Hello everyone 👋
I’m very excited to announce that I have partnered with Podium Entertainment to publish the Wayward series in ALL formats! They have produced some of my all-time favorite stories, and I'm thrilled to work with them!
Books 1-3 are currently in production to be released in print (in stores!), eBook (on Kindle Unlimited), and, of course, audiobook (on Audible) narrated by the wonderful Hannah Church! Audiobooks were my gateway into LitRPG, and I'm looking forward to listening to Hannah bring my characters to life through an audio medium.
The first book will be releasing on 5/13/2025!
You can also see update announcements (which will include links once I have them) on my Discord and Instagram.
During my own round of editing, taking in all the feedback from many of you (yes, you wonderful commenters), there have been some adjustments (certain changes to how things happened but not what happened, if that makes sense) along with additional scenes that amount to three new chapters being added to the first book and three more in the second book, along with the previous Bonus Chapter featuring Patricia being added in!
Most of these new scenes do not change the overall plot at all, so they are not required to read to continue enjoying current/future chapters, but they do add more depth to the world, character development, and overall consistency. I highly recommend checking them out! (I also do a lot of subtle foreshadowing, so a re-read is usually worth it, in my opinion 😁)
Some “technical” changes (aka patch notes) that I implemented during editing and will be showing up going forward are as follows:
Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
* The Ability [A New Dawn Rises] name was shortened to [Dawn Rises].
* The Ability [Ruler of Relativity] removed the “variants” of push and pull to simply let the ability explain itself. Functionally, it remains the same.
* The Ability [Gem Distortion] name was updated to [Crystalline Distortion].
* The Ability [Avatar of Bakunawa] had its cooldown reduced to 30 minutes from 1 hour.
* The Ability [Cosmic Phoenix] name was updated to [Wings of the Cosmos] to better differentiate the power from the creature.
* The Ability [Child of Theia] name was updated to [Shining Companion] to better differentiate the power from the creature.
* The Creature [Avatar of Sovereignty] name was updated to [Royal Raksha] to better differentiate the creature from the power.
* The Talent [Astral Traveler] name was updated to [Aetheric Transmigrator] to better fit the world lore and not be confused with the deity.
* Divine power/currency is referred to as “Aetherius” earlier on.
* The collective terms “Vanhin” (sapient non-Caster species) and “Vauva” (species that can become Casters) are referenced earlier on.
* Phoenix being “Favored” is better referred to as being “Chosen.” (So while Dazien seems favored by Warrior, Phoenix is actually Chosen by Warrior and bears his Soul Mark.)
* Incantation formatting is “bolded and italicized” to better indicate magic usage.
This major round of editing for all three books to prepare for publication is part of what led to my decision to take the month of September off for a brief hiatus from releasing. I wasn’t able to get much writing done during this time and ate through a decent chunk of my backlog to compensate. Plus, I burnt myself out a little with doing that. I normally keep my life fairly balanced, but I ended up overestimating my abilities in regards to editing while writing while job hunting after getting laid off in January (it has been some stressful months).
A quick reminder that the last chapter before the hiatus will be on Aug. 30th, and the first chapter when I get back will be on Sept. 30th. Please note that Patreon billing will be paused during this timeframe, which means new subscriptions will not be able to be processed either; I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you so much for all your support! I couldn't have done any of this without the continued motivation all of you give me!