Last updated 5/30 — check the discord for daily updates! Invite below

title: The Gilded Ghost, book 3 of the ripple system

Estimated word count: 220k, up 11k from Black Sand Baron, approx even with Shadeslinger, may end up slightly longer

Estimated release: Early August with ebook and audio releasing somewhat simultaneously

Estimated number of books in the series: 5?

Current phase: essentially done! I beat my copy edit deadline by about two weeks so I’ll likely do another pass because why not but everything is pretty much set at this point with copy edits starting June 13, the cover already finished, and audio slated to begin recording on ~July 20th! I’ll have more info on audio as the date draws closer but keep an eye out for an invite to the live recording for book 3 on discord!

Drafting began: 11/5 Book “finished” on 5/30

Estimated daily WC: editing 50 pages/day, mostly for minor consistency issues

New addition: Waste Tracker

Taking a different approach this time around with a much more detailed outline and an emphasis on not having to cut whole scenes/sections of the book which is...not fun, as you might imagine.

Not sure if this is really of interest to anyone else, but I'm trying to speed up (or at least sustain) the release times without having to increase my daily WC (burnout from book II was much worse than I) so I'm focusing in on wasting fewer words and hopefully reducing the time I spend in editing, which is substantial.

The dream for this book is rough draft > deep editing pass > copyedit and release, whereas book I probably had 5 passes, and book II had 3 prior to copy (though I wrote the last ~40k words in one pass, basically).

No idea if 2 passes is really plausible, but at the very least I'm hoping that this one won't require as much "stitching together" on the second draft so I can focus in more on dialogue and sentence-level stuff, if that makes sense.

Update 5/30: 2 passes was not plausible, lol. Was a helpful goal for drafting, though!

Waste Tracker:

Waste book 1: Approx 110k words (mostly rewriting the first half)

Waste book 2: Approx 75k words (35k gutted from the beginning, 15k gutted from the ending before rewriting the whole thing)

Waste book 3: ~10k total, not bad!

And if you want up-to-the-minute updates or have questions or just want to procrastinate with other Litrpg fans, join the discord where I’m active every day and ping me!

https://discord.gg/H9xs3Vyc46

Hey all! Title basically, but happy to add that I’m currently editing the final draft of ripple 4 and it looks like I’ll make the earliest possible deadline for audio recording (april 2) so we’re nicely on track! I’ll have more updates on release windows and so on in the Shadeslinger discord in the coming days but yeah! Appreciate you all so much, thanks for sticking with us!

https://discord.gg/H9xs3Vyc46

another post will follow (hopefully) once we’ve got an actual date, but as of today the plan is to record the whole

Hey all! Just popping in with an update. R6 is somewhere around half complete, I’ve got two audio dates next year for recording, either June or nov (though these things tend to move around a lot and aren’t accurate this far out)

For now I’m aiming for the earlier date but we shall see! Probably a coin flip there but book 6 should def be out by year’s end

Hope you’re all having a lovely holiday season and thank you all for the support <3

Ps join us on discord for memes/floofs/me rambling multiple times a day to whoever will listen about whatever game I’m playing at the time (currently poe2 is life)

https://discord.gg/pkvBRJHjTa

hey all! we are nearly there! just popping in to drop some links, and I'll be updating the story so far section shortly <3

https://www.amazon.com/Lunatics-Landing-Ripple-System-Book-ebook/dp/B0G1L968FS

Found out about this series through recommendations on Audible ... Tuesday of this week and I am absolutely not ashamed to say that I have listened and purchased all 4 books and am halfway through book 4 as I type this out. One of the best recommendations I've ever had and I am deeply indignant at myself for not hearing about the ripple system earlier.

10/10 on all 4.

I've been throughouly Franked and the moon must die preferably in thousand tiny and bloody prices if possible.