Messengers: July Content + Question (Patreon)

Quite a few things happening this month. HS3 is out mid-month, HS2 audiobook is out, I'll start on Demon's Throne 2, and there'll be a slew of updates for you.

The Patreon's still in the experimental phase for now, while I work out what sort of content to post and how much time to spend here (that part is really hard to work out given it's early days).

Exclusive content this month will likely come mid-month or later, due to the need to focus on HS3. Current plans are:

Another short story for Heretic Spellblade. I plan to put this to a vote.

Start a mini-serial in Demon's Throne (i.e. 3k-4k chapters a couple of times a month until done).

Editing Notes for HS3. This will include commentary for the chapters that I don't post here.

Characters post for Demon's Throne 2. This may get pushed into August.

A lore post of some sort (see below)

That's a fair bit, but a lot of these don't take too long and I figure building up Patreon content is better. Like I said, we're in an experimental phase for now. I'll tweak the content later, once/if things stabilize.

There'll be votes on the stories later in the month, before I start working on them. Again, let me know if you have any characters or events you want focused on (Ciana was brought up last time). Otherwise, I'll just put some together in the vote.

Finally, I have something to ask you.

While I do a lot of worldbuilding and the like in my books, it's fairly obvious that I also skip over a lot of the details. This is generally because I'm wary of how heavy some of the infodumps get - Demon's Throne was jam-packed full of this, and it brought out a lot of these complaints (can't make everybody happy). As a writer, there's always a balance I need to strike between explaining the underlying concepts of the world and letting the reader just flow through the story.

Fortunately, I don't need to care here. I can do write detailed explanations of how everything works, without worrying about dialogue pacing, infodumping etc. I've done this before (there are some gigantic lore documents for my older stuff lying around).

Tell me in the comments what you want to know more about from the books. The magic system is an obvious one, as is learning more about how binding stones work and how Bastions and Messengers interact with them, or the races of either book. If you're not interested in lore, that also helps.