The Amatherean Tales w/Bosloe

Welcome And Book One Setup

Welcome everyone to In Other Worlds, the LitRPG Gamelit and Fantasy podcast. I am your host, Jess, and today we are sitting down with Boslo. Boslo, how are you?

I'm very well, thank you. And thank you for inviting me, Jess.

Yeah, I'm happy to have you on. So you are the author of the Ametherian Tales. I'm pretty sure I'm saying that correctly.

You are.

The first book is One Flew Over the Dragon's Nest, and I like to try to keep it to mostly the first book to try to avoid too many spoilers. So why don't you give us a rundown of what book one is about?

Book one, in the simplest terms, is uh about a young woman who gets isoched into a new world, uh into a new fantasy world. She's um a forensic accountant in real life um before she unfortunately gets uh squished. Um and she ends up starting a new life in Amashira, where she is accompanied by a very obnoxious and sarcastic AI who she calls Dave because she wasn't gonna keep calling him administrator or the actual letters and designation of his name.

Right.

Um, and it's all about her starting out in this this new life. Book one is what I would say is sort of like your just your premise building in your um and it is quite cozy. Um the whole series that I've written, to be honest, has got cozy elements in it in in various elements, but it's about her learning to contend with the the new world that she's in, really. And I know many of us, particularly within the genre, know the genre inside out and back to front, and we know what to expect. But actually, how would most of us react if we really got put into that environment? And would we straight probably yeah, and and would we really know and remember all those gaming things and everything else that always seems to be the things that people click on to and suddenly, oh well, I remember doing this, blah blah blah blah blah. Um, or miraculously knowing everything straight off the bat. So I wanted to try and make it more, I suppose, not realistic, because obviously it's a fancy world, um, but a little bit more down to earth.

Yeah, it did very much have those kind of cozy vibes to it. I mean, she does go through a lot, like there is some fighting and there is some danger, but it's not full of just back to back to back.

No.

You know, she's in danger, she's in danger. It's it's there's some crafting involved, there's learning about this new world, making new friends, doing like little kind of side quests in the village for for villagers to try to increase her likability in the village. I enjoyed how kind of cozy it was. It's kind of a nice change of pace from just that general, like, you know, you get thrown into this world and it's fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

Yeah.

It was a very nice thing.

That was one of the things I wanted to do with sort of a the you know, there seems to be various avenues that a lot of the books in the genre take, and one of them in particular is always this constant, constant, constant action. And to me, that's not reality. You wouldn't be going from one fight to the next to the next to the next. It's just not gonna happen that way.

Yeah. So I wanted to make sure that don't last very long.

Well, yeah, and I I wanted to make sure there was this sort of like whole world that was built around her, so it wasn't just her and her AI, but you hopefully the the side characters become as much a part of the story in a

Cozy LitRPG And Realistic Reactions

lot of instances as as her and Dave are very well done on that. Thank you.

Uh so when she gets Isakai to this new world, she doesn't go directly into the world, she kind of goes into like a holding area where she's given all these choices of class and race and and things like that, and she kind of breaks the system.

Yeah, it's uh it it's it's quite strange because the way that um I did it, I had no idea I was gonna do it when I started writing it because I am a pantser, and it just happened that I thought, oh, that that sounds quite fun doing it that way, and started writing it that way.

But um the system basically requests that she doesn't sign the terms and conditions to keep her AI, and it opens up a sort of a a side avenue throughout the series, which you never really get to the full bottom of, and I haven't yet fully got to the bottom of everything that's that's it all relates to, but it's it's sort of got elements built in that then build a premise for things that start happening with a yeah, and her, I mean, as an average person, I will readily admit I very rarely ever read the terms and conditions of an agreement, as I'm sure most people don't. We probably just scroll all the way to the end and hit accept because what else are we gonna do? Not do the thing that we're trying to do if we don't sign it.

Exactly.

But having that background as a uh forensic accountant, she reads that entire thing, which really ends up working to her advantage because she can take advantage of things that most people who are Isakit into this world would not.

