Happy New Year!!! January 2025 is here!

Hi everyone! Happy New Year!! We made it to a brand new year! Wooo! I hope that you’ve all had an absolutely wonderful holiday this past month and are fresh and ready to tackle a brand new year! I certainly am here and we will be kicking the year off with a bit of look at where we’ve been and what is coming up next! So let’s get a starting update out of the way and we can then go from there!

January 2025 Writing Update

Primary Projects

Starbreaker Volume 2: Now Serializing — New Chapters Every Monday – Wednesday – Friday!
Starbreaker Volume 3: 85% Complete
Ascend Online: The Age of Heroes: In Planning

Co-Written Projects

Paragon Book 4 – Alex Knight – Complete – In Editing
Aetherforged (Formally Deck of Destiny) – Harmon Cooper – 99% Complete
Immortal’s Ascent: Blood and Gold (Book 4) – Complete – In Editing

A Month of Polishing

Starting off with our regular update – December was a month of polishing and finishing as whole heap of projects wrapped themselves up to end the year on a high note! Over this last month I was super busy closing out the Starbreaker 2 edit as well as combing through Paragon of Time (Book 4), Immortal’s Ascent: Blood and Gold (Book 4) and Aetherforged Book 1. I’m super happy to say that all three books are progressing well as a whole! So well in fact that I was even able to find some time to work on Starbreaker 3 which if my luck continues to hold out, will be done by the end of the month!

That said however, I still have a fair bit more work to do between these projects as they advance through the post-production stages and I expect this month will be another busy catch-all kind of month as we get them not only finished, but I also get myself ready for vacation come the end of the month! Yes, that’s right! I’m taking another stretch of time off at the end of January to leave the cold winters of Canada to visit the tropics with my family, and let me tell you as I looking ahead to the cold weather forecasted here next week – I just can’t wait for it!

But while my mind might already be on a nice, bright, beachfront vacation, it’s already thinking ahead to the year to come – and boy is there a lot on the horizon to look forward towards.

I’m Not Kidding, Come Take A Look At What My 2025 Is Going To Look Like

As with all my updates of this nature, I’ll preface this section with a general warning – This projected timeline will probably change. In fact, it’s probably already changed by the time you read it. Regardless, I still think it’s useful for you all to know what’s coming and a general timeline of when to maybe expect it!

So behold, the Schedule™ 

Tentative Project Release Schedule For 2025:

Immortal’s Ascent: Blood and Gold – February/March
Starbreaker: Volume 1 – March 4^th
Paragon of Unity (Book 3) – April 1^st
Starbreaker: Volume 2 – May
Immortal’s Ascent: Book 5 – June/July
Starbreaker: Volume 3 –  July/August
Aetherforged: Volume 1 – October 10^th
Starbreaker: Volume 4 – October/November
Ascend Online: The Age of Heroes – November/December
Immortal’s Ascent: Book 6 – December
Starbreaker: Volume 5 – December/January

Dang, that’s a heck of a lot isn’t it? I sure think so! I’ll admit my heart was pounding as I wrote that list, thinking that there must have something been I’ve double counted, but to my calendar’s (and my) terror, I didn’t. In fact – I left Paragon 4 and 5 off that list, which likely won’t see 2025 publishing dates, despite Book 4 being finished and Alex and I starting book 5 soon.

In any case, if things even work out about half way – it’s going to be an absolutely crazy year publishing wise and I am all for it! I just cannot wait to see what you all think about the new series I’m starting as well as all the other sequels coming down the line.

Which Is A Good Time As Any For Me To Be Broken Record Again!

Starbreaker Volume 1 in its entirety is available completely free for the next TWO months for your reading pleasure! If you want to read what I’ve been working on for this new series, then you are running out of time to do so! You can find all of Volume 1 and a chunk of Volume 2 available over on: Royal Road, My Website, and My Patreon! As soon as February ends however – all of Volume 1 will be coming down in preparation for its release in March!

Oh, I’m Also Working On Something That Isn’t On The Schedule™!

And I’m going tease it here with just two simple pictures.

Enjoy! More exciting details to come soon!

And we’re done!

That’s all I’ve got for you all! Happy 2025! It is going to be another super fantastic year this year – quite possibly the best year yet! I can’t wait to hear what you all think about the projects that I am working on here! In the meantime, I truly appreciate all of the support and encouragement that you’ve all sent and continue to send my way! I 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 in February!

Luke