Hello readers (old and new) - there's good news and bad news, and I like bad news first.
The Bad News:
Book Two of Realmwalker will be written rather slowly - too slowly to post. For various reasons (as I will mention below) these chapters will be written as a palette cleanser of sorts. I have been back and forth on whether to release the chapters as I write them, but I don't want to frustrate readers with an inconsistent Book Two release schedule.
The novel's reading cadence was never intended to fit the web-serial style and instead was meant more for a full read through. It was bad enough with the release schedule that I had for Book One, and I have decided to not repeat that travesty.
With that being said - it might be quite some time before I start posting chapters of Realmwalker again (maybe even over a year). However when I do start posting again, rest assured that it'll be because Book Two is completed and it'll be a daily release schedule.
The Good News:
Although Realmwalker is effectively on hiatus, I'll still be writing more than ever before. o/
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If you enjoy my writing style / story telling, then you might be interested to know that I am currently working on two writing projects (with many many more planned for later).
The first project is a standalone novel that falls in the sci-fi genre (marching into hell and carpet bombing demons). The other project is a time regression vrmmo-litrpg. Both of these will be written rather simultaneously and will be receiving the majority of my attention. However, only the litrpg will be going on Royalroad.
I'll briefly talk about some points on the litrpg below (we'll ignore the standalone novel for now since it won't be posted here).
The beginning of Realmwalker is centered around darker themes (with strong motions to avoid sexual violence but not always). I pulled my punches when writing some of the darker sections, but even with that some things had to be edited out.
I'm still not a good barometer to measure how dark/light-hearted the novel actually is, but if I had to guess then it would be 7/10 dark to 3/10 light-hearted (which is the intent). The new novel is more or less the inverse of that, sitting at around 7/10 light-hearted with 3/10 darker themes. (maybe even 8 to 2 would be closer).
The chapter release schedule would attempt to be daily for at least a couple of months, and it'll be written in a more web-serial style. Similarly to Book Two of Realmwalker, I won't be posting this novel until I have a healthy backlog stored, but I am aiming to debut this story around April 2025.
Thanks:
Thank you for having patience with me, and for reading up to this point!
If you enjoyed Book One, don't hesitate to rate and review it (even if it's just a few words of your thoughts, most appreciated).
If you would like an easy reminder for the litrpg, feel free to keep following Reamwalker as I will be posting a new announcement with a proper shameless ad here in April with its release.
See you until then!
- J. Adskiy