Phew: sorry this took so long, guys! I've been dealing with some pretty awful writer's block since making the huge 5000-words-a-day push on Kingdom Come.
You're the first to see this wholly unedited, but largely final alpha draft of Ch 1. L...
Things have been a bit quiet on the posting front because the team at Soundbooth Theatre and I have been working long hours on this baby right here: the Trial by Fire audiobook!
We're uploading this puppy today, which means it will be avail...
Woo! I've been quiet because I've been busy working with Justin, Laurie and Jeff on this puppy. You guys are the first to hear any of the audiobook other than me - so enjoy!
2019-08-23 03:27:17 +0000 UTC View PostSome of you (those on Discord) have probably seen me post snippets of this project. It's basically a fun diversion from Archemi Online - I felt like writing a more pulpy sort of LitRPG.
The goal is to write about 1000 words of this a day whi...
2019-08-03 06:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
My artist and I have been working intensively on this cover since April. Phew!
Karalti is canonically bigger than this, but we decided she should be small enough to have on the cover alongside the Warsinger.
It begins! The artist was hugely patient in the development of this cover.
2019-07-05 21:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe suddenly have a Discord channel! Yay!
I think it automatically added all you guys once I integrated it. I uh... hadn't actually intended for that to happen. So by all means, if Discord isn't your thing, feel free to leave - I won't be off...
2019-06-27 23:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, and thanks so much for your patience and support. Kingdom Come was released today, and you all get a free copy :)
Amazon has been making it a bit difficult for authors to share their ebooks easily. To download this puppy to your Kind...
2019-06-22 21:12:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf you have read Kingdom Come and would like to help a brother out, the paperback version of the book is live on Amazon now, which means that you can leave a review. Reviews left on the paperback will also show on the ebook page.
The officia...
2019-06-20 18:47:23 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, after what was easily the worst year of my adult life, Kingdom Come is finished with only days to spare - and it's a whopper of a book, coming in at a princely 167,000 words. Dragon Seed was 120K and Trial by Fire was 130K, to put that in...
2019-06-15 06:38:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe days and nights are blurring into one another. I fell asleep at my keys last night.
But KC is almost done!
All you $5+ patrons will be getting a copy before the release day of 22nd June, probably within the next 3 days.
2019-06-11 05:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe ARC of Kingdom Come will be available soon - once it's ready, I will be posting a link here. The final book will be about 150K - there is a section still being edited.
2019-05-24 06:03:21 +0000 UTC
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This is, in fact, the first chapter which resolves the issue I ranted about in my previous post.
We split up at the door to the Officer's Mess. Rin meekly farewelled us on the way to her own quarters in the W...
2019-05-15 01:23:11 +0000 UTC View PostEverything has kind of come crashing down around my ears again. We are putting down our beloved horse on the 21st and moving in the first week of June, and I am desperately trying to get this book done in time.
Some earlier chapters must be ...
2019-05-15 01:09:32 +0000 UTC View Post
At Soma’s request, the debrief was held in the Officer’s Mess. Compared to the War Room, it was clean, warm and dry, with brass candelabras and rich wooden furniture. There was real food here, miles above what the rank and file ha...
2019-05-08 21:28:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“We need to hit those guns. As soon as the cannons appear, I want you to split. Get behind the artillery and get ready to flame.” I hopped up into a crouch, holding onto the saddle with one hand. “If I die, don’t ...
2019-05-08 00:18:31 +0000 UTC View PostI don't really have time to paint much any more, so when I need reference art, I turn to modeling.
I just use the Black Desert character maker and photoshop for these. You can probably tell. Unfortunately, the outfits are sort of filler outf...
2019-05-04 15:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post
It took the better part of the night to reach Korona. The sun was just coming up over the horizon when we sighted the Prezyemi Line from the air. That was made easier by the fact a good part of it was on fire.
“Oh jeez.” I w...
2019-05-04 06:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The crystallized slime plug that sealed the Broodmother’s inner sanctum was wedged in tighter than a three-day old booger. It took all five of us wailing on it for about ten minutes to break it up.
“Does this place eve...
2019-04-28 13:30:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I fumed all the way from the Officer's Mess to our quarters. Rin meekly farewelled us on the way to her own quarters in the Weaponeer's Hall, while Suri split to go and make sure Cutthroat hadn't killed anyone. That left Karalti...
2019-04-24 03:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostA day in the life of the artist.
This morning, our cellphones blurted a chorus of horrible loud sounds: an Amber alert. It scared the cat, who leaped off the bed and ran away across my face. One back claw opened up my face from the upper cor...
2019-04-23 22:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostHi all - sorry for the lack of updates, but Norwescon kind of ate my life .__.
I need to revise the next section after the last posted chapter, just to make sure it lines up with the rest of the story. As soon as I've refined that and made a...
2019-04-23 09:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“SCREEEEEE!” Cutthroat’s bird-like screech echoed off the walls, and then her keel nearly drove me into the ground as she flung herself on top of me. The blow landed squarely across the hookwing’s back instead of my head...
2019-04-13 23:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
As we advanced through the cave, there was less ice and more slime. A lot more slime. More slime than I ever needed to see or experience. It was white, thick, and the jokes were so obvious I couldn’t bring myself to make them....
2019-04-12 23:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It was like this the entire day. Encounter after encounter, mob after mob. Every mudhole seemed to contain something dangerous, poisonous, hungry, or any combination of the three. They all had shit EXP and either no loot or low-...
2019-04-08 02:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
3 hours later.
The Endlar Swamp was humid. Very humid. A croaking, humming, brackish, dreary thousand-acre morass that stood between us and a sizable number of zombies. A faint methane perfume hung over the still ...
2019-04-06 01:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostPhew - we're at about the 55K mark now with Kingdom Come, and given that you guys are the first people besides my wife to read any of it, I would be very interested in your feedback. I am tragically awful at assessing my own writing.
Is KC ...
I spent a good twenty minutes milking Zlazlo for information on the Endlar, then left him to sleep. After telling the medic what I’d done to treat him, I headed back to the bedroom to wait for Suri and Karalti. And while I was...
2019-04-02 18:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In my sober moments, I told myself I’d picked up the Healing skill tree because it was fun and interesting. But if I was being honest with myself, a big part of my hunger to learn was because it made me feel like I could conqu...
2019-04-01 20:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post