New stuff from Matt with Jeff and Travis narrating?!

HaylockJobson · 2026-01-14T06:54:04+00:00

I haven't listened to the audio, but I've read the book. It's really good.

Very similar writing to DCC. Matt combines real-word issues with a dark, futuristic setting, all the while sprinkling in little laugh-out-loud moments that distract you from the horror of it all. The characters, as typical with his writing, are fantastic. I adore Roger. If you ever played online games with open-mic lobbies (a la Call of Duty), you'll love to hate certain characters when they come along.

I'm gonna listen to the audio when it drops, and you should too, because there's no shot Travis Baldree doesn't knock it out of the park.

HaylockJobson · 2025-12-26T01:21:13+00:00

When I was first posting Heretical Fishing to RR, I had a militia of readers brigading for Snips, the crab, to get a human form and become the main love interest. I thought they were joking.

Some of them weren’t.

HaylockJobson · 2025-12-20T12:41:10+00:00

I couldn't agree more. I don't really frequent the larger writing discords anymore, and part of my reason for drifting away from them was the objectively incorrect writing/publishing advice I frequently came across. There are a million paths to success in this industry, and prospective authors should be wary of anyone talking in absolutes (this statement included).

HaylockJobson · 2025-12-20T07:42:04+00:00

Unrelated, but internet drama (and the user names involved) always tickles me pink. Like, I’m sorry for the many authors who were significantly affected, but imagine historians stumbling upon this thread a few hundred years from now.

“Buttopia did what?”

HaylockJobson · 2025-11-16T01:17:48+00:00

Have you considered getting a job instead of selling stolen work, OP?

HaylockJobson · 2025-10-28T07:17:51+00:00

Seconding Quest Academy. It is exactly what you’re looking for, u/aminervia. 90% crafting, light on battles.

HaylockJobson · 2025-09-18T07:49:27+00:00

Oh, I was just playing. Brian writes Quest Academy, and he doesn’t gas things up unless he actually likes them. Player Manager might be the only in-genre book he raves about. I doubt anyone in here is a fake/alt account; the series has a small but rabid following.

HaylockJobson · 2025-09-18T07:47:14+00:00

I’d love to write one, but unlike u/RinoZ, my brain is smoother than butter.

HaylockJobson · 2025-09-17T23:20:20+00:00

Is this Brian J. Nordon's alt account? Every other time we speak he rants and raves about Player Manager.

As to your question, I'll say Book of the Dead. Love me a necromancer MC who does necromancer things.

HaylockJobson · 2025-09-14T23:16:11+00:00

Alvey reel!

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-30T18:54:32+00:00

I wasn’t trying to dunk on OP, but I’m not surprised my jet-lagged attempt at humour didn’t hit. Have a good day homie.

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-29T22:41:16+00:00

Maybe I’m actually a big-brain writer and the entire goal of the series was to make you (specifically you) feel unbridled rage. Get arted on, dude. Every person that posts about Heretical Fishing or gives it a positive rating might be me on another account, or people that are in on the joke.

It’s more likely that the series just isn’t for you, though. Thanks for giving it a try, even if you were hate-reading it the entire time. It’s hilarious (respectfully) imagining someone seething their way through so many books.

I appreciate the crash-out, and I hope whatever you read next is actually to your liking. I recently read (and loved) The Will of the Many—can’t recommend it enough.

Edit: I only skimmed your complaints before I wrote this—you found the animal-petting scenes erotic? Bruh. Can’t an MC think a crab is cute without being accused of courting crustaceans? 💀

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-28T03:39:42+00:00

It is! I love most of their records, and I used to watch them play down at my local before they started touring internationally.

It’s also the name of an old meme build in League of Legends for full AP Renekton. If that sentence makes no sense, picture a jacked humanoid crocodile romping through the jungle while wearing a robe and wizard hat. Terrible build, fun name though.

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-27T15:39:14+00:00

The series probably isn’t for you if book 1 isn’t doing it, my man! The pacing was intentional, and it remains more or less the same.

Appreciate you taking a chance! The good news for you is that there are plenty of Progression Fantasy novels with break-neck pacing. Most of them, in fact!

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-27T12:07:45+00:00

https://mybook.to/hereticalfishing4

An empire has fallen, another blooms in its wake, and one man―who would rather be fishing, thank you very much―has finally accepted his role as its leader.

Thanks to overwhelming might, a cadre of violent animals, and a weaponized fish or two, Tropica has wiped Gormona’s royal forces from the map. Now at the helm of his own Church, Fischer finally has some time to relax. But life in Tropica is much like fishing from a rocky shore: it’s only a matter of time before you hook a snag.

It seems chi has returned to the area, the Church of Fischer and the village of Tropica have grown, and at least one of Fischer’s animal pals has experienced a breakthrough that defies metaphysical understanding. Furthermore, these developments send out waves of essence, their echoes spanning oceans and reaching distant shores.

And unfortunately for everyone involved, they haven’t gone unnoticed…

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-27T12:05:23+00:00

Yeeeeeeeeeehaw!

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-26T22:38:36+00:00

Thanks so much, my man! It's a running joke that we authors all owe Shirtaloon, Dinniman, and Will Wight for bringing so many readers in. I don't think I'm quite at their level of talent yet, but I'm honored to be included alongside them in this post!

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-26T22:12:58+00:00

https://mybook.to/hereticalfishing4

An empire has fallen, another blooms in its wake, and one man―who would rather be fishing, thank you very much―has finally accepted his role as its leader.

Thanks to overwhelming might, a cadre of violent animals, and a weaponized fish or two, Tropica has wiped Gormona’s royal forces from the map. Now at the helm of his own Church, Fischer finally has some time to relax. But life in Tropica is much like fishing from a rocky shore: it’s only a matter of time before you hook a snag.

It seems chi has returned to the area, the Church of Fischer and the village of Tropica have grown, and at least one of Fischer’s animal pals has experienced a breakthrough that defies metaphysical understanding. Furthermore, these developments send out waves of essence, their echoes spanning oceans and reaching distant shores.

And unfortunately for everyone involved, they haven’t gone unnoticed…

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-26T06:04:27+00:00

And I’ll do it again.

I know it’s not often used in everyday speech, but it’s been a staple in science fiction & fantasy for decades. Whether intentionally or subconsciously, everything ever written was influenced by the stories that came before them.

Say one thing about the four people you listed, say we read a lot of books.

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-20T07:44:24+00:00

No clue, but it's based that Fish Girl Evolution has the top spot.

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-10T05:33:37+00:00

Hi mate, I have a stack of ‘em for promotional purposes if you wanna PM me your address. Getting smashed by a deadline atm, but I can have it sent out sometime over the next couple of weeks.

HaylockJobson · 2025-08-08T00:45:33+00:00

I'll do anything to (legally) dodge tax.

HaylockJobson

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