A weekly email for people who read too much LitRPG and Progression Fantasy. New stories worth your time, what's happening in the genre, and the best stuff the community made this week.
One thing, explored properly. Maybe it's an interview with a writer whose serial just hit 1,000 pages. Maybe it's a breakdown of why cultivation stories dominate trending right now. The stuff you'd talk about in a Discord channel if the right one existed.
Stories we're actually reading, with the trope tags that matter. Looking for Dungeon Core with a Female MC, no harem, slow power progression? Yeah, we track that stuff down. Chapter count, update schedule, and why we think it's worth starting.
Who just dropped a new KDP volume. What's climbing on Royal Road. Which Audible narrations are coming. The genre moves fast — this keeps you current without doomscrolling Reddit.
Someone drew your favourite character. Someone wrote a theory post that's either brilliant or unhinged (sometimes both). Someone built a power-scaling spreadsheet that goes way too hard. We find it and share it.
We got tired of tracking stories in spreadsheets, missing KDP launches, and losing great fan art to the void of Discord scroll-back. So we started writing the newsletter we wanted to read.
We put together some guides to get you started:
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