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Update: Dragon Con Post Mortem

So, I finally got home yesterday evening, lasted long enough to unpack my car, and sat down on the couch. That was all she wrote. The next thing I knew, it was morning.

All in all, my publisher seemed happy with the results of Dragon Con, so I'm calling it a win. Not gonna lie, I did a lot ...

DragonCon Update

Yesterday was a long day. I wandered through PART of ONE of the buildings hosting the vendor halls. The sheer volume of nerdy, geeky, niche stuff is enough to stun a rhino. I kid you not. I also spent a couple hours hanging out at my publisher's table signing books and making it look like I have ...

DragonCon

So…life happened. The apartment move ran up hard against the deadline to leave for DragonCon. How hard? I quite literally turned in the keys for my old apartment right before I loaded my car and headed for Atlanta. There are also piles of unpacked boxes littering the new apartment. It was what ...

Unintended Cultivator V10: Chapter 3 – Grandmother Zhan

Sen managed to impose one day of not being bothered with anything by anybody. It was a decision that would normally get a lot of resistance from all those people who were vying for attention and approval. In what seemed a spectacularly odd turn of events to him, Sua Xing Xing and Long Jia Wei put...

Unintended Cultivator V10: Chapter 2 – Displacement

Even getting the displace villagers into temporary shelter turned out to be a monumental and time-consuming task. There was a lot of, to Sen’s thinking, needless confrontation about that temporary housing. Granted, it was little more than a warehouse that might be used to store grain. It was sh...

Unintended Cultivator V10: Chapter 1 – Dancing Cloud

“What is that?” Sen asked as he peered skyward.

“That’s my big bird, Papa!” exclaimed Ai from her perch on his arm.

“Well,” said Sen thoughtfully, “it certainly is big.”

He kept starting up at and trying to make sense of the thing. It didn’t look like a bird ...

Update: Unintended Cultivator Volume 10 Starts Tomorrow

After a hiccup or seven (as per usual), my internet service has been successfully moved to my new apartment. My new office is 90% of the way there, although that 90% is only as of 5 minutes ago when I booted up my desktop and successfully got online with it. I had intended to get Volume 10 starte...

Update: The Next Few Days

Okay, so I've got a few things to throw at you guys. The furniture assembly phase is not complete, despite my best efforts. Shipping delays have slowed that, but it is mostly done. Done enough that I've started moving stuff. I will eventually do a post with pictures so everyone can ...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 66 – If the Army Comes Here

“What happened to you?” asked Analina as Terry approached his house.

Terry stared at the Adventurer’s Guild admin and thought, Oh, dear god, why is she here? I don’t have the energy to deal with anyone that chipper today.

Heaving a world-wea...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 65 – Unavoidably Present and Visible

At first, Terry just had to focus on doing what he could to heal up. That meant dragging himself far enough away to find some dire wolves there weren’t frozen straight through. It wasn’t really that far, maybe a hundred feet, but it felt like ten miles to Terry on his injured leg. Slipping an...

Chapter 64 – Do I Look Like a Cheerleader to You?

While the burning pain in his leg did diminish over time, giving credence to the healing theory, it was also sapping his energy in a frankly alarming way. He supposed that was to be expected. Pain and healing were both fatiguing things in his old world, so it only followed that would hold annoyin...

Update: Moving, Isekai Terry, and Unintended Cultivator

Okay. We're rolling up on the middle of the month, which is when I tentatively guessed that I'd be starting the next Unintended Cultivator book. So, I'd venture that a lot of people are rather impatiently waiting for me to say something about it. Bear with me, and I will do just that.

Right...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 63 – At Least This Isn’t a Swarm Trope

Okay, self, let’s not fight pack predators in the future, thought Terry. Because this fucking sucks. He pressed a hand against his leg where one of the dire wolves had almost taken a piece out of him. He’d avoided that grisly outcome, but he still had a bun...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 62 – Hunted

Terry’s jian had already taken on that ominous red glow that, he belatedly acknowledged to himself, he should have asked other-Terry about two seconds after the first time it happened. That blade seemed to give the dire wolves pause. Terry found that hilarious, which stuck him as a little inapp...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 61 – Things in the Forest

The next few hours were an exercise in frustration for Terry. While his intentions had been good, his skills at forest craft were somewhat subpar. He’d spent enough time in that forest while fleeing the church that he’d started to get a sense of what to watch out for, but that wasn’t exactl...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 60 – That’s Not Funny

“What do you people do with your time when you’re at home?” asked Terry as they sat around the table and ate breakfast.

