This is one of those story ideas that's been chewing my grey matter for a while. So, I took today to write something that has no immediate consequence but would help clear some chaff from my brain. Feel free to weigh in if you want. Otherwise, enjoy! ~Eric
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My publisher let me know that Amazon Australia is running a deal on the Unintended Cultivator Volume One ebook during July. It's $1.49 AUD. If you've been trying to convince someone to give it a try, now is your time!
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Not that anyone really needs the reminders, but the Volume Three chapters will mostly be moving out of the public section and behind the paywall for the $3 tier tomorrow to satisfy Amazon's exclusivity clauses. Also, the Volume Three ebook goes live on Tuesday, July 2. You can preorder a copy 2024-07-01 02:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Sen reached down, plucked Ai from the ground, and swung her up into his arms. She was yelling and smiling and, in a few seconds, he would start to listen. Before that, though, he just let himself breathe. He let himself feel the impossibly soft strands of her hair brush his face in the gentle bre...
2024-06-30 14:42:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Sen knew that he could activate his qinggong technique or fly himself on a qi platform to get back to the mostly destroyed sect compound, he couldn’t seem to rouse the ambition. He’d been focused and even domineering with Lunhan and Liwen, but he’d done that out of pure, brutal, unadu...
2024-06-30 10:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostYunhan and Liwen stared at him with scared, confused expressions. Sen supposed that was to be expected after everything he’d done. He’d earned those looks, and he had to fight his instinct to put them at ease. He needed them scared. Not terrified to point that they’d try to fight him for fe...
2024-06-30 06:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs they waited for the mistress of the house to join them, Terry watched with more than a little satisfaction as Gilvane became increasingly nervous. He did keep his amusement on the inside, though. While he might be willing to talk to the woman, his goal remained the same. He wanted to get out o...
2024-06-30 04:26:21 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, because Amazon does as Amazon wills, the paperback and hardcover versions of Unintended Cultivator Volume Three are already live over on Amazon. If you've been waiting to order a physical edition, you can do it now.
If you've been waiting to leave a review on Amazon, you can leave one...
2024-06-29 20:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a long, long time before the tears ran dry, and Sen came back to himself. He thought he’d felt empty before, but that had been nothing. He was utterly hollow now. It seemed that the faintest breeze would be enough to shatter the fragile shell of him. He let himself sit like that for a l...
2024-06-29 00:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis isn't the last chapter, but this is where the whole sect war arc was headed. Now that everyone can see what it was all about in a big picture way, I'm leaving comments on for this one chapter so people can weigh in.
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Elder Mu tried to glare at him, but it didn’t loo...
2024-06-28 12:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostSen had taken his time approaching the nascent soul cultivators. Some of that was basic caution. The easiest way for him to get caught was for him to get physically seen. The shadows that obscured him would do a good job of that, but he had no way of knowing how acute the elders’ vision was in ...
2024-06-28 09:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostSen only got a few steps away from the inert pair before he stopped. He looked back at them. He’d mostly excluded the woman his killing intent, only maintaining enough pressure on her to ensure she remained immobile. She’d been unconscious to begin with, so he didn’t expect that it would ta...
2024-06-28 05:39:50 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so, while I am locked in to attend Dragon Con this year, the Dragon Con powers that be decided not to have me attend as a professional guest. I applied pretty late, so that's not really a surprise. What it means is that I won't be appearing on any panels, although I imagine I'll probably at...
2024-06-27 09:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostSen could see the indecision on the man’s face. There was the desperation to save his cultivation on the one side, but that prospect meant fighting a battle that would almost certainly end in destruction. On the other side was the guarantee of life, a potent spur for anyone, but it was the kind...
2024-06-27 08:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostWhile his killing intent was enough to suppress many of the remaining cultivators who had made up the core membership of the sect, it wasn’t enough to keep all of them suppressed indefinitely. He supposed it was to be expected. However little he thought of this sect and anyone who joined it, th...
