Next week I will do a bonus chapter which will give you the last two chapters of Book 1. I'm almost a dozen chapters into book 2 now, and pretty pleased on how it's coming out.
Ch. 66 - Blue Wedding (part 2)
As the group sat there and worked their way through ...
2024-07-08 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“This is what I wanted to show you,” Jordan said finally, unwrapping the dirty cloth that covered the manacle that he’d kept hidden for so long and showing it to Taz for the first time.
The archmage didn’t look at the cursed thing, thoug...
2024-07-08 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing Simon did was escort the survivors to the nearest village. He left his mule there with them, along with most of his supplies, because it would only slow him down. It was only once they were safe that was handled, that he followe...
2024-07-08 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 65 - Blue Wedding
The next few days were packed with preparations around the manor and the rest of the grounds, but Lucas did his best to ignore them. He only had a couple of things to do before the big day, and the hardest one of those by far was to pretend he was happ...
2024-07-01 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle lasted all day, and it wasn’t even clear until almost evening that Tenebroum’s forces would win. At this point, the outcome of the war was not in doubt, even if this desperate battle still hung in the balance. In the broa...
2024-07-01 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostSimon was forced to live with the information that everyone in the north, probably even as far south as Slany, knew of him as the villain for months, and it ate at him. All through the cold winter and into the spring, when there was a sudden up...
2024-07-01 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnother bonus chapter. I've been doing a lot of writing lately because I've been inspired, so feel free to do a lot of reading! The next one will be in a few weeks when we get to... Well, you'll see.
The next morning, when...
2024-06-24 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 160 - Foreign Gods
The voice had known that Tanda was going to be wealthy before she’d ever set sail on this voyage. The northern trade routes were well known for luxuries that were very nearly unheard of in the South. Even her time spent off the coast, watching the c...
2024-06-24 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter that, Everything was a mess. He drew his sword, but only so that he could parry whatever was coming next. His Freya or not, he had no interest in striking her down, even though he was fairly certain he could without too much trouble. He didn...
2024-06-24 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post“If you can charge whatever you want, then you should be charging fifty dragons!” Hura’gh declared loudly while they were out chopping wood for the cider house fireplace and still one evening.
The stairs to the basement were hidden behi...
2024-06-17 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhen she traveled downstream for the last time, it was a languid affair, but Oroza no longer had the strength to swim. At this point, she barely had the strength to hold herself together as the emaciated shell of the river dragon she was. E...
2024-06-17 13:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostThat morning, he went down to breakfast early to make sure he didn’t miss an opportunity, so he was still working his way through a mug of watered-down beer and a plate of biscuits and sausages half drowned in a peppered gravy when the other merc...
2024-06-17 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. Tomorow is my birthday and I want to thank you all for helping to make this last year a good one. I was hoping I would have a completed version of Tenebroum to shill to everyone by this point, but that's still in Limbo as the publisher works out if/how they are doing audio. I won'...
2024-06-13 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnother bonus chapter... because I can! No, seriously, I completed the ending for Book 1 last night, and started on book 2 and feel like celebrating in my own small way. How far in the future is it? Well, it's not long now... Less than 10 chapters to go.
Once the Tenebroum’s forces had been pushed out of the valley that sheltered the dead city of Abenend on its third assault, it had never managed to get an agent close enough to investigate again. This wasn’t due to any ineptitude on the part of...
2024-06-10 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhat should I have done differently? That was Simon’s first thought when he felt himself return to life on his lumpy bed in the cabin before he even opened his eyes.
It had been a great run. In many ways it had been his best run ev...
2024-06-10 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostLucas remembered very little of the next few days. He woke up briefly, at random. It was just enough to know he was still alive, but most of the time, it wasn’t enough to figure out much else.
He was still hurt bad, Adin was still t...
2024-06-03 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostNiama. That was the only word that they clung to as they were trapped in the Lich’s dark garden. Niama will save us, each of them whispered to each other, like the frightened sisters they were.
No one was coming to save...
2024-06-03 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostBonus chapter for my dear Death After Death readers. I hope you enjoy it!
Simon spent the next six months the same way. Every morning, he drank three helmets of water and caught something with a crude spear from the jetty while he still had the e...
2024-06-03 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. After a few weeks on the road, I am back. I had some things in America that I needed to take care of and took the opportunity to visit a few people I hadn't seen in years. It was nice, except for all the coughing.
I was sick after the first flight, and though that quickly f...
2024-05-27 14:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, as celebration for my home coming, another bonus chapter of Brewing Bad. And not just because I need one of Lucas's healing potions in the worst way.
Lucas had been expecting Kar’gandin to send someone with supplies, ...
2024-05-27 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAt dusk Jordan received an invitation to dine with the man that the villagers called the Wise One, or more commonly, Tazuranth, the Great and Powerful. This struck Jordan as a little ostentatious, but then there were many Mage Lords at the Mag...
2024-05-27 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing ends without bloodshed,” one man said, older than the rest. “Well, bloodshed or fire…”
The guy probably thought that he was being clever, but even as he shouted “Meiren” and used the word of f...
2024-05-27 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Lucas took the watch because he didn’t trust Adin to stay awake all night. They lit a low fire just inside the treeline, and they didn’t even put up the tarp because the weather was nice, and making camp in the dark was miserable. ...
2024-05-20 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe first day that Jordan had helped his charges travel east after first traveling to the west, he felt like a moron. Even knowing that something greater was at work, he felt like he’d immediately regret his decision to leave his childhood home...
2024-05-20 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 116 - Digging up the Past
Simon did some further exploring on the deeper level of the tomb. He would a few inscriptions that talked about holding back the tide, and one said they would rise again to once more protect their homeland if it was ever threatened again. Unfor...
2024-05-20 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostHe found the three of them, along with a few other toughs and laborers, in the cider house. It was obvious that everyone knew that something had happened, but they had no idea what.
“Alright boys, drop what you’re doing and go grab some ...
2024-05-13 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEven as it planned the assault and set its forge ghasts and its hammer weights to crafting magic resistant weapons and armor from the bones and armor of long dead dwarves, it turned its mind back toward more important tasks. When night next fell,...
2024-05-13 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 114 - Beneath it All
The following day Simon felt like shit. This wasn’t just because the life energy he’d stolen from the would-be thief had faded to some degree. It was also because he’d done it at all. He was definitely looking and feeling better than before he...
2024-05-13 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnly one chapter this week. I plan on doing another bonus chapter next week or the week after.
Lucas thought about a lot of things on the way back. He thought about the messenger services. The Back Alley Whisperers had gotten into ...
2024-05-06 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post