Jaban looked over at him with a curious expression and said, “The usual stuff. Read. Eat. Spend time with family. Sometimes, I train. I guess it depends on how lon...

Update: Moving Time!

Okay, so in an unusual turn of events, things happened faster than I expected. I got the keys to my new place yesterday. On the whole, that's a good thing. It means that furniture and appliances I ordered will show up to a place that I can 100% get into. Hurray! Of course, it also meant that I co...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 59 – Once You’re in the Box

Terry had half-expected some kind of fallout for dismissing that contract from that random lord. When nothing terrible had happened after a few days, though, he started to relax a smidge but only a smidge. That comment that Analina had made about the property being cursed had stuck with him. Not ...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 58 – Celery

Terry stood by the stove and stirred the stew occasionally while Analina gave him the scant few details she had about the contract. He could boil it down to one, very uninspiring sentence. A really dangerous bad thing is doing bad thing stuff, and we’d like that to stop. Naturally, no ...

Adventures in Moving

So, last night was an adventure. I had a bit of plumbing problem that involved a lot of water all over the floor. The problem itself wasn't that hard to fix, but it was also something that couldn't wait for two days for a maintenance ticket. So, I got to do that. The real hassle was dealing with ...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 57 – Harmless

It turned out that making a house that hasn’t been occupied for a while actually livable was more work than it looked like on the surface. Terry had assumed that it would just need a sweep and maybe a quick trip to the market to get whatever he needed. Oh, how wrong he was. The quick sweep turn...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 56 – Home, Sweet Home

Terry stood in the middle of an empty room and tried to wrap his head around the idea that he owned the place now. He’d come from a place where closing on a home routinely took a month or more. He’d gone from talking about the possibility of buying the place with Analina to home ownership in ...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 55 – Of Course, It’s Cursed

“And that was when Master Marrek told me that I was never going to be a good adventurer, but that I would make an excellent administrator,” said Analina in a rush that had been going on for the better part of thirty minutes. “I thought that was really strange, since most administrators at t...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 54 – Awkward

“You can’t come into the town,” said Terry for the tenth time.

Drumstick made pitiful squawk-roars and gave Terry what he’d come to recognize as it’s version of sad eyes. Dusk was not helping things as she sat on Terry’s shoulder and gave the enormous chicken-lizard a smug look....

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 53 – Miner’s Mark

With the prospect of Adventurer’s Guild assholes looking for him to join their factions, Terry became even more invested in getting south and finding somewhere to hole up. The grim specter of politics and the ongoing threat of the Church were things he did not want to face until he had a home b...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 52 – History

With his deepest secret in the open, Terry got a much more thorough, if wildly haphazard, education about the place where he’d landed. He also recognized that most of the information would have slipped from his grasp if he hadn’t gotten some kind of brain upgrade since arriving. Not that Hare...

Eric Update: Back In Town

Okay, so the brief trip out of town has been successfully concluded, and I've returned to the safety of my... Cave? Socialization avoidance domain? No, that's not it. Oh! Right! My apartment. And as with most trips, even brief ones, I came back to the 107 things I didn't get done before I left, a...

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 51 – Captain Good News

Terry still found himself debating about exactly how much to tell them, but they were right. They did need to know and there probably wasn’t a safer group to which he could reveal he true origins. So, he took a deep breath and started with was probably the most relevant piece of information. 2024-07-28 21:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Isekai Terry TOD: Chapter 50 – While the Getting Is Good

Terry ended up walking past the market on his way to leave town only to find Haresh, Ekori, and Jaban there looking around with vaguely horrified expressions on their faces. He walked up behind them and tried to figure out what they were looking at. The market looked more or less the way he’d l...

Car Time

Hey everybody. So, I spent most of my day behind the wheel. I got where I was going, but I also got myself a nice little migraine. I'm going to take some medication to see if it'll take the worst edges off. If it does, I'll work on a chapter. If it doesn't, I'll probably just go to bed.