When did this become a thing? Am I the only one who didn’t know this was a thing?
October isn’t going to come fast enough.
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i don’t think she’s 100% done with it yet? I could be wrong.
Percival Irving, aka Percy, shows up for 3 chapters in a row starting at Chapter 98 – Excessive Force – Azalea Ellis.
He is unnamed but has a cameo as a journalist in Chapter 165 – Carried on the Wind – Azalea Ellis who shows his…odd fighting style…in Chapter 166 – Poisoned Pawn – Azalea Ellis.
The spinoff is mentioned in a note in Chapter 156 – Nine-Light Filters – Azalea Ellis.
Oh man, read the first book, it’s a hoot.
If you like the everybody assumes the wrong thing trope, this is everything goes wrong trope in just as much in an amusing way.
Per y is so cute
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Its the Second Book I’m surprised by. She serialized the first book on Patreon, and I have a copy. I didn’t know she has a second one in the works.
It’s not finished yet. I am working on it now, when I have any time left over from working on PGTS. The silver lining to this crushing workload is that shorter stories are actually much, much faster to develop and write because of the comparative simplicity.
I’m very glad you’re looking forward to it! Hopefully I can do Percy’s continuing story justice.
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Seems like the pre-order for the book on Amazon was canceled and the book cant be found on Amazon anymore
@AzaleaEllis I hope it was not canceled, I am really looking forward to it
I talked about this on my Patreon and my newsletter, but the book isn’t cancelled, just the Amazon preorder.
I’m a few chapters away from finishing the first draft of this book, and everything is already plotted out. I just need a few more weeks to finish writing it, then revise it.
But I’m also trying to finish PGTS Book 5: A Cauldron of Bitterness.
I’ve been waffling back and forth around 80% of my max energy for a while, having frequent low dips when I push even a little too hard that take me out for a day or two. I’ve done a lot of stuff to try and get back to 100%, and it has helped bring me up from like 20% to something workable, but I haven’t gone back to what I would consider “normal.”
And I had an epiphany that maybe I need to stop pushing as hard as possible, doing as much as possible, and setting large goals for myself. Maybe, to actually recuperate my mental and creative energy, I need to rest.
So I asked myself the mind-blowing question, “What is the minimum you could do? What if you actively tried to take extended rest, instead of just a day or two here and there, and didn’t push yourself to exhaustion on the days you do work?”
So I looked at my calendar for 2025, which was already full of projects, and cut pretty much anything that wasn’t writing and publishing, with some minor admin and marketing work. I cut some bonus content I had wanted to write, too, moving my wordcount goals from about 300k to 210k. All in all, I removed about 50% of the work I was planning to try to do. I decided to call it the Year of Less and I was super excited and relieved when looking at it.
It was just a huge metaphorical exhalation. I was still working steadily, except for about 6 weeks of planned stay-cation time, but it seemed doable without stress.
And that feeling made me realize how exhausted I really was, even more.
But that was 2025, and for the rest of 2024, I was still on crunch time, working like 50+ hour weeks to finish everything on my plate.
But then, I was talking about it with my guy, how I was so tired but I still had to keep pushing to write PGTS while also finishing The Catastrophe Collector book on time so that I could publish before the Amazon deadline–they punish you for having to cancel a preorder, and they don’t allow you to push out the deadline more than 30 days like all the other platforms do.
And I realized that Amazon’s punishment wasn’t really a good enough reason to keep killing myself.
I am still going to write TCC Book 2, and then at least 1 more book in this spinoff series (any more than that will depend on how sales go at that point).
But instead of coming out now, I’m going to serialize the book on my Patreon next year, and then publish when it’s ready. Fitting those extra weeks into the Year of Doing Less, working around A Practical Guide to Sorcery’s needs, means that it might not come out as a published book until November or so.
You can still preorder the book on any platform that allows preorders, including Azalea Ellis Books, except Amazon.
I’m still going to be posting the weekly chapter of PGTS, except for a couple weeks’ break after the launch of a new book.
I’ll go ahead and put up a post specifically about this, too, so the people here who haven’t heard about it elsewhere will know.
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I just want to point out that, although I was super excited to see the preorder, I was surprised by it (in part) because it was so quick. The first book had been released Dec, 2023 and Azalea had not been publishing chapters on the project, which meant, I assumed, she was already through a first draft! I was shocked at that level of productivity, especially since she’d been delivering a chapter a week on the main novel.
I am not at all disappointed in a delay here. One thing to be naturally productive; it’s an entirely different Thing to overwork in an attempt to meet an unreasonable deadline.
I am living that experience right now, although it is of little to no comfort that I did not set the deadline for myself.
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@AzaleaEllis thank you for the reply. Just take it easy, no need to kill yourself with work 
just preordered on Azalea Ellis Books
Maybe consider rising prices? I would be willing to pay much more for your books! Maybe this would enable you to hire a familiar to massage your feet while you are writing or something…
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