Symphony Book 1: The Alpha Protocol, is released!
Added 2025-07-29 11:21:12 +0000 UTC
When I first started writing, about eight years ago (holy crap, I'm old), I spent five of those years worldbuilding and designing things to run in the background. Originally, I was working on a story that never came to fruition, about a young man banished from his village to a deadly forest.
It was going to be epic fantasy style(d), and I worked very hard on it.
But it also hamstrung me. I had built such an immersive world that I didn't know where to start. At the time, I was finishing up my English degree and preparing to enter the classroom (I'm a teacher IRL), and was more than a little nervous about what that meant.
So, after spending weeks staring at the blank page, I threw it all out.
A year passed before I had an idea. If I don't want to "worldbuild", why don't I write about a guy who "builds worlds?" I could include aspects such as system design (check), genetic engineering (kind of check), and I could make it a competition (check). I would base it all on a regular guy with normal intelligence who was just having a bad time of it.
And that's what I did.
If QuestWright is a breakdown of how Quests work and where they come from, then Symphony is a story about where LitRPG worlds come from. And when I say come from, I mean from the bottom up.
Thus, this is my first-ever book series. I put a lot of love, sweat, and research into building this beauty. It has a hell of an ending, and this is the first of four books, with the second releasing in November.
Please consider checking it out, and thank you.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1039496725
