Hi! I have a cool bonus for you today, but first a word from my sponsor: existential dread.

In the game Frostpunk, you see the expected future temperature and at one point there's a looming extended period of unsurvivable temps. All you can do is prepare, launch the robots, and pray you survive.

Where I live, that time is approaching (Meltpunk?), ten times worse than the previous heat dome... so I'm cutting short my post-book break. I am going to watch The Odyssey today (I love documentaries) and tomorrow I'm going to write write write. I hope to get two chapters out before the worst of the heat kicks in.

The plan for the next couple of weeks is to publish basically whenever a chapter is done, instead of waiting for the next Monday or Friday. If it gets too horrible I might smash out some bonus stuff instead of writing. Please bear with me, and yes I have heard of air conditioning.

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THE BONUS CONTENT!!!

The pitch: What if Max Best was sucked into the world of The Wandering Inn?

One man had the idea and turned it into a fully self-contained story that you can read TODAY! redteam0811 from the Discord brings us the crossover event you never knew you needed but are so glad you read.

What is Player Manager?

That's the story you're reading now. The one with Max Best and Emma and UEFA coefficients.

What is The Wandering Inn?

It's one of the most famous progression fantasies. My wife had a phase where she wanted to read loads and I said, 'Try Wandering Inn, I think it's about a woman who runs an inn that walks around on big legs. Cosy fantasy, sort of thing.' A week later I tried to talk to her and she shushed me, then ten minutes later sighed and relaxed. 'What's going on?' I said. 'Another zombie battle,' she said.

Do I need to know Wandering Inn to enjoy this?

Not really. I haven't read it but I still enjoyed reading this. It's very much Max being Max and it builds to a very Player Manager-esque match scene that actually got me a tiny bit emotional.

redteam0811 is working on a project and when it's ready to read, I'll defo link to it.

Where is Player Wanderer?

You should see two attachments in this post. One's a doc file, the other's a PDF.

Enjoy, and see you very soon for the first book in the new series!