Everyone,

First off, thank you so much for reading The Ruby Magician. It's been an absolute pleasure writing and sharing this story over the past year! I've learned a lot and hope to continue to grow a lot in my writing. I can hardly believe we're over 440k words at this point.

Second, I have a few updates for The Ruby Magician!

1) I have signed a deal with Podium! The Ruby Magician will come to paperback, kindle unlimited, and audiobook formats in 2026! This has been a relatively new development, so we're still early in the process. But I'll have editing done, a new cover, will be picking a narrator this year, and book one will be out in 2026!

2) I plan to take the rest of January off from the main story, and will substitute a short story/novella featuring a special cast. It is still very much in the same universe as the current story, and I'll be uploading it here to make things easy. It'll be 8 chapters and the main story will be picking back up February 4th. I want to do this so I don't go on hiatus, to continue giving you chapters/content while letting me work on editing book one to submit to podium and help plan out the next book that is coming soon.

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3) Book 3, which will actually end up being book 5 once published, will be the final book here. Yes, this means that by signing with Podium the books that are currently listed here will be broken up. I'm editing them to help make them complete, but book 1 here will actually be books 1 and 2 published, and book 2 here will end up being books 3 and 4 published. In total they'll be about 140k words, and I'm adding and changing some content to make them flow better. The story itself won't change, but I want the story to be more cohesive with needing to make them shorter.

I plan for book 3 to be about 45 chapters, give or take. Book 2 will end on Patreon in about 7 or 8 chapters, or 19 or 20 chapters here on royal road. So book 3 will start here in early April and the entirety of my planned Ruby Magician story will end late summer/early Fall, or likely somewhere around September.

I may need to take an actual brief hiatus for the story to work on some editing for the other rough drafts for Podium, and don't want to rush either the draft submission or my chapters here.

Writing isn't easy. And I find it hard to focus on more than one thing at a time, so to edit and get the drafts where they should be I want to take some time to do that!

Though by doing this, it also means you'll get a completed series before I'll need to stub the story next year. That's a positive!

I never intended The Ruby Magician to be an infinitely ongoing series. I do have a very clear ending for our characters and story, and I know I'll be able to reach that ending with the final book here. I have other stories and worlds I'm wanting to branch into and am ready for that once the Ruby Magician is done.

Again, thank you all for your support by reading my story. It's truly been a wonderful experience and will continue to be one as we reach the end of the story this year!