Tunnel Rat

Announcement Concerning the Future of my stories (Non-Story)

Neither of my stories is ending. Let's say that right at the start. I have a lot of stories left to tell about Milo and Ozzy and places to take them.

But, I have some exciting news! My books are going to be published by Aethon Books, who work with the authors of great books like Vanqueur the Dragon, Primal Hunter, He Who Fights Monsters, and Defiance of the Fall. They will be putting my books out on Kindle, KU, and Audiobook.

To be honest, I was amazed when I had 50 followers on my story on Royal Road. And then more astounded when more people started reading. Publishing seemed pretty far away, and I had no clue about how to move in that direction. Working with a publisher makes things a lot easier and, very importantly, won't interfere much with my ongoing writing. I'll keep the chapters coming while I edit. In the next couple of months, I'll be doing something I always wanted to do, which is go back and edit the first parts of the books. I had no idea what I was doing when I started Butcher of Gadobhra, and only a little more when I started Tunnel Rat. This gives me the push to polish the stories. I'm already working on Tunnel Rat and slowly putting the edited chapters up. (Writathon means write fast, and I have so many typos in the early chapters.)

How does this affect the ongoing stories? Not at all. I'm going to keep writing new chapters. If anything, this pushes me to do more writing, and I can justify taking more afternoons off from my job. I have some good people at my shops who can pick up the slack for me and give me more hours to write. The biggest change will be that eventually I will have to remove my early chapters from free sites like Royal Road, leaving the introduction and the first chapters as a stub. When the first book is published, I'll remove the first 60 or so chapters. When the second book in each series comes out 6-12 months later, the next 60. I've contracted for 3 books from each series. By the time those come out, I'll have written the equivalent of 2 more books for each series.

I have no idea where either stories end. I have a lot left to write. Both stories have small arcs ending and big arcs beginning.

If you haven't read both stories or you want to re-read them, now is the time. You have at least a couple of months and I will give updates as I know more. I have to do a lot of editing before anything happens, and then do another run through before I even hand the books to Aethon and their editors look them over.

Thank you for Reading. We're only getting started.