“When the gods were young,” Dariya said, shifting in her chair in Mason’s kitchen, “they thought to make a plane beyond even their own reach. A place…undisturbed by divine control. They wanted to know what would happen. If life would emulate them, destroy itself, which god it would choo...
2025-05-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHurray! Now for...the million next books...why doesn't it end...
How do other indie writers keep up with all this stuff. I'm gonna get gout or something with the time spent in my office chair. Pretty sure I just read the guy who did 'He who fights with Monsters' kinda keeled over? Better ge...
2025-05-21 01:45:13 +0000 UTC View PostMason walked in the door with a feeling of peace and calm flooding through him. He was home, back with his girls, and for a (very) little while he could forget the world, the responsibilities and violence.
A sneaker flew by his head.
“Son of a bitch!”
Rosa took the time to s...
2025-05-20 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMason snuck through Nassau with his Sleeves active. He abandoned the lifts and platforms, climbing and leaping from tree to tree to get to his hall. It was a little over the top, maybe. OK a lot over the top. But he really didn’t want to get delayed. And it was fun.
With his Wayf...
2025-05-19 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Just noticed I skipped right over a fairly hefty milestone! This is about 900,000 words worth!
Well, it's been quite a journey thus far. This story wouldn't be what it is without you fine folks, I really mean that. We writers may enjoy writing, but we also enjoy eating. And eating ...
2025-05-17 23:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostDemi was surrounded in…butterflies. Or just floating motes of bouncing colors. Mason held her to his chest and looked around the fey, slowly breaking into a smile.
“It worked. I didn’t even struggle. Like it didn’t seem to change anything, you just came right along.”
Demi lo...
2025-05-16 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in awhile, Mason truly slept for several hours straight. He even woke with a feeling of…satisfaction. The fire was reduced to smoke, the morning light peaking through a few clouds, Demi still asleep and in his arms.
For a little while he just stared at her. She was unli...
2025-05-15 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDemi’s dark eyes locked on Mason’s as she spread her legs around his waist. He kissed her properly now, lips locking against hers, then exploring with his own pace. She was obviously inexperienced, not to mention in a rush.
She kissed him with wild abandon, hands everywhere, tongue push...
2025-05-14 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThere were advantages to your post-apocalyptic, bonded mutant wolf being ambiguously intelligent. Mason told Streak to feed the fire so he didn’t have to get up.
“Really?” he said as the wolf pouted. “I hunted. And got the wood. Yes I know you would have. Wait you did 2025-05-13 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Mason and Streak chased down Demi’s magical scent-trail for two days. Mason soon shapeshifted back to normal for better speed at distance, letting the wolf follow the scent. They ran day and night, stopping only to eat and drink a little and rest long enough for Streak to dog-nap. The path took...
2025-05-12 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The cover...again! Not much to say, really. Tell your friends to read the book, or something!
Book 5 will be available June 10. The audiobook for #2 is done and very nearly available, just going through Audible's incredibly slow approval. Link below!
Blake closed his eyes and opened his Dreamwalk map. His gut was gurgling, his pulse moving fast. It was ridiculous, really, to feel more anxious to talk to Mason than fighting demons. But there it was.
They hadn’t really spoken since the Neutral Zone. That is, since Blake had tried to bre...
2025-05-09 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, just wanted to give a plug for another writer (Declan Court) who's releasing a book today. It's the third in his Magebreaker series, and it's really a cut above most books in this genre, especially the writing itself. I am a fan.
Anyway! I'll stick the cover and series link below....
2025-05-08 21:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostJeong almost smiled when he found demons assaulting his capital. Dozens of portals dotted the landscape, their destructive magic sucking the life from growing fields and wild grass.
He could see them with his Eternal Gaze—a kind of passive, general identification of the magical world powe...
2025-05-08 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMason moved deeper into the ‘Abyssal Bog’, murdering any demon who got too close or curious. The creatures underestimated his bow. A lot of quick and devious looking demons poked their heads out from cover to stare, only to get a magic arrow in the eye.
