Dear beautiful readers,

  Hello! It is me. I wanted to give you a quick update on Trial of the Alchemist while also promoting a new Royal Road story that went live today.

  In December, Trial of the Alchemist in the Book Bloggers Novel of the Year Award competition—one of the biggest indie book competitions out there. There were roughly 300 competitors, and as I like to say, bronze is still a medal. It was also a semi-finalist in another competition, SPFBO, the year before that, though I still that it was briefly one of the 20 Best Completed stories on Royal Road.

  Now, onto more pressing matters: I've launched a new story here on Royal Road. Well, it's a relaunch with edits, but this time I've written A LOT in advance. In fact, I have an entire 130,000-word book one done and polished, and it will be uploaded rapidly over the next month and a half. So, for those of you who wait around until there's enough story to really sink your teeth into, get your fangs out now, my friends, because you will get DAILY updates (I'm talking weekdays and weekends) until the first book is entirely finished. For context, Trial was 110,000 words, so this is even longer! And not only that, I also have not one, not two, but twenty chapters of book two written as well, which I will be posting after the rush of book one. I've toiled away in silence these past two years, putting hundreds of hours into this. The story may sound different from Trial of the Alchemist on its surface, but once you dive in, you'll quickly discover a tale unmistakably woven by the same audacious weaver of words (and a few easter eggs for my Trial fans!).

  The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

  And, hey, if you feel like dropping an early review, a rating, a favorite—eh, you all know how this website works. I won't beg. I don't like to beg. But I will plead.