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Turns out that my Patreon account doesn't allow for "spicy" content, and right now upgrading it is not high on my list of priorities. So the parallel story to Woman Warrior won't get posted there as I planned. I'm still deciding what other tales to start previewing there.
I finished a chapter of Woman Warrior quicker than I expected so I thought I'd be generous and post it for everyone to read. I hope it turns into something everyone enjoys.
Meanwhile, I plan on posting my parallel story to this one, a story I've called "Teach me to Fight" on my Patreon initially. Expect the first chapter to go up tonight or maybe tomorrow. I also want to get a story that will be purely for Patreon going in the near future. Although any story posted on Patreon will be taken down when I'm ready to publish it via Amazon. (There are rules regarding royalty payments that make it so that pulling a story and only having Amazon host the full version pays almost twice as much.)
I have not published the first chapter of my tale on Royal Road, but will likely try to finish setting that up today. Their system and my e-mail provider apparently did not see eye-to-eye and getting my account authenticated so I could post took a couple of days.
Also, I am trying to respond more to comments here and on any other site. I know I've been less than successful at keeping up with everyone at times, but I do enjoy chatting and such.
Have a fun filled day.
Allan Joyal
Well, live takes some strange turns. People who have followed my occasional flurries of posts have likely figured out that I tend to resume posting when certain events in my real life give me more time to write and reason to try to get back into something I enjoy, but which I fear won't pay my bills, so once my life path gets jumped to a new track I tend to pull back on posting due to a lack of time to post.
Which any reader might guess means, my life has taken another turn and it looks like I'll have more time to write in the near future. Now I'm not going to throw all my writing time into working on Swarm Cycle stories. I do enjoy them, but they cannot be monetized through Amazon due to the subject matter. So while I do want to try to write a chapter every 7-10 days and to continue to add to my portion of the Swarm Cycle universe, I expect that I'll be posting additional, less racy stories elsewhere.
Those locations will be on my Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=7301980 Here I will be posting chapters of my third book in the Living Dungeon series as well as initial chapters of other stories that I have been working on. Feedback will be encouraged there.
Royal Road will also soon host at least one story. Its a new Isekai tale that would play more to a "slice-of-life" motif than a heavy action or harem tale. To be honest, right now I don't see a female love interest for my main character in the early part of the narrative. Not that it won't happen (I'd be willing to bet money that I'll find a way to add one in eventually - and no, don't bet me, I'm the author, I can definitely make it happen in a story that I'm working on. )
And once I have an allowable story finished, it will end up on Amazon for anyone to purchase. I actually have a couple of book 1 tales that I could post today, but I'd like to know that book 2 is near finished before I take the time to post a book 1.
And for those wondering about my Swarm Cycle stories. Right now the order I'll work on them will be.
A Woman Warrior - to completion, probably 30-40 more chapters.
Teach me to Fight - a story that in timeline parallels A Woman Warrior, but follows characters that end up at Kelor. No estimate on number of chapters
Striding into a CAP-Based Life - third story of Mark Parker and his family and friends. Its mostly a faint idea at the moment, might be split attention
Life on Ishtar - short chapters and tales about all of the merry band of misfits living on Ishtar, not just concentrating on the family of James Rabb.
... and I have more ideas, but they are just notes so far.
Hope that you'll be looking forward to my work in the future.
I seem to have days where I don't think I'm getting any writing done and then suddenly I have written a full chapter of a story. And that happened today. Of course, this means like so many other chapters I've posted over the years this is completely unedited so there may be mistakes. I go back and fix them if I can.
Hopefully this tale continues to be one you all enjoy. Its definitely been an interesting ride to write.
As for future tales about Ishtar and/or continuing the CAP-based tales. I do have ideas and do want to keep entertaining everyone by writing tales for SOL. But I also do want to publish more books on Amazon and enjoy the fruits of my labors, so I'm probably going to keep the current pattern of 1-2 chapters per week and once I finish A Woman Warrior, I'll see what other Sa'arm tales I want to work on.
Another chapter of a Woman Warrior has been just uploaded for your amusement and laughter. It turned out quite different than my original vision for the chapter, but then again very little of this story is something I had planned out. I tend to allow the characters to lead me around and I discover the story just a short time before you do.
Which is very true right now with this story. I'm posting the chapters pretty much immediately after finishing them, which means no editing or proof-reading. If you catch things and let me know, I'll try to remember to fix them, but when I'm working as hard as I am on my stories, that can take a bit of time to go back and fix things.
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