2024-06-27 01:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostSen watched as Falling Leaf left the de-limbed corpse of the core cultivator in the copse of trees and ventured back out into the sect. Once she was gone, he walked over the corpse and glared down at it. He’d arrived just after she had, somehow, reappeared in his spiritual sense. It had taken s...
2024-06-25 14:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostFalling Leaf slumped against a wall, having evaded her pursuer for at least a few moments. She peeled her hand away from the wound in her side and sucked in a breath at the pain. She had been careless. That carelessness had led to the wound she gently poked at with her fingers. Part of her knew t...
2024-06-25 06:37:20 +0000 UTC View PostSen could hear shouting and screaming throughout the sect, but he wasn’t sure how much if any of it was because of Falling Leaf and Glimmer of Night. He was vaguely aware of their positions but he was doing his best not to focus too hard on where they were or how many of the sect cultivators we...
2024-06-24 08:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sen had spilled all of those different cores on the ground, he’d expected it to be impressive but even he hadn’t anticipated the true scope of the devastation it would create. The wall, the gate, the cultivators behind the gate, and several nearby buildings had been… He supposed the ri...
2024-06-24 05:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostBin Enle stood on the walls and tried to suppress a yawn. It wasn’t tiredness, just boredom. Aside from the strange beast tide a week or so back, nothing interesting ever happened on the wall. It had given him an excuse to fire an arrow into the darkness. It hadn’t been entirely unjustified. ...
2024-06-22 02:26:11 +0000 UTC View PostTerry didn’t storm through the halls of the quasi-castle he’d found himself in. Storms break things, he assured himself. I’m just moving with purpose. Intense purpose. That’s all. Several attempts to get him to stop had happened, but it seemed his displ...
2024-06-21 07:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody. Volume Three will drop on Amazon in about 12 days (July 2). I'm pretty excited about that because...entirely valid and sensible reasons (vanity, cough cough). Just as importantly, it also means a finalized cover for the book. Check it out below
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Okay, so Volume Three drops on Amazon in about twelve days (July 2). That's always an exciting time. It also means that it's time for me to hand out a link for upper tier members to grab their free ebook copies. But first...check out the cover for Volume Three.
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Sen didn’t say much as he, Falling Leaf, and Glimmer of Night made their way through the wilds and toward the Twisted Blade Sect. The prospect of walking through such a place at all, let alone through the darkness of night, would once have been enough to leave Sen in a cold sweat. The wilds wer...
2024-06-21 00:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostSen had fully expected Falling Leaf to yell at him or possibly hit him. Once he stepped a bit closer to the fire and she got a good look at him, though, the anger mostly bled out of her expression. I must not look very good, thought Sen. He glanced at Uncle Kho who also gave Sen a consid...
2024-06-20 07:52:44 +0000 UTC View PostIf Sen were able to physically sweat, which he was pretty sure he wasn’t able to do any more, he would have been soaked to the bone. He’d moved on from the zone of authority that was given to the inner sect and core members, and moved into the elders’ domain. Life got a lot harder at that p...
2024-06-19 11:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so I did plan on writing chapters yesterday. It seemed chance had other things in mind. I took a fall during my ice skating class last night. It wasn’t a graceful, gentle fall. I went over backwards and landed flat on my back. It really knocked the wind out me. And a grown man falling fla...
2024-06-18 17:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostSen swiftly discovered that his salacious rumor theory was more than true. Even hidden as he was during the daylight hours, it was all anyone could talk about. There was endless speculating about what had happened and why with a morbidly gleeful undercurrent to it all. While he was happy that his...
2024-06-17 05:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostOkay. I blame myself for most of this. I knew it was a mistake, but I relented on turning the comments back on because I felt bad about it, and I know a lot of people see that as part of the whole Patreon experience. But the truth is, I turned them back on way before I ready. I knew this sect war...
2024-06-17 02:37:15 +0000 UTC View PostTerry was eventually deposited in a room. It was a plain room with a small table and a chair. He eyed the window. It looked like it might be big enough for him to go through, but it wouldn’t be a fun time. He’d probably get cut up pretty badly on his way out since the window didn’t actually...
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