The main, obviously, the main book, without giving too many spoilers away, is that she's actually given the opportunity to reincarnate, which that's a big one. It is it it's it's massive the fact that she can reincarnate, but if she ever does that, she'll be stuck with the same AI, whatever happens. So basically, she's ended up in a position that through her choice, however way she looks at it now, her and Dave are together, whether they like each other or not. It's it's it's that simple.

Well, also, but I think that it's mentioned in the book one of the downsides to that uh massive perk is that she would start back over at level one, which she would lose all of that progress that she had gained, which could be good, but would kind of suck too.

Yeah, it it would kind of suck, and also there was no confirmation that people would even remember her potentially. It was it was such an unknown in that context, whether or not it ever happened. That's something for the future to decide.

Remains to be seen. But so far, it's all good. Book one, so far, yeah. It's still good, she's still learning everything. So she chose the she chose the the Fay race and then she chose the assassin class, which is something that at least her AI in particular has never seen before and could not find any confirmation of ever having happened. What made you decide to choose that particular class and race set and make it one that is so rare? And the other world.

The character, literally, um, on top of this uh cabinet behind me. Um I'll just tilt the camera up so you can see it. There's actually, you've seen that, I don't know if you can see that crouched my finger that way, crouched fairy. Um, that's actually what gave me the idea. It's one of my wife's sort of like fairies that I've got her, and I was just at the other end of the table and I was like, oh yeah, Faye. Yeah, let's do let's use fairy as the sort of like the main thing. Um and then the assassin bit came out because I thought it'd be good to try and see how um a Faye would be an assassin because no normally you sort of like associate the Fay with magic and things like that, and I thought I'd do something a little bit different rather than it just being a you know Faye that can cast magic spells and do all the rest of it, you know, like the Tinkerbell Stardust type thing, and and just wanted to actually give her a rogue type background to to look into. So yeah, it was just a it was just a completely random thing, really, when I was when I started writing it and it it it's become the the sort of like the life essence of the of the series as it's developed.

Yeah, I mean when you think about it, a Faye assassin r really is not a bad choice because she can shrink herself down, so she's not always that small. She can go between

Terms And Conditions Break The System

normal, kind of small human size to her face eyes. And I mean that really lends itself to hiding in places and not being seen. And it kind of works out well. Uh in this world, yeah. In this world, the fair generally disliked very much. So in the first town, she seems like she's really had an uphill battle to try to earn that reputation with the other townspeople. Is that going to be a theme that kind of runs throughout the book as she gets to bigger cities and she just kind of has to battle that?

Yeah, there is a stigma that sort of um that that sticks to the the Fay race in general, um, and it's uh historic pretense across the series where um the race has caused issues across the world before, and basically it it's something that's historically just been in place and and fey has always been untrusted. Um so I wanted to sort of mix it up a bit and not just make it be that it's it was this all you know nice little reacher type thing that did good for everybody.

So when she is deposited into this world, she is put into a I guess less used starter zone that's kind of out farther away from everywhere else. Why did you decide to put her in a more remote remote location versus uh a larger starter area?

Initially, what I wanted to do was sort of um bring in the element that I didn't want her to be sort of one of hundreds of Legionnaires. Um I wanted her to sort of stand out a little bit more, um, which she does do anyways, being a fate, but I wanted her to sort of have that unique or more unique aspect. There obviously are a couple of other legionnaires in the town, but there's a premise that builds up all the way through sort of book book one onwards that's going on. Um, and it's actually hinted at when she originally arrives in Amethur and something happens in her character, she changes and she gets what's known as being sandboxed, but that sort of picks up throughout the series because it's the the way that it actually relates to everything that's happening. But yeah, I don't want to I didn't want to sort of like being one of like a thousand or one of a hundred. I wanted to sort of allow her to give the opportunity to sort of get to know uh and without that emphasis of being around so many of those that already were Legionnaires.

Yeah, and she does run in there, I mean there there are a few that she runs into. Uh one in particular that I'm thinking of that it is not great. Like these legionnaires, they don't come into this world immediately heroes and destined to do great things. You know, you come in as yourself, like with your personality, and if it's not great, some of them just suck.

