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November 9, 2022
The Complete Holiday Dungeon Core series is now on pre-order!
________________________Contains the entire Holiday Dungeon Core series:Christmas CoreValentine CoreEaster CoreIndependence CoreHalloween CoreA love of the holidays is translated into a unique dungeon experience…Elmer Robbins loved decorating for every holiday with his wife, Mary, by going all-out with décor at their cozy little house as well as filling his office with holiday cheer. But when his beloved Mary passed away unexpectedly the year before, it was difficult for Elmer to summon the same sort of enthusiasm in decorating for all of the holidays without her beside him.However, due to an accident at work, Elmer’s soul is transported to a strange world, where it inhabits an even stranger object called a Dungeon Core. Soon after his arrival, the new Dungeon Core discovers something he didn’t think was possible: a way to reconnect with the soul of his wife, Mary.In order to do that, though, Elmer will need to survive and increase the Level of his newly acquired form. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know much about fantasy worlds, magic, and monsters; what he does know a lot about, however, are holidays. With the help of a North Pole Elf helper named Keebles, the brand-new Dungeon Core protect his dungeon from a variety of threats by utilizing that holiday-based knowledge while he acquires enough strength to free his wife’s soul.The Holiday Dungeon Core series is a collection of novellas set in a unique universe that contains LitRPG and Dungeon Core elements such as stats and character progression. Contains no foul language, sexual content, or harems.
November 2, 2022
Dungeon of Chance Complete Series audiobook now available!
Now on audiobook, get all 40+ hours of the Dungeon of Chance Complete Series (Books 1-3)! Narrated by Miles Meili, this is a Dungeon Core story with probability mechanics, dungeon construction and defense, and hundreds of different monsters and traps that the dungeon can create!
Audible US: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BL27HZHG
Audible UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BL29LT7S
Contains all 3 books in the Serious Probabilities Series:
Dungeon of Chance: Even Odds
Dungeon of Chance: Double or Nothing
Dungeon of Chance: All-In
In a dangerous world dictated by probabilities, Clay falls well outside the standard deviation….
Thousands of Heroes protect the land, defending against the periodic incursions by gigantic monsters known as World Threats. This was the way it had always been and Clay Shuntwise was perfectly fine with that. Running deliveries for his family’s shop in the sleepy town of Renton, the young teenager barely even thought about Heroes and their role in keeping the world safe.
That was, at least, until a World Threat came crashing down on him.
Reborn into the brand-new and unfamiliar form of a Dungeon Core, Clay struggles as he learns more about Heroes and the dungeons they delve through to get stronger. According to the odd dragonling guide that tries to help him understand his new life, since he was a former Hero, Clay should already intuitively know most of what he needed to succeed. All of the finer parts regarding the relationship between Heroes and dungeons, including information about probabilities and drop rates, should be common knowledge to former Heroes.
The problem? Despite wishing that he had been that lucky in his past life, Clay had never been chosen to be a Hero. Now, though, he might be forced to become one, though not quite in a way he ever expected.
This book contains Dungeon Core, LitRPG, and GameLit elements including dungeon construction and defense, monster summoning, character progression, and a game-like interface. In addition, many of the probabilities the world is based upon are similar to Gacha-type mechanics. Contains no profanity, harems, or explicit sexual content.
October 31, 2022
Caverns of Fear is now available!
_________________________𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝?Clive Logan has killed thousands of people both over his lifetime and during his afterlife, though with his most recent scenario as a Spirit Core in the community of his enemy, the Hand of the Divine, he went a bit further than even the Goddess of the Underworld could have envisioned. While his boss worked behind the scenes to try and mitigate the damage he caused, the serial killer-turned-Spirit Core was shipped off to a cavern in the middle of nowhere in order to keep him out of trouble.But Clive Logan isn’t one to stay out of trouble. He has to kill, and there isn’t much that anyone can do to stop that.After being freed from the responsibilities of fulfilling the requirements of a scenario, the soul of the serial killer begins to explore all of the possibilities around his current location. With new abilities, new allies, and new personal objectives, Clive can do just about anything he wants. Unfortunately, his past actions have raised the ire of the Goddess of Heaven, and her agents – including Father Stryker – are dead set on finding him. The Hand of the Divine want to destroy his Spirit Core for good, wiping from existence everything he has accomplished, and they have the Divine Power to do so.Can Clive figure out in time how to defend himself from their wrath? Or will his legacy be nothing more than a footnote in the book of famous serial killers?Warning: There are some very sensitive and disturbing activities described in this book, as well as it being the tale of a serial killer doing what serial killers do; so, if you are opposed to those sorts of things, turn back now…𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑅𝑃𝐺/𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑒𝐿𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
October 27, 2022
Core of Fear free on eBook through Halloween!
