Apollos Thorne

Quick Update

I'm going to be saving today's chapter for tomorrow. There are a few things I'm tweaking with this mini-arc. :D I'm really enjoying this one.

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 19

The hobgoblins finally neared. They were split evenly between each gate with ten without psionics and one boss. The normal ones weren’t as normal as they seemed. Even in Freedom, there had been a large difference between the named hobgoblins and the generic ones. These were not of the generic v...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 18

I blinked, fighting through my grogginess. The last thing I’d expected was to actually nod off with the little I needed to sleep these days.

Without even waiting for me to ask the question, Destiny chimed in. “You’ve only been out for a few minutes.”

Straightening in my seat a...

A very Italian, How you doin?

First of all, I want to apologize for going radio silent for a while there. The last year or so has been an emotional rollercoaster in regard Heaven's Laws and Underworld book 6. With the editing issue that came up, it's just been very hard for me to get emotional engaged with anything I've been ...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 17

My first thought as my stomach seemingly jumped like it was determined to compete for a place in my chest was that billions of people were moments away from laughing at me. However, the reason I’d even dare such a thing was much more significant. With what our psionic made us capable of, jumpin...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 16

It wasn’t my first time seeing psionics used against psionics in battle. The world quest in Freedom had introduced mobs that used a variety of psionic abilities. Most of them were offensive ones like an empowering aura or Voli bolts, but defensive ones weren’t unheard of.

I kept a scrut...

Update - Ninja Editing

Hey everyone,

I haven't forgotten about Codename or you guys. I've run into some issues with the editing with Heaven's Laws, which at first seemed typical, but have turned into a problem I can't ignore. Normally, I get a few reviews that mention typos, but this time it's common. I have a fe...

Update - Calling it a day...

I wanted to give a quick update. I was planning on getting the next Codename chapter out, but I had a one star review drop on the Heaven's Laws release and I'm missing at least five reviews from people that told me they posted them on day one. It's impossible for me to focus right now so I'm goin...

Heaven's Laws - Publishing Early!

When everything in the editing and formatting department goes well, I try to change to an earlier date to surprise everyone that's preordered. I don't get to do it every time, but I have with this one.

Heaven's Law's - Prodigies is dropping on the 19th!

I've also hi...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 15

“Lastly, get everyone inside the gate. Once there, I’ll install our perimeter wall so that we have more than this fence to depend upon for whatever they throw at us,” Victoria concluded in her message to the leadership team.

There weren’t many of us, but those that had been placed i...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 14

I turned to Destiny who was already prepared. “I’ll list necessary and obvious purchases,” she said, standing stiffly in her holographic form atop her drone. “Just tell me yes, or to hold off.”

I nodded, doing my best to give her my full attention as the horde headed straight for ...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 13

As I began to mess around with the different psionic weapons, there was one large distinction between them. Some were made for people with limited psionic ability and worked much like the Adamantium ore we’d found in Freedom. It allowed those that had only unlocked their aura to focus energy an...

Preorder is Live - Heaven's Laws - Prodigies

Preorder is Live!
Publishing Sept. 20th!

Heaven's Laws - Prodigies
Book 1 in a new Cultivation Fantasy Series!

330,000 words!

Many of you were there as a part of my journey during writing this book and kn...

Heaven's Laws - Prodigies - Ebook Copy

It is finished!

Your Patreon copies of the mobi and pdf are attached.

Many of you know how emotional this book was for me to write. I had just as much difficulty through the editing processes. 330,000 words will do that to you, I suppose. Hehe.

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Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 12

Destiny’s reaction was extreme, but she recovered in a few short minutes. After calming down, she turned from her surroundings and rested her eyes upon me. She then came to her feet on my chest and hopped up to land on the top of her drone. Facing me, she smoothed out her skirt.

“Well, ...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 11

By the time everyone had been broken up into platoons, it was already 10:00 AM and most of the first half of the day was already gone. Just as Peter had suggested, we marched—for two hours straight.

Our instructor sergeant was the furthest thing from a drill sergeant I could imagine. The ...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 10

Using bursts of speed, I played the angles to only have to face Sergeant Xavier or Brice one at a time. I whittled them down with each exchange. Even my energy use was minimal so it seemed it would only be a matter of time before I came out on top.

It was difficult to think of anything else...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 9

The roar from the crowd shook the air even more than it had before. I wasn’t sure how many people were watching in the stands, but it seemed a good portion of them were taking my side.

Without Destiny there to help observe my opponent, I couldn’t get a precise reading on Xavier’s comb...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 8

I took my family vehicle to a local private airport where I got on a shuttle. The seating was little more than steel chairs bolted to the polished floor with five point harnesses for seatbelts. Despite the austere design, the shuttle was filled with twenty celebrity passengers heading for the sam...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 7

On the morning I was leaving, I had to get up at 4:00 AM. I was surprised to find my mother, but also my father there in the kitchen with breakfast waiting for me. We’d had a few nice dinners together since I’d been home, and any of the past disagreements that my father and I had about users ...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 6

After the ceremony, Vector and Drool were too busy greeting everyone for us to do more than congratulate them and participate in a few toasts. I’d catch up with them later, maybe in a week or two, when all the craziness was over. They wouldn’t have much of a honeymoon, for it was a few days u...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 Revisions

Chapter 4

Note: The following full chapters have also been updated. I decided to bring the issue of Lucius's lack of reaction to the forefront instead of springing it on you guys in a coming chapter. There will still be some build-up, but it's a problem he's going to have t...

Whole Lot of Nonsense Update

So... We're replacing the AC unit to the house, so things have been a little crazy around here. It wasn't planned, but spare of the moment. Anyway, that's why things have been quiet on my end, and there are a few other things I've been working on in the time I've been able to set aside.

2021-07-26 21:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Heaven's Laws Revisions Complete

Just as the title says, besides basic typos that I'll have to go through in the second round of editing, Heaven's Laws is complete! I cut out a little here and there with cleaner descriptions, so it's coming out at 331,000 words. It's been one emotional ride. 

I'm going to be going thr...

Big Daddy Update

So this update isn't necessary big, as in long, or related to daddies in any way, but it's related to both Heaven's Laws and Codename: Freedom. I named it such because I didn't want anyone to miss it.

I have received the copyedit notes for the rest of the series and I'm going through them n...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 5

Nine months had passed, maybe ten, since I first told Peter I’d undergo a DNA Cleanse to become Ekseliksi. I’d had a lot of time to reconsider, but I didn’t regret my decision.

To say I completely understood what had happened to me would be untrue. The virus I’d ingested did many th...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 4

Instead of a mixed reality headset, I followed behind a purple flying orb. It was only the size of a small bird without wings, but this personal drone was being controlled by Destiny. Now that I had money coming in, I’d made a few quality of life purchases. This drone that my AI was now master ...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 3

Note: Chapter numbers have changed.

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I received a reply from Victoria, but, besides a bit of back and forth, there was no chance to speak with her directly. She sent me some information that gave me a bit more direction in how to be best prepared for what was coming. Just because w...

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 2 Part 2

St3alth pulled me away from the crowd of players half an hour later. My stunt was a ridiculous one, but such things were expected. There were far more members of the guild than there’d ever been before I entered Freedom, but this was one part of the world that still felt that it belonged to me....

Codename: Freedom - Book 4 - Chapter 2 - Part 1

Privacy mode wouldn’t be enough to hide my identity from anyone that saw me in person, so I took out a dark gray cloak and pulled its hood over my head. Gravel prided itself in realism, so hiding my facial features made it so that other players would be unable to identify me unless I was groupe...