Yeah, they they they do. They do some some of them are just um, you know, the the sort of premise of being reincarnated was an accidental death, and you can have all sorts of people that suffer with accidental deaths. So there was no there's no sort of guidelines to say they have to be lawful good alignment or they have to be cow to keep alignment. It it could be anybody that that comes in under those, under that remit, how those individuals then behave will determine how they're perceived and how they sort of like build up their reputation.

And I'm assuming that in the later books there is potential for her to run into other legionnaires who are big main antagonists. Um or do those get kind of pretty weeded out early?

There are there are a lot of legionnaires that that sort of crop up over time, the various legionnaires. There's one that's um that will become involved and kill it, and that's from sort of book two onwards when that happens. But in general, that it is quite strange because I I didn't want even though she's a legionnaire, I didn't want her being a legionnaire to be the emphasis of the story. I wanted it to be the fact that actually she's building this new life in this new world, and it doesn't matter actually if they're ametherians or if they're legionnaires, she is just being who she is as a person um and dealing everything, uh dealing with everything around that. Um and the fact that she is a legionnaire has its perks in some ways because the benefit of all Legionnaires that come to Amethera is that they can heal faster um than normal Ametherians. So there's various bits and pieces that sort of come into

Fey Assassin Choice And Stigma

play, but again, actual Legionnaire-wise, yes, there are some that come in, um, and particularly the book that I'm on now uh and I'm writing, which is book seven, um, is quite heavily focused on the Legionnaire aspect. Um, but there is sort of a theme throughout where she has encounters with with various individuals.

And do the Legionnaires typically treat the ametherians of this world like just NPCs that they can discard and do what they want with? Is that like a typical trend of Legionnaires when they get Isekai over?

Yeah, I think it could it comes down to the individual personality of the person that's come across. Um and there are a couple of scenes sort of in in latter books, book three. Um I think there's a scene where the sort of like the behaviours of one um are literally what I would class as that context that they're just worthless NPCs type scenario. Um whereas others obviously have accepted it as a new life and a new world and they're and they're trying to do the best that they can in it. Um so it's it's a mix and match, and again, uh you know, it's sort of personality driven and and individualistic, you know, that there's not there's no not one mass expectation that certain things are going to happen in certain ways. Um and when sort of like from books three, books four, there's some emphasis laid on sort of guild structures and things like that, and and how the legionnaires behave between themselves. But again, it it's it's all sort of like building up this whole this whole background sort of picture. Um but but she's outside of that, if that makes sense. Yes, she's a legionnaire, but it's actually she's living her life, she she's she's doing the best that she can do um under the circumstances that she finds herself.

I would hope that we all just try to do that.

You would hope a good way. But again, I think sometimes I think the mentality that I've got I've received a few reviews with comments and stuff, um like you know, saying, Oh, she's so unintelligent. How does she not know that this happens and that happens and you can do this and you can do that? And I'm like, would you really consider everything when you get thrown into a new world? Exactly what you can and can't do when it's based around sort of game mechanics? You know, you're not gonna think about it, are you? You your your normal day life's gonna be there in your head. You're not gonna suddenly go, Well, actually, yeah, I used to be able to do this when I played WoW, when I played Dungeons and Dragons, therefore I must be able to do this now, and I can act like this, and I can do that. And there's this whole sort of emphasis about this, the the way that some behave compared to others. Um, and you it sort of comes across as that you know they're not that they are beings, yes, they have perks, and some of them do think they're better than others, but yeah.

Yeah, I think for the most part, I would just worry about staying alive. Yeah, exactly in a new world before trying anything new, just staying alive, staying alive and figuring out how the system works

Dave The AI Becomes A Friend

would be the two top things.

Yeah, which which is a big question because the the system in particular is um a sort of a running theme through the entire series.

And it's not very helpful.

No, if you well, it depends if you're talking about Dave or if you're talking about the system.

Yeah, true.

Because Dave Dave in book one definitely is not very helpful. Um but again that was sort of deliberately constructed in that way. Um because as the again, as the story develops and it continues, there's there's this more of an understanding and appreciation of everything that has happened and potentially why it's happened. Um and it it it comes about slowly over time, it's not something that's answered in you know on page 20 of the book. Uh it it's the case that it's something that's always going to be there. Um but the key behind it all that I wanted to make sure that came across was the was the relationship and and how it does change. Um and you know, near the end of the first book, there's sort of like a a section where there's that that moment of realization where they suddenly both go, oh, and they actually realise that they're friends. Uh and realistically they're they're best friends.

