So I’ve done something I didn’t think I’d do….I unpublished a series. I just went into KDP and took them all down, so if you already own them you’ll still get to keep them, but they won’t be showing up on amazon after tomorrow.
The series I took down was my litRPG series, The Hub World. I had three of them out, and I think I made the right choice.
I didn’t take them down because they were bad, but they weren’t amazing either. They were just okay. I can say this after a year of reflection, and writing five books. That’s right, I have two more books in the series that I have almost finished and they are just sitting here. Waiting.
The problem is the books I started writing aren’t the same as what I’m writing now. Or I should say my knowledge of that world isn’t the same. I know more about the mechanics, the people, the creatures, and the gods of this world. So much more of the lore. Even just knowing WHY the two main characters are there, and what they hope to accomplish, is enough to change everything about the first few books.
When I first started the series I just set out to have a little fun. I’m a gamer, so it wasn’t hard to write a story about people playing a game, and inserting some of the history of gaming into the setting. But I’m also a world builder, and I didn’t do a lot of that in the first two books. I added more in the third book but who wants to wait till the third book before they start to get invested in a world?
So…it was okay. I told a complete story, the characters had some good banter, and there was a conclusion. But the world wasn’t deep enough, and that means the books just aren’t good enough to make them worth continuing.
So here’s the plan. I know this world better, so I’m going to rewrite the first three books, finish books 4 and 5, and release them all once I’m done. If I do this right I’m hoping I can get them all done and start releasing one a month for a while.
I am finishing up The Half Blood Sorceress, book 2, right now. I want to have that out by the beginning of April. Then I start on a much needed overhaul of The Hub World Series.
I’m going to do this right. I love litRPG. I want something to be proud of.
So, look forward to Dragon’s Blood by April, and a new, better, litRPG series coming soon.
I did finish the rewrite of “Witch’s Sacrifice.” The couple of chapters that made Artiro look like an idiot had to be redone so that it made more sense. Did that, it works. just rereading it all and then I will upload the new version this weekend. Very little has actually changed, I just adjusted who was where at what time and everything worked out a lot better. He doesn’t seem like an idiot, and the fact that he, as a merman, is effected heavily by the ocean is more apparent.
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