Hello, Halcyon System Readers!


    Today, I launched a new story, Apocalypse Engineering</a>. It’s a LitRPG Apocalypse following Hal Riley, a farmer from Nebraska turned Chicago mechanic. He’s heading back to his attic apartment on the light rail when terraforming begins, the System initializes, and he’s thrown into a hardcore tutorial dungeon with the goal of surviving several Phases of Integration. Luckily for Hal, he''s a problem-solver. Unfortunately, the apocalypse is by far the biggest problem he''s ever faced.


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    The apocalypse is just another puzzle to solve.


    Hal just wanted to go home, listen to the Rolling Stones, and figure out what was wrong with that damn Ford Explorer back at his boss’s garage. He didn’t ask for the world to be destroyed during his subway ride.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    The universe had other plans.


    Now he’s trapped in a multi-phase System Integration, Chicago’s crawling with monsters, and the subway’s turned into a hardcore tutorial. To survive, advance, and thrive, he’ll have to combine magic and technology into a new type of power as he engineers his way through the apocalypse.


    The universe has plans. Hal will unravel them.


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    I’ve been working hard on Apocalypse Engineering</a>, and the first book (and a chunk of the second) is already written and beta-read. It’s gotten good feedback from my beta readers and fellow authors, and I’m looking forward to sharing it. It''s at 20,000 words/10 chapters as of right now, and I''ll be posting at least 5 chapters/week until Rising Stars is over, so there will be plenty of content.


    "But why couldn''t you write Halcyon faster, Aest?" That''s a really good question, and the truth is that Claire''s headspace is hard to get into for an extended length of time. She can be such a mess that it''s difficult to stay focused on who she is and what she has to do. Two chapters/week is about as much Halcyon System as I can sustainably write (Writathon aside).


    I don’t want to spam you with announcement posts, so this should be the last one until (I think) early June, when Magical Girl Undergrad Four comes out on Kindle and Audible. But I’m really excited about this story, and it deserves its own post!


    Thanks,


    Aest Belequa