A new story set in the Immortality Curse universe will be coming to SOL, probably in March. This story follows Nora Smith, one of the minor characters in Phoenix Rising: The Immortality Curse. She becomes more important to the later stories, and so I wanted to spend some time thinking about her as a character. However, I also wanted to delve into the world of AI non-player characters in the Phoenix Rising game.
So, rather than telling the story from Nora's perspective, the story is told by Nora's meta mind, the part of the AI responsible for figuring out what Nora's back story, so she can live her life just in time for it to be ready for her interactions with the players. This is by far the most interesting science fiction I've written.
An early draft was posted to patrons over on my pPatreon, which can be reached from immortalitycurse.com.
There's a lot more to come. I'm in the middle of finalizing the second ebook in the universe; that book includes the rest of the content from the story already published here. A third book is done with content editing, and ready for final details like adding character sheets and the like. That's all new content, and it's great to see how much my writing has matured. That book will eventually come to SOL, but it will be released as an ebook first. Unfortunately, looking at how ebook marketing works, I think that to expand my readership beyond SOL, I do need to give Amazon an exclusive, at least for a time. I'm not pleased with that necessity, but it's the only way to make content available for free on Amazon, and the regretable truth is that many readers are much more willing to take a chance on something free than on something they have to pay for. I do promise that the book will make its way to SOL (and Bookapy) eventually, and I will be bringing the Nora Smith novella here first as a thank you for the community that has helped me get started.
Beyond that, I've had a lot of great progress working on as yet unfinished content. I managed to write 50,000 words since December 19, which is great for me given the other commitments in my life.