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2026-06-26 14:02:02
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2026-10

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Hey guys! I still get a little trickle of new people showing up and asking questions about the series. I thought I could give a fresh update since some things have changed/become more clear.

The news will sound like a mixture of good and bad. The best news is that I've actually settled into a routine where I'm writing both my original genre (the romance/romantasy stuff that pays our bills) and lit RPG. I've found that writing my OG genre in the morning and lit RPG in the afternoon has been working great now for about 3 weeks, and I'm becoming increasingly confident this is something I can sustain long-term.

I know the news you guys probably want to hear is that I'm using that lit RPG time to write L1G, book 4. If you've been in the discord you may have seen me explain this in a little more depth, but I'm currently working on a new lit RPG series instead.

My thought is that I can't fix the rapidly diminishing number of people who seem to show up for each new book of L1G on Amazon by writing more books of L1G. In my mind, one of the best ways to give L1G a shot of growing is actually writing a fresh series. If it does well, I think there's a chance that people who discover me through this new series will wander into L1G and become excited for more.

Basically, I'm thinking that A) it's fun to try to learn from the mistakes I made in L1G and start fresh right now on something new and B) this is actually the highest leverage thing I can do to revive L1G a bit.

Question: I've got about 15,000 words of edited and ready-to-read content on the new series. I was thinking it could be fun to start sharing it with Patreon members to give you guys a first look and maybe get some early feedback before I put it on RR in a few weeks. Would any of you be interested in that? Kind of like a group beta read?



Comments

John

I’d like to read it

SkippyARC

Putting new series on Patreon is something a lot of authors do to get feedback. I would read a new fantasy series.

Radek Homola

Glad to hear you doing better and of course we want to read the new story 😄

Alex Wehr

I hear what you’re saying too Zach, I posted your books in a few litrpg pages on Facebook and unfortunately a good number of the people were saying that they were excited to read it but that because the genres becoming more popular, they wait to pick up a series until they have 4,5,6 books so they can binge them instead of waiting for more to constantly come out. It may be a challenge with the genre but I’ll check out your new works

Geekdumb

I would definitely be interested in checking it out

Preston Bowers

As long as you don't expect particularly insightful feedback from me I'm always happy to receive and ARC

MicA Sum

Count me in 🤗

Jason Dickstein

I loved L1G, so I expect that I will love your new series as well. And if the new series helps to eventually get you back to L1G then that is even better. Let us know what we can do to help!

Zachary Scott

Thanks, Alex. And yeah I can't blame people for that. I'm sure the list of authors who have to go on indefinite hiatus or outright scratch a series after 1-3 books is absolutely massive. Either way, I really appreciate you trying to post about it and get the word out. The good news is that it feels like the feedback on books 2 and 3 on Amazon is really positive. I may have just dropped the ball a little with book 1 on the content/title/cover or something. The good news is a new series doing well could overcome all of that. So... hopefully this one is a hit, haha.

Zachary Scott

Hahah, I mean even if I can just get a general vibe that it's clicking or not clicking for people, that helps. I think I usually prefer *not* to get super specific feedback because I'd rather try to fix things my own way. It's probably more helpful for someone to say... "I had to force myself not to skim chapter 5" than for them to try to diagnose why, if that makes sense.

Zachary Scott

Thanks! I was thinking if 2-3 people seemed interested I'd probably post it, so this is more than enough interest to motivate me. I think I'll probably start posting it later today or maybe tomorrow.

Paul Dore

Have you considered increasing the patreon teirs? You have hundreds of people paying $1 a month for no content. For myself, I'd happily pay anywhere from 5-10 depending on the frequency of posts and I probably am not alone

Zachary Scott

Haha, yeah! I appreciate that. And I was thinking when I officially launch this one on Patreon I'd go back to a kind of more normal Patreon structure. To be honest, the $1 was because that's the minimum Patreon let me set it to and I knew I was always hoping to come back and start posting again. But for now I think I won't mess with that until it's actually on Royal Road and I'm trying to attract some new members.

Preston Bowers

Fair enough, other than being catastrophically bad at skimming I am good for vibes

David

Dude whatever works for you! Gotta pay them bills

liketurtles

Thank you for making L1G I just found out you had patreon. I'll read the new RPG book your making but I know if I'll like it but I'll read it.

