Howdy. To all who loved and hated this book or who regarded it with a sense of wild mediocrity, I have met with an editor and decided to actually go ahead and slowly proceed with the processing of getting my books published. I AM NOT DOING THIS FOR MONEY. I have a job that pays me well and am living within my means. I am doing this for the creative exercise thereof. It will probably be up on amazon for a buck or put into the Kindle Unlimited section so people can binge my stuff if they like it. I am not defendant at all on sales of my book. If you want to buy it, then go ahead. If you want to leave a solid review when its up, please leave an honest one.

NOTE - inspiration for this book was originally engendered from a fever dream and parts of how our MC gained his powers came from the beloved Daniel Black series by William E. Brown. TO BE CLEAR, I reworked the entire first half of the first book and subsequent drafts to make sure that I did not do any sort of copyright infringement. I came up with a new method for how the MC gained his powers although the larger story points remain the same.

Current time - I have commissioned a company to make the front cover of the book as well as some concept art. It's pretty badass so far, and I had to laugh as the first drafts of the art were of Gungnir (the tri-tipped spear) and of the MC holding Gungnir. The spear itself looks pretty damn cool, better than what I had in my head. On the other hand, I laughed because the MC looked like some dude of a GQ magazine instead of someone barely surviving an apocalypse. My feedback has been given and they're moving ahead with grungy-ing up the visage of our beloved sorcerer. I have also engaged the services of an editor to check my work for holes, misspellings, and other continuity issues. I will be removing my work from royalroad as I continue this process. Note, for those who hated where I left off, I really did write myself into a hole. I'm either going to completely rewrite the last 40ish pages or pull some sort of "Merlin/WildMagik" switcheroo to make the MC go back in time or repeat that event so the assault on the undead fortress actually happens. Maybe it would keep with Merlin being Bonzo nuts. That part is still up in the air for me.

Future time - I am also working on another series, a LITRPG series with two potential titles (Summoned to War or The War of Eternity). For those who have read the 'Reborn Apocalypse' by L.M. Kerr, you will see some similar elements. I can't recommend that series enough. I will post it to RoyalRoad when I have the first series completely taken care.

Personal life - wow, my wife had twins. My life is kinda nuts. Suddenly I have almost no time like I used to and now I'm keeping small humans alive. Also, we're moving at some point this year and that process has been kicked off.

Thank yous - for everyone who loved my book and gave solid freaking feedback and fixed my shit, thank you. You all are the best and I wish nothing but the best for you.

Regrets - For those who left godawful feedback (not the constructive kind), yikes man. wish you a better life than the one you're living. I wish I had realized on a personal level that some feedback I would just have to let roll off my back. It is part of why I stopped posting so much here, that along with life continuing on.

Anyways, best of luck!