Samira
“This is a stupid plan,” I muttered, for perhaps the 80th time. This sort of subterfuge was exactly the sort of thing Sora was good at, not me. I’ve always been terrible at lying, and it d...
2022-07-22 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThea
I laughed through the coughing fit as I handed the vaporizer back to La’akea. The dragon was in her human form with dark sun-touched skin, silver hair and faintly glowing eyes the color of aged copp...
2022-07-20 06:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostSora
“You don’t have to eat it if you don’t want to,” I said. “We can always ask the captain to cook us something.”
Sami blanched at that thought, but continued to poke at her foo...
2022-07-20 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
I finished the incantation, and there was a bright flash of blinding light. When I opened my eyes again I saw a small yellow rubber duck with horns sitting in the middle of the summoning circle.
... 2022-07-18 06:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“-her… fucking shit, not again.”
I was standing alone in the middle of a pretty fancy looking office. There was a desk on the far side of the room, and two large window...
2022-07-18 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, sorry for the re-announcement, but I wanted to separate this from the book 2 prologue, to make the prologue easier to find for the people who don't care about this sort of housekeeping thing.
First of which, y'all rock. I can't than...
2022-07-15 20:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostSamira
“You seriously couldn’t steal any instructions with this stupid thing?” I asked for probably the 18th time in the last 8 hours. I was in the med-lab with Sora, and we were trying to put...
2022-07-15 06:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“Hey, Thea? Would you mind explaining why a quarter of the station just depressurized?” I continued to type at the terminal while I ignored the sirens and flashing lights. Sections of the sta...
2022-07-15 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
So, the first book goes out to the editor tomorrow (!!!!) and I've just heard back from Thea, my cover artist (no relation), about getting the print and audiobook covers finished up once I have the final word count. That'll hopefull...
2022-07-14 16:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostKai
“This always feels so wrong,” I smiled as I stepped over a couple of humans who were getting to know each other extremely well.
Walking through one of Chorus’s temples was always perilous....
2022-07-13 06:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostThea
Rajak’s stupid bald head rolled onto the floor, and I let out a sigh of relief. We’d actually done it. He was dead.
Nikko and two other pack members, whose names I couldn’t ...
2022-07-13 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
The four heavily armored guards near the throne opened fire on our group and Rajak lifted a hand in the air with a palm facing outwards. Dozens of azure spears manifested, floa...
2022-07-11 06:20:15 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
Lysc was pissed. Dezra and Mazi were dead, and Thea was crying over the corpse of their murderer. It wasn’t a good look, and I hadn’t even told her about the bomb yet.
... 2022-07-08 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThea
I leapt through the air, laughing as I landed on top of a bipedal mech. I punched through the visor to get to the pilot.
But my fist didn’t pass through the clear material, instead a...
2022-07-06 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“We’re facing the compound’s main building. The portal room is in Rajak’s office on the third floor,” Sora shouted as the hold’s doors slowly moved. “Expect hea...
2022-07-04 13:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“Is everything okay? You were out there for a while, and where’s Elliot? We’re not picking him up on any of the scanners.” A male voice came over the bridge speakers aboard our...
2022-07-01 06:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostRashka
“Holy fucking shit! Boss, how much did you say we’re paying these assholes?” I couldn’t stop laughing.
Boss said these guys would figure something out, but fucking hells...
2022-06-29 07:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostWe're getting into the final stretch for the first book!
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Chapter 38 - Mild Piracy
Bryce
“Well, what do you think?” Thea held out her arms to show off her new outfit.
She was wearing cl...
2022-06-27 11:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostSora
“Is that really him?” I asked the bartender.
“Yep, that’s Accel,” she replied, before setting a colorful drink down in front of me. “Whatever you’re going t...
2022-06-24 20:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“Thea, my hair can wait,” I said. “You need to eat or the nanites are going to make you sick.”
We were at the Paragon Bistro on the 18th floor of the building where Dr. Na...
2022-06-22 09:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostExtra couple of chapters today, just to keep patreon 10 chapters ahead of RoyalRoad :D
Thea
“Would you mind grabbing Samira?” Bryce asked. “It looks like she’s sti...
2022-06-22 09:49:52 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
I've sat through countless business meetings, negotiated thousands of contracts, and entertained hundreds of potential clients. I have never once imagined that I could actually ...
2022-06-22 09:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostI finished my last editing pass on book 1 :D which means that I'm going to be focusing on book 2 almost exclusively in order to limit the downtime between when I get all of the first book's chapters posted here on Patreon and when I start posting ...
2022-06-20 14:16:23 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
Thea bolted upright and gave me a pleading look. I remembered her mentioning back on the research station that she needed me to get a message to Esme. We just didn’t have time t...
2022-06-17 06:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostThea
“Thea? Are you back here?” Bryce’s voice startled me out of my head.
I fell as I missed a step on the ladder I was standing on. A shower of jars and cans rained...
2022-06-15 23:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going back and doing another edit pass on the entire book. I'm going to update the past chapters on RoyalRoad, but probably not on Patreon. It's just grammar and syntax. I'm not changing any of the story, or overly important bits, so don't wor...
2022-06-15 11:08:50 +0000 UTC View PostI've started progress on the 2nd book in the Guide to Becoming a Pirate Queen series as well as plotting a new novel that takes place in the Anarchist Union.
It'll probably be a little bit until I can actually start writing for the oth...
2022-06-13 07:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
“I think I’d like that.” I said.
The job Lysc was talking about was going to have something to do with the delivery and I was interested, if only to satisfy my cu...
2022-06-13 06:35:26 +0000 UTC View PostSora
Drassun, the planet, was covered in verdant green forests that were only ever broken up by the occasional blue of a winding river. It was beautiful from orbit, but everything that I read ha...
2022-06-13 06:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostBryce
Sora didn’t stop the teasing, and worse, Thea seemed to be completely immune to it. She just used it as an opportunity to flirt with me, which made the whole thing much more tolerable.
... 2022-06-10 06:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post