Um and it I remember that moment and I was like, oh, that's that's cute, that's heartwarming.

But but that's that's what I mean, you know, the the the and don't don't get me wrong, the the sarcasm never leaves Dave fully. Um with there. He'll always have these moments of sarcasm. Um but even throughout book one as he he progresses and she progresses, you you see that that change in his sort of attitude to her and and he starts being more helpful. You know, he does things like call out moments when she's being attacked without or when she's about to be attacked that he wouldn't need to. Um, but the the there is that unique unique element to Dave as well, because you know other AIs within Amashera don't talk to their legionnaires.

Yeah, I was gonna say, in the grand scheme of thing, when you look at the bigger picture, he actually is a lot more helpful than the other legionnaires would get because they don't get to talk to their AIs like she does. Their administrators can chime in uh when it's a relevant moment that they need to chime in at, but there's no dialogue back and forth between them really.

No, there's no conversation.

Yeah, she does have a bit more help from the administrator than um typical AIs.

Oh, she she does. Uh and you know, as the as the series progresses, it becomes even more apparent how they are, how they sort of like support each other. Um, but again, I won't get into too many spoilers.

Um so we've got Earth and we've got Amethera. Are there other worlds? Do can Legionnaires come from other worlds besides Earth? Is that something that plays a part in later books, or is it just Earth?

The all the Legionnaires come from Earth. There are moments within latter books in the series where the sort of universe aspects are discussed and the breadth of everything that's the sort of goes on, but it doesn't directly relate to Amethera. It it's something that's there, you know, and it there's what and aga again because of my pants, uh obviously things change as I go along. Um and when I wrote the first book, I'll be honest, I wasn't even sure how it was gonna lay out at all. I just started writing it. I'd uh you know, I've I've sort of got this vague concept still of how the series will eventually end, whether it matches that content by the time it gets to book 10, no, I've got no idea. It could very well have changed about another dozen times between now and then. Um even though, you know, it it's I've got this concept of how it will end. But yeah, it it was one of those things of sort of making sure that it wasn't I don't know, it's it's it's quite difficult to say. It's trying to think of the best way to describe it.

So is it because I know in book one they hint about kind of a larger game being played. Is that where the other kind of universes come into play?

Is is once the pieces start to fall into place for this this larger game that Yes, and no, and that's because there's there's stuff that comes on in later books where characters get introduced, and there's a character that gets introduced in book five in particular, which completely throws a spanner in the works for everybody in the big scheme of things. Um and that becomes more apparent as the series then progresses going towards this supposed endgame that's in my head. Um, but it's all still focused on amethera, even though there are suggestive elements, if that makes sense.

Okay. We're just seeing where all this is going.

I wish you could tell you.

That'd be too many spoilers. So the main character SJ is named after your wife.

Yes, she is.

Did you put any other parts of your wife into this character or just the name?

I've been asked that so many times.

Um Oh really?

Yeah, I've been asked that I've been asked that quite a few times. There are there are elements of my wife, yes. And obviously the name, um, my wife's name is SJ. So there are there are elements, um, but in the big scheme of things, no. It's it's it's an amalgamation of many different personas, personalities, people, um, probably that I've I've met in over my entire life. Um, you know, there are certain things that yes, I would I could probably write something and go, oh, that's definitely how she behaved. Um, and there's other times where I go, oh no, that's good, that's not like her at all. Um, so it it isn't it isn't. There are you know, but you could I suppose most characters you could see something of somebody in each character in some way, shape, or form if you really wanted to look at it to that degree.

Yeah, I think if you really if you went into any character with that mindset, like, how does this person relate to this

From Royal Road To Podium

one? You're gonna find it everywhere. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. Um, so the series is being published by Podium and was originally on Royal Road.

Yeah.

How did you become partnered with Podium? How did that whole thing happen?