Mason’s aim and speed were gett...
2025-05-07 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMason walked with Stag through the fey, pausing as he tried to decide where to go. He’d been considering another mountain range, curious to find those dragons he’d seen in a druid dream.
But with his new knowledge of the south from the centaur scout, he was pretty confident he ...
2025-05-06 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, I’m sure he’s still coming.”
Demi Adair munched and slurped her broccoli and seaweed soup. The jerk of a talking mushroom she bonded stared with its judgy, dramatic little face in silence. She rolled her eyes.
“You know everything I know. He said he’d come find me. I...
2025-05-05 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNight Eyes arranged Mason’s ‘reward’ with more fanfare than expected. He had Palacus and the Pathfinders arrange themselves in a line, then presented the male elven slave, and the corpse of the human civilian.
“He was killed in the attack,” the shaman said, shrugging. “We brough...
2025-05-02 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMason (and a newly summoned Streak) charged straight into another pack of little demons. The wolf’s increasingly deep growl drowned out the sound of their pathetic mewling, the animal clamping its jaw over a demonic head before swinging it like a chew toy.
Mason cleaved his first with the...
2025-05-01 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMason and Night Eyes walked back up to the entrance of the Maker fortress (or whatever the hell it was) in silence. The centaur looked lost in thought, disturbed, increasingly angry. Mason hoped it wasn’t about the tree seed, but he was worried it was.
Would the clever shaman convince his...
2025-04-30 14:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostMason hadn’t really realized he was fighting a magic bear. Though he supposed he should have. Streak had powers from Mason, so it made perfect sense this creature would have powers from its druid master.
It’s ancient, probably powerful druid elder master.
“Deep...
2025-04-29 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post[You have completed Challenge Zone: The Maker’s Great Tree Laboratory. Experience awarded.]
[Title gained: Keeper of Maker Secrets. No identifiable benefit.]
[You have gained enough experience to reach level 23. Increase to all statistics.]
Mason grinned and held the orb in hi...
2025-04-28 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of the Great Tree’s weight bending and breaking metal was hard to think of as ‘good’. Even if it was the goal. Mason felt a bit like he was in a building that was falling apart. Or at least under it.
But the same structure that was holding the tree up was also damag...
2025-04-25 14:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostMason wasn’t scared of skeletons. Or elementals. So he didn’t see how skeletons wrapped in elemental would be any worse. The first few lumbered clumsily towards him, walking a bit like fat astronauts.
He threw up his Ranger’s Quarry, mostly out of curiosity, and because he seemed to h...
2025-04-24 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt seemed giant, Maker-cave bats didn’t like screaming. Well, or else they really liked it. Either way, a good half of the screeching swarm turned and plunged back down, straight towards Mason.
He didn’t have a plan, exactly, but better him than the others. And he real...
2025-04-23 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe ancient druid, or whatever he was, gasped as he saw Mason and the others. His red-veined eyes bulged, his skeletal frame shook, and he opened his mouth several times, obviously trying and failing to speak.
“Can you help him? Heal him or something?” Mason glanced at the shaman, and t...
2025-04-22 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Forgive me, Hunter. I thought you were dead.”
Mason blinked and smelled smoke, opening his eyes properly to see a little patch of lit grass by his face. Night Eyes had apparently also knelt down beside him and started muttering some kind of death prayer.
“You’re not the first...
2025-04-21 14:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostNight Eyes of the Summer Wind was not easily moved by emotion. All his life he had lived with one eye on the past, the other aimed squarely towards the future. He was the last prominent member of his Clan, the greatest shaman born to the Green Sea tribes in a generation, and the son of a famous w...
2025-04-18 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostNight Eyes came for Mason at the crack of dawn. Lila was still sleeping, and as Mason heard the centaur’s hooves he carefully extracted himself and covered her in the warm furs. The urge to climb back into bed with her and spend the day getting to know her even more intimately was pretty strong...
2025-04-17 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post