Wow, my latest book has been a strange ride compared to many of my earlier books. It started out very strong and I had hopes it might have the kind of following that A Living Dungeon produced.

Unfortunately, it seems that after receiving mentions on some Dungeon Core Genre fansites, I got a number of new readers who disliked my style and who appear to make assumptions on just how widespread knowledge of dungeons is in my world. It resulted in a lot of poor reviews on Amazon and has definitely killed momentum for book sales.

For now, I can't instantly fix this. I am going to try to be more aware of character conversations, but it is not always possible to remember every interaction. Or you find that you need to repeat it as its a way to handle information exchanges between characters.

Of course, I also have debated pushing out a new book based again on Dungeon Core mechanics, but do it more as a satire on the genre, and the complaints. Have things like all characters openly refusing to tell anyone any information (resulting in a lot of death and dismemberment) until one breaks the fourth wall and explains that powerful spirits called "readers" will punish the world if they say more than the absolute minimum. (I definitely need to NOT write this for a while, but it is tempting.) I have a few other little genre quirks that I'd try to break down, but if I wrote it now, I'd probably just anger people.

So instead I'm trying to work on a few other ideas. We'll see what comes out though. Its been too hot to write anything today.