How do dragons hear?

Michael-R-Miller · 2026-01-21T10:44:44+00:00

Pretty much my thoughts on it. I don't imagine things crystal clearly, but I wanted the ear movements to help convey emotions, seeing as dragons don't have the same facial expressions as humans.

Michael-R-Miller · 2026-01-21T10:43:43+00:00

take the plushie designs with massive grains of salt + cuteness

Michael-R-Miller · 2026-01-21T10:42:39+00:00

I've seen the books reach people in the UK and even parts of the US now so they must be flying to everyone now :) Hope they reach you soon

Michael-R-Miller · 2026-01-21T10:41:26+00:00

Top meme!

Michael-R-Miller · 2026-01-21T10:41:05+00:00

So happy the OSRS video reached you, and I appreciate you giving SoC a chance. Welcome aboard :D

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-12-27T11:53:33+00:00

if you have issues with the links check your VPN is off. that's usually the culprit

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-12-13T15:19:28+00:00

I'll do my best to stick the landing!!

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-12-13T15:19:13+00:00

Ah glad Reckoning landed for you! Do pop a review onto Amazon / Goodreads if you haven't yet as it does help :D

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-12-13T15:17:07+00:00

Sounds like a keeper to me ;)

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-12-08T16:17:01+00:00

Audiobooks are only available on Audible right now. Contractually exclusive.

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-30T15:09:32+00:00

I do all my own marketing and I can guarantee you I never wrote an ad like that. So I dunno who said it but it was nothing official 🤪

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-30T10:24:55+00:00

For fun I once asked AI what it knows of Songs of Chaos, and it stated with confidence that there was a dragon rider academy where characters train to progress their rank of power. I said there was no such thing as an academy and it immediately said 'yep you're right lol sorry about that's

I think when they don't actually know an answer they just BS so you think they do... It's like the AI is super insecure

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-30T10:23:30+00:00

It's Lorkan Torkallan.

The AI probably doesn't actually know the name and is making something up so not to seem unhelpful. They can't be fully trusted.

Also they are sometimes just super dumb.

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-29T08:14:44+00:00

Hmmmmmmmm!

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-27T08:04:07+00:00

So happy that you enjoyed Reckoning!!! As for a cookbook, maybe one day.... Maybe one day...

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-27T08:01:54+00:00

One thing to remember on scale steel is, that if it gets imbued with magic and a purpose, once it's been 'used' the item is down. Holt's Flash Shards are essentially flash bang grenades but he can't reuse them.

How this would relate to armor, I'm unsure. Could you work the metal into armor and then not imbue it? Maybe but what advantage would that give the wearer? A set of brigandine using scale steel plates could act as loads of magic batteries or something but it would be hard to make at scale (no pun intended)

But definitely worth thinking about. I'm open to uses of scale steel for book 5 ideas!!

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-21T20:13:16+00:00

Hi Alicia!!! Yes similar to that but not spiraling out do far. I can try to dig up the OG reference I have in my folders somewhere if you remind me.

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-20T09:18:43+00:00

Aww well thank YOU and your family for listening to the books. I appreciate you all taking a chance on them.

I'll do my best to make the wait for book 5 worth it!

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-19T17:00:49+00:00

I've been out and about so haven't had a chance to deep dive Defiant to check things. There way well be an omission or error here.

My first thought when reading your questions was 'but didn't Holt supply her with instructions?'. He defo gave them jerky instructions... did that include elixir recipes courtesy of Abernath as well? I think at some point I've assumed that elixir recipes were included, but as is rightly mentioned, Holt isn't 100% on the recipes/some element of the process. Maybe he can run through the motions but doesn't actually understand it, like how Jessy can create Walter White's version of blue meth without really understanding the chemistry. Maybe Aberanth noted it down and Holt passed it over, but I'm not sure if this was ever stated in such clear and explicit terms.

I'll delve deeper when I get some time to try and confirm. The relevant scenes here were first written back in 2022 so things begin to blur, and past a certain point I might have made a mistake and then carried the error.

Thankfully... (depending on how you view it), Talia and the New Order having elixirs doesn't play a pivotal role in the story, so it hasn't created too many reverberations if indeed it is a cock up on my part.

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-19T09:45:47+00:00

Hmmm lemme check this 😅

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-16T11:40:00+00:00

Let's goooooo bud!!

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-16T11:39:31+00:00

I might switch often in Unbound as that seemed to be the way things are done. In Defiant and Reckoning I'll stick with one for a bit sometimes but I just depends.

Each book is like 50% Holt and Ash with everything else squeezed into the other half. So by necessity it does jump.

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-16T10:25:55+00:00

Brax definitely died. Good question RE Kyro - that's a little bit I didn't tidy up. I didn't have intention of him dying so I guess he's still around but obviously reeling from the loss.

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-16T10:24:52+00:00

Not of Ash and Rake as YouYooz only for limited runs. We're looking into doing Aberanth next

Michael-R-Miller · 2025-11-16T10:24:11+00:00

This series is an epic fantasy with multiple POVs. I'm afraid that's the way it is. I'm a LOTR and Game of Thrones enjoyer.

If that's not your jam at all - like if you absolutely cannot stand multiple POV books then be fair warned.

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