What This Newsletter Is

This is where I share the chaos behind the stories—the obsessive world-building, the uncomfortable questions that keep me up at night, and the exclusive content you won’t find anywhere else.

Expect:

Behind-the-scenes world-building: How Victorian mourning customs shape an eternal city. Why the Fae need compliance forms. What happens when your office building becomes sentient and hungry.

Exclusive chapters and deleted scenes: Content from The Silent Truths Trilogy, The Chaos & Code Series, and The Analog Series that didn’t make it into the books—or hasn’t been released yet.

Early access: Cover reveals, release dates, and first looks at new projects before anyone else.

The research rabbit holes: The obscure Victorian customs, the philosophical questions about systems and power, the real-world bureaucratic nightmares that inspire fictional ones.

Answers to questions like: Can a compliance form bind a soul? What if silence became law? How do you investigate murder when speaking is revolution?

What I’m Working On Right Now

Books 2 & 3 of The Silent Truths Trilogy.

Elara and Cassian’s story started in The Ledger Keepers, but their journey through a frozen 1890s city where silence is law and speaking the truth is revolution demands to be told in full devastating glory.

I’m deep in the drafting trenches, which means you’ll get early glimpses of their world before anyone else.

What to Expect From This Newsletter

I’ll send updates every week, sometimes more if something particularly chaotic happens in the writing cave.

No spam. No selling you things you don’t want. Just stories where magic collides with bureaucracy, algorithms fail catastrophically, and love demands the ultimate price.

A Question For You

What drew you to these worlds? Was it the deaf investigator in the eternal city? The Fae bound by compliance forms? The living supercomputers hunting through blood-soaked ledgers?

Hit reply and let me know. I read every response, and your answers shape what I share here.

Welcome to the nightmare. Let’s build impossible worlds together.

— Royal