New Project Announcement

Finally time to announce this. Not when I might have chosen on my own, since there's a lot going on, but this was the best time for Audible, so it's time for the big news I've been hinting!

Just over two years ago, I started a serialization under a new pen name, entitled Depthless Hunger (apologies, but that RR link is a stub). It performed... okay. Average rating, 6000+ followers, a modest number of patrons on an alt account.

My goal with this was another experiment in my ongoing quest to see whether or not there is meaningful overlap between the sorts of things I find interesting to write and the sorts of things that the progression fantasy audience wants to read.

Well, two years later this series is about to reach the first satisfying conclusion (the first five books/arcs form an overall saga). I negotiated a huge audiobook deal with Audible, but only under the condition that I relaunch the series as Sarah Lin - for obvious reasons, since they want to make as much profit as possible in return for giving me a big advance.

So on November 4, the audiobook version will be launching, alongside a new version of the ebook under this name, and the other books will be coming steadily throughout 2026. For most of you, this will be the first time you've heard of this, so there's potentially a lot more of my writing coming... if this series is of interest to you.

You see, I wrote this under a different "brand" for a reason, so let me try to outline some of the differences so you can decide whether or not to try the series:

• With TWC, I tried to create an inventive system that was substantially different from the norm. With DH, my goal was to see if I could take familiar elements (cultivation, LitRPG, etc) and build up something I found fun. Typically these elements are just thrown together in a way I don't find interesting, so with this I made a "standard model of power" that encompasses all systems, creating a setup that has emergent complexity instead of introducing a new idea early.

• I wrote TWC to be a series that relied less on action and battles while still being in the genre. DH was an effort to write something closer to mainstream, so if you want less fighting in TWC, this won't be for you. Those who complain about TWC being too slow may prefer DH.

• If the subgenre is fundamentally wish fulfillment, I wanted to take a shot at the core fantasy of "Be a good person, overcome adversity, make the world a better place". I'm trying to write a neutral descriptive list here, but the reaction to the social elements of DH was negative enough that I'm skeptical the genre has room for any fantasies aside from "Main character is very strong". We'll see.

• Multiple people from the beginning of TWC have asked "Will the story have polyamory?" and the answer has always been "No" because that wasn't really on my mind when I planned the series. I think it's an interesting challenge, though, trying to show a different sort of relationship in a genre like this, that so frequently has harem dynamics. DH has a slow burn poly romance, though not as slow as Fiyu and Nauda. =P

• On that subject, DH would need a slightly higher rating for reasons of sexual content. In TWC and most of my other work, I haven't included much sexuality mostly because I think there are other things for stories to be about. That has gotten my protagonists called asexual (as a pejorative), so I figured fine, I'll start a story with a character who is younger and hornier, cover some different territory. My goal was to show character growth and contrast poly with generic harems, but YMMV.

The series is going to (re)launch on November 4, and Audible wants me to do the announcement early for the sake of preorders. The whole business with relaunching a book is a bit strange and the process may be uneven, but I am trusting that Audible knows what they're doing and this is the best strategy. Apologies if this is more uneven than normal.

Right now I have two links for preorders:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Depthless-Hunger-Audiobook/B0FX64WVSR

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXVCN78K

Audible wants people to use those preorders, so please check them out if the description of the series sounds interesting to you. I also intend to put up an ebook version, but that isn't quite ready yet. November 4 is just over a week away, so all of this will be progressing quite rapidly by publishing standards.

Anyway, I hope this is a positive, not a negative. Some of you found the serialization on your own or know for one reason or another, so maybe people will sound off in the comments. I'm available if anyone has questions before they spend any money. In any case, I'm just trying to make my way in the industry and this is another part of my journey, hopefully not a dead end. Where exactly it all goes remains to be seen, but obviously it will include bringing TWC to completion.