Is this the end?

Or did we find a way to make the book continue? Plus, book news and all the usual character craziness.

Hello and welcome back to your weekly dose of magical mayhem! This is your host, Ran, Sarn’s son from the Curse Breaker books, as usual.

First off, I hope everyone who celebrates it had a happy Easter. We celebrated it with more shenanigans, obviously. But I’ll get to that in a minute.

I have big news. Did the thing we have all been waiting for since Christmas Day finally happen?

Yes, it did!

Melinda finished writing Curse Breaker Jousts!

She started posting chapters on Christmas Day 2025, but she started writing it a few days before that, and now the story is done.

Wait a minute. I got a message that it’s not done. Give me one moment while I check what’s going on.

Okay, I am back, and I have the full story now. Curse Breaker Jousts ended on friday when my scribe, Melinda, posted the last chapter in the book.

Then she went back and wrote an additional chapters to cover some events the book left out. But that chapter started another story arc, so now she needs to write two more chapters.

So Curse Breaker Jousts ended and then it resumed so it’s not actually done right now.

But it will finish this week. She needed more time to figure out how to handle this new story arc. Since it’s something she’s been trying to do for 12 books and all the Rangers really, really want it, she’s going to write it. She just needs to work out how to weave it into the current story.

So yesterday, she published the first chapter of Chaos Reigns since that is written and doesn’t need more time to marinate.

You can read all that on Subtack and Patreon if you’re a paid member.

If Melinda only writes two more chapters, that will bring the total number of chapters in Curse Breaker Jousts to 61! And for those keeping score, it’ll be almost the same length as Curse Breaker Hidden, book 6 of the Curse Breaker Series.

So you might be wondering, what happens next?

First Melinda needs to finish Curse Breaker Jousts for real this time and then the book needs an edit. But it’s one step closer to you already since it did end. It just didn’t stay ended.

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So that's the next thing, getting it edited. Melinda did some editing this week and that was how she discovered she needed to add this scene that turned into a story arc. But the editing will happen in earnest next week. I have my red pen all ready to go, and I might need it.

Melinda got a new prescription and new glasses, but they make the screen blurry. So the chapters she wrote over the last few weeks need extra editing because they have more typos than usual. But the character that catches the most typos gets a bigger part in an upcoming book, so we’re extra motivated to find them all.

It's hard to write when the screen is blurry. But Melinda soldiered on because the story must go on. It waits for no one, not even its scribe.

I’d say that’s rude of the story to keep moving on but I want to grow up, so I need it to keep rolling onward like an unstoppable wheel.

How can Melinda write if she can’t see the screen?

Don't worry. She went back to the eye doctor to find out why her glasses make the screen fuzzy since they never did that before. This glasses issue may have affected the previous couple of newsletters too.

Melinda thought she just needed to get used to them because it's a much stronger prescription, but that's not been the case. She needs to get glasses at a weaker prescription.

And no, that’s not a typo. That’s what the eye doctor said!

When Melinda went back to the eye doctor on Friday, the doc redid the eye test thing and adjusted her prescription to make text clearer at a distance of 21 inches. That’s apparently how far away people put their monitors.

Since my scribe is extremely nearsighted, she ended up with a prescription for computer glasses at a weaker prescription than the ones she needs to drive her car. And that’s so weird.

The optometrist said that happens when the distance number is so negative. Even when you add positive numbers to them to increase the clarity on closer objects, the prescription is still negative and so my scribe will end up with two pairs of distance glasses.

Melinda also started writing Chaos Reigns, the sequel to Chaos Rises.

You can start reading Chaos Reigns on Patreon and Substack now since the first chapter published yesterday. New chapters will publish Thursday-Sunday until it's done. When will that be?

Only the characters know. Am I in it? I'll get some page time in there somehow. I don't know how yet. Melinda only wrote one chapter so far so it's early days. I have plenty of time to figure out how to get into that book.

Who is in the book?

Since it's the second book in the Riders of the Apocalypse series, and my Auntie Sovvan is supposed to catch them all, she's in it. Misriah is also in it and Fay too. The remaining riders must be in it since my aunt will chase them.

That's all we know right now. Have a great week, and don’t forget to come back next week to find out if Curse Breaker Jousts ended for real this time.

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