Ben Bass

Thank you for the update! I am a bit bummed to see that L1G is on hiatus, I really like the premise and the story is one I really like. I'll definitely follow your new stuff anyway, I hope it gets popular enough that you will restart L1G. I am glad to see that you have found a good rhythm for writing, that bodes well for putting out good content consistently.

Zachary Scott

Thanks, Ben! And yeah, the idea of pausing L1G bums me out, too. But it's all still in my head, so I'm looking at it as a pause that's hopefully temporary. With any luck, this new story might grab some fresh eyes and revive L1G a little bit.

Ssurrage

I was on RoyalRoad yearning for the next book of L1G to come back so I came here to see if there was any news. Seeing new recent chapters posted here filled me with so much excitement and joy, but after scrolling down and reading this it has all turned turbulent. L1G was really good so whatever else you're writing will probably be too...I'll add it to the already too long TBR I guess.

Zachary Scott

Thank you and sorry! Yeah, the honest truth is just that I found myself in a complicated position and haven't really figured out the best way to navigate it. I'm grateful that the romantasy stuff on my other pen name is showing so much potential and giving me a really viable path to making a legitimate writing career. But I'm also conflicted because I enjoy writing lit RPG and wanted to keep doing stuff in this genre. The catch has been that I've had trouble finding a way to consistently split my focus and work on both genres and in a way where I feel like I'm giving both stories my best creativity. At the moment, I've been having to treat lit RPG more like the thing I do when my day goes well and I have a lot of leftover energy to put into it. The idea was to use this new story to hopefully bring attention to my catalog and maybe revive L1G a little (the audience it found on Amazon was unfortunately not really encouraging). But my romantasy had its official print launch Tuesday and things on that front have been crazy so I've been more distracted than usual. Long story short: I still want to figure out a better solution and I'm not sure what the answer will be.

Ariel Casper

Love this series. I really really hope that your other series takes off and you find time to come back to this.

Kevin Brown

Im a little late to this but this is true for me also. I usually wait till 6 books are out cause I go through them so fast. But ive kinda got caught up so I gave your series a try. I really enjoyed it and was hoping book 4 was right around the corner. I can do 3 books in a week on audible I listen while I work. I know other people like that. Those of us who get into this kind of thing we like a lot of content cause we chew threw it so fast. Maybe a new book could help but it may also hurt. The same thing will happen with it most of us fast consumers will wait till book 4 5 6.

Brandon Fultz

Hate to post here but I just finished book 3 I found it on Amazon. I’ve been a long time LitRpg reader and honestly level one god is one of the better series I have ever started I’d put it right up there with awaken online and primal hunter for my personal taste I hope one day you do revive the series because I’ll be here ready to consume it

Zachary Scott

Thanks, man! I'm still around and keeping an eye on things. I really appreciate the kind words, too :) There has been a bit of a recent bump of interest on the audio versions of the series for the last few weeks which is really cool to see. I'm definitely not ever saying never on writing more, but it has been unfortunately tough to balance it for me. I'm hoping I'll hit a really smooth streak in my routine where I can write my romantasy to pay the bills in the mornings and start cranking out lit RPG in the afternoons. But for now, just keeping up with the romantasy side of things has been taking all the creative energy I have.

Matthew Newman

I got to honest with you. Artist should do as they feel led and if you don't want to continue writing Level One God you shouldn't. That being said, I hope you'll understand that as a consumer I will never read or pay for another sentence you write. I do not care if you tell a whole story in one book, a trilogy, a cycle, or a saga. You're an ass to start a story, get fans interested, then halfway though just decide it's boring, but maybe you'll start again in 4-5 years. Good luck to you, but especially good luck to you anyone who waste time and money on your books.

Zachary Scott

I think you misunderstood the reason I stopped writing L1G. I didn't just get bored. I worked on the series full time for close to two years and burned through what money we had saved up paying bills in the meantime. L1G brought in a little money, but not anywhere near enough to keep our lights on. So after book 3, I had to look realistically at what I would probably earn if I kept writing this series and how much it would cost to keep paying rent/bills/food etc for my family. It didn't even come close. And that's nobody's fault but my own. I'm not sharing that because I want people to go buy the series out of sympathy and turn it into a charity case. I'm sharing because I still love the series and wish I could continue it, but I had to make a hard decision about where to spend my time to make sure my family was still financially covered. Do I wish I could justify spending several hours a day working on the series again? Absolutely. Do I need currently need to spend those several hours writing something that earns enough to financially support my family? Unfortunately, yes. If that makes me an ass, I guess I'm an ass.