Um, I started writing the series in February 2024. Um, it got to May 2024. Um, and uh you know Ryan Mike as well. He's a very, very good friend of mine. Uh, we pretty much started writing at the same time. I've suffered so many of his puns and comments now and humour. He sort of said to me, So you ever thought about getting in touch with the publishers? And I was like, no. Um I think about it, thought about it. Well, why don't you give it a go and see what happens? Um and he was at the time just starting with um Legion publishers. So that was when he was sort of going in with Legion Publishers from that perspective. Um and uh I reached out to a couple of publishers, podium. came back to me within a week um to arrange a zoom call. Um and the week after that I had a signed contract for the first three books.

That's awesome. Podium does a lot of good work.

Uh they they've been amazing. I I can't I can't say a bad thing about them. I would not be where I am now with the books published if it wasn't for podium.

Yeah, I mean they had to have done well enough books one through three for them to pick up you know four, five and six.

Yeah. Um they actually took on books four, five and six before book two was out. Yeah.

Nice.

It was um um I I was uh slawed to be honest and I still am. Uh it's I still pinch myself because none of it makes sense. You know at the end of the day I'm a maths teacher I'm not a I'm not a writer. Um so yeah it was um I mean obviously you are well yeah yeah I know but it it still doesn't compete in my brain it and I don't think it ever will. I I honestly don't think it will. You know I I I started writing the story just for the fun of it because I wanted to write the story. Um and the fact that I've now got a you know six book publishing deal confirmed and that is just mind blowing.

So yeah I think it's fantastic. So I kind of want to circle back to you being a Panther. Mm-hmm because it always blows my mind. Being a Panther I'm assuming you know basically how you want things to end, how you would like them to end.

Yes. I've I have three versions but yes.

So you have three different outcomes in your head.

Yes yes what do you think the odds are that it's going to end in a way that is not one of those three outcomes no in my brain very highly likely that it won't end as I expect to end I hope it you know I'm hoping it does sort of like uh end up going down one of the those particular avenues and and particularly in what I'm doing now in book seven is is leading towards it is definitely pushing me in that direction. So it it it's it's heading towards the conclusion I'm hoping for but there's quite a few twists and turns that I can already see coming ahead that I've got no plan for but I know the fact they're probably gonna happen. So by the time I get to the end of the series will it be I don't yeah I don't know. I hope so because I quite like the well I quite like all three endings. But I suppose it depends how evil I'm feeling on that particular day when I get to the ending.

Do you let the story like organically unfold on its own or do you ever find yourself getting to a point where you're like I don't like where this is heading and so you kind of steer it in a different direction?

Organically to be perfectly honest um I I've I've written a couple of chapters over the time where I've written a chapter and I've gone actually that chapter doesn't feel quite right there and and I've taken a chapter out but I've then used it later on because it then fits in at a later point. I've done virtually zero what I would class as rewriting um there are a few bits and pieces obviously when you do edits you you take your take the odd sentence out and add a few sentences in just to change things when you do editing but actual direction of the story I I just let it go um and wherever my brain takes my brain my brain takes me it's not predefined in any way shape or form so um have I put myself into sort of rabbit holes on a couple of occasions yes I have um but if that means that I've got to try and think of a way for it for that situation to come about then so be it. That's what I'll do. So yeah it it just makes it I I find it more fun.

And now with letting the story grow organically like you do have there been any characters that have surprised you with the how they develop over time?

Yes. Yeah they have um uh one of my favorite characters uh and uh one of my favourite characters in the whole series uh appears in book three for the first time um and as soon as I started writing this character I thought I I just love this character uh it just the whole whole persona of them because I could see sort of so much of so many different people that I've experienced in my life within this sort of character and yeah some of them have surprised me in that context um there have also been characters that have appeared like as a as a minor side character which reappear as main characters um or antagonists later on etc so there are a few bits and pieces that happen throughout the series because it's quite strange that that the way that I've I've sort of written it there's there's quite often references back to previous books and things that have happened and various things and these characters that suddenly that may reappear that um have sort of been to the wayside at some point and thought they were dealt with but actually no they're back. So yeah there's there's quite a lot that takes place but some of the characters have surprised me when I started writing them. Sometimes for the good and sometimes for the not so good. You know there's there's a couple of what I would class as main characters that start to appear from book three onwards um certain characters becomes a large part of sort of like the series going forward.

