Beginning Monday, March 24, I will be going on a two-week notification hiatus. Chapters will continue to be posted. A new chapter will still become available for each tier, Mon-Fri, as usual. There will simply be no emails or announcements about them. At the end of that hiatus period, there will ...
2025-03-21 20:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostSen allowed himself to bask the flood of words that came at him from both Ai and Zhi as their voices filled the galehouse. It almost felt like the girls were competing to see who could tell him the most stories. It started out innocently enough, with Ai recounting battles her never-ending war wit...
2025-03-21 19:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the last of the idiots who had attacked the city were finally marched by, Sen heaved a sigh of relief. The mind-numbingly boring, irritating task was complete. There was nothing left to keep him from his home. Before he could gather his qi to fly away, Auntie Caihong placed a hand on his arm...
2025-03-20 23:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostJames watched a fascinating, albeit alarming transformation in Sig the farther they got from Alvarence’s dilapidated-looking shop and the closer they got to the alchemist shop that the dwarf had recommended. Never exactly a fountain of words, the man appeared to lose the capacity for speech alt...
2025-03-20 01:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostSen’s first impulse was to leave the bandit herding to other people. Auntie Caihong put a stop to that idea, although she did look regretful about it. She knew very well what he wanted to be doing at that moment.
“You have to stay,” she told him.
“Why?” he demanded, already ...
2025-03-19 18:48:53 +0000 UTC View PostSome part of Terry expected Kelima to come out of her tent in the immediate aftermath of his emotional breakdown. That would have been the most awkward possible thing that could happen at that moment. A real shit cherry to go on top of the shit cupcake that he’d just eaten. Well, on balance, he...
2025-03-19 00:31:53 +0000 UTC View PostLao Da repressed an urge to slam his fist down on the makeshift table. When they’d set out from the north to escape the damnable spirit beasts, abandoning their small but comfortable sect compound, he’d assumed that taking this town would be easy. He’d dismissed the claims that it was a sma...
2025-03-18 21:05:33 +0000 UTC View PostThis comes up every so often, so I figured it was worth taking a minute to address it directly.
So, just why is it that I don't sell copies of my books/ebooks directly from this page (or from some other website) aside from signed copies of physical editions? There are a couple of reasons. 2025-03-18 18:10:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so, Patreon has succumbed to the will of Apple and instituted a bunch of changes regarding subscribing to a page through the Apple version of the Patreon app. Frankly, the changes are all bad for both subscribers and creators. First thing first, they're going to slap a 30% fee onto your sub...
2025-03-17 20:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the trip back to sect passed in relative peace. Sen noticed a few stray spirit beasts, but most were deep in the wilds, alone, and didn’t seem particularly powerful to his spiritual sense. He contemplated pursuing them anyway. Just because they felt weaker, it didn’t mean that the...
2025-03-17 20:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostSo, this is one of those ideas that just lodged itself in my brain and refused to go away. So, you guessed it. Random Chapter Time! Enjoy! ~Eric
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“Absolute stealth,” Maxwell Periclides mentally commanded.
He felt a dull rush of ...
2025-03-16 21:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostHiya! This is Kat, signing in for trouble... or work. :) Like all good assistants, I'm basically running Eric now. Of course, like all writers, he has no sense of time or respect for authority...so, pray for me.
Anywho- please be patient while I'm getting up to speed. With any luck, I won'...
2025-03-16 19:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostSen stood near the frozen-over pond where he’d once had a very tense conversation with a princess about why he wouldn’t help her. Sen tried to recall her name. He felt like he should remember the names of anyone he’d threatened quite that intensely. Hsiao Jiayi, he thought. Tha...
2025-03-16 00:32:42 +0000 UTC View PostAfter gently kicking Kelima’s foot once or twice or seventeen times, Terry was forced to concede that the girl just wasn’t done sleeping off the aftereffects of the healing potion. It wasn’t really a surprise, but there had been the vain hope that youth would let her bounce back a little fa...
2025-03-14 02:08:53 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Lai Dongmei landed next to him a minute or two later, Sen was holding his nearly-severed leg in place as the bone, muscle, and connective tissues slowly grew back together. He hazarded a glance up at her. She didn’t look at him immediately. Instead, she surveyed the damage for a lon...
