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Hello EVERYONE!!!
As you know, the Gift of Fire is being released now.
And while I am hard at work at that Fallout FanFic, it is not coming together as quickly as I would like, so I have been putting some focus on the Tales of Olympus series.
I want to build up a little excitement for what is coming down the Pipeline!
As such, I would like to now reveal the titles for the rest of the Arc:
Book 2: The Favored and the Forgotten
Book 3: Ecstasy and Hubris
Book 4: Pandora's Jar and the Flood
Book 5: Cadmus: The First Hero
Series 4 will be the Age of Heroes
Book 1: Perseus: Harbinger
Book 2: Bellerophon: Reach
Book 3: Heracles: Blood of Olympus
Book 4: Atalanta: Proving
Book 5: Theseus: Immortal
Book 6: Jason and the Argonauts: A Mighty Fine Adventure
Book 7: Heracles: Redemption
Book 8: Orpheus and Eurydice: Love's Labor Lost
Book 9: Heracles: The Giant War/Gigantomachy
This will lead to Series 5, which is titled: Tale of the Three Sons
Book 1: A Queen's Gambit
Book 2: Prince of Shadows
Book 3: Titanocalypse
Book 4: Heart of Olympus
I hope these titles are not too much of a spoiler for everyone, but I have been hard at work on these titles, and I wanted to share them with all of you. I think it will give you an idea of where the story is headed, so as to keep enthusiasm. I know I have some very dedicated followers, and like I said In the Beginning, these stories are a little like the MCU/comics meets One Piece. There are a lot of stories to tell, and I have a VERY specific ending in mind, but I hope the journey is more than worth it.
I sincerely pray that you all will continue with me on this journey, and that the stories I tell are worth your time and attention.
As always, thank you for your reading, comments, and ratings. They mean the world to me.
C.S.
Hello Everyone,
Era of Man is in full swing with The Gift of Fire. It should update into early May.
I am working diligently on the Fallout Fan Fiction, which will be in three parts and should carry us to October for the Heir of Wolcott Manor sequel.
I know Three stories in one year is not a lot, but these things do take time, and I refuse to auto generate them with AI. No shame to others that do, but it is not for me.
I also have real life, work-life balance to keep up. I am sorry if that causes delays, but I am trying to have stuff up for the end of the year and see where things go.
As always, thank you for reading.
C.S.
Hello my faithful readers!
The Era of Man begins TONIGHT! The Gift of Fire should be dropping in the next 24 hours if it is not up already. Given the delay, I should have the first 5 chapters and the Prologue up within the next two weeks. After that, it will be a weekly release like most of the other Tales of Olympus stories.
If I miss deadlines, I do apologize, but each of these stories are written and edited by me, and that takes time to get out because I am (MOSTLY) a one man operation.
Here's hoping you all enjoy it. I will be hard at work finishing this story, and I am pausing my Fallout fan fiction to watch Season 2 of Prime's Fallout. While my story is technically set in an AU, I want to make sure the lore lines up with as much of the Fallout Canon as possible.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
As Always,
C.S.
First things first, Typhon happens both earlier and later in Greek Myth. Some say he happens right before/after the war with the Giants, but the Giants are usually defeated when Heracles helps the Olympians as a demigod.
That made writing this a tricky SoB. Stories like Blood of Zeus and Percy Jackson make out that it required Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon while older sources just say it required some trickery from the Fates and Zeus dropping a mountain on Typhon to end the fight.
I wanted to split the difference to make something more interesting. I want each of the Big Three to have unique personalities that you can get behind while also looking at them like … maybe get your shit together guys.
Also, there’s something to the idea that these gods are not so unlike everyday people with faults and foibles, but also looking for perfection, redemption, revenge, and trying to maintain a dynasty. That means in one story someone can be a hero while in another, they can be a villain. After all, the same thing can happen in real life. People are not always perfect monoliths that act as bastions of goodness, so too with these gods.
Next, because of the strange placement, some have Athena helping Zeus against Typhon. Instead, I made the one by Zeus’ side to be Metis because that dynamic makes what ultimately happens to her all the more tragic.
While Hermes is one to help in the freeing of Zeus, most accounts depict the event taking place when Hermes was a child. Instead, given this is StoriesOnline and meant to be a more adult themed literature, I decided that Hermes could be aged up to be an immature adult god rather than a mature child god. I do not think it changes much in the end, and it still keeps that Hermes saved his dad.
As for Typhon, I could not help but go with a Gomez Addams/wife guy idea for him because outside of being a monster, the stories do not do much to flesh him out. I recall Hercules: The Animated Series did some interesting stuff with him as a kid, but in the end, he’s usually just a smash-smash crush-crush monster. This one has a little more agency despite being a tool of Gaia’s to get revenge on Zeus.
Though, if I recall, Jennifer Saint has Typhon be the son of Hera and exists to hurt Zeus. I didn’t like that idea for how that might work for my story, so I went with the more traditional version.
Echidna was inspired by the designs of Echidna from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Season 2 Episode 7: The Mother of All Monsters and Empress of the Racnoss from Doctor Who Christmas Special: The Runaway Bride.
There are some spiders (as well as other animals) who have multiple sacs and wombs that can carry multiple children, so I thought it best to combine those facets into the Mother of all Monsters.
Beyond that, I combined a few myths, from the Death of Metis to Typhon/Typhaeus, attacking Olympus to make a cohesive narrative.
I hope you have found this fun and informative.
As Always,
C.S.
Hello Readers,
I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year on this January 1st.
First things first, I have hit a bit of a bump in the EoM series. I am working on it, and I should have the first chapters out this month. I would like to have it done before I hit print, essentially though.
On the upside, I have an updated version of The Time of Typhon coming out with extended scenes, an extra chapter, and better narrative cohesion.
The Disclaimer in The Time of Typhon will be the standard for any submission outside a first entry in a series.
I have a few projects I have been working hard on in the background. I plan to have three full stories out this year.
Tentatively, the EoM will be this and next month. The Fallout Fanfiction will be March through May, and Heir to Wolcott Manor should be getting a sequel for the entirety of September and October.
Those are the stories I should be able to deliver minimally.
I know it may not sound like a lot, but these stories take time to write, and as I get deeper in Tales of Olympus, I am trying harder and harder to ensure the stories are better than before, not worse. Further, the Fallout is taking a more mystery/Who-Done-it route because of my love of the series mixed with my love of Agatha Christie.
I want to thank everyone for their patience and support.
Genuinely, I hope each and every one of you have a wonderful 2026.
As Always,
C.S.
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