Andrew Seiple's Blog: Transmissions From the Teslaverse - Posts Tagged "litrpg"

Long time, no blog! My apologies. We're getting into that ticklish time of year, where every weekend is full and everyone's rushing to finish up things before winter hits.

Work on DIRE:HELL proceeds at a steady clip. I'm over halfway done, and currently on track to release it before the end of the year. I'm gonna try to get it out before Christmas, but there are no guarantees, here.

I have to admit it's a little stressful. This is probably Dire's last adventure for a while, so I'm trying to make it as awesome as I can.

I'm also dabbling with a web serial right now. A little LitRPG project, more of an experiment to see if I can write a good book that doesn't cling to standard genre tropes. We'll see how that goes.

At any rate, have fun and I'll post again once I reach a clear spot in my schedule!

...about a lovable teddy bear, animated through magic, and forced to fight for his life to survive.

Threadbare! My first litrpg adventure! It takes place in a world where game mechanics are very real, and people can level up by fighting monsters! It's a tongue-in-cheek look at this new genre, and stars a plush toy in way over his head.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078KGS4V4

It's not Dire, but I had a hell of a lot of fun writing this one. Dire shall come about in January, but through hard work and writing like a maniac, I managed to get you this one as a Christmas present.

Here's hoping you find it enjoyable!

...though to be honest, it helps that I'm converting a web serial into ebook form.

Yep, Threadbare Volume 2 is out. This is where the story starts to get a little more mature. Not in a vulgar way, no, but the stakes get a bit higher, there's more swearing, and bad things happen to good people.

If Volume 1 was childhood, this is a bit like the teenage years.

Though at the core of it, it remains the story of a teddy bear and his little girl. Who's growing up...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079C3MK5D

It was a lot of work, but I got it in under the wire.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B2ZQR3H

Life is good. Now to go collapse for a while...

Hey, all.

Work proceeds on Dire:Hell. Most of the beta readers have chimed in, and the editing is proceeding. It's slow, though. Probably take a few weeks. I will release it in April no matter what; I'm past the point of fretting over it. It will be the story it is, and there's no point in overpolishing.

In other news, Threadbare Volume 1 has been selected to appear in an anthology. This is a Bookbundle, a collection of eight full-length novels. It's one of those pay-what-you-want deals, though there is a minimum. ($5)

It's around for a couple of weeks, then the offer expires. The link follows. If Threadbare was your first taste of LitRPG and you want more, this is a good chance to try a sampler platter, so to speak...

https://storybundle.com/gamelit?utm_s...

Amen, hallelujah, peanut butter! My first audio book will be available in June, but pre-orders are up already... and the rest shall soon follow!

And oh, I'm listening to the advance files right now, and the narrator knocked this one outta the park...

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fan...

It's a sobering thing, to see a storm hit, and to realize that through no virtue or planning of your own besides luck, you have been spared the deluge.

So, back in the April to May timeframe, a lot of Gamelit/LitRPG authors of my acquaintance got nastygrams from Amazon. The letters were identical, and said that they were in violation of the Terms of Service. Amazon took away quite a lot of their Kindle Unlimited page read credits, and told them not to do it again.

Only problem was, these guys hadn't done anything to begin with.

And while many of them were trying to contact Amazon to figure out what was going on, they got a second-stage nastygram, with a bonus present of suspended books.

It wasn't hard to figure out what was going on. The Amazon Kindle Unlimited scamfarms occasionally use legitimate books as cover, in order to try and fool the Amazon algorithms. The algorithms, being programmed to err on the side of nuclear explosions, identify the innocent authors as offenders and automatically start beating them up until the activity stops.

It's unfair, it's horrible, and several full-time writers in the LitRPG/Gamelit community have been affected.

But not me.

I have some stuff in KU, but not Threadbare. Not the Gamelit stuff. My desire to leave it available to members of selected fiction sites meant I couldn't put it in KU to begin with. So I was spared the storm. This time, anyway.

Many of my fellow authors, thus struck, are starting to go wide. They will join me in Kobo, Apple, D2D, and all the little subsidiaries. They are done with KU and drama, for now at least.

And oh, hey! My first audiobook comes out tomorrow!

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fan...

To celebrate, I'm dropping the ebook price for Threadbare Volume I to $0.99 or the local store equivalent. It'll be on sale for the day all through Amazon.

Hooray for audiobooks! Hooray for powerleveling the Luck stat! Be well, and roll crits!

Happy Holidays! Yeesh, I've been quiet for a while.

Quiet. And busy!

In three days Dire:Time gets released in audiobook format. Which is pretty damn awesome!

But more than that, I'm happy to say that hard work has paid off, and my next ebook is now out early!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LDFSPFW/...

It's another LitRPG, like Threadbare. It's set in the same world, and stars another unlikely protagonist... and it will reveal secrets that will shake the world to its core!

That's the hope, anyhoo. At any rate, I got it finished before Christmas, so my duty's done.

See you around! Enjoy holiday time with your loved ones, because I know I will!

And here we are.

After much work, much patience, and many books, I am now a full-time writer.

I've been busy.

The more I write, the greater a chance I have of making this work.

So, that' hasn't left as much time for blogging. But never fear, I'll get back into the habit.

I've also been experimenting with Patreon… with some success, actually.

But from here on? If you don't hear from me, odds are I'm working on the next book.

The current series is called Small Medium, and it's a follow-up to Threadbare. A side-story that takes place in a different part of the world, with new characters.

Eventually, the series will intersect, but there's much to do, first.

The first book, "Small Medium: Big Trouble" is out already, and if things go to plan the second one will release later in this month.

The third one? April, most likely.

After that? I have options. It may be time to revisit Bunker Core...

Sing hallelujah and stone the crows, that's another one down...

...and this one is GOOD. This is the first book I've written since I started as a full-time writer, and I can say without hubris that I think it shows. This is a quality book.

It ties into my bigger plans for Generica. It, Threadbare, and one more series will all combine together to show what's REALLY going on in this weird world, and just how much trouble everyone is in.

Anyway, thanks to Amazon's alacrity the book is available right now at

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P2PGY4G

Also it has a wrestler called The Muscle Wizaard. He gets to suplex werewolves. Go check it out!