The Lich Days of Summer is set a century before the events of Mage Errant.
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The last weeks of summer hang heavy in most lands, but in few more heavily than in the Ylosa river delta. The heat and humidity lurk among the mangroves, h...
2021-09-21 08:18:12 +0000 UTC View PostTime for the first official short story selection vote! Pick the story you like, and I'll write whichever one gets the most votes! (If, for plot/character/continuity reasons, I can't make the first story work, I'll write the second choice.)
All your options this month are Mage Errant stori...
I went ahead and created a voting tier, Arbiter of Destiny, at $3, as per the winning vote in the poll! (Well, second to "cool with it, but wouldn't subscribe to it".) Anyone at that tier or above is going to get to vote on each month's short story. Here in a few days, I'll post the poll for Sept...
2021-08-30 12:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostI've had a few people inquire about adding additional tiers to Patreon lately. Up until now, I've been reluctant, because all of my various ideas have been, well, too much work for me right now. I wish I was one of those authors like Mary Robinette Kowal who could do INFINITE WORK ALL DAY EVERY D...
2021-08-27 12:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set during the events of Jewel of the Endless Erg.
Krita’s job was nine-tenths boredom.
She was absolutely fine with that. Boredom was good, when you were a guard. Especially when you were working on a Yldivan merchant fleet on a multi-year mission ...
2021-08-25 15:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostMage Errant Book 5, The Siege of Skyhold, is now available on Audible!
Oh, and in case you haven't seen it already, 2021-08-04 05:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Since Old Setah and The River was the clear winner in the poll, here we go! This story is set on the continent of Gelid, two centuries before the events of Mage Errant. We'll get Mudflat Nights, also set on Gelid, next month!
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2021-07-19 09:09:11 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to let you pick which story you get this month! All I'll tell you about them is that both are set on the continent of Gelid, and that they're wildly different .
2021-07-17 16:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostDead Alchemists is set fifty years before Mage Errant.
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A bold alchemist is a dead alchemist.
Alchemy is a dangerous science— even in its most mundane aspects, alchemists work with countless toxic substances, ...
2021-06-03 03:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostQuick note- I changed the date of To Secure a Vault from a century before Mage Errant to forty years before. And sorry this one took so long, and had to be split into a two-parter- it took a LOT of science research to write, and I'm still not 100% that I got all the chemistr...
2021-05-11 18:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostTo Secure A Vault occurs almost exactly a century before Mage Errant. Part 2 should be out pretty quick next month, it's already half-done now! (I really wanted to release the whole thing this month, but I'm really only just recently getting my brain functional again after finishing book 5.)<...
2021-04-29 22:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The Siege of Skyhold is out now!
Siege of Skyhold US link
Siege of Skyhold UK link
2021-04-14 05:06:21 +0000 UTC
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Really meant to get this month's short story done today, but it's kicking my butt. Partially due to the difficulty of the story itself- it's in first person, which isn't my usual territory, and it's also another "scientific puzzle" type story, like the Mirror Mage stories. Those can be pretty...
2021-03-29 08:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostAttached is the first chapter of Mage Errant 5, the Siege of Skyhold. Extra-long short story next month!
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Hugh Stormward, once known as Hugh of Emblin, couldn’t breathe.
“Should I get the healer?” Talia asked him.
Hugh shook his...
2021-02-28 12:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis story takes place during the late spring, during the events of A Traitor in Skyhold, following Luthe of Clan Castis, Talia's eldest brother.
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Luthe of Clan Castis was taking his daughter for...
2021-01-15 12:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe following files are the sum of the intelligence Havath has been able to gather regarding the Gorgon Incident a few years back. Much of it is unverified, and a good portion is likely Skyhold or Sydapsyn counterintelligence. This document is restricted, and may only be read with Duarch perm...
2020-12-23 06:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostLost Qokeen is set around a quarter century before the events of Mage Errant. It is, in great part, inspired by Wolf Hilbertz’s Autopia Ampere, one of the most brilliant, gorgeous utopian cities never built- or in its case, grown.
(And hey, I've got this one for you at the beginning ...
Talia- as I promised, here’s the file on the boots stored in the Vault. While it is one of the most heavily secured items in the vault, it’s not a particular secret, unlike some of the other items in the Vault. Still, the rules around any Vault Contents report mean that I’ll need this r...
2020-10-10 04:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostQuick note: Murder In Ras Andis has been taken down from Patreon, since it's now at the end of book 4. Whenever I publish a volume of my short stories, I'll be taking down those stories as well- though I will make sure to give you all plenty of forewarning about that.
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Again, so so sorry this one is late. I'll do my best to make sure that doesn't happen again, 2020 is just... terrible and overwhelming. Also, making part 2 work necessitated making a couple minor changes to part 1, so if you see any contradictions, that's why. (Notably, changing the number of...
2020-09-06 21:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostI should have last month's story up soon (again, so so sorry to be late on that, it's hugely embarrassing), but I wanted to give you all a couple options for what the next story will be, and let you all choose!
In addition, I'll be removing Murder in Ras Andis from Patreon here in the next ...
2020-09-05 20:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostI meant to have this month's short story (The Wrong Librarian pt. 2) up yesterday, but it's run into some plot issues. Pretty sure I can fix it easily enough, so it should be up in the next day or two. (Really sorry for the delay- I'll get September's story to you all actually in, you know, Septe...
2020-08-31 22:04:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I had planned the release of Mage Errant 4 for August 15th, but I came to four very important realizations today:
#1: I’ve just been sitting on the completed manuscript, and I’m as angsty to get it into my readers’ hands as a number of them h...
2020-08-13 22:45:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis story takes place just over a century and a half before the events of Into the Labyrinth. It was written using the I Ching, like Phillip K. Dick used the I Ching to write The Man in the High Castle. I meant to have the whole thing ready this month, but life's been kicki...
2020-07-31 12:37:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
I wanted to give you an update on some changes that we’ll be seeing which may affect some of your pledges. Due to new laws passing in several countries and US states, Patreon will be required to start charging sales tax on some pledge...
2020-06-26 02:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis story starts a dozen years after the fall of Imperial Ithos at the hands of Kanderon Crux and the twelve other founders of Skyhold. The basic idea for the story came to me in a dream, and I woke up and wrote the whole thing in a single sitting. (One of my most impressive writing days I'v...
2020-06-22 02:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostI meant to have a full short story done for you this month, but the current short story- The Wrong Librarian- is proving rather difficult, and I didn't want to give you another split short story this month, so I'm moving that back to next month. I should have the Mage Errant 4 manusc...
2020-05-31 15:13:22 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick note- my new standalone epidemiological fantasy novel, The Wrack, is out now!
2020-04-23 09:34:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe name of the woman he’d rescued was, to Keinan’s amusement, Ash.
Of course, when he had to explain that he’d killed her pursuers from atop an ash tree, she only gave him a brief polite smile, and Keinan immediately felt awkward and embarrassed.
Ash was a couple years ol...
2020-04-06 12:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this one comes so late in the month, folks. I've been pretty overwhelmed in March- I spent the first part of March finishing The Wrack and getting it off to my editor, then I took a much needed vacation in Fiji (I was already in New Zealand while finishing The Wrack, so Fiji wa...
2020-03-31 13:43:18 +0000 UTC View Post