Happy June!!

Hi everyone! Welcome to June! I know I say this every year, but can you believe we’re already halfway through the calendar? I certainly can’t! No idea where the months have gone, but I am certainly happy that I can take a break from my desk and move outside to my backyard with my laptop for writing! Here’s to hoping that it’s an extra warm (and decently dry!) month so I can make it a regular thing! In the meantime, May has been a fantastically busy month and I’ve got a heap of news to share! So, let’s get to it!

June 2026 Writing Update

Primary Projects
Starbreaker: Volume 6 – Preorder Available! Release: August 4th!
Requiem For A Fallen World – Book 1 – 100% Complete – In Editing!
Legends of Mythranor: The Last Sovereign – Book 1 – 45% Complete
Requiem – Book 2 – 0% – In Planning

Co-Written Projects
Eternal Realms 1 – Harmon Cooper – Rescheduled! Release: February 2027
Aetherforged – Harmon Cooper – 100% Complete – In Editing!

New Works Coming Soon!

So, the biggest news to kick things off: we’ve got two books officially done and off to editing! After a whole lot of grinding, both Requiem For A Fallen World (Book 1 of the Requiem series) and Aetherforged: Heart of Radiance (Book 3) have crossed the finish line and have been sent off to their respective editors. I can’t tell you how huge it feels to have them both wrapped – both in starting a new series with Requiem and finishing off Aetherforged. I hope you love them both when they finally get in your hands. (And soon in the case of Requiem, which I am hoping to start serializing in June!)

But beyond those two projects, I’ve also been making good progress on The Last Sovereign. It’s coming along really well despite that % number beside it not moving all that much. Though the reason for that is because this book is turning out to be a much longer book than I’d originally planned. It’s still a little early to say what the final number will be, but I’m expecting this one to range close to, or even crack 250,000 words by the time I have it wrapped. That said though, my loose goal is still to have it done by August if I can help it. Fingers crossed I can meet that goal!

Eternal Realms Has Been Rescheduled

Just a quick note on this one: Eternal Realms Book 1 has been rescheduled into February 2027 for the simple reason that Harmon and I want to be able to have Book 2 ready to follow much sooner after the first one releases. We had a chance to look at the both of our schedules and it was just too packed for us to be able to hop onto book 2 any time soon. So we decided that kicking the series start down the line was the better option to take. This way, the wait between books should be a heap shorter for you all to endure!

This is Going To A Staple, But Pre-Order Ascend Online’s Traditional Edition!

I know we had this up last month, but in the interest of getting the word out, this is going to be a staple line for the next few months: Ascend Online is getting a special traditionally published hard cover version through Aethon and if you want to see more from the series, please help me by pre-ordering it!

Available at Barnes and Noble this book is a fancy new edition that will be available at all major retailers across the world and like I said before, I need your help to make that happen! The more copies we get pre-ordered the more shelf space they’ll reserve for us! So, all the support that you can give us now, will only help us down the road for more!

And I’m Gone Yet Again!

And that’s a wrap for June! Before I disappear back into the word mines, make sure to stay tuned across all channels, because I am looking to get Requiem’s web serial started sometime the next few weeks once everything is edited and polished! I can’t wait for you to finally get a peek at this one and see what I’ve been working on!

In the meantime, I hope you all stay happy and healthy, plus get a chance to enjoy a bit of that summer sunshine! See you all when July rolls around!

Luke