So, first the good news, then an explanation! Sporemageddon is back! I've managed to claw the rights back for publication, and now I'll be reposting Sporemageddon. Starting today, we'll be getting new chapters every day at around noon-EST. One chapter a day, until the completion of volumes 1-4. That's... a lot of chapters.
Once those are posted, we'll slow down to something more reasonable. I'm writing Volume 5 (available on my , as well as the rest if you wanna read ahead) and will take the months that it takes to post Vols 1-4 to build a comfy backlog with the fifth volume. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ noᴠelfire.net
Of course, you can also pick up Sporemageddon as an audiobook right now! Vols 1-3 are available here: AUDIO LINK!
Anyway, I've recently re-read the whole series and I'm pretty proud of it.
Now, for what happened...
A while ago, about... 3 years ago? I was approached by a company called Yonder, owned by Webtoon. They wanted new books for a new web-serialization platform.
I looked at the early versions of their site, and it seemed pretty nice. A modernized, more open version of Kindle Unlimited. At the time the monetization system seemed really fair and non-gimmicky. The people working on the project were passionate about it, and I got excited as well. This was before RR launched a mobile app, and KU was... well, still KU. So something new was cool.
They offered $10,000 USD per book, which was (and still is, frankly) a lot of money. In the 9 months it took to negotiate the contract, I wrote four volumes of Sporemageddon. I got the bag, and was happy to see the series move onto a new platform.
Then they messed it all up.
I don't know which bright-eyed corporate moron stuck their nose into the project, but they changed the monetization system to something stupid and predatory, and the entire thing predictably fell apart. Obviously, this wasn't great for Yonder as a whole.
So, I spent ages trying to claw my rights back, and finally succeeded earlier this year. And that's where we are now! Spore is mine again! Woo!
Mango Media will be handling the Ebook publication for Spore soon, and I'll be leaving it up on RR for as long as I can.
If you like it, and want to support its future, then I have an active and very fun you can to, but all of my works go up for free eventually, so no worries if you can't!
Anywho, lesson learned. Here's Sporemageddon, a story that's ironically about the dangers of capitalism and mass industry! Hope you enjoy <>