Here it is! Please quench your torches :) As always, please feel free to let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Plum
It wasn’t long before Vellia started to stir. Victor hadn’t touched her or the knife still loosely cla...
2022-09-08 12:54:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks - just a quick reminder that when I post to Patreon, my work is missing at least one and sometimes two or three more edit/revision passes. I usually don't change much, but if it seems rough at times, I'm sorry!
-Plum
Morgan touched the bronze pad next t...
2022-09-08 10:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostBronwyn looked down at the nest of blankets and the furry, raggedly panting form within, and her heart tore. “Oh, Soft-fur! What’s happened to you?” She knelt and took the Urghat’s soft, hot hand, gently rubbing her thumb against the fur on the back of her knuckles and looking into her eyes. They were bleary and blood...
2022-09-07 11:03:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Olivia, the two professors, and the inspector made it to the flickering blue lights at the end of the tunnel, they found a stone-walled room, bereft of inhabitants but full of objects. “Damn it!” Olivia hissed, peering into the room with its flickering sconces, overturned tables, and messy cot and not seeing any sign...
2022-09-06 11:38:52 +0000 UTC View PostOlivia burst through the door, the professors and inspector on her heels, and ran down the corridor, the tails of her magenta, hunting winds just in sight as they whipped around the corner. “Can you see them?” she called over her shoulder, face flushed with excitement and the high that always accompanied the surge of Ener...
2022-09-05 11:58:03 +0000 UTC View PostMoving along! Can you believe it's chapter 7 already? I love to hear your feedback :)
-Plum
Victor couldn’t help the grin on his face as he drove his new wagon down the southern road out of Gelica. The vidanii were fast when he gave them their head, ...
2022-09-04 16:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Friday!
-Plum
Olivia sat in Oylla-dak’s office next to Inspector Carlu, feeling like she was in trouble for some reason. Perhaps it was the deep scowl that Oylla wore, or perhaps it was because Carlu was fidgeting nervously and Olivia was menta...
2022-09-02 11:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I've been having a little fun with Inkarnate, but I'm not very good at it! Here's my first visualization of Fanwath, at least the parts seen in my books so far. The sections that are colored in have been visited by one of the characters in the stories. The blank spaces are . . . the great unknown!
Al...
2022-09-01 19:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostVictor sat in Lam’s kitchens, Edeya, Thayla, and Captain Lam on the bench across from him, and, between huge bites of food, explained what he’d done while Spirit Walking. He mentioned meeting Oynalla, his hunt, and finished with a brief description of how he surprised Belikot and killed him before he could hardly retaliat...
2022-09-01 15:14:17 +0000 UTC View PostWow! Is it September already? Thank you, Patrons, for staying with me :)
I should have another Victor chapter for you also in a couple of hours.
-Plum
Bronwyn looked down the hill at Whitestar’s camp and breathed out a...
2022-09-01 11:30:31 +0000 UTC View PostMorgan sat on Bronwyn’s Hill, a few feet from one of the stone stairs leading up to the Town Stone. His hands were out behind him, resting on the warm blue-tinted grass, and his face was toward the sun. It wasn’t hot, and there was a definite hint of coolness in the breeze that tickled his exposed skin, but the sky was cl...
2022-08-31 11:52:50 +0000 UTC View Post“So, yeah, I think you and your assistants should come to check out the lab. I’m cool with you guys working there as much as you need. Seriously, man, the equipment I uncovered is way beyond anything you guys are using. It’s beyond anything at Tarn’s Crossing, even.” Morgan was leaning against Boris’s workbench. H...
2022-08-30 12:40:55 +0000 UTC View PostAdaida’s face looked so disturbed, and it was such a sudden shift in emotion that Olivia didn’t hesitate to cast Elemental Form, taking on her earth-attuned aspect. With a soft, grinding rumble, her flesh hardened, and rocks lifted from the ground, erupting out of the soil to orbit her and Adaida, who she still held close...
2022-08-29 12:12:44 +0000 UTC View PostHappy to hear your thoughts, my dear Patrons.
-Plum
Victor had found that when he cast Tether Spirit before sleeping, it seemed to calm his dreams quite a lot. It made him wonder just how much he was dreaming and how much his spirit was wandering and e...
2022-08-28 17:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, this time, I'm sure we're on the right chapter number. There's supposed to be a Bronwyn chapter at 49, but you folks already have it from before my reorganizing.
