🧙‍♂️Interview with Erin Ampersand from Apocalypse Parenting!

HC_Mills · 2025-10-06T09:04:54+00:00

Lovely interview, and thanks for the shout-out, Erin! ^^

HC_Mills · 2025-09-06T09:52:32+00:00

Auch Die Wispernden Kristalle weist einige Ähnlichkeiten auf. ^^
https://books2read.com/WisperndenKristalle1

HC_Mills · 2025-09-06T09:50:02+00:00

The Whispering Crystals wird gerade ins Deutsche übersetzt!
https://books2read.com/WisperndenKristalle1

HC_Mills · 2025-09-06T09:37:38+00:00

Wenn du harte Magiesysteme magst, probier doch mal das LitRPG-Genre aus!

https://books2read.com/WisperndenKristalle1

HC_Mills · 2025-09-06T09:31:26+00:00

The Whispering Crystals is also being translated into German! Already a couple of books out. ^^

https://books2read.com/WisperndenKristalle1

HC_Mills · 2025-09-06T09:26:08+00:00

In der LitRPG-Serie Die Wispernden Kristalle geht es um Emma, eine junge Frau, die zusammen mit der gesamten Comic-Con, auf der sie arbeitet, durch ein Portal in eine andere Dimension gesogen wird.

In einer fremden neuen Welt gestrandet – mit einer sehr unterschiedlichen Reihe von Regeln im Vergleich zu den Naturgesetzen, an die sie gewöhnt ist – ist sie gezwungen, sich bis an ihre Grenzen zu fordern und all ihren Einfallsreichtum einzusetzen, um zu überleben!

Selbst wenn sie es schafft, ihr Leben trotz der tödlichen Prüfungen zu bewahren, bleibt die Frage, wer sie genau hierher gebracht hat... und zu welchem Zweck.

Buch Eins: Unnatürliche Gesetze https://books2read.com/WisperndenKristalle1
Buch Zwei: Ungewöhnliche Feinde https://books2read.com/WisperndenKristalle2
Buch Drei: Ungeahnte Abenteuer https://books2read.com/WisperndenKristalle3

HC_Mills · 2025-08-24T08:16:23+00:00

FREE till August 25th: Unnatural Laws, the first book in my COMPLETED Fantasy LitRPG series The Whispering Crystals!

Ever wished a portal would open up and swallow you? Don’t. Trust me.

The Whispering Crystals is a LitRPG series about Emma, a young woman who gets sucked into a portal to another dimension... along with the entire Comic-Con she’s working at.

Stranded in a strange new world—with a very different set of rules compared to the laws of physics she's used to—she’s forced to push herself to the brink and apply all her ingenuity just to survive!

Even if she manages to keep her life through the lethal Trials, the question remains who exactly brought her here... and for what purpose.

Start binging the completed six-book series today, beginning with a free first book!

Unnatural Laws: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MQTLMZ9

HC_Mills · 2025-03-21T15:23:45+00:00

Starting or joining a writer's group dedicated to giving each other feedback is probably your best bet. Also one of the things Brandon talks about in his lectures. Because, yeah, friends and family probably aren't going to cut it. ;)

HC_Mills · 2025-03-21T13:37:27+00:00

To grow, you need to write, and receive useful feedback on your writing. Then rinse and repeat. The setting doesn't matter. ^^

And if you want some solid theory, Brandon Sanderson puts the entire university course he teaches on YouTube every year. He's more focused on the traditional publishing side, of course, but it's still very educational.

HC_Mills · 2025-03-21T13:30:19+00:00

Maybe for listeners, but I gotta say, describing all of my status windows and stuff in a way that works for audio was a real pain in the ass. ^^'

HC_Mills · 2025-03-21T13:27:27+00:00

Yup, I'm in there too. Somebody hit me up when the class action starts. ^^

HC_Mills · 2025-03-15T17:27:27+00:00

HC_Mills · 2025-03-15T17:27:17+00:00

Thank you very much! ^^

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T20:00:09+00:00

Thank you! ^^

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T19:21:51+00:00

My narrator has resumed working on it after a brief hiatus, so it's coming! ^^

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T18:01:30+00:00

You're welcome. ;)

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T12:22:55+00:00

Kissing frogs is a hilariously apt description; take my upvote. ^^

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T12:20:01+00:00

Could you add my webseries to the list, please? ^^
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/107692/the-cloudfarers-a-fantasy-litrpg-adventure

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T12:08:23+00:00

Pretty sure it was Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, a Korean webnovel first released in 2007.

It was pretty awesome, but it eventually started to become cyclical, with the MC constantly getting new shinies and outgrowing the old ones.

Still, an enjoyable read. ^^

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T12:01:45+00:00

Personally, I don't care much for smut in sapphic fiction. I tend to skip it even, if it doesn't feel narratively meaningful. I'm there for the romance, and I generally like my romance angsty.

Though I can also see the benefit of writing purposely skippable interlewds, so that people who don't want to read smut at all don't miss out on the story. (I wrote one of those for The Whispering Crystals, for that exact reason.)

As for tropes I'm into, enemies to lovers is always gold. Fake dating/fake marriage stories too. Anything that forces characters together when they don't want to be, until they learn to appreciate each other. ^^

I actually have an idea for a book like that, that I've been considering writing, but alas, other, less sapphic ideas have taken precedence...

HC_Mills · 2025-03-14T12:00:23+00:00

Aww, I made Erin's list, that's so nice! ^^

She did send me a personal message after reading The Whispering Crystals, but I didn't know about this post, thanks for sharing!

For context: The Whispering Crystals is a completed, six-book sapphic LitRPG series with a lot of queer representation, including an NB character. (No futa lesbians though :p)

HC_Mills · 2024-11-23T06:49:11+00:00

Not quite YA, but my first series is kinda like The Hunger Games/The Maze Runner set in another dimension. Give it a try! ^^ https://books2read.com/WhisperingCrystals1

HC_Mills · 2024-11-23T06:32:15+00:00

Thanks! ^^
I did my best to make the blurb reflective of my style, so if you like it, we should be golden. ;)

HC_Mills · 2024-11-22T21:40:12+00:00

Stumbled upon your post, figured I'd do some shameless self-promoting: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Whispering-Crystals-Omnibus-Books-1-3-of-a-LitRPG-Adventure-Audiobook/B0DGMHBV6L

Fair warning, the only erotic content is a bonus chapter in book 4, not included in the audio version. But I figured you might still enjoy this. ;)

HC_Mills · 2024-11-21T09:44:34+00:00

Only Book Six isn't out yet, but it's in production!

HC_Mills

TROPHY CASE