It hadn’t taken long for Ashes to get into deep trouble after becoming a full sorceress. It had been trouble of the type she either killed, or suffered badly. Now she and the two men she used as cover to escape the guard have to flee. Now available on Kindle Vella or Pateron.
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Mike, why do they call you Doug? I was in the army. What does that have to do with it? They used to call me General too, but Doug stuck when I got out. I didn’t know you were an officer. Wasn’t. Five stripes was the highest I got. How does that become Doug or General? Michal Christian Author. I still don’t get it. M. C. Author was on much of my stuff. What? MacArthur OK Doug
Renegade on Kara: The Great Basin Roger was the gifted top student at a university dedicated to magic so large it took up several continents of the infinite universe known as Kara. That prestigious university was simply called The University. But not all the students accepted that the AIs rated him higher than they. One managed to goad him into an illegal duel. In winning, he loses everything,…
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This is an image that mage.space generated when I gave it my description of a Tomlin. I have no idea why it gave the spear such a ridiculous head on it. Other than that, it isn’t too far off from what I was envisioning when I started writing about Kara all those years ago. Tomlins are green bipedal reptiles with large T-Rex style heads, roughly 1.4 meter tall and were the first outside race that…
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China's economy is going to get much much bigger. People are afraid of that.
Yelling pulled Jo from his trance. “Come out! Necromancer! You killed my sister. I’m going to kill you!” screamed a woman’s voice. By the additional dust and sand in the room, his trance couldn’t have lasted a month. Something interesting was happening. A mortal hadn’t disturbed him in a very long time. He projected his voice beyond the walls. “I doubt either is true. Come if you must, but…
In my story Donald of Mars, I use fiction to try to give people a more realistic view of what living in the underground tunnels that will make up a Mars colony will be like. Set only a few years after the first people have landed, it follows Donald as he tries to build a home, business, and relationships, among all the diverse people with all their different goals after completing a construction…
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The next installment of In the Service to Evil is now out in eBook and publishing in paperback, Ashes is still trying to walk the Gray Path, serving neither good nor evil, but it is difficult. Events keep pushing her deeper and deeper into the darkness, not least of which is the demon bound to her soul. Time and again she barely escaped alive. Read it now on Books to Read or Amazon. Books to…
While Don is off to his own barony, Bob is keeping an eye on the newest baron, a ruthless man from the Philippines, with hopes of having an ally. Read it on Kindle Vella or patreon.
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Criticism on how bad the stuff on Kindle Vella is, is common, and much of it, accurate. Right along with its established serial authors, with well-honed story-telling skills, are even more authors still learning to tell good stories, and the craft of writing. But writing is just like any art and takes years of practice to do well. Any incentive to keep at it helps keep the writer at it. Amazon…
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A Fall of Ashes now available on Patron
https://www.patreon.com/posts/77075289?pr=true. Ashes Didn’t want to study magic, she just wanted a husband. But because of a mistake, she can either study magic under an unpleasant old woman, or become a tavern slave. But that mistake will continue to haunt her. https://www.patreon.com/posts/77075289?pr=true It will be published on Patreon as I get each chapter rewritten. (Caution: Has…
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