But yeah various characters will come round and about in circles throughout it and some of them do surprise me when I reap it and as a Panther now you have in your in at least in book one you have the beginnings of some underlying plots that feel like they're going to be a larger part of the later books. You know you've got the gods involved you've got this kind

Pantsing, Plot Tracking, Writing Habits

of thing that's that's happening out in the universe. How do you keep track of all of that and how do you make sure that that kind of follows through as you're writing these stories it was all on Excel sheets um I'd have excel sheets and I'd something would happen I'd make a very very brief note of character name or whatever.

I don't like AI but one thing I will say is the benefit of AI it has allowed me now to be able to track my story progression for me. So rather than having to sit there and and originally I was research I I was going back through my previous manuscripts and going oh I've got to find this bit in the chat to doing word searches to find specific things to to try and dig things out and now I've sort of like built a project within AI that tracks my story for me so that I if I need to find a bit of information that relates to a previous book I can now just type in a question and it will throw it back out to me. Which from my perspective has helped massively because I'm not there having to sort of like troll through a manuscript page after page after page. Because yeah you know I'm I'm writing book seven um it saves me a lot of time researching. Yeah I have a hard enough time remembering what happened in a book I just put down oh don't let alone I'm terrible do you know what it it absolutely amazes me is um obviously there's so many series that I've listened to and read and I absolutely love them and I loved them as I went through them and I thought they were fantastic and quite a few and I've re-listened to could I name you specific things and and no my my brain my brain doesn't work like that I I I I I just can't do it.

And and like you know and I just it is out of my head.

Yeah exactly you know it's it's just like fantastic love the story um brilliant and yes I'd recommend it and you know at that moment in time I could write a review about it and say what it was all about. Give me probably about two sleeps after that and I'm like what happened again?

Yeah my memory for books after I put them down is abysmal. It's horrible. Yeah what do you find the hardest thing about being a panther?

Whether or not my brain wants to play I obviously I I write part-time um I I get up at four most mornings to write before I go to to work um so I'll get up at four hours to do sort of like some social media try and get some writing done before I take this off for a walk and then get ready for work and all the rest of it and there are some mornings where I'll come and sit at the keyboard and I'll start typing and it just goes back not playing. Because you you you know my brain's either thinking about what's coming up on the day ahead what I've got to plan what I've got to do at school the rest of it and and some days it just doesn't want to play. But you know it the the the difference is with me is when I hit that that stream so to speak when I can just write it just happens um you know and I can sit there and sort of get through 10,000 words in a day. It doesn't happen as much as I'd like it to and but you know because it's you know I think if I was doing it full time it'd be different because you know that you're in that mindset that you're gonna be doing this between this hour and this hour and you sort of get into this routine. But when you've got so much going on outside as well all the time it's it's not always my brain doesn't always want to play. So that's the big challenge I find as a pancer.

Yeah I think that would be hard especially when your attention is divided between having to try to create and write and come up with all these things especially as a panther because you're just like let's see where it goes but then your mind is also kind of focused on something

Book Four Release And Ten-Book Plan

else. I can see how that would be tough. Yeah.

So the next book is going to be book four yes correct the next one that releases when is that one coming out um that is due out on the 4th of August so literally a couple of weeks after the con. I will have advanced copies at the convention for sale um because I'll be uh joining the indie authors uh table um I've got I'll have copies of all four books there so I will have some advanced copies available at LitRPGcom um but it officially gets released on and it should again be ebook print and audio on 4th of August.

That is gonna be very exciting how many books do you think are going to be in the series? Or do you just not know because you panced the whole thing?

I'm I'm aiming for ten. I am aiming for ten. That that is my goal my goal is ten. You know I'm I'm over halfway through book seven now um so six four written and with podium um I've actually just received the manuscript back from book five to do the the edits on or the final checks on but yeah I'm I'm over halfway through book seven but as things stand at the moment I'm sort of I'm sort of thinking ten. The problem is it's because of the way the world is is sort of built and constructed it's something that could continue theoretically I also think you get to a point where it can get too long if that makes sense.

