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(Podium Publishing is offering a TWI-embossed frying pan giveaway for people pre-ordering Book 3 on Audible! Sign up for the competition here!)   Among other things happening that week, Grand Magus Eldavin formally led the censure of the Revivalist party in Wistram, in the process co-opting the loyalties of nearly two-dozen powerful [Mages] in Wistram […]

Sound. A quiet sound was playing. Cara watched. This had all the hallmarks of a real story from Earth. A gentle song, without vocals, somehow managing to be uplifting and sad. The half-Elf was the narrator. Sometimes he walked through the scenes playing on the orbs, other times playing the omniscient narrator. His spells conjured […]

(Enuryn the [Naturalist] has opened an online store and you can now commission him to make amazing arts here! https://enuryndraws.art/)   The act of welcoming someone else into your home was a gesture with as much possibility and nuance as any other event that might occur in a social engagement. Not that overthought was always […]

(Iron Prince by Bryce O’Conner and Luke Chmilenko has just been released as an audiobook! Also by Podium; consider giving it a try if you’re out of chapters of The Wandering Inn!)   When he first arrived here, he thought it was a glorious adventure. Of course, he’d been confused, scared, intimidated by a world […]

Rebecca Brewer, the editor who worked on 8.11 E, has done a Q&A on the Discord server! Read the transcript here. Also, she has done an interview with The Fantasy Inn! Click here to read it!  (The author is on break until March 30th for Patrons! April 3rd for Public readers.)     “If you’ve […]

On Sunday, 6 PM EST, Rebecca Brewer, the editor who worked on 8.11 E will be doing a Q&A in the #publishing channel on the Discord server! Join here if you want to watch or participate! Also, she has done an interview with The Fantasy Inn! Click here to read it!   That she could […]

(Trigger Warning. Click here for details.)   “You should have taken my hand.” He heard it again. Again, and again as he fell. Sinking into the depths. Something denser, deeper, darker than the waters engulfing him. Things in the murk, tugging at him. Whispering. On the Summer Solstice, Luan Khumalo met a stranger. He was […]

The old man who sat in a chair in his illustrious quarters was called Eldavin. Or Teriarch. But no one knew that other name. He looked like a half-Elf, although a paragon of one, almost suspiciously flawless from his height to his physique. One would suspect illusion spells, and they would be half-right. Because he […]

…And then she woke up. The young woman opened her eyes. Erin Solstice sat up in her bed, in her bedroom, in her home with the familiar, bleak skies of winter slowly giving way to spring. The faint sounds of a furnace, the glowing, bright lights of her digital alarm clock were the only disturbances […]

The Wandering Inn is going to be working with editors and holding a contest for paid, professional editors to apply! Please spread the word and find out more details here! Also, the author is on break until March 6th, March 16th for Public readers! See latest announcement for reasons for the delay.     Tkrn […]

The Wandering Inn is going to be working with editors and holding a contest for paid, professional editors to apply! Please spread the word and find out more details here!   The great king raised his hand and spoke a single word. “Advance.” Legions moved. Tens of thousands of bodies, pouring forwards across the ground, […]

(Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is coming out on audible! Click the link here to preorder it! Spread the word!)   It was still war. It was always war. And now—in the thick of the third war in as many months, they were beginning to remember. King of Destruction. He had […]

(Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is coming out on audible! Click the link here to preorder it! Spread the word!)   “…another defeat for the Dawn Concordat today, after a night-battle we were unable to broadcast. Details are still coming in, but the facts are the facts, isn’t that right, Miss […]

(Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is coming out on audible! Click the link here to preorder it! Spread the word!)   The first nation threatened by the kingdom of Ailendamus was Kaliv. The northern-most member of the Dawn Concordat occupied the rocky highlands, even ‘smaller’ mountains and passes leading north. As […]

(Trigger Warning. Click here for details.)   Wall Lord Ilvriss collapsed during a routine inspection of Mining Shaft #4 currently in the possession of the Gemscale family of Salazsar. It was, to all present, sudden. One second he was upright, frowning over the adamantine ore recently discovered in this valuable seam. He put a claw […]

(The author is on their monthly break until February 6th for Patreons, February 9th for Public readers!)   As the cargo ship approached Wistram Academy, it burst into the sun. It had been raining but a moment ago; now, the [Sailors] relaxed and cheered. They had arrived. And what a long voyage it had been! […]

Paradise on earth. Utopia. Few existed on earth. Fewer still in the air or under sea. Also, paradise for whom was the question. If you meant ‘some people’, you could call some nations ‘paradises’ for the elite. For all was harder. And even then, the word generally only meant a place where people were free […]

Humans. Why Humans? That was what they had said, at first. The group that knew the truth of worlds, or at least, part of it. The Gnolls of Liscor, that was. Because they had known for a while. Not all of them, but the older ones. The ones who didn’t talk about the vast secret. […]

The Great Plains of Izril, as they were called, were central to the southern half of Izril. A vast, wide, rolling landscape suitable for grazing flocks, fed by rivers—lush, in short. A plentiful land if you knew how to live in it. Harsh for those who did not. The lack of fruitful forests and vegetation […]

(One of The Wandering Inn’s readers, delta201, has written and published their own story in the same genre on Amazon! Check it out here if you want to read their story and congratulations!)   They were moving out. Not that it was unusual; an inn had few permanent guests. But it was unusual in this […]

(Andrea Parsneau, MouthyMaven, will be live-recording Book 3 of The Wandering Inn on her Discord server! Be sure to join the server if you’d like to listen!)   Three days after the Summer Solstice, there was life. A heart began to beat. A body stirred. In the city of Liscor, there was life where there […]

The world shifted. The hilltop of gentle grass, the stone gateways—changed. Not disappeared. They blended into another form. A truer form? No. Just a different perspective. The flowers were swords. And the hilltop was barren. Just dirt. Dust. A substance that was less than either. A powder of the end of the world. On the […]

She walked out of the forest with Nama. Behind her, the wind howled. The blizzard was beyond anything Ryoka had ever seen or could ask the wind to be. A storm that would herald the end of other worlds. An ice age in itself. She left it behind her. Sheltered by her strange protector she’d […]

And she was back. Nama spoke, insistently. “Remember what you saw. That’s it. Back. Back and back and…there you are.” Ryoka stood on the ground of the dirt road. Behind her, the forest lay, perfectly tree-like. No vast world-roots, though. Just trees. Sixty feet high, maybe. The city lay ahead of her, more like a […]