Pick up the first eBook in my Spirit Core series, Core of Fear, FREE from 10/27 - 10/31 on amazon! If you like a different kind of story where the bad guy wins, then pick up this tale of an executed serial killer sent back to Earth from Hell with the directive to kill innocent people using their fear against them.
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MTK64F7
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07MTK64F7
Do you ever wonder why spirits take the actions they do? What if there was a system of rules they had to follow?
Clive Logan is a serial killer; or, to be more accurate, Clive Logan was a serial killer. Caught after a record-breaking streak of murders, he was executed by lethal injection by the state, while thousands of his victims’ grieving family members watched.
That should’ve been the end of his emotionless and unfeeling existence – but it wasn’t.
Sent to Hell – where he enjoyed himself entirely too much – he was singled out to become a Spirit Core, an invisible spiritual entity that eventually ended up back on Earth. At first unfamiliar to him, his new incarnation slowly revealed itself to have its own set of rules, following something not unlike the video games he used to program back when he was alive. At its root, he was tasked with invoking fear upon his new victims – but there was just one problem.
Having never felt any emotions before, he had no idea what that meant.
Warning: This is a story about a serial killer, and he does what serial killers do, so if the "bad guy" winning isn't for you, you may want to steer clear...
Contains LitRPG/Dungeon Core elements such as level progression, statistics, and “dungeon” traps.
October 25, 2022
Halloween Core is now available on audiobook!
The 5th and final novella in the Holiday Dungeon Core series, 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞, is now available on audiobook! Once again narrated by the great Miles Meili, come experience the spooky fun as Elmer uses Halloween décor and monsters to defend his dungeon!
Audible US: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BKFXWB3X
Audible UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BKFXTDJS
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬!
Elmer Robbins has survived thousands of Adventurers delving through his dungeon, but the holiday-obsessed Dungeon Core is in danger. The threat doesn’t stem from some powerful Adventurer or world-ending crisis set to destroy his Core, but from his own success. With a limitation set upon him from the Gods and Goddesses of his new world, he soon hits a wall in his development that could end up destroying him because of an overabundance of Life Force he is forced to absorb from slain Adventurers in his dungeon.
With a choice between slowly succumbing to his destruction by doing nothing, which would prolong his life, or going out in a blaze of glory by creating another holiday-themed section to his dungeon and inviting the permanent death of his soul all that much faster, the decision was easy. With new Halloween-based rooms, he can finally decorate for one of his favorite holidays, and this new section is well-suited the environs of a dungeon.
Will the Adventurers appreciate his new fear-filled dungeon areas filled with pumpkins, skeletons, ghosts, vampires, and even trick-or-treating before the inevitable destruction meets his Core? Or will there be a light at the end of the tunnel, saving both Elmer and his trapped wife’s soul from utter annihilation?
Find out now in the conclusion to the Holiday Dungeon Core series, Halloween Core!
𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡, 42𝑘-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑅𝑃𝐺 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑠.
October 20, 2022
MileHiCon this weekend Oct 21-23!
If you're in Denver this weekend, come join me at MileHiCon 54!
October 14, 2022
Core Convergence is now available on audiobook!
Just published, 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 is now available on audiobook! This is the 3rd book of my crossover series (Dimensional Dungeon Cores), and Miles Meili and Louise Cooksey did another superb job narrating over 12 hours of Dungeon Core and LitRPG awesomeness!
Audible US: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BJ4RDXRDAudible UK: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BJ58H5FG
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𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝…
The Heliothropes have opened up another dimensional wound, and now it’s up to Milton and his crew to locate the Stabilizing Anchor holding the wound open and destroy it before the connection between two dimensions stabilizes completely. It should be fairly easy, as they had done the same thing on Sandra’s planet, but there’s a problem.
They can’t seem to find a single trace of the enemy.
Due to the unusual energy permeating the world Haven Station is orbiting around, their sensors cannot penetrate the outer atmosphere. The same sensor issues soon become evident on the planet itself, so Milton resorts to manually searching for the Heliothropes; in the process, he learns more about the world full of millions of dungeons and the strange way everything operates.
But will he be able to locate and destroy the Anchor before it’s too late?
It’s too soon to tell, but there is a distinct possibility that Milton is going to need some help from those in charge; and who would be better than the one person that brought the Dungeon Cores of the world to their figurative knees?
𝐷𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠, 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑅𝑃𝐺 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑒𝐿𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑠, 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠. 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑛𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡.
October 5, 2022
Halloween Core is now available!
