Got a poll for everyone!
Alright, so I'm over two-thirds done writing the Ishveos short story collection. (Which is going to be quite a bit shorter than the first Mage Errant short story collection- that was a bit too long for an anthology, I think.) This means I've got a lot of thinking about what I want to write next!...
2025-11-17 21:44:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis story was inspired by the “celestial bureacracy” trope common to East Asian and East Asian-inspired stories. It was also the shortest of the three voting options for October- the other two are quite a bit longer. (Though I won't say which the longest is!)
The Lieutenant was dying slowly, and non...
2025-10-31 19:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry I pushed this one so close to the wire, but I've got three options for you again! Got my feet back under me, writing-wise, and just doing a lot better mentally in general. Thanks for being so understanding last month, folks!
I wrote two non-Aetheriad stories this month- I love writing the Aetheriad, but writi...
2025-10-27 17:54:50 +0000 UTC View PostNo vote this month, this is the only story I have ready to go. I, uh... well, had a rough month, mental health-wise (I'm fine, I just had an extra-bad bout of ADHD fun times), and I'm massively behind on literally everything. Whee! I'll try to rebuild my buffer next month, though.
Anyhow, High Stakes C...
2025-09-29 21:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set on Ishveos' Eastern Hemisphere, far from the Wall.
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The Divine Accountant Ajoci Etta raised an eyebrow at the forest priestess.
“I’m sorry, you called me out here, six day’s ride from Wuchkiri on a golem carriage— a golem carriage with a limp,...
2025-08-30 20:23:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Like Galvachren’s History of the Pridolow Wandering Villages, this short essay is banned by the Wall Guard, and commonly attributed to an older Galvachren, not the one who worked with Landis Ourna. For obvious reasons, enforcement of this ban is performed much more aggressively than the other— nearly so fiercely as...
2025-07-16 14:17:55 +0000 UTC View PostFinally moved to Portugal, and getting settled in at last! Still going to be pretty hectic this month, so here's the alternate (original) chapter 1 for The City That Would Eat the World, written in... May 2021, I think? You can see a lot that's remained the same, but a ton that's different too- a first person POV, a MUCH ...
2025-07-10 11:52:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis story was inspired by Patricia McKillip’s The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. Another of those fantasy classics I never picked up until my thirties.
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The Great Wizard Gelleg was not the greatest wizard in the world— but nor could it be said that there were any great...
2025-06-17 19:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostSo bad news for me, good news for y'all:
First, bad news for me: My old mailing list provider lost most of my newsletter signups. I don't even know how many, but a strong majority. (It's definitely partially my fault, but, uh... I'm not primarily mad at myself.) I got a new list up and running with a different provider ...
2025-06-01 12:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post“This work, along with several contemporaries, written centuries before Galvachren’s famed collaboration with Landis Ourna, has led native Ishveans into competing theories as to whether Galvachren is an immortal, possibly given the boon of true agelessness by the High Goddess Lamitu; or whether they are merely two dif...
2025-05-16 13:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostDo any of my OG patrons still have the email alerts for Murder at Ras Andis and Gram of Clan Castis? I lost the exact Patreon publication dates for them, the first would have been in October 2019, the second split into two across November and December 2019. Not a huge deal, it's just really bugging me, hah.
2025-05-05 06:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set on Ishveos, on Cambrias' Wall.
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Inwood Tors was a traditional Wall Guard consulting detective in every peculiar.
Oh, it wasn’t that there was an official uniform for consulting detectives— certainly not, the very thought of it was absurd. No,...
2025-04-14 10:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set on Ishveos, on the opposite side of the desert from Far Selantur.
Samarc had fallen into working with demons quite by accident.
His career success in doing so, however, was anything but an accident.
It had all started at the restaurant he’d worked at as a boy, working as a runne...
2025-03-29 10:40:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm sure lots of you have already seen it, but the Mage Errant Illustrated Omnibus just launched (and fully funded!) on Kickstarter! It's illustrated by the amazing Tom Jileson, and I'm so excited to finally show it off t...
2025-03-04 17:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the late post! Forgot February is the short month.
This story is set near Far Selantur contemporaneously to More Gods Than Stars, an ocean away from Cambrias’ Wall. It's an odd little slice of life story, overlapping my interests in speculative geology and the lives of ordinary people in ex...
I'm doing an AMA right now on the Aetheriad subreddit, r/Mage Errant! If anyone has questions about The City That Would Eat The World, More Gods Than Stars, Ishveos, or the Aetheriad in general, stop on by ...
2025-02-18 14:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostThea is a washed-up mimic exterminator who expected more out of ...
2025-02-11 14:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostTime for the final preview chapter before release! The City That Would Eat the World, book one of the More Gods Than Stars Trilogy, is out February 11th- just a week away! If you could spread the word, tha...
2025-02-03 18:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Theological Obsolescence is set on the world of Ishveos, the setting of More Gods Than Stars. The Confederacy of Angshan is located in the eastern hemisphere of Ishveos, far from the East Pole, the Meridian, or anywhere of true importance.
Also, dang was the vote close on this one!
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2025-01-09 16:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a reminder: The City That Would Eat the World, Book 1 of More Gods Than Stars, is available for preorder now in ebook and audio
Just a reminder: The City That Would Eat the World, Book 1 of More Gods Than Stars, is available for preorder now in ebook and audio, and will be out on February 11th!
There were once dragons on Ishveos.
Now there is only one.
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There were once dragons on Ishveos.
They came through a tear in the sky above the Scovan Range, a rip in the Firmament that should have housed a labyrinth. They descended onto the moon in numbers so great their wings blotte...
2024-12-08 10:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Monastery of Useless Gods is set in the Eastern Hemisphere of Ishveos, far from the events of More Gods Than Stars. (And wow, was the vote for this one close. I swear, the lead between it and The Last Dragon of Ishveos traded places every time I checked.)
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2024-11-30 17:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostSo I've got good news and I've got better news.
The good news? The City That Would Eat the World, Book 1 of More Gods Than Stars, is available for preorder now in ebook and audio, and will b...
2024-11-12 14:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set on Anastis, three years before the start of Mage Errant. It was definitely fun revisiting the Tomb Guard again, I love writing their weird little arguments! This one catches me up for last month- so you'll get one more short story this month! (I intend to have the voting buffer built back up before next...
2024-11-08 15:27:10 +0000 UTC View PostHome is a piece of flash fiction set on Ishveos, the world of More Gods Than Stars. I... don't usually write flash fiction, it's not a form I'm particularly fond of, but this one just kind of popped into my head one day while I was feeling down. It's definitely not a grand story, just a little snippet of life on Ishveos. ...
2024-10-30 09:56:34 +0000 UTC View PostFew quick updates!
First off, the manuscript for The City That Would Eat The World is officially off to my audiobook publisher, woo! Feels pretty good, and a huge load off my back. Still a little work I need to do on the book- write the afterword, get it out to reviewers, plan my release promotions, etc- but only gettin...
2024-10-18 13:17:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey, here's, uh... last month's short story? I'm definitely getting my feet under me better, I'll hopefully have the next short story to y'all soon. Again, sorry about all this.
Anyhow... Clock Gods is set on Ishveos, the world of More Gods Than Stars. It's on a completely different hemisphere...
2024-10-10 13:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostY'all might have noticed a lack of updates this September- that's on me. Combination of burnout after finishing the new book, plus some less than great stuff in my personal life lately. I'm, for the most part, back on my feet now- I fully plan to make up all of the missing stuff here soon. Sorry about that, folks!
2024-09-30 19:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post
