First Story Captain’s report: We have arrived at Leomara, a long-term Pantheon trading partner whose culture is made up of a huge number of large islands. After several expected Leomara trading vessels didn’t arrive in Mytertown, the Phoenix was sent to investigate. Sailing into the port city closest to the arrival portal, Captain Baxtor saw […]
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Endless Seas: Dead Portals
First story Captain’s report: We have been dispatched to Portal-178, located ten days sail outside of Pantheon territory. The scout ship sent to investigate it determined it to be a dead portal, with dry land on the other side. While scouting through the portal, they made an astounding discovery and we’ve been ordered to assist […]
Endless Seas: Mutiny on the Wyvern
First story Captain’s report: We have been dispatched to Hollowmound, a virgin culture without any worship of gods. The Pantheon ship ‘Wyvern’ has stopped sending reports after being dispatched to prepare the culture for a missionary expedition. Our instructions are to investigate, recover the ship, and save her crew or determine what happened to them. […]
Writers Who Stop Writing
There’s a vast horde of people who desperately want to become writers. They’ll dream about it, read advice books, and badger published authors for tips. If such people ever achieved success as an author, you’d expect that they’d spend their days writing in a bliss-filled reverie. Instead, you find that at every step, people drop […]
Endless Seas: The Ghost in the Darkness
First story Captain’s report: We have arrived on World-42, an uninhabited ocean world claimed by the Pantheon. A pilot project built an underwater mining installation here. It was successfully shipping ore until recently when they sent a distress report detailing attacks from some sort of monstrous creature. Following the detailed navigation chart, the Phoenix […]
The ‘Game of Thrones’ method of Complex Character Creation
About a year ago an interesting post on Reddit promised a way to “make your character complex, realistic, and three dimensional, simply by writing down two things that they want.” This was posted in /r/rpg and was intended for people making characters in games like Dungeons and Dragons. The idea was interesting and struck me […]
Endless Seas: The Hand That Feeds
First story Captain’s report: While docked at the main port of the Tares, a remote, Pantheon trading partner, we have the opportunity to provide shore leave to the crew. It has proven to be a welcome respite from the weeks at sea and the uncertain reception from cultures outside of the Pantheon. With a stocked […]
Endless Seas: Waits For No Man
First story Captain’s report: Sailing through contested waters, we are headed to the free port of Koto for repairs to the keel damage sustained meeting the El-Fax. Our lookout has sighted a Gegmun sloop, which has moved to intercept us. Although the small vessel is no threat to an Inquisition class ship like the Phoenix, […]
Friendship Magician
I’ve released my next book, Friendship Magician. This is the sequel to my cozy urban fantasy book Merchant Magician. Self-exiled from her family of traders in mystical goods and services on her 23rd birthday, the Friendship Magician must make her way in the world: meeting a Scandinavian werewolf, a business-minded minotaur, an air elemental with a […]
The Importance Of “Slack Time” In A Job
There’s a “polite fiction” with employment that every employee is working as hard as they’re capable of. Perhaps the other side of this is that employers are paying employees as much as possible. A steady stream of Quora questions ask some variation of an employer considering firing their most productive employee who gets work done […]