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Update: Novel Serial launched

I have launched my first serial novel. The planning took almost two months. The first months to convince myself to give this a serious go. The second month to plan the first serial. The convincing myself part was to take it to Royal Road first. I have tried doing serials on just my own before and every time I petered out. This time I added the pressure of a real public commitment. I also mapped out forty chapters of a complete story arc, that would make a whole novel when done. I cannot yet commit to an ongoing serial. I […]

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Run Toward Ruin, Serial Novels

In The Yard

Run Toward Ruin – Chapter 4 Duty calls, and it costs him. Darius just wants some time before he’s dragged back to mind his grandfather’s temper—but a truck in the wrong place in the yard and a servant with all the time in the world stand between him and the terrace lights. Rook won’t hurry, and he won’t stop talking, needling at the cracks in Darius’s carefully kept composure: his grandfather’s cruelty, his own uncertain place in the family, the truth he’s never said out loud. 4. In The Yard For the first time that day the drive happened in […]

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Run Toward Ruin, Serial Novels

A Careful Catalogue

Run Toward Ruin – Chapter 3 Seventeen-year-old Darius is handed an impossible gift: the power to travel back in time and undo the injury that crippled his grandfather. It should have fixed everything. Instead, it breaks the present for everyone else. Still bound to the old man’s ruthless ambition, Darius must unravel a fractured timeline and a sinister plot—before the broken past hardens into a horrible present. 3. A Careful Catalogue Cora came inside with Flawia. Piers fell into step behind them. It might have been late afternoon, but it was hot and the forecourt was baking. And Oswin Pochron’s […]

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Run Toward Ruin, Serial Novels

The Baggage

Run Toward Ruin – Chapter 2 Seventeen-year-old Darius is handed an impossible gift: the power to travel back in time and undo the injury that crippled his grandfather. It should have fixed everything. Instead, it breaks the present for everyone else. Still bound to the old man’s ruthless ambition, Darius must unravel a fractured timeline and a sinister plot—before the broken past hardens into a horrible present. 2. The Baggage From the gate the tree-lined lane curved and the white stone house slid into view. Darius slowed the car down to a crawl. The courtyard was teeming. More than twenty […]

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Run Toward Ruin, Serial Novels

The Slow Road

Run Toward Ruin – Chapter 1 Seventeen-year-old Darius is handed an impossible gift: the power to travel back in time and undo the injury that crippled his grandfather. It should have fixed everything. Instead, it breaks the present for everyone else. Still bound to the old man’s ruthless ambition, Darius must unravel a fractured timeline and a sinister plot—before the broken past hardens into a horrible present. 1. The Slow Road The sun baked from above, the air dry, the road hot. Flickering shadows of tall trees passed over the car; too fast to give any relief. Slower than needed, […]