What happened, what’s happening, and what’s coming up
Hey there! Looks like I’ve completed writing a series of books. That’s something I’ve never been sure I’d do. I know I’d write a series, but wasn’t sure if it would have a stopping point. But now I know.
Portals final book, Legions & Liches came out on February 13th, 2024. It’s an incredible and epic wrap up to a six book series following people from out world as they get a second chance at life in a fantasy world.
Reggie, an archeologist from the early 20th century, is caught up in a conspiracy of undead mages to take over the world through diseases and vriktiri (insect warriors) with his only help being a basement gamer guy named Gryphon who is trapped in the body of a gnome gladiator, and LT who is a military chopper pilot who is in the body of a farm girl.
The first book of The Traveller’s Inn series, Tangled Skein is up for pre-order. This is a much more humorous series in the line of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, Robert Asprin’s Myth Adventures series, Piers Anthony Xanth, and Spider Robinson’s Crosstime Saloon.
When you own a dimension travelling inn, who do you call when someone is trying to do a hostile takeover? How about a conman disguised as a mage, a warrior-priestess with something to prove, a chauvinistic barbarian, an emo teenage thief, and an illusionary dragon?
What could go wrong?
Join Mogits, Luna Rose, Goonthur, Moist Manx, and Blueberry as they traverse the fantasy landscape and face a web of intrigue and deception in this comedy of errors!
The Traveller's Inn - A cross-dimensional, time-hoping, world-jumping, reality-shifting business.
Jack Tucker, time traveller, owns The Traveller's Inn. It has a bar, employees, customers, and drink specials, just like other places. With one difference, this inn can be anywhere it wants to be. It's a cross-dimensional, time-hoping, world-jumping, reality-shifting business that caters to a special crowd. Behind its doors you can find cyborgs, ogres, aliens, demons, automatons, faeries, and others. When it comes to dimension-spanning adventures, it's all about location, location, location.
What I’m Reading
In my free time I’ve been enjoying The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 4 by Matt Dinniman and The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Both are great reads on audiobook for when I’m driving, exercising, or doing anything else where I can sneak in an hour or two of down time.
Cats & Personal Life
The cats are doing fine, and our newest - Tom Meowton - is adjusting well. Mister Bitey Otter gets high blood pressure medicine each day, and Noodle gets his asthma meds also. They’re all fat and happy though, and Zazzles still rules the house as the Queen.
My son, Aidan, had his 21st birthday a few days after being in a motorcycle accident. He had head trauma and a couple broken bones. He had surgery the same day Legions & Liches released and is recovering nicely.
Andrea (my wife) and I have been working doubles to help fund editing, covers, and other book costs. I’m hoping the quick release schedule for 2024 (a book every 3 weeks) pays off and creates an opportunity for me to write full time. We’ll see, but either way, I’m not going to quit writing. It’s habit forming and a wonderful way for me to create things!
And thanks to you, I keep doing it. I appreciate you for helping me out by reading and reviewing my books. You’re awesome.
Travis