The 5th novella in my Holiday Dungeon Core series, Halloween Core, is now available! This is the final book in the series, filled with Halloween-themed monsters and traps -- perfect for the season!
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B55CQPDW
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B55CQPDW
The audiobook, narrated by Miles Meili, is nearly finished and should be available within the next few weeks!
The spooky conclusion to the Holiday Dungeon Core series!
Elmer Robbins has survived thousands of Adventurers delving through his dungeon, but the holiday-obsessed Dungeon Core is in danger. The threat doesn’t stem from some powerful Adventurer or world-ending crisis set to destroy his Core, but from his own success. With a limitation set upon him from the Gods and Goddesses of his new world, he soon hits a wall in his development that could end up destroying him because of an overabundance of Life Force he is forced to absorb from slain Adventurers in his dungeon.
With a choice between slowly succumbing to his destruction by doing nothing, which would prolong his life, or going out in a blaze of glory by creating another holiday-themed section to his dungeon and inviting the permanent death of his soul all that much faster, the decision was easy. With new Halloween-based rooms, he can finally decorate for one of his favorite holidays, and this new section is well-suited the environs of a dungeon.
Will the Adventurers appreciate his new fear-filled dungeon areas filled with pumpkins, skeletons, ghosts, vampires, and even trick-or-treating before the inevitable destruction meets his Core? Or will there be a light at the end of the tunnel, saving both Elmer and his trapped wife’s soul from utter annihilation?
Find out now in the conclusion to the Holiday Dungeon Core series, Halloween Core!
Halloween Core is a short, 42k-word novella set in a unique universe that contains LitRPG and Dungeon Core elements such as stats and character progression. Contains no foul language, explicit sexual content, or harems.
September 30, 2022
Corrupted Time is now available!
Corrupted Time is now available on eBook, paperback, and hardcover! This is the 2nd book in my Time Core series, which has Tempara moving her Dungeon Core to the Nightgloom Swamp, where the undead roam.
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFWB3SQY
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BFWB3SQY
On a journey to free the rest of her family, time-looping Tempara must visit a place where death isn’t final…
After Tempara successfully saved three of her Greater Temporal Fox family members from the clutches of a dangerous temporal ritual located in the Frozen Reaches, the Fox-turned-Dungeon Core travels south to an entirely different Wildlands region in hopes of freeing even more of her family. While it was treacherous in the cold, northern region where she called home, the new region is unlike anything she has ever encountered before.
The darkness-shrouded Nightgloom Swamp is not for the faint of heart.
Full of large pools of stagnant water where powerful, unknown creatures prey on those trying to cross over their domain, as well as narrow land bridges that connect different islands located inside the Swamp, the real danger comes from the dungeons that reside nearby. Out of those dungeons roam the undead in numerous hordes, and only those versed in the ways of the formerly living can successfully navigate their way through it without falling victim to the dangers lurking around every dark corner.
Will Tempara be able to brave this new and unknown region, or will she be frightened by the undead hordes waiting to pounce on some fresh meat?
This story contains Dungeon Core elements such as dungeon construction and defense, LitRPG/GameLit mechanics such as character progression and stats, and contains NO harems/sexual content or profanity.
Frozen Time eBook is free 9/30 - 10/2!
To celebrate the release of Corrupted Time, the first eBook -- Frozen Time -- is now free on amazon from 9/30 to 10/2!
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B23Z3DKJ
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B23Z3DKJ
A Dungeon Core stuck in time, and a Fox just trying to save her family….
Throughout the Kingdom, Defenders constantly fight against incursions of dungeon monsters rampaging over the border the Kingdom shares with the Wildlands. To keep the danger to their citizens low, they periodically sweep through these untamed areas filled with natural beasts and roaming dungeon monsters, destroying as many Dungeon Cores as they can find.
Tempara was practically a newborn when Defenders from the Kingdom snatched her away, only to be forced to watch in horror as tragedy fell upon the rest of her pack. Then, against her will, the Greater Temporal Fox kit was forced to bond with a Defender and become their familiar; soon after, she and her new master were sent to destroy a Dungeon Core in the Frozen Reaches, an area of the Wildlands located far to the north of the Kingdom. Sadly for them both, an unfortunate accident gained them their untimely deaths… but the young Greater Temporal Fox gained an opportunity, as well.
With her untethered soul somehow sent back in time, Tempara now has the chance to save her pack from the horrendous tragedy that would befall them in just a few short weeks. But first, she has to figure what a Dungeon Core is and why, oh why, did she just become one….
This story contains Dungeon Core elements such as dungeon construction and defense, LitRPG/GameLit mechanics such as character progression and stats, and contains NO harems/sexual content or profanity.
