The Backup Plan (Patreon)

First of all, thank you all for putting up with me and for reading my work.

It still feels slightly surreal that people are willing to pay money to read my stories—or even read them at all, leave comments, and follow along as these strange little projects grow into something much larger than I ever expected. I am genuinely grateful for that.

Up until now, I have always tried to write something at least vaguely original. Something a little different. Something that scratched a very particular itch in my own brain.

Writing Seraphina, however, has taught me a valuable lesson about appealing to a broader market [people want OP out the gate].

With that in mind, I am considering working with a friend on a new series designed, very deliberately, to help fund my other passion projects. That means swallowing a bit of pride and going all in on something more commercially minded. A story that leans harder into familiar tropes, clearer wish fulfillment, and the kind of structure readers already know they enjoy.

Honestly, I probably should have learned that lesson earlier instead of constantly shackling myself with the need to make everything a little strange. Gilgamesh probably could have been much more popular if I had simply made him a good person and had him fix the damn shrine at the beginning.

So, the idea at the moment is something along the lines of a competent male MC, good-aligned, from America, with a sympathetic and fashionably poor background. Might even throw in a sick family member for good measure. Nothing is set in stone yet. Right now, it is only a thought brewing in the back of my mind, and I probably will not begin serious work on it until Gilgamesh enters its final arcs in books 8-9 and Seraphina reaches roughly the midpoint.

It still feels a little like selling out.

But, at the same time, I think it may be a necessary step toward my goal of reaching $700 a month in writing income—the exact amount I would need to quit my day job and do this writing thing full time.

So, as always, thank you for reading, thank you for supporting me, and thank you for making it feel even remotely possible.