July 26, 2025 - Update

Hi!

I wanted to accomplish two things at the LitRPG conference last week: meet some author friends that I’ve only known over discord for the past six years and meet as many of you as possible. It was a great success.

I didn’t get to spend as much time at the con as I wanted as the two little ones got sick (we flew back to Denver on Thursday). Still, I’m thankful for the time I did have and for all the fans of the series who attended my panels and said hi. It was so great to meet you all.

One of the things that resulted from my author meetups is an audio omnibus of the first three books. I’ve considered doing this for years but never committed to doing it. That changed this past weekend and Royal Guard Publishing will handle the launch and logistics of the Omnibus. I hope it brings in some new fans to the series.

Speaking of the omnibus, I want to warn everyone that the cover doesn’t reflect a scene from the books or even match Ruwen’s build through the first three books. I might do a more accurate cover in the future, but for now, it isn’t necessary. The cover’s job is to get someone to read the book’s blurb which will hopefully convince them to read the whole book. Anyway, this will likely come out in the next couple of weeks.

I didn’t get as much done on book 12 as I wanted this week. Work was super busy since I was on vacation all last week. Then the con took up a lot of mental energy and time over the weekend. To top it off, the relative helping us over the summer went back home so that had a big impact as well. All of that resulted in a bit of a slow week of writing for me.

I had lunch with Travis on Sunday and he is as nice and awesome in person as we all imagine.

I opened chapters 64, 65, and 66 for Root.

I opened chapters 67, 68, 69, and 70 for Harvester.

I added chapters 71 and 72 for Step Master, Blapy’s Favorite, Divine, and Axiom.

Enjoy!

Thank you so much for your support.

Take care,

AFK