August We Are

Hi everyone! Happy August!! I hope that you’ve all been enjoying the summer as it goes into full swing and that the weather has been great for all of you! Here is to hoping that you’ve had plenty of time to relax and rejuvenate over the last while or if not, are planning to soon! Let’s take a look at how things went for July and what we’ve got next on our schedules!

August 2024 Writing Update

Primary Projects

Scion of Magic (New Series): In Progress – 45% Complete
Starbreaker (New Series): Completed!
Starbreaker Book 2: 15% Complete

Co-Written Projects

Paragon Book 4 – Alex Knight – 25% Complete
Deck of Destiny – Harmon Cooper – 25% Complete

Other News

The Starbreaker and Scion of Magic Web Serials have launched!
Ascend Online: Threads of Fate – Coming to Kindle November 5^th!
Hat Trick: Drop of a Hat is on Sale!

A Month of Small Details

Now that’s a bunch of things on there, isn’t it? To start off – this was a largely a month of small details and projects in addition to the launch of Starbreaker and Scion of Magic in serial format…so busy in fact…that I’ve already fallen behind in my Scion of Magic writing (doh!), but not for a bad reason! In fact, the reason my entire month ended up a little squirreled was because of the awesome feedback that all the awesome serial readers sent my way for both of the two books which resulted in me taking a pause to comb through both stories in a bit of a victory lap to touch it up with clarity and some edits. So thank you all for that! With this last pass done, I am hoping to shift my attention more fully towards Starbreaker book 2 and Scion of Magic again to make some more headway on the both of those for the month of August!

Wait, What Are You Talking About Luke? You Released Two Serials?

If you have somehow missed this news, yes I have! I’ve finally pushed through my backlog of projects to the point where I have a fair bit more creative control over them, and as such I am able to post them early as I write them! (As some of you might remember I did way back when with Ascend Online!) In any case, if you have not seen the two stories and are looking for something to read, then feel free to check them out at any of the links below!

Starbreaker: (20 Chapters Currently Free!)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/starbreaker-1-107075054
My Website: https://lukechmilenko.com/starbreaker/
Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/89519/starbreaker

Scion of Magic: (18 Chapters Currently Free!)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/scion-of-magic-1-107075659
My Website: https://lukechmilenko.com/scion-of-magic/
Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/89896/scion-of-magic

Happy reading if you choose to give these series a shot! I hope you enjoy them!!

Ascend Online: Threads of Fate eBook Version Finally Has An Amazon Release Date!

I know that we were on a journey with this series and it’s Yonder exclusivity, but I am happy to announce that we finally have a date for when it is going to end – that being November 5^th – which is the day that Threads of Fate will launch over on Amazon for all of you Kindle readers! I am also super happy to mention too that the series will be returning to Kindle Unlimited as well!

However with that transition coming back towards Amazon, I want to say thank you for all of you who followed me over to Yonder to try the platform out there! I truly appreciate the support I got there for the books and it is making me very excited to get into book six as soon as I can!

So I’ve Got Some Vacation Planned

Every year I like to take a chunk of time off to rejuvenate and this year that time is going to be coming up in August and September! For the first half of vacation is going to be some well deserved R&R and for the second half it’s going to be to dive in and enjoy the next World of Warcraft expansion – The War Within.

In general these breaks shouldn’t affect the majority of my overall production save that regarding Scion of Magic, which I’ll be pausing to ‘free’ up some time while I enjoy breaks. Regardless I will make it a point to update this serial as often as I can, but it will likely be as single or multiple chapters dropped at once with no warning or schedule. Starbreaker on the other hand I expect to continue during this second vacation stretch just to make sure we’ve got book 2 ready for you all to enjoy before all of the book 1 chapters run out.

Beyond that – I am toying with the idea of streaming parts of my experience while I dive into The War Within – so if you’re at all interested in seeing that, let me know and I’ll make it a point to post whenever I am planning on going live!

And that’s another month in the books!

That’s all I’ve got to share for this month! I hope that you enjoy Starbreaker and Scion of Magic if you give it a shot! Catch you all again next month! (Or on stream!) I hope you all have a happy, healthy, and super fun August!

Luke