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Announcement - Pause Patreon billing
🕑 Added 2025-08-16 07:45:47 +0000 UTCHi, hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been OK. Nothing to worry about. To make it brief, I’m going to pause billing on Patreon for a little less than a month (after the next chapter on Monday) to finish editing book 3. But since no one can expect a writer to be brief, you can read the full details below :)
The plan was to edit book 3 in bits and pieces, while also writing new chapters. Maybe put out some shorter chapters (which never really worked out). I’ve made decent progress, but it’s been less than I would have liked. At my current pace, it’ll take me another six months to finish editing it how I like—which is not really viable (for me or my publisher XD)
It’s the longest one by far (93 chapters) and even only spending a couple hours per chapter (and it’s often more), it’ll take another ~130 hours of work for the remaining part. With my track record on estimates, I dare say it’s probably going to be longer ¯\\(ツ)/¯
Having book 3 hanging over me has also been causing me a silly amount of anxiety. And I realized, I’ve been doing the same thing I did last summer: trying to grasp everything, only to end up burning myself out and taking longer to recover.
I don’t want to repeat that experience. The only other solution would be to cut corners on new chapters or the editing of book 3. Blame my perfectionism, but I can settle for good enough, when I know I can deliver something better with a little more time.
It scares me to take a break, but I’ve realized the most sensible solution is to pause Patreon on billing for a month (any subscription that gets renewed during the month won’t be charged). So, I can get book 3 out of my mind and come back ready to charge through book 5.
For how Patreon works, it only works to pause the billing in one-month increments. It also won’t allow anyone new to subscribe for that period. I’ll pause the billing tomorrow (till September 16th) in case anyone wants to read the chapters ahead. Anyone currently subscribed at that time won’t get charged for the following month.
ALSO, if you've ideas for book 3 title lemme know. For those who don't remember, book 3 goes from after the pirate raid on Sylspring to when Kai gets trapped in the Hidden Sanctuary. Also, the previous titles were:
Book 1: Elydes - A New Dawn
Book 2: Elydes - Tides of Change
I know, they're a bit basic, but that's what my publisher said would sell best. The first three books are the archipelago arc. I'll wait to read your ideas in the comments!
Okay, that’s everything! Hope y’all be doing well :)
Thank you for all the patience and support <3
Next chapter will be on this Monday August 18th, then the one after on Monday September 15th.
Comments
Brianna Stormcloud
If it's not too late what about 'Hidden Presence' it can apply to Kai, Hobbes and Zervathi and the hidden sanctuary. Others I played with were: Winds of Adversity, Veiled Aurora, and Echoes of History
Jeremy Stohl
Elydes 3: Spacial Boogaloo ......
Epeen
Ah crap i cant sub to read past the Royal road chapter. Bad fate score for me
Charles Simon
Was there going to be one more chapter yesterday?
Martingrant91
I kinda like this one and kinda don't. Elydes 3: Stepping through the Veil.
lunatimecast
It’s simple but how about ‘Hidden Sanctuary’ after all a good portion of the novel is in the buried temple, which could be mistaken for the actual hidden sanctuary until the end when bam… the actual hidden sanctuary
Andrew Logan
Book 3 The lost God
Marouane Kahlouche
the sails of destiny
