Update. (Week of 7-7-2023) (Patreon)

My new story "Summon The Great Spirits" is coming either this Friday or next Friday. Gonna follow the 3 chapters per week schedule as closely as I can. It may pause, unlike N&D, but I have half of a book written (30 chapters, 3k each).

Hooray.

I'm going to go back to writing Newt and Demon on the 15th, and try to do a reasonable run to get to the half-way mark of that book. I HAD the ending in mind, but now I'm not sure. I want to see if I can do more with that. Get that book to where it is looking at more southlands-regional stuff. I usually like jumping sharks at the end of my books (which you'll have seen with the end of Book 3), so I'd like to have one of those while working toward my big shark jump for book 5.

Oh, right. So SGS (summon the great spirits) had to get some edits in the first 10 chapters. That's why it might not be out this week, cause I gotta go over those. On that note, the main character is meant to be care-free, light-hearted, and nice in general. At the same time he's a bit of a loner. Slow to make friends. He came off as very brusque in those chapters, so there's some interactions that need to change.

When I took a break from SGS, I spotted a two-week gap in my schedule. Time to rest and relax, right? No, I started working on a third book. Wrote 10 chapters, realized I hated 9 of them, so I rewrote 9 chapters.  Going off the back of having a care-free guy as my MC, I started a system apocalypse story with an extremely outgoing, kind, bubbly female MC.

This project does not have a name, and will likely not have a normal release schedule. But instead of sitting on it, I'm taking suggestions for a release. Would you like to see everything I have just dump here when its ready?

Anyway, the project is named "Card Apoc" in my projects folder. It's about an artist who is putting on an exhibit during the card apocalypse (yay, I know how to spell apocalypse now). Her art sucks, but she doesn't care. Just vibing. Giant bugs, everyone dies, she gets a card that allows her to craft cards. This is a slice-of-life apocalypse deckbuilding litrpg. The theme is helping people survive in the desert (Arizona) during the apocalypse.

This project is something that is 100% for me. I ALWAYS make my MCs too brooding. Luna, the lead here, can never be brooding. She's just too damn happy about painting new cards. This is also an exercise to keep casts to a minimum. She solos everything, typically by crafting single-use trap cards.

This is a big update for me, compared to those in the past. I'm trying to divorce myself from the idea that I need to post a constant schedule with secondary stories, but that has been very hard.  The last 2 books I started got away from me. I didn't take the time to make sure they were what I wanted to write.

As always, thanks to everyone who supports me here. N&D seems like such a small story in a sea of stories, but the consistent support I've gained here helps me push forward.