In a world of darkness, a man with a little light was king. That’s what they said about him, though Brother Faerbar downplayed it. No matter what accolades his brothers tried to place upon him, he would only accept Paragon. That was why they marched, after all. They were a vengeful crusade tha...
2023-11-13 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat was how Simon spent the better part of the week, more or less. They didn’t linger in the dressmaker’s shop long because it wasn’t very defensible and because it didn’t have much in the way of food. The fact that the room with the blood-covered dolls freaked him out was also a part...
2023-11-13 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostBenjamin was dreaming about fast food when he awoke to a short, sharp shake in the darkness before dawn. As he opened his eyes, at first, all he saw was a silhouette, but it quickly resolved into his friend Matt’s face. His finger was pressed to his lip as a warning for silence before he whispered, ...
2023-11-13 14:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostI've been reading books on how to write better lately. While I'm pretty happy with my overall voice, there are several things I need to work on. Right now, I think my biggest problem is I have turned the virtue of "simple, fast paced prose" into a bit of a vice. Reading back through some chapters I feel like some of the bigger moments are rushed...
2023-11-08 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEven with the great dome of the temple toppled and the sun missing from the sky, the surviving leaders of the church would not listen to him. He, like so many of the other veterans who had survived the onslaught of monsters they’d all faced, urged their leaders to act with all the strength...
2023-11-06 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWalking upstairs was a little more challenging than he’d expected, so instead of immediately heading out, he changed his mind and decided to take a quick nap in the innkeeper’s bedroom since that was the safest part of the whole inn. He slept fitfully as he struggled with his regret at how he’d h...
2023-11-06 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostWell - now to be the most unpopular man of the year. Broken System has slowed down to 2 chapters a week on RR so it will be here as well. Baring unforeseen circumstances that means this story will finish the second book sometime early next year and the third book... next fall-ish.
Will the story end at book 3? I'm not sure. I don'...
2023-11-06 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostI hope everyone is enjoying their spooky season. I wanted to share a couple things with all of you.
First is that I and a couple authors I know sponsored a small Halloween short story contest. One of my fine readers e...
2023-11-02 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTwo chapters for everyone! Forever! (hopefully)
Tagel-by-the-sea was burning on the horizon well before they reached it, creating a macabre lighthouse of sorts. Even though that was the case, they were still going to have to stop, however briefly, to try to find something to eat and drink. Norm...
2023-10-30 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFair warning: Extra brutal chapter.
“Did you kill her?” Simon demanded, “Or did you let the zombies do it for you?”
“I… what?” Brenna said, confused.
“Freya! Did you fucking kill Freya?” Benjamin shouted.
That was enough noise to attract attention...
2023-10-30 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostYou know - even though I know in my head that I have a buffer, and there's nothing to worry about, when I go to post large blocks of chapter to Patreon I always worry: did I write all these yet? Did I finally out? I did not though. I have still written through 53, and plan to further increase that buffer... mostly because I'm having a lot of fun...
2023-10-30 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 14 months of regular writing and posting, for you, my beloved audience, a publisher has shown interest in some of my stories. Specifically, in Tenebroum and Broken System. They are a small gamelit-style fantasy publisher, and there's no associated advance on offer, so I'm not at all sure I'll even say yes to either,...
2023-10-27 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs a fifth-year apprentice, Jordan would never be privy to the conversations that the venerable mages of the Collegium would have had the day the sun didn’t rise. They’d cloistered themselves away in the Chancellors office while the trumpets had woken everyone else as always. However, by t...
2023-10-23 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe rats weren’t even the faintest threat to Simon anymore. He stomped one, kicked two, and skewered three on his sword in a series of precise thrusts. Then he spent a minute looking for the seventh rat before he decided that only six had spawned this time.
“I wonder why that is,” h...
2023-10-23 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post“So we’re just going to jump because she says so?” Emma asked.
Benjamin noticed that she hadn’t let Matt heal the cut on her throat, and the red scabbed-over line stood out in sharp contrast to the pale skin of her throat. The wound was an accusation as much as her words, and as Benjamin c...
2023-10-23 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I started writing a year ago, I was thrilled by the trickle of comments that I got. Even if they were mostly just corrections, or people pointing out that X or Y didn't make sense, I still loved them all. They were like a tiny bonsai tree that I trimmed carefully every day.
Now my comments sections are overflowing, or if we cont...
2023-10-18 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum slept as the world burned, but it still dreamed, and through those dreams, it watched fitfully as events played out. It couldn’t help it. The Lich was both the darkness at the center of its domain, controlling everything like a spider in a web, as well as every drudge and construct ...
2023-10-16 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSimon woke slowly, unsurprised, to find himself in his own bed. He didn’t even leap to his feet to check the mirror. He already knew what he’d see. His hair would no longer be gray, his hands would no longer be wrinkled, and his life would no longer be at its end.
The ring he’d...
2023-10-16 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostHe’d been awake to watch the sunrise stop and transform into sunset, unleashing a wave of apoplexy upon the assembled priests and acolytes. Brother Faerbar had only spent a few seconds taking in the panicking and the disbelief before he left the Courtyard of Retribution and walked to ...
2023-10-09 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostDid you think I was going to skip posting this week because I dropped two posts last week? I'll bet you did. But going a week without an update is a disappointing thing, and the fault was entirely mine, So, in a few months when I start posting twice a week, I will use that time to readjust the schedule, but for now we keep things moving!
B...
2023-10-09 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, this week I'm launching my new story, Broken System, as many of you already know. On the one hand, it's been a great success. It got more followers in a week than Letter of the Law got within a year. On the other hand, though, it has disappointed my expectations.
2023-10-06 13:38:20 +0000 UTC
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Simon quickly found a clean cot and moved it into the shade of a building far from the corpses, then he picked up the stranger and carried him over, and then he started to evaluate the stranger. Simon knew very little about medicine. To be honest, physiology and anatomy were the last things he woul...
2023-10-02 15:59:55 +0000 UTC View PostFor a brief moment, there had been hope. Despite the fact that gates were in flames and dead lay in the streets, the sun was rising, and the goblins would not stay once they faced the light of day. Markez had not joined in the cheers when the bloodthirsty raiders had begun to retreat to...
2023-10-02 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe swamp was gone, just like the forest had been before. Simon could see that, but he had no idea why that was the case. He definitely wasn’t remembering it too well. If you had told him that last time it had been swamp then plague city, he might have believed it - but it had definitely been a...
2023-10-02 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostTheir invisible, twisted struggle occurred in an arena spanning dozens of square miles in the physical world. It stretched from the heavens to deep underground as the two entities fought their battle of wills in the ether. No one but the most sensitive could have even glimpsed what had o...
2023-09-25 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere were a lot of parts about his last journey this deep that were a little hazy to Simon. For instance, it wasn’t until he was standing at the block of ice that he could really remember if the swamp level or the plague level came first. One thing he was certain of, though, was that he wasn’t staying in the same ...
2023-09-25 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostRecently I've gotten feedback about the messiness of this Patreon.
I've been told that lately that people have trouble finding what they are looking for. I'm sorry about that. It is an unfortunate byproduct of writing more than one series and having more than one pledge level for a series. Maybe that was a mistake, and I certainly we...
2023-09-20 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post