2025-03-13 07:10:10 +0000 UTC View PostSen had largely committed to not using fire in the fight. Of course, that decision had been based on the high probability that the odd spirit beast would likely be able to dodge or disrupt said fire. That would, in turn, endanger the sanctuary. An impression that still seemed reasonable, save for...
2025-03-11 17:22:04 +0000 UTC View PostI had my eye exam this morning. Great news! They let me keep my eyes! I was very relieved.
I discovered that my prescription was out of date in more ways than one. Sadly, it appears that I have reached that juncture in life when one pair of glasses just won't get the job done. I need one p...
2025-03-07 16:03:09 +0000 UTC View PostClosing like that with an enemy he couldn’t see yet through the very lightning he’d conjured almost cost Sen his life. It had seemed like a sound enough strategy. He’d seized the initiative, or so he’d thought, and wanted to capitalize on it with some good, old-fashioned, relentless aggre...
2025-03-07 08:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostGood news. I found a place that can get me in for an eye exam first thing tomorrow morning. Hurray! Less great news for me is that my vision insurance, which is not part of my very expensive health insurance (self-employment sucks sometimes), had lapsed. I'm not sure when. I don't remember gettin...
2025-03-07 03:40:37 +0000 UTC View PostSo, like most people, I occasionally forget things. As I tried and failed to write through another migraine tonight, I realized this all felt familiar. I was chalking up these more frequent migraines to the weather, which really is a trigger for me. But, so is eye strain. And here we come to the ...
2025-03-06 07:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sen had decided to leave an area of the wilds untouched for the spirit oxen, he hadn’t done it negligently. He had very intentionally made sure that there were no other spirit beasts remaining the area. Still, the fact that some other spirit beasts had successfully fled there was not entir...
2025-03-05 09:33:48 +0000 UTC View PostHey, everybody! The Ask Me Anything on Reddit is live. If you want to participate, you can find it here.
Should run for about another hour or s...
2025-03-04 21:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostTerry nudged Kelima with his toe for at least the tenth time, but the girl remained steadfastly, obstinately unconscious. He’d expected as much. Those healing potions were no joke. Still, it didn’t make her limp body any less of a problem for him. Sighing to himself, Terry tried to decide whi...
2025-03-04 06:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostSen only allowed a little of the wind to pass through the curved shield of air he’d put up. He liked to feel the wind on his face. Left to his own devices, he would have let it strike him without obstruction. He doubted anything short of crashing through a mountain or fighting another nascent s...
2025-03-04 06:07:46 +0000 UTC View PostWell, it seems that the 'Zon's algorithm has decided all on its own that the physical editions of Unintended Cultivator Volume Five will go live early. So, if anyone was eagerly waiting to grab physical editions, you can get those 2025-03-03 20:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post
He heard the door open, but Sen remained standing at the window. He’d watched the sky darken over several hours. The clouds from earlier in the day had persisted. So, there wasn’t a star to be seen. It gave the sky an ominous look, like the heavens had been swallowed by some all-consuming voi...
2025-03-01 03:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostWith Volume 5 about to go live over on a week early, I need to get this out to the upper tier subscribers. I also need to put in some filler here so that the download link won't show up in the preview panel for this post. Okay, so, if you can access this post, it means that you're in a tier that ...
2025-02-28 07:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, first things first. The publication date of Volume 5 has been moved up from March 11th to March 4th. Hurray! That goes for the ebook and the audiobook versions, and probably the print versions as well if things happen as they usually do. So, if you pre-ordered them on Kindle or Audible, th...
2025-02-28 07:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostSen took to the air on a qi platform to return to the palace. He could have truly flown and been there in a fraction of the time, but he wasn’t anywhere close to that eager for what came next. His only consolation was that this was the last time he would have to oversee such a thi...
2025-02-28 07:06:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning was overcast and the wind particularly bitter on the day that Kang was driven from the city. Sen didn’t allow him to slip away quietly, either. The former general had been dressed in peasant clothes. They were appropriate for the season but lacked all of the sophistication and refin...
2025-02-28 03:41:24 +0000 UTC View Post