《HUD: Wargame (Sci-Fi GameLit)》*~ANNOUNCEMENT!~*
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Well, it's been a long road to this announcement. I basically fell off the face of this platform for a while. But I return with some exciting news! HUD: Wargame, the first book in the HUD series of novels, was picked up by Aethon Books last year. As of this past weekend, it's officially published on YONDER! You can still read the first few chapters for free here as well.
Moving forward, chapters of the next HUD installment will be posted here on Royal Road when they're ready. Past readers may remember I posted a few chapters of the second book before I got the exciting news. I'm here to say that I'm rewriting those due to a huge plot hole that I couldn't adequately address after the fact. Suffice it to say that proxybot combat will be making a comeback, but more conventional warfare is still on its way. Stay tuned!
I want to thank all my readers and the people who followed along with HUD's original posting. If you'd like to read the story again on Yonder, the first few chapters are free, and you can also read one free chapter a day beyond that. You can buy access to the polished, edited HUD: Wargame chapters on Yonder if you want to support the story in that way. Any engagement helps support HUD and helps to bring you more HUD in the future, so reading and commenting on the free content is also a huge (free) help!
For now, I'm hard at work on Book 2 (of 5) and I can't wait to share it with you here. Stay tuned and I'll see you again soon with some more content! Thanks for reading!
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