Hello! It's time to properly introduce myself to the writeblr community. You can call me KC if you want. I am a full time specialist as my local library system and I have a Master of Letters in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow. For now, this is my writing website, until an agent/editor tells me to build a WordPress or something. (I honestly hate traditional blogs. Weird quirk, don't know why. Also, links are underlined). If I get tagged in things, I will do my best to respond to them and share it forward.
Published Works- This includes my self-published 5e adventure and the two anthologies that include my stories. It will be updated and kept current as this develops.
Works in Progress- The main projects that I've been bouncing back and forth between. Most are world-oriented, meaning they have numerous interconnected stories within a single world.
Where to Find Me: Some of my other internet homes, including World Anvil, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook.
More Details Below...
Here are some more details on the different things I linked above:
Published Works
"Sofia Serrento's Flying Circus and the Sky Pirates of Shanghai" is published in the anthology Hell Hath No Fury: New Pulp Heroines. It's a New Pulp story set in 1930s Shanghai, featuring Sofia Serrento and her all-women aero-circus/spy ring.
"The God-Kings' Tomb" is published in the anthology Futures That Never Were, an anthology of original sword & planet short stories. This one is in the same universe as Sofia Serrento, so the two stories are... technically connected. This one involves an SOE advisor specializing in the occult and arcane who finds herself transported to a different planet in the solar system.
Siege at Oasis Butte is a standalone 5e adventure published through the DM's Guild featuring a desert town under siege by mercenaries with mysterious motivations.
Works In Progress
Iron Horizons/The Pilgrim's War: This was a NaNoWriMo novel from a few years ago that has since... grown. I've been calling it a Dieselpunk space opera, but alternate history/retrofuturism is also apt. Basically, humanity rapidly developed space flight in the 1920s based on some MacGuffin physics nonsense leading to the second world war happening on a solar system level using extensions of 30s aesthetics. Pilgrim's War is set roughly 400 years after that war ended, with the extensive resources from space maintaining the colonialist expansion into the stars and focuses primarily on a sort of... War of 1812 situation between a well-established independent government and their recently independent colonies.
The Centurion Club: My published short stories are set in this universe. Ironically, this is also an alternate history. It's the primary setting for my "New Pulp" fiction. It's mostly short fiction, with some longer projects in the brainstorming phase, and it focuses on the fictionalized city of Weymouth in New England and the members of the illustrious Centurion Club, a scientific society for explorers, scientists, freedom fighters, reformers, and others who push the boundaries of human society. Beyond that, a sword and sorcery setting in Mesolithic Doggerland, some privateers/mercenaries in the 17th/18th centuries, and a contemporary CGIS special agent in a Clive Cussler vein, plus a great many vigilantes and adventurers in the 1930s.
Sigil of the Sea King: A heroic fantasy which, also a NaNoWriMo project, is self-indulgence, where I throw together everything I've really enjoyed but could never fit in elsewhere. So there's an island kingdom ruled by merchant sea princes, flying air whales, nomads whose wagons are pulled by sails, cozy Forest Folk, a lone surviving heir to a crumbled kingdom, and lots of influence from Georgian/Armenian/Caucasian culture, mythology, and history.
Flintlock Fantasy: This is just the earliest stages of development, mostly just simmering, but somewhat Napoleonic secondary fantasy world. The main character is an elf named Lark, and I think she's sort of a janissary-type sent to work covertly in a border region between two empires.
Random, Personal Information
You may have once known me as NovelistSpaceRanger, but that was like 8 years ago.
I'm a certified open-water diver and I'm working on my advanced open-water diver later this summer.
Also a whitewater rafter, backpacker, mediocre yogi, and rock climber.
I've been to 14 countries and spent a year and a half living in Europe.
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@kckramer said: This will sound awful, but I have yet to figure out the reward tracks ๐
Looool it took me forever too at first, but it's actually pretty simple. Hope you don't mind me pulling your reply to make a quick guide for anyone who needs it!
You access it with shift+i or you can go here on the menu:
You'll then have a track that looks like this with levels 1-100:
This is completed but while you're working on it you'll have a bar to show your progress like this, and when the bar is full the "claim" button will be able for you to click. It will be greyed out like above after you claim your reward.
Unlike SWTOR where you have to do specific tasks/quests/etc. you can do anything in LotRO as long as it offers Legendary Item Experience, the stuff that used to level up your Legendary Weapon in the old system. Quests that offer it will have this in the rewards section:
You do have to complete the Moria intro to gain access to the Legendary Items Reward track, but afterward just about every quest will count since almost all offer Legendary Item Experience.
I don't usually finish the track as a casual solo player + being grown-up with a full time job (who is also often trying to do SWTOR's seasons too) but I imagine if you play regularly it shouldn't be too hard.
(On mobile so sorry for lack of copying questions)
3, 5, and 8
Q: did you achieve everything you wanted to this year?
A: in 2023, not nearly as much as I wanted, no. But, I adjusted to college and managed to not completely fall off the writing bridge/tracks, so, I'll take it. Internalized capitalism is bad, I don't recommend it.
Q: what is your favourite book/story/poem you read this year?
A: I haven't had time to read not fan fiction until, basically, now... so, The World is Made Wrong (TURN + original work) by @musicboxmemories.
Q: what are three things you're looking forward to next year?
A: More time to read (not fan fiction), more time to write, and just being better adjusted to the college thing.
Youโre writing a flintlock fantasy too?? How has that process been for for you?
Oh, I've got like five different ideas for actual stories and have put more than a hundred words down on absolutely none of them - I mostly just really enjoy messing around with worldbuilding and the early modern period's what I'm most familiar with/interested in?
Will get back to you on process if I ever reach the 'outlining a story' phase.
