, please just give my nanites some time to heal my throat,” I said....
2022-07-08 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThea
I leapt through the air, laughing as I landed on top of a bipedal mech. I punched through the visor to get to the pilot.
But my fist didn’t pass through the clear material, instead a web of cracks spread where it impacted. I cocked my head to the side, unsure of what had just happe...
2022-07-06 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“We’re facing the compound’s main building. The portal room is in Rajak’s office on the third floor,” Sora shouted as the hold’s doors slowly moved. “Expect heavy resistance.”
The doors opened to reveal just over a dozen members of the Syndicate facing...
2022-07-04 13:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“Is everything okay? You were out there for a while, and where’s Elliot? We’re not picking him up on any of the scanners.” A male voice came over the bridge speakers aboard our new ship. Lysc, Daria, Sora, and I were all gathered around where Rossi was sitting as she called i...
2022-07-01 06:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostRashka
“Holy fucking shit! Boss, how much did you say we’re paying these assholes?” I couldn’t stop laughing.
Boss said these guys would figure something out, but fucking hells, I wasn’t expecting them to… honestly, I still don’t even understand what they just did. But ...
2022-06-29 07:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostWe're getting into the final stretch for the first book!
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Chapter 38 - Mild Piracy
Bryce
“Well, what do you think?” Thea held out her arms to show off her new outfit.
She was wearing clothing similar to what she had worn when she fought Teolix; a pair of dark denim pants with a leathe...
2022-06-27 11:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostSora
“Is that really him?” I asked the bartender.
“Yep, that’s Accel,” she replied, before setting a colorful drink down in front of me. “Whatever you’re going to do to him, make sure it doesn’t lead back here. Most of my clients are Syndicate and if word get...
2022-06-24 20:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“Thea, my hair can wait,” I said. “You need to eat or the nanites are going to make you sick.”
We were at the Paragon Bistro on the 18th floor of the building where Dr. Navarro’s office was located. The food was expensive, but tasted just good enough that the price was...
2022-06-22 09:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostExtra couple of chapters today, just to keep patreon 10 chapters ahead of RoyalRoad :D
Thea
“Would you mind grabbing Samira?” Bryce asked. “It looks like she’s still awake and the last time I tried going in the maintenance corridors, she threatened to blow up the...
2022-06-22 09:49:52 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
I've sat through countless business meetings, negotiated thousands of contracts, and entertained hundreds of potential clients. I have never once imagined that I could actually enjoy myself during one of these meetings.
The wine had been delicious; the food had been nost...
2022-06-22 09:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostI finished my last editing pass on book 1 :D which means that I'm going to be focusing on book 2 almost exclusively in order to limit the downtime between when I get all of the first book's chapters posted here on Patreon and when I start posting chapters for book 2.
So far it's coming along pretty well, and I'm super excited to share it w...
2022-06-20 14:16:23 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
Thea bolted upright and gave me a pleading look. I remembered her mentioning back on the research station that she needed me to get a message to Esme. We just didn’t have time to do it then and I had forgotten about it.
“I can get a message to her. I’ll just need a f...
2022-06-17 06:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“Thea? Are you back here?” Bryce’s voice startled me out of my head.
I fell as I missed a step on the ladder I was standing on. A shower of jars and cans rained down on top of me.
“Ouch! Fuck! I’m back here Bryce!” I shouted while rubbing the back ...
2022-06-15 23:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going back and doing another edit pass on the entire book. I'm going to update the past chapters on RoyalRoad, but probably not on Patreon. It's just grammar and syntax. I'm not changing any of the story, or overly important bits, so don't worry too much about losing out.
The largest change is that I'm swapping back to calling the ...
2022-06-15 11:08:50 +0000 UTC View PostI've started progress on the 2nd book in the Guide to Becoming a Pirate Queen series as well as plotting a new novel that takes place in the Anarchist Union.
It'll probably be a little bit until I can actually start writing for the other novel, but I'm looking forward to it.
2022-06-13 07:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“I think I’d like that.” I said.
The job Lysc was talking about was going to have something to do with the delivery and I was interested, if only to satisfy my curiosity. What I wasn’t interested in was whatever leverage Teolix had me deliver to Lysc.
Wh...
2022-06-13 06:35:26 +0000 UTC View PostSora
Drassun, the planet, was covered in verdant green forests that were only ever broken up by the occasional blue of a winding river. It was beautiful from orbit, but everything that I read had described those same forests as being full of dangerous plants and animals.
Drassun the city...
2022-06-13 06:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
Sora didn’t stop the teasing, and worse, Thea seemed to be completely immune to it. She just used it as an opportunity to flirt with me, which made the whole thing much more tolerable.
I spent much of our travel time in the observation room, working through healing my meridians. Te...
2022-06-10 06:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post