This is where the combined chapters of my Battle for the Wastelands tie-in novel War for the Whale-Road will be going. The first third or so will be free for all to read, but after that, people will need Substack premium subscriptions or subscriptions to my Patreon.
When Whale-Road is completed and combined into a single book I plan for it to be on Kindle Unlimited along with the other Wastelands books, so all but maybe the first chapter or two will be un-published. Only around 10% of a KU book’s total length can be outside Amazon. Get it while you can. :)
Here’s what this novel is about:
Two hundred years after the Fall, Sejera is a land divided. Ten realms vie for supremacy, while the Republic of Everett pulls the strings and rules the seas. A young warrior follows a jarl who dares challenge the Republic on the water, while an Everetti spy connives with monsters on land.
Young Ulf Torson joined his village’s war-levy in battle against Everett and the Sejer lords who take the Republic’s coin. From the newly-conquered island of Kroksey, Ulf and other warriors of the jarldom of Abuarik battle the Everetti and their most powerful ally, the vicious shaman-king Leif Heilagr.
But sly Everett has more cards to play than just its fleet and gold-bought rival jarls. The Republic’s Unified Security Bureau dispatches agent Ronald Lewis into the wild mountains of Sejera to make a pact with the sinister “troll-men,” predators human enough to be terrifying.
As the troll-men raid Abuarik from their mountain lairs, Lewis must weigh just how far he’s willing to go to serve the Republic. Meanwhile Ulf, his fellow warriors, and a spirited young woman he’s befriended steel themselves for the coming of Everett’s terrifying Old World fleet.
This post-apocalyptic steampunk military fantasy novel takes place approximately two hundred years before Battle for the Wastelands and can be read independently.
Prologue (free)-In which the whaler Stirling belonging to a post-apocalyptic Venice-style maritime republic is set upon by Vikings. One of the Marine security detail tells the tale — does he survive?
Chapter One: Plotting Vengeance (free)-In which Ronald Lewis, an agent of the Republic of Everett’s Unified Security Bureau, is assigned an unorthodox and very dangerous covert operation.
Chapter Two: Preparing to Feed The Ravens (free)-In which Ulf Torson, a young warrior from the jarldom of Abuarik, helps prepare the occupied island of Kroksey for war with Everett.
Chapter Three: Blood on the Beach (free)-In which Ronald arrives in Abuariki territory and meets Gunnar the Fast-Sailing, who has some very visceral ideas about how to honor the gods.
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Chapter Four: Fight on the Fish’s Bed (free)-In which Ulf and the other Abuariki warriors battle the Everetti fleet for the first time. Who’ll survive this one?
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Chapter Five: Meeting the Troll-Men (free)-
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Chapter Six: Weapon-Clatter on the Waters (Paid)-
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Chapter Seven: Meeting More Monsters (Paid)-
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Chapter Eight: Finding the Warriors-Fodder (Paid)
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Chapter Nine: The Mountain Kings Go To War (Paid)
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Chapter Ten: Sailing In The Ship-Sword (Paid)
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Chapter Eleven: Robbing The Enemy Treasury, Part One (Paid)
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Chapter Eleven: Robbing The Enemy Treasury, Part Two (Paid)
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Chapter Twelve: Mead-Flow and the Sea-Hawks, Part One (Paid)
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Chapter Twelve: Mead-Flow and the Sea-Hawks, Part Two (Paid)
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Chapter Twelve: Mead-Flow and the Sea-Hawks, Part Three (Paid)
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Chapter Thirteen: Hunted from the Sky (Paid)
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Chapter Fourteen: Steadying for the Shield-Storm (Paid)
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Chapter Fifteen: Unexpected Obstacles (Paid)
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Chapter Sixteen: To Be Army-Taken, Part One (Paid)
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Chapter Sixteen: To Be Army-Taken, Part Two (Paid)
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Chapter Seventeen: Forcing the Ford, Part One (Paid)
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Chapter Seventeen: Forcing the Ford, Part Two (Paid)
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Chapter Eighteen: To Lie in Fetters (Paid)
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Chapter Nineteen: Parting Company (Paid)
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Chapter Twenty: Home-Coming and Oath-Making (Paid)
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Chapter Twenty-One: The Next Steps (Paid)
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