Welcome to the end of the year, December is here!

Hi everyone! Happy December!! Wow, we made it to the last month of the year! Geez, I swear it was April a hot minute ago…where is the time going? I certainly have no idea on my end! In any case, I hope you have all had a wonderful month and super happy thanksgiving for those who celebrated! Now we all get to enjoy the Christmas and New Year rush as it comes charging at us this next month! But before we get overwhelmed with all the holiday stuff, let’s do one last check in for the year to see what I’ve been up to, where we are going and what we have to look forward to!

December 2024 Writing Update

Primary Projects

Starbreaker Volume 2: Now Serializing — New Chapters Every Monday – Wednesday – Friday!
Starbreaker Volume 3: 15% Complete
Ascend Online: The Age of Heroes: In Planning
Scion of Magic: In (Re)Planning

Co-Written Projects

Paragon Book 4 – Alex Knight – 99% Complete
Aetherforged (Formally Deck of Destiny) – Harmon Cooper – 95% Complete

Upcoming Releases

Starbreaker: Volume 1 – March 4^th

The Busy Doesn’t Stop!

As it usually happens when a wave of projects all come to an end at once, it’s been a busy month of post-production stuff as well as prepping the next projects to follow them. For this month that had me working on Starbreaker 2’s edits after they came back as well as starting on both Ascend Online: Age of Heroes and Scion of Magic’s outline – Though in this case of Scion of Magic…this is a complete reset and reoutline.

After listening to all the feedback you all gave me for the web serial I’ve decided to nuke and completely restart the story on the account that it simply wasn’t working the way that I’d hoped. It’s a bit of frustrating thing to have to do considering how much I’d written, but I am certain it’s the right thing to do to bring the best story possible to all of you in the end. On the positive side though, I get to jump back into Ascend Online much sooner than I’d expected to, which is a net positive in my mind!

Because of this, I expect my efforts for the next few months to be divided between Starbreaker Volume 3 and Age of Heroes on the day to day writing front, and Paragon 4 and Aetherforged 1 (Formally titled Deck of Destiny before Harmon and I changed the name!) on the post-production of side of things once they are finished (then of course the pre-production side of things as we move onto the next books there too).

Much of the next releases will depend on how quickly we can get the audiobooks recorded, however for 2025 our (hopeful) release list for the year is: Paragon 3 & 4, Aetherforged 1, Starbreaker 1-3, Ascend Online: Age of Heroes, and Immortal’s Ascent 4-6. Now I’m sure that something will go wrong with this plan at some point, but I’m hoping that it at most effects a book or two with the rest arriving on a predictable schedule!

As a whole though that locks in the next few months of work pretty solidly for me so we can hit all of those deadlines and milestones! I can’t wait to hear what you all think of all these books when they finally come out! (If you happen to have any favorite series you’re waiting for so far – definitely let me know in the comments here!)

Now Is The Best Time To Read Starbreaker!

I know I’ve mentioned this a heap of times, however I’m going to do it again – Starbreaker Volume 1 in its entirety is available completely free for the next few months for your reading pleasure! If you want to read what I’ve been working on for this new series, now is certainly the best time to do it! You can find all of Volume 1 and the first few chapters of Volume 2 available over on: Royal Road, My Website, and My Patreon!

That Wraps 2024! See you in 2025!

And just like that, we have another year behind us! I can’t believe how fast it all went and I have no doubt that this breakneck speed will continue into 2025! As we switch over the calendars, I hope that you all have a super wonderful holiday stretch and wonderful new year! I truly appreciate all of the support and encouragement that you’ve all sent and continue to send my way! I truly wouldn’t be able to do this without all of your support! As always, I hope you all stay happy and healthy until we meet again, all the way out in 2025!

Luke