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Chapter 40 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Nicole gets into a heated argument over matters of right and wrong with Inorath, the monster from under the bed. The specific topic of discussion is the nature of Inorath's scientific research and lack of compunctions related to it.

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2026.04.17 —How far beyond the local home of your MC does your story extend?

Bolt flies back and forth all over the capital in Home City, to the Residency (aka The Palace) and the University district, the business district uptown, the Strand where the best restaurants, theatres, and people are, and Lowtown where she lives. Not the nicest neighborhoods. She also flies a dozen leagues west to the old suburbs abandoned 200 years ago thanks to population decline. Over the ruins and reforestation is a relatively private airspace to practice flying tandem. She'll soon visit the forests of the Wild twenty leagues southwest for a dangerous delivery. The interstellar gateways are nine leagues west of the city, and it's a point in the story that she's never seen one until one shows up Mid-City, and a gateway is a miracle you can't forget seeing. For her, it's …

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Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?

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(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson. A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes. In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible. (Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center. The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair. Upper right is a planet seen from orbit. Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow. Lower right is dandelions among grass. The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve. (Right Foreground) The following quote: He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards! He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage! (Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

2026.04.16 —If your MC lived in our world, would they have good financial credit?

Were Bolt, the day angel, to suddenly live in our world, she would be either a celebrity—because, well, that appearing-to-look-like-an-angel and her ability to fly might make her popular with a certain religious crowd—or hidden away and experimented on in Area 57, which would be unpleasant. The first option would likely leave her in a good financial position!

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The overlords of so called will never allow to replace wages when their creation destroys the jobs and lives of billions of people.

Its not just because they are greedy, motherfuckers who want to keep all the for themselves. What are they saving all that for anyway? ?

I think its actually because these motherfuckers truly believe that will allow them to merge their minds with their machines and transcend onto a higher plane of existence becoming silicon based beings living as gods in the / . (minus their legs obvs) Something like that anyway. Some of them seem to think the is the of the Bible now too. The rapture of the nerds === apparently.

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∆ 2026.04.15 — What's a smell that has featured in your work?

Remember, you asked…

There's a word. It's ubiquitous, which is the right word. Most of the world is extremely hot. Moreover, it is always always hot. The weather is not measured by temperature but by heat index, because it does rain and it does occasionally become quite humid, and that can be deadly. We'd consider it a climate disaster. For them? Not so much. So, ubiquitous?

Everybody sweats.

I've avoided describing the smell. I'm pretty sure it's not exactly "gym" or gym socks, and not exactly not "gym" or gym socks, but people-scents are unavoidable. People recognize others, for example friends and coworkers—their health, what they've eaten (vinegar, garlic, onion, fish broth), and who they've been with—without needing to see them to a degree that scent-assassin "cleanliness" and "sterilization" cultures in our …

2026.04.15 —Is your antagonist more optimistic or pessimistic? Why?

  • Pigeon the Pilferer thinks the world is crap and is always on the defensive. Pessimistic. Yet. In the novel, he lands his crush (male) in a way that's arguably romantic. Maybe. Still pessimistic, but less so.
  • Boss Mead, around 45, knows now he ought have not gone with the flow as he made his way in the world. It's hinted and not stated that's he is a well-fed well-cared for Golden Goose. He's both optimistic and pessimistic. He's wealthy, lives well, is a patron of the arts, but he is also trapped in a crime syndicate, maybe not of his own making, but it wouldn't exist without him. The upper crust consider him nouveau riche and he gets little respect for his good works despite is efforts. [Cue violins.]
  • Rainy Days… Well, if you think about it, she …

∆ 2026.04.14 — What's something that's going well with your creativity this month?

Well, I'm creeping up on those little things that are keeping me from completing chapters, so that's good. Could be better. A lot better…

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2026.04.14 —Do your MCs tend to run more optimistic or pessimistic about life? Why?

My MCs tend to be cynical and downtrodden, but overall their outlook hides a certain refreshing optimism. They wouldn't be striving as they do, without letting their feelings get in the way of their actions, if they weighed in as pessimistic. My current MC, Bolt, starts the story as apathetic to the point where she doesn't care whether she lives or dies, but once she becomes unwittingly involved in the world again, facing all sorts of dangers that mostly endanger new friends, she keeps striving to manage what to her seems like a hopeless situation, optimistic that she can grab some joy and protect those who provide it. She's complex and conflicted. I think readers will empathize with her odd optimism because of the vicissitudes of her daily life mirror ours on a …

Chapter 38 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

Eden and Nicole visit a pirate space station, where some of her men were assaulted and robbed.

The security officer that greets them warns them about the nature of the disreputable place and they're soon accosted by some of his co-workers, who want them to pay their taxes...

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