I'm not sure I love where I've gone with this Olivia/Adaida/Bronwyn thing. I have a loose plan in my mind, but if y...
2022-08-26 11:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostI think we're back on track with the chapter numbers after my reorgonzing. Its highly possible I've made some sort of mistake, though :)
Enjoy!
“Hello, Olivia!” Pria Peele said, striding forward and extending a hand. Olivia stood quickly and reached out a han...
2022-08-25 12:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostA bit of an interlude chapter. Is it the calm before the storm??
-Plum
“Let’s not take a coach,” Thayla said as they passed through the gates of Lam’s estate. “I want to talk a bit while we walk.”
“All right. I could use the fresh a...
2022-08-24 13:35:05 +0000 UTC View PostMoving to some Olivia POV chapters next. I should have another Victor chapter ready later today.
Cheers,
Plum
Morgan, Issa, and Tiladia settled down in the library, sitting in one of the comfortable arrangements of leather chairs a...
2022-08-24 11:21:41 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be another Morgan chapter tomorrow :)
-Plum
“This tower is part of Vormendion’s inheritance, but not all of it. Before he departed this part of the universe, he chose certain treasures to bestow on the one who conquered the challenge of ...
2022-08-23 12:21:30 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the next chapter for you, folks. The numbers are all messed up, thanks to me rearranging the chapters in my drafts. Still, this is the one you all are due to get next :)
-Plum
Morgan sat on the marble floor, looking around the antechamber to Vormendion’s...
2022-08-22 11:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostI'd love to hear your thoughts. :)
-Plum
“Rellia, this is a lot,” Victor said, his mind trying to take in everything he and Rellia had spoken about—her family, her motives, the Empire, the map, the Marches, and the Writ of Conquest. He felt like ...
2022-08-21 14:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostLet me know if you hate this. I know a lot of people have strong feelings about Rellia and how Victor should act with her.
-Plum
Victor stepped out of the coach, stretching his back and squinting in the bright, midday sun. Two days had passed since his...
2022-08-19 17:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostIronhide gestured to the branch in the path, “Down here, through this swampy wood, we’ll reach the valley with the Hollows in a day or two. This is the part where I’d warn you about trolls setting ambushes in the trees and that we shouldn’t venture in, but I guess if Whitestar is fighting for the old home, we should b...
2022-08-19 12:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe door closed behind Morgan with a reverberating clang, and he sidestepped, eyes on the flesh monster. It shuddered and flexed, leaning forward with its flat, expressionless face, nostrils widening as though it were taking a huge sniff. Morgan didn’t see any point in letting the monster ramp up an attack, so he fired a Vo...
2022-08-18 11:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons!
I'm changing my numbering system to something more sane. This is chapter 1 of book 3 for Victor, so 3.1. Previously, for some reason, I was using A, B, C, etc. So, the A and B chapters are book 1, and the C chapters are book 2. Now, going forward, I'll just use 3.1, 4...
2022-08-17 14:28:54 +0000 UTC View PostI had a fellow writer ask me for my Discord server address, and I didn't have one to give. He seemed surprised. Is that a thing? Would you folks like a place to talk about the stories or characters? I'm not saying I'd be much more active there than I am on the comments here or RR, but maybe?
2022-08-17 12:37:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Professor Somhairle entered Oylla’s office, the first thing Olivia noticed about him was that his previously intimidating presence was much less so. He no longer seemed larger than life. Sure, he was tall, but he was so thin with such long, awkward limbs that he seemed more at odds with himself than imposing. Additiona...
2022-08-17 12:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostMorgan stood before the large, bronze-colored double doors that Tiladia had led him to. “These are the only doors I cannot pass by or see beyond,” she said, moving her crystal-shard parts in a slowly oscillating spiral.
“So that’s where the final guardian is, hmm?” He stepped up to the door and put an ear agai...
2022-08-16 11:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Come in, Olivia! Sit down! I heard about your morning—what a terrible thing to wake up to. Your cohort was lucky to have you around.” Oylla motioned for Olivia to come into her office, gesturing to the pair of couches over by the window, which, uncharacteristically, had its curtains pulled wide, allowing bright morning...
2022-08-15 11:25:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhew! Here's the final chapter of book 2. It's a doozy - 6700 words, but I didn't want any cliffhangers in the middle of Victor's final fight :) Let me know what you think, please.
Enjoy!
-Plum
Victor sat on a wooden bench, watchin...
2022-08-13 20:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
