Okay, so the last year has been…exciting. Busy. Life-altering. The on-a-whim cultivation novel that I started posting to Royal Road took off in ways that I simply could not have anticipated. One thing led to another, and I got a publisher for Unintended Cultivator. Thanks, Shadow Alley Press, you guys are awesome!
If you’re just here to learn about Unintended Cultivator, here’s the snapshot. Volume One is available as a print book, ebook, on Kindle Unlimited, and as an audiobook over on Audible. Volume Two is available in print, ebook, on Kindle Unlimited, and the audiobook is coming soon. Last I heard about it, it was being recorded. So, soon means quite soon. Moving forward, the hope is that all the books will get simultaneous or close to simultaneous ebook/print/audiobook releases.
Volume Three is scheduled for Amazon release on July 2, 2024. You can pre-order the ebook here. (Sadly, the cover isn’t quite ready for public distribution just yet.)
Where does the rest of the series stand? Volume Four to Volume Eight are written to at least a first draft level. You can read some of the first draft versions (up to about the beginning of Volume 7 at the time of this post) over on Royal Road. You can also find those chapters publicly available over on my Patreon page. For the very latest chapters, meaning everything beyond what you can read on Royal Road, there are membership tiers available on Patreon.
Volume 9 is currently being written. I post one or two chapters of it almost every single day for the higher-level tiers on Patreon.
Another project/series I’m working on at a somewhat slower speed is Isekai Terry: Tropes of Doom. The title kind of says it all. It’s a humorous isekai story that relies heavily on the MC’s knowledge of cultivation, LitRPG, manga, and anime tropes. You can check that out on Royal Road here.
Here’s the super hacky cover I threw together for it.
Awesome, am I right?
I have other projects that are moving much more slowly. For long-time readers, yes, I do intend to write more Samuel Branch books. It’s just a matter of timing. For more recent readers, Rinn’s Run is still an active project, it’s just in a bit of a holding pattern for the moment. Book 2 (Rinn’s Run: the Ikaren Gambit) is partially written, it’s just getting written slowly enough that posting updates is more likely to drive readers insane than please them, so I don’t talk about it much.
So, the news is basically that I’m writing, a lot, pretty much every day.