Hey everyone,

I’ve not been communicating well, and that needs to improve. I’ve had weekly reminders set for years now to post to the site, I’ve just gotten so used to ignoring them. I have been actually doing a fair bit of things for my writing projects over the past month, and I’m ready to start talking about it now… No excuses this time, now onto the update!

Artwork for The Sage of Hytrae trilogy is prepared! I still need to work it into cover art, I’ll post some sneak peeks here soon once I get things roughed in a little better (I am planning on spending time the next few days actually working on this so by soon I mean weeks not months or years…). I failed to find or keep interested artists in making commissioned art, so I went with getting the base art from an AI (which has improved drastically over the last 12 months), and making changes to them personally (I just have to get better at all of it I suppose). I am excited to share them soon!

So, some branding information to share. As I have mentioned, there is a new series on the way. I’ve been trying to figure out how to communicate that these are all connected to a broader story. Doing that without making word soup that someone has to swim through to understand is hard. Especially when, they are approaching the books for the first time. So, the broader collection of books will be simply called the: Hytrae Collection, and each series will be a volume in that. The first volume is The sage of Hytrae (books 1,2,&3), the second volume will be the new series (which I’m still calling Visions of Darkness, only dropping the prefix that I had previously announced as it felt like it was part of the word soup…) and in addition I’m reverting back to my original plan of this collection being a trilogy of trilogies, at least initially. Lots of promises here, not a lot of results, lets hope I’m a bit more reliable now.

The first book in the Visions of Darkness series/trilogy (The Vaults of Belin), is about halfway written, and it also has it’s base cover art drawn up. My current projection is to at minimum get it out by the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Seal’s release next year, if not sooner. Lofty goals to be sure, but I’m scheduling time this year, so it has to happen, I’m not getting any younger!

In conclusion (TLDR) the plan for this year is: Over the next month or so getting the new cover art and branding into the demo phase, getting those updates adjusted and released by end of summer. Vaults of Belin releasing this winter (early spring of 2025 at the latest). More regular updates here on the site. And finally work on book 2 in the Visions of Darkness series/trilogy entering the full writing phase.

Let’s hope I can keep up the momentum, as always may God bless you and keep you!