Hello faithful readers,

I bring big news this morning: my new web serial, Sailor's Rise, is now live on Royal Road! Follow it here. I'll be releasing new chapters rapidly to start, so buckle in and enjoy the ride. I've already put a lot of time and thought into the writing and world of Sailor's Rise, and I hope it shows. This is going to be a big one, much bigger than Trial of the Alchemist, which, by the way, I entered into SPFBO 9 (wish me luck). I'll be sure to post future updates related to Trial to this stub. For now, check out the cover and description for Sailor's Rise below—and give it a follow!

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Elias Vice, a supposed nobody from the backwater town of Acreton, has already written his destiny, and it ends with him building the greatest business empire Sailor’s Rise has ever known.

But to get there, Elias will need to turn a pocketful of relics into a company worth millions. The Rise’s caste-like business and political system stratifies power and access in the dock-ringed merchant republic, and Elias is starting with neither.

And yet he isn’t the nobody he first believes, as Elias’s connection to an enigmatic people—airship travelers with a unique mastery over space itself—will both help and haunt his ambitious endeavor. Elias, it turns out, is a collector.

What to expect:

- Epic worldbuilding, compelling characters, and vivid prose

- A unique cultivation-like system where Elias grows more powerful by collecting and consuming relics, the shattered remnants of a bygone age

- Business building as Elias cleverly expands his company from nothing, earning relics while climbing the political and social ranks of Sailor’s Rise

- Also: airships, pistols, and rapiers