Surprise sunday drop! I actually managed to get some writing done this weekend, so you're getting a third post for the week after all. Cheers!
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“It’s not about the story,” Uriah said defensively. “It’s about cont...
2025-05-04 19:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post“I mean, I get that he was a street hawker, but who charges for paper by the page? It’s practically robbery!” Bernt griped as they stepped into the Mages’ Guild. It wasn’t even very good quality, with rough fibers and edges that hadn’t...
2025-05-02 20:10:09 +0000 UTC View PostI meant to get this out yesterday, but at least it's a long chapter. I ended up writing and rewriting it twice, and I'm still not sure if it's solid, but I'm going to let you guys be the judge of it now. Cheers!
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By the ...
2025-04-29 19:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, sorry for the wait, I got do a surprise drive across the country to sign a lease. I'm writing over the weekend, so I should get another post up shortly. I also forgot to mention in the last post that I renamed "Chang" from book 3 to S...
2025-04-25 19:10:23 +0000 UTC View PostBernt sat up, and rubbed at a sore shoulder. He’d managed to bruise it in his sleep, lying on the hard stone floor of the tiny room. He glared at the bed in the corner, mocking him with its perfectly comfortable straw mattress and thick, cozy bl...
2025-04-18 19:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostAlright guys, here we go with the next book! First ever Grundrik POV in the prologue.
Posts might be a bit irregular for about the next 6 weeks, but I'm generally aiming to keep it coming normally. I found a place for my family ...
2025-04-15 11:17:09 +0000 UTC View PostDzhorianath eyed the odd ball of fire warily. It just hung there in mid-air. Cautiously, she approached, dragging the food-thing she’d just killed behind her by its long tail. It was warm and bright. Pretty.
Plopping down directly undernea...
2025-04-10 18:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostDzhorianath inhaled the familiar scent of smoke, crouching behind a loose pile of dirty, stinky stuff that filled this place. Something was burning over there, and fire meant warmth. Carefully, she eased out from her hiding place and scuttled towa...
2025-04-08 08:50:56 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, I'm going to be posting the short story that I wrote for the release of book 1 over the next week. It is, as the title suggests, the story of how Bernt found Jori.
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“Don’t let them rat men see you, alright?”...
2025-04-05 07:21:26 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, sorry for the delay, still lots of stuff going on behind the scenes over here trying to manage a home sale, tons of apartment viewings in an insane market, driving long distances, you know. Fun stuff. Anyway, here is the epilogue! I'm...
2025-04-02 10:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe smell of hellfire filled the room as the demon king’s enormous face split, revealing a colossal maw filled with teeth all the way down. While his master’s appearance didn’t phase Nuros, the hellish light emanating Varamemnon’s eyes did...
2025-03-29 14:53:35 +0000 UTC View PostAelos cast himself through the night toward the distant, telltale red-orange flicker of hellfire. He’d been following his tracker for days as he pressed ever further south into the Phoenix Reaches. A river of golden fire cut through the grassy p...
2025-03-26 10:55:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Did it really have to be here?” great one Ed grumbled at Jori, looking around at the hellfire-pitted walls and floor of the tiny cell. He nodded briefly at the others, who were crowded against the walls in anticipation of their arriv...
2025-03-22 20:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostAfter checking to make sure that none of the bodies lying all around the confluence were still breathing, Bernt walked back to where the summoning circle had been to retrieve his bag. He was limping slightly. Now that the excitement of the fight w...
2025-03-20 15:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor a few seconds, the pressure built in Bernt’s head so much that he saw spots in his vision. Then, just as quickly as it had come, it was gone. The pain disappeared with it, as if it had never been and the sand that had felt as though it were ...
2025-03-17 15:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, got an extra long one for you today. It was a bit tricky to write and since we're starting the climax of book 3, I want to invite you guys to throw in any feedback about this particular section. Is it too abstruse? Does it ...
2025-03-13 15:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, I'm going to be driving across the country to Berlin next week to look at an apartment (I'm hopefully moving soon!), so posts next week are going to be irregular. I'm not sure how many chapters we'll get, but I'm just going to play it ...
2025-03-08 16:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostEdit 3/7: remembered that Bernt is supposed to use a compatible material for the elemental summoning circle, so I added that into this chapter.
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Bernt trudged across the endless, grassy plain four days later, keeping his ...
2025-03-06 19:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostBernt watched from behind the temperature barrier that closed off his small stone shelter as fire rained from the sky, bathing the landscape in light from above and below. It was the second time Bernt witnessed this phenomenon, but the first time ...
2025-03-04 17:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostZijeregh climbed out of the crack in front of her, emerging out into the light of day for the first time in days under the boughs of an ever-burning tree. She inhaled the hot air, letting it burn her nostrils. Her vessel’s skin burned slightly a...
2025-02-28 21:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostTo Bernt’s relief, the storm clouds did not prove to be an example of the Phoenix Reaches’ infamous burning rain. Bernt had read something once about how mountains were supposed to make clouds and cause rainfall somehow, but he hadn’t expect...
2025-02-26 16:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late by the time Bernt finally stopped for the night, curling up in his bedroll in a somewhat sheltered spot between a few large boulders. He slept fitfully for a few hours, plagued by nightmares of the day’s events. It wasn’t the culti...
2025-02-23 13:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostBernt moved more slowly after encountering the goat demon. He couldn’t afford to keep getting into surprise fights. Sure, his banefire spell gave him a powerful advantage against demons, but sooner or later he was going to stop getting lucky. He...
2025-02-20 12:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostBook 1 is now available on Kindle Unlimited and Audible! If you'd like a copy, you can get it here. Of course, as my loyal Patrons, your purchase is not necessary....
2025-02-18 20:57:11 +0000 UTC View PostBernt tasted blood in his mouth. His face burned, and something was pulling on his leg, dragging him across the ground. Rocks scraped across his back and head painfully – both had been scraped raw. He kicked weakly as he tried to blink his eyes ...
2025-02-18 20:49:35 +0000 UTC View PostBy request, I'm posting a running character list. This is not complete, well organized, or even terribly well labeled, but it's what I use myself to keep track of who's who as I'm writing. I'll be fixing/updating it in the future, but I didn't...
2025-02-18 07:07:27 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, let's get this party started.
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The valley continued to narrow as they progressed, and the land grew even drier. Tiny wisps of cloud passed by high overhead, but for the most part, the mountains kept this stretc...
2025-02-13 11:15:42 +0000 UTC View PostBernt extended his spirit into the circle and braced himself for the disorienting sensation of being in two places at once. Jori, who didn’t have any prior warning, stumbled, nearly falling before she caught herself. She was running across the r...
2025-02-11 15:43:05 +0000 UTC View PostSo... I know we just had an exposition chapter, which leads me to the question -- is this too much exposition? You guys have to tell me if this is too much exposition, alright?
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“And how, exactly, does the Mage...
2025-02-08 15:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostOlly crouched in the door of his rickety shanty and poured himself a drink, bottle clinking a bit too hard against the small clay cup. The cheap liquor burned on the way down.
He was almost out.
He’d come to this cursed city to chang...
2025-02-06 17:53:40 +0000 UTC View Post