Hi all,
I'm in the middle of some mental health struggles; relatedly, it's midterm season and I'm super overwhelmed with my schoolwork. Apparently it's very difficult to write in this state. Tempest chapter 5 is about 70% complete, but I don't think I'm going to have it ready un...
2023-10-06 02:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo no shit, there I was, standing in the middle of the ocean with my commanding officer's severed head, and a dolphin had just speargunned a demigod in the back.
And now it was laughing at me.
Comm translation isn't perfect, but even though it struggles with stuff like with puns and m...
2023-09-27 14:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe dockworkers told us the Fool's Errand had left with the morning tide. They'd been scheduled to stay a few more days, but Erid had skipped out on her docking contract, leaving her deposit behind.
Abby had a quick conversation with the dockmaster and re-emerged a few coins lighter. The mo...
2023-09-19 03:20:49 +0000 UTC View PostOf all the times someone tried to kill me, this one easily took second place. The only thing better than fending off an enraged sea captain was what I did to piss off Sarah Melbrook at her seventh birthday party. You had it coming, you little bitch.
Unlike Sarah Melbrook, Captai...
2023-09-06 05:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe spear was old.
The haft might have disintegrated by now, if it had been allowed to age true. It was self-translated nightly to maintain its condition.
Silver oak. Extinct, and then re-engineered back to a viable growing population. The head was early steel, set w...
2023-08-27 04:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, this is the first of the promised behind-the-scenes posts for the interim period between Lancer and Tempest. Unfortunately, finals week ran late—right into my family vacation—so this will also be the last post before Tempest drops on Saturday. &n...
2023-08-25 12:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey, everyone! At time of posting, the last chapter of Lancer just went up on Patreon, and will be posting to RR next week. That means it's time to talk about next steps!
1. End-of-Book-2 AMA
To celebrate the end of book 2, I'm doing an AMA ...
2023-07-23 07:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostI dreamed about the gods again as my comm ferried my soul back to the Ragnar.
The dream was always the same. They were ragged, bleeding, hungry. I saw a rabid fox with rotting teeth—a vengeful warrior with a broken sword—a hollow-eyed girl, bleeding from a gash in h...
2023-07-23 00:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe world cracked.
Cades had seen a broken pane of glass once. The craftworkers of Vitareas were ingenious and thorough; the glass had been coated in translucent lacquer to prevent total fragmentation. It was like a spiderweb, but the clean lines of the world became jag...
2023-07-15 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe problem with the pentathlon events was that it was really annoying to cheat.
An Eifni deicide team is a precision instrument designed for slow insinuation into a culture. We are the boiling pot, introducing change so slowly you don’t notice before it’s too late. You don...
2023-07-10 01:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostTwas the night before Sportsmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except for—
“You motherfucking Silence cultists, I swear to Darwin,” I said, waving Lilith at the fuzzy blur that my MDO said was an enemy. “What did you think was going to happen here?”<...
2023-07-02 06:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostBy midmorning the next day, the boys caught sight of the city walls. The commander had suited up in formal military dress, which was her custom when preparing for a deicide strike. I’d never seen her do it myself—that little op in Salaphi didn’t count—but Markus had told me be...
2023-06-25 00:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostAbby raced through the midnight streets of Bulcephine like a ghost. Her ethertech boots made no sound as she swept over the cobblestones, translating the noise into conceptual energy and storing it in the force batteries that powered her exosuit.
She wasn’t conceptually undetectable...
2023-06-10 04:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe benefit of taking it slow over the last week was that the commander had thoroughly probed the city’s defenses—etheric and otherwise—with the ship’s sensors. We had a good idea of what we’d be facing from this end, but the walls represented enough of a barrier that our intel on...
2023-05-28 03:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostWe were definitely gonna need Val to program a moirascope filter for “giant sea monster ambush” when he got here. If this happened a third time, the commander might turn the car around and go home as a matter of honor.
Our immediate situation wasn’t great. We’d just expl...
