A note on scheduling: this was supposed to be the Monday chapter, but it ended up going too long, which is why it became a Thursday chapter. The schedule for Thresholder was premised on what ...
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The Collegium had a large campus in the city, and a fair bit of what might have been green space if not for the pollution. The trees struggled and the grass was scraggly, but the buildings,...
2025-03-01 20:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis was incorrectly posted at ch 161, I had just mistitled the document.
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Perry flew up from the hotel room, back in armor for the first time in what felt like forever, though it had ...
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The rest of the train ride to Charlonion was uneventful, though that wasn’t to say that there weren’t things to see and learn about.
They spotted a caravan of covered wagons on th...
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There were three options on the table with regard to the Inspectors.
Hiding would be easy with the shelf space. Perry could slip in there, and bring Anaksi with him or let her fend fo...
2025-02-19 00:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe fully edited first book of Thresholder is available for preorder on Amazon, and will be published on March 25th. It's going to be on Kindle Unlimited, which means getting stubbed on RoyalRoad. The new version of the story has an extra 30K words, roughly six extra chapters, mostly detailing Perry's time in the first two worlds. It's also been rearranged so that the chapters happen more chronologically.
And you can read it right now! It's attached to this po...
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The shelf space had been stocked with clothes for women as well as men. That had been the work of a team that Perry hadn’t consulted with, and they’d clearly tried to figure out from ba...
2025-02-15 19:41:35 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late chapter, I rewrote the ending and then got mired in editing. So far, I would say the whole "being back on track in terms of output" thing is going well. And I probably could have fi...
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Marchand was set up in two places. The body was set up, fully assembled, holding a rifle, in Perry’s rented bedroom. He had instructions to attempt negotiations with anyone who barged in,...
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The train was in the station and sitting idle. At some point the day before the engine and the big tank behind it had been moved so that they were pointed the other way, changing the order ...
2025-02-03 22:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostDo you like short stories? I wrote one! That link is a general link...
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Perry didn’t know what “stop them” meant, but he hadn’t even been issued with a weapon, and barely had control of his horse. He had no clue what kinds of weapons the Yuuks had, espe...
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Perry sat and listened to stories. He’d gone down to the general store and bought a pencil, a whittling knife to sharpen it with, and a blank leather-bound book, then began putting his sc...
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“These are the Duelists,” said Wyatt as they walked down the main stretch of Grabler’s Gulch. Buildings stood on either side of the road, which was plenty wide. They were mostly diffe...
2025-01-20 19:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Perry came out into a world that was completely dark, and it took two whole seconds for him to realize that he didn’t even have a HUD. He took a deep breath, then another, steadying himse...
2025-01-16 17:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the end of the world as we know it.
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Casper dressed well for the confrontation, in a tailored suit that he’d procured from one of the more meticulous libraries and had altered t...
2025-01-13 18:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostOne interlude/epilogue chapter left, then off to Book 5, which I am eager to start work on for that fresh world smell.
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In the end, the Mettes did have to admit that the Eggys were rig...
2025-01-10 19:46:08 +0000 UTC View PostOne epilogue and one interlude left, though I might combine them, or not do one. In case you're curious on the distinction, I think an epilogue as being more of a "this work is over, here's what happe...
2025-01-07 06:53:42 +0000 UTC View PostFor whatever reason, this chapter was hell to write. I am really hoping that the next few chapters are not.
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They tested first, before using the device. They weren’t idiots. The only...
2024-12-31 21:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostAnother one of those chapters that, by word count, should probably have been two chapters. This chapter is the third of this "set", the next one will be different, I am only saying this because I thin...
2024-12-10 21:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostA chapter! Really trying to get back on the horse as far as output is concerned, especially with the holidays coming up, which are always a slow time for me.
Have you tried the 2024-11-25 20:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post
There was originally an author's note here, it got moved to its own post.
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The Farfinder...
2024-11-18 21:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This was originally going to be the author's note for the chapter, but it got long, mostly because it's a bunch of stuff I've been thinking about. This is also public, rather than patron-only, so if you have a comment, no current-chapter details please.
I am very tempted to just present this chapter without comment, because I think "writing's not going so well" posts are terrible to both write and read. But I've also been trying to diagnose, so ...
Moderate series plan-level spoilers follow, along with some...
2024-11-18 21:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostWorth the Candle is getting stubbed: largely removed from all online platforms to comply with Kindle Unlimited terms. This is for money reasons, and to ensure that the audio books will get made. This means you have a few days to do any archival efforts, such as downloading comments (I have not read many of the comments on AO3 or RR and have no idea if there's anything of value there) or making a copy of the text for personal use.
To comply with Kindle Unlimited terms, it'll be removed from all other stores, though you'll ...
2024-10-14 06:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostI have decided that part of the problem with writing is, in fact, Thresholder, or at least writing this part of it. I sit down to write and it's just like "oh, we're doing another complicated...
2024-10-11 08:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostWriting continues to be glacially slow. I worry that I've lost a few IQ points somewhere, or that something inside my brain has snapped and broken, which I don't think is a thing that can actually happen.
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The email was massive,...
2024-09-21 20:14:04 +0000 UTC View PostWell, the good news is that the editing for Thresholder vol. 1 is finished. It's about 30K more words, and reorganized so that everything is in chronological order, and I'll have it to you as soon as the copy-editing is done. Aside from the ext...
2024-09-03 21:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey, it's a chapter!
I think I'm done with that particular bout of depression, at least so far as I understand my mental state. Got pretty bad there, not going to lie. Now it's just a matter of getting back to full productivity, which ......
2024-08-13 09:46:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry for the delays, it's the depression. I've been having some ups and downs, and mostly downs. I think part of it is that the depression makes it so it's hard to take joy from anything, and th...
2024-07-28 09:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostMy apologies again for the inconsistency of the chapters, I've been stressed out and depressed. I've been trying to write some side things to get the juices flowing, but I've had some life stuff that'...
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