Hi Folks,
I want to toss out a general update, especially for anyone who's swinging by after finishing Aster Fall on Kindle.
Feel free to respond here with any questions, comments, or things you'd love to see in the books.
I'll start releasing chapters here soon for Gua...
2021-12-11 17:13:39 +0000 UTC View PostPDF version for those who want that.
2021-12-07 02:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostMOBI version for those who want that.
2021-12-07 02:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostIf you missed the epub and were here for Dec, shoot me a message here and I'll send it to you.
The Amazon KU release is live for Book 2. Let your friends know!
Amazon Link here: https:/...
2021-12-06 23:44:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe only thing left at the center of the battlefield was the sealed Grand Flaw, gleaming like a pinprick of dark flame in the ice. The shaman, the walls of ice, and nearly all of the Outsiders were gone, erased from existence.
Above, Caelus was just beginning to move out of alignment, and t...
2021-12-06 20:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe shaman hadn’t delayed after attacking Elsanar. He had already turned around to grasp at the flaw again and was slowly drawing out another mass of spatial energy. This time, as Sam kept a careful watch on the Grand Flaw, he saw the sphere decrease in size, contracting inward by a couple of f...
2021-12-06 04:03:53 +0000 UTC View PostWith the force of the relic’s energy driving the enchantment, the Pure Water Elemental Crystal began to resonate. Despite its rarity, it only had one purpose, which was to create water, and that was the exact thing Sam was counting on. All around it, the aura enchantment he’d created hummed w...
2021-12-06 04:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostA sense of overwhelming danger crashed down on Sam as he saw his father standing there. The Grand Flaw was much bigger than he’d expected, and with his dad’s position at the front, whatever happened, he would be the first to face it.
The careful plan to attack from a distance flew out o...
2021-12-04 07:59:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as he was back to where Siwasir and the other Ice Sylphs were waiting, Sam held a brief planning session and checked on his father’s location. Then he sat down with the Pure Water Elemental Crystal, placing it on his portable table as he got to work.
The voice he’d heard a few m...
2021-12-02 22:04:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grand Flaw was on the seventh layer, a layer below and a little to the south. Sam’s feet skimmed across the top of the snow, throwing up a light powder as he ran. Behind him, the Ice Sylphs followed easily.
The feeling of freedom flowed past his cheeks as he let out a deep breath. He ...
2021-11-30 18:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostDecember will be a free month on Patreon for subscription renewals. So, if you’re here, stick around and set it for auto-renewal in December.
The last chapters of Book 2 will come out this week, and then I’ll be doing a little bit of editing and getting some sleep.
My daughter is ...
2021-11-29 20:47:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Why would people work for Outsiders?” Sam growled to himself again as he flexed his talons, his attention turning to the three traitors that were still alive. After they were tied up, they had been tossed to the side of the room against one wall.
Even after killing the Visionary, his a...
2021-11-28 23:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostSam sprinted across the tenth layer, his steps fluid. Behind him, the Ice Sylphs spread out in a wedge, their lean forms and white cloaks blending into the snow so well that they seemed to disappear between one moment and the next.
The snow curled around them in the same way it did for him,...
2021-11-24 22:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe elements roared in fury, spinning into a shield that shattered a moment later as the monster’s jaws snapped down. Shards of hardened wind and ice flew around Sam, ringing off the tiny scales on the matriarch’s head as his talons swept up to meet her, slashing toward her nostrils and eyes....
2021-11-22 00:15:21 +0000 UTC View PostCrystal flame flared around him as he jumped, buffering his fall toward the third layer twenty feet below. Snow flew up in a welcoming billow around his shoulders as he landed.
He’d taken the staircase down from the first layer to the second since it had been too steep to jump, and then m...
2021-11-19 23:41:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe plaza was silent as snowflakes drifted down, covering the corpses that were scattered across it. Many of them landed on Sam, layering him in white. As the snow gathered, it flowed around his body, slowly lifting him up. Before long, it was a foot deep.
Sam lay on top of it, his body cov...
2021-11-17 23:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This piece is one of the oldest I commissioned. It was just finished.
Here are Sam and Jeric fighting the Basalt Gnome Warlord back in Book 1, under the Abyssinian Plains.
Sam's Charisma is fairly low here, which I think worked out with his features. The artist tried to make them matc...
2021-11-16 15:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe talismans struck the mangled corpses across the plaza, sizzling as the pale blood on them gleamed with an eerie, blue light. There had been twenty three monsters, but there were five times that many chunks of them in the plaza now.
The bone shards ripped into the corpses and then kept g...
2021-11-16 05:43:13 +0000 UTC View PostMoonlight streamed down the walls of the buildings as Sam ghosted away from the plaza and the trap enchantment. In his hand, there was a chunk of glowing, green crystal with a moon rune engraved into the side. It was the final part he needed to activate his plan.
The question was i...
2021-11-13 03:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostHe had an hour to prepare and the Outsiders shouldn’t know he was aware of them. His thoughts burned like wildfire as he considered the best approach. He wanted something that would destroy them.
A few minutes later, he reached the hideout he was aiming for, a small ice cave he’d dug ou...
2021-11-10 20:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe storeroom closed behind him with a resonant hum as the earth flowed back in, sealing over the entrance and restoring the unblemished appearance of the keystone. The three moons settled back into their positions and went dark.
The ice wall he’d created was still there, but his awarenes...
2021-11-07 19:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun rose slowly, turning the sky to a pale rose gold as Sam made his way to the location the Guardian Star had marked. Caelus hadn’t risen on the eastern horizon, but there was a soft blue glimmer that presaged the moon’s appearance.
All around, the peaks of the Western Reaches had ...
2021-11-05 22:29:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe plateau was a circle roughly a mile across. Its edges ended in steep cliffs with no visible trail to the layer below, which was half a mile down in a nearly straight line. The only way Sam could imagine getting off the plateau and back on was teleportation or flying.
Had the builders be...
2021-11-03 19:34:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe land spread out beneath Sam’s view in dark, soaring mountains and snow-filled valleys. The Western Reaches stretched far off into the distance to the north and south, a line of white, night-edged peaks glowing with trails of mana. He was standing at the tip of a diadem, each peak a shining ...
2021-11-01 21:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe currents of multicolored energy in the void spun around Sam as he turned in place. It barely felt like he was moving and it was hard to get a grasp of up or down. The only markers here were the strands of energy.
Moonlight? The thought flickered through his mind as the colors r...
2021-10-31 01:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe adventurers were not in good shape. Cesten was standing on his own and it looked like he would recover shortly, but Selis, Arena, and Obel were a wreck. Many areas of their skin were ash grey, with areas that had hardened completely to stone, especially on their hands, forearms, and legs.
... 2021-10-27 22:24:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s the finished version of this piece.
I actually like his face in the half-finished version better. (The one with less definition to the flames).
2021-10-27 03:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostHis essence was nearly depleted, so Sam grabbed four auras from his storage and combusted them, taking himself back up to 92. He’d have grabbed more, but he wasn’t sure how much his meridians could handle. Then he braced himself for the basilisk.
It arrived like an avalanche, pushing a ...
2021-10-25 18:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostHis father raced through the scattered Coldfangs, following the path that the starflame arrows had cleared. A moment later, he sprang into the air, leaping twenty feet as he aimed for the top of the basilisk’s head.
The basilisk reared upwards, its head tilting back like a lizard’s as i...
2021-10-21 18:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post