2023-05-13 22:22:20 +0000 UTC View PostThey’d only posted one Oathkeeper tonight. She was hanging out on the south wall, right next to Roel’s bedroom. I could handle one Oathkeeper. If I saved the cloak until I got close, it’d limit the time they had to respond with their stupid little dowsing rod.
Th...
2023-05-06 14:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostLirian’s appearance made everyone jump—one of the Jeneretes negotiators actually screamed. From the smirk on her face, she’d absolutely intended it that way.
Her time in the Oathkeepers’ custody clearly hadn’t been too hard on her; her dress was a pristine number on par with...
2023-04-15 20:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostMorning dawned on judgment day. The Vitares estate was boiling over with activity, the staff—bondsmen, I corrected myself—scurrying every which way, carrying supplies and decorations. I imagined the Jeneretes estate must have looked the same way in the hours preceding the Starligh...
2023-04-10 01:27:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Merisites? You’re sure?”
Roel’s face was intent. My comm easily picked up the skepticism she couldn’t keep off her face—classic conduit theory, embodied ether reacts more strongly. Kuril was in obvious pain; Bofa was inwardly uncertain, but outwardly presented...
2023-04-02 08:52:36 +0000 UTC View PostKuril was in a bad mood, and Roel almost regretted that she was about to make it worse. Almost. But the blade was descending and they had precious little time to get out of the way.
“I’m busy,” Kuril said without looking up from her desk.
Bofa stopped pushing Roel. &...
2023-03-25 18:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Renathion had come and gone. Markus won his third set of laurels, our improvised alliance with the Voranetti finally pushing him past his sudden unpopularity. We were all politely ignoring that they’d been the cause of that in the first place, but that was the price you paid for...
2023-03-17 18:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostContent notice: there's some sex-shaming in this chapter. As always, the perspectives expressed by Godslayers characters are theirs alone.
*****
I was going to pulse Roel in a minute. Honest. It had just been a long day.
Running my own op was emotionally exha...
2023-01-28 02:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Estheni didn’t just have business meetings and leave. That would be rude! It would imply they cared about business but not about neighborliness, and what self-respecting graced would honor Varas but reject Gamal?
It wasn’t like we were all pretending business wasn’t th...
2023-01-21 05:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostYou know how some rich people just, like, don’t live in fancy houses? Which, you know, kinda makes sense. Houses are freaking expensive. I always thought if I got rich someday, I’d live in a normal house and save a bunch of money.
Anyways, the Voranetti were n...
2023-01-01 06:17:24 +0000 UTC View PostI gotta admit, I got goosebumps when Abby dropped that line about cutting heaven and earth. I released a slow breath.
“The skill you will learn tonight is called ‘Growing the Mountain from the Roots,’” Abby said. In Velean it was only three syllables, ak ha var....
2022-12-16 07:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostI followed Bofa and Roel as they left the meeting. At a distance, of course. I walked casually, greeting the staff as I passed them but staying out of sight of my quarry. Eifni had these sick ether-linked goggles that could show you where your target’s attention was pointed, b...
2022-12-14 03:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been awhile since the last chapter, so this post is intended as a catch-up. If you're a future binge-reader, you probably don't need to read this. I hope the internet is nicer in your time. For everyone stuck in the present, here's your refresher!
SPOILERS UP ...
2022-12-13 06:17:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Patreon doesn't allow continuous pausing of billing. It pauses for thirty days and then you have to manually re-pause it again. And it looks like between the November pause ending and the December pause starting, Patreon charged a bunch of you. This is exactl...
2022-12-02 14:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the end of hiatus! There's a bunch of stuff to cover, so I'll try to be concise.
1. Godslayers is resuming this month.
For Patreon, the first update will be Tuesday, December 13. Since everyone prob...
2022-12-01 21:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Just an update to keep y'all in the loop. My break has been good, my life's in much better shape, and I'm working on Godslayers again. I was supposed to be prepping for NaNo, but that was not a wise decision, so all of my writing time is going toward the serial ins...
2022-10-30 21:44:54 +0000 UTC View Post