Yeah it just kind of becomes gratuitous and a story for the sake of just having a because it needs to be told.

Yeah and you know the the way I've tried to construct it is there's there's certain things that happen all the way through and there's a sort of a few underlying currents that progress throughout the entire series and some of those are starting to come more to light now in in the latter books which really weren't even a consideration at the start um so yeah I think it's gonna be ten books. I I I can't guarantee um but that's that's what that's what I've got in my head. That's what I've got in my head.

And do you have any ideas or plans for something that you would like to write after this series is over?

Um I've already written

Spin-Offs, Darker Ideas, Next Projects

the first book um of a historic um part in Amethera so it's based in the same universe um okay um but there's a throughout the series again there's elements that get mentioned about something called the Scrug Wars um and I've written the first book which is the Scrug Wars um it's called the Night of Death it's on Royal Road um I don't really do masses about pushing it out there it is on Royal Road book one is for people to read if they wished um but it's a historic time it's not it it's it's darker um because obviously it's based around a war um but it sort of um I'm I'm planning on that just sort of being a three book uh series um to sort of run alongside or as a historic period of Amethira um and there's also a side novella that I wrote as part the side of um book three my little novella uh which covers a time away for one of the other characters um but there are it's quite strange because some of the characters within Amateira that I've I've sort of developed um while I've been writing it there are definitely some that I could imagine potentially spending some time developing more of a standalone series for. But again I don't know um and then apart from that there's there's a few bit there's always I've always got stupid ideas going on in my head and there are a couple of bits and pieces. I I started writing a few chapters for uh some random competition thing on Royal Road called Luxro about a space dragon um oh so again these sort of like a various bits and pieces that I'm looking at and considering it and I've got a a an old I say I I say old I started writing in 2021 or whatever it was. Well my original story I started writing called Wild Ones now that I'm somewhat experienced in relation to writing I do plan on going back and rewriting that and probably making it into a full litharp G and the problem is that is very dark very dark indeed um I mean so there's a place there's a place for everything. There is um but again I I think I think within the lithopgy genre there's there's so many different niches within the genre over various bits the way that I've written amateur and tales is I wanted it to start off in one context but as the series progresses there are certain elements that come in and like there are a couple of books that are a bit darker and and you know as as things go on because I I sort of saw it as a w it can't always just be cozy homely I've just been works it's supposed to there's got to be times where there's some hardship in it. But I I think to go dark grim dark is one thing to go dark is on a different level and I'm not sure how it would fit within the genre I think it might be too dark um but again I don't know I don't know it's it's something it's it's something I'm considering anyway just rewriting it and um yeah just seeing how it goes.

So I think that was everything that I had for you was there anything that you wanted to bring up that we did not talk about uh no I don't think so really I don't think there's anything major or

LitRPGCon And Where To Find Boslo

specific I'm just looking forward to the con, to be honest in July. Um yeah so you will be at LidRPGCon in Denver as a guest so that's gonna be exciting so I'm gonna have to come to us at least one of your panels.

Yeah I'm um panelists there so I've got I've got five panels um and I'm moderating uh I'll I'll be on five panels but moderating one as well. Um nice so I'm re I'm really really looking forward to it was such an amazing time last year.

Nice uh so where can everyone find you?

All my books are available through Amazon. Um I can be found everywhere and anywhere uh across social media um I've got a Link Tree uh link which um has got all my sort of like profile links and everything else in it um but all my books and audios are available through Amazon or you can go to Podium Entertainment so they're all listed through there as well um you can find me on social media so I'm on TikTok uh Facebook uh wherever wherever I'm I'm on there in some way shape or form either as Boslo or Boslo McCartney um TikTok's probably the one that I've been focused on quite a lot recently trying to develop my footprint on TikTok a little bit more um and I know there's more authors starting to sort of try transition across to it now but yeah um you can you can find me anywhere and all my books are say are on Amazon.

Well I'll have to get your uh link tree link from you so that I can put it in the description of the video so everyone can just click on that and find you super easy.

Yep no problem at all.

Yeah thank you so much for coming on and talking to me and hanging out and thank you everybody else for sticking around and keep leveling up.

Thanks very much for your time Jess