NOVEL NEXT Headmaster Draeth’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT Announcement #1
To all Practitioners of the Inexact Arts, Emotional Maladapts, and Politically Adept Flame-Kissers,
As this chronicle limps toward the conclusion of its first tome—Flamus help us all—I have been forced, against my better judgment and with only moderate internal screaming, to make a structural decision regarding what comes next.
Book Two, as some of you have pestered me about, shall indeed proceed. However, to prevent the well-documented calamities of multi-POV storytelling (i.e., the Skimming of the Unfavored Chapters, the Impatience of the Uninvested, and the legendary Why Are We Still in Chaddeus's Head Syndrome), I have elected to split the narrative.
Yes, split. Into two books.
Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally Incompetent shall return—rejoice, you Fabrisse sympathizers, scrimshaw collectors, and neurospicy gremlin enthusiasts. Expect new chapters coming September or October, barring dimensional collapse.
But lo! A second path opens.
Enter: Advanced Thaumaturgy for the Politically Inclined, a companion narrative seen through the eyes (and scathing internal monologue) of none other than Severa Montreal.
I hear some of you groan. You'll live. Probably. This book will also be a LitRPG, and you are encouraged—no, dared—to speculate why. Go on. I'll wait.
Both books will operate in parallel. You may read either independently, but each will illuminate the other. They will fit together like mirrored ritual seals—self-contained, but subtly resonant. You are trusted to be clever enough to enjoy both, but not punished if you are not.
As for Patrons: those among you who have chosen to sacrifice coin for lore shall receive the first 60 chapters of Severa's perspective alongside your regular releases. For Severa, moral excellence is hardly a requirement. Indeed, she may be intolerable, even a deranged villain of the purest stripe. Yet if wrought with precision, she commands attention. There are always those who favor a malign protagonist. Let us permit the spectacle to unfold.
The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
Sixty chapters. Consider it a bribe. Or a warning. Whichever suits your disposition.
My goal, deluded as it may be, remains: to craft a universe layered, tangled, and absurdly overengineered, where every book casts a different shadow upon the same magical ground.
Now return to your sigils. Both of them.
And be wary: she's been watching you all along.
Yours in aetheric exhaustion,
– Draeth
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Translate: Now that the Patreon is on its way to concluding the first book, I have decided that the best way forward for Book 2 is to proceed with a parallel plotline. However, to avoid the common pitfalls of a multi-POV book (like having chapters from the POV that some couldn't care less about), I've decided I will be separating the two POVs into two separate books that can be read separately. They will provide insight into each other, but one POV won't become utterly incomprehensible if you don't understand the other. Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally Incompetent will basically continue with Book 2 around September or October at this rate, in Fabrisse's POV. After much deliberation, the other POV will be Severa Montreal's, tentatively titled: Advanced Thaumaturgy for the Politically Inclined. It will ALSO be a LitRPG. Feel free to speculate on why :D It's been my goal to craft as rich a universe as possible for this world, and every subsequent book I release will be more or less tied to the original story. Current Patrons on Patreon will receive the first advanced 60 chapters of Severa's POV book on top of current releases so you can decide whether it is for you :) So basically 60 chapters worth of freebies. I know some of you might not like Severa yet, but I hope there'll be plenty of reasons to warm up to her once you get inside her head. Actually, she doesn't even have to be good. She can be insufferable and an actual maniacal villain, as long as she's well-crafted. Some people like evil MCs. Let's see what happens. Thank you for your time. |