The Dwarven storyline is probably the most successfully executed in the show, although not without its limitations.
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Serialized Fantasy Romances and Fairy Tales on the Kindle Vella Store

Hello, there! I recently started serializing one of my writing projects on Vella, and am joining with a group of like-minded Vella writers led by Callie Thomas to promote our stories. Click here to check out a range of clean Vella stories with fantasy, fairy tale and romance elements! If you would like to know more about how Vella works, read on…
Vella is Kindle’s answer to Wattpad, Radish, and similar websites where stories are released as a series of short episodes with an eye towards reading on smart phones. If you click on the main Vella store link while logged into your Kindle account, you should see a banner towards the top of the page, but below the black bar, where you can claim a free packet of 200 Vella tokens. The button for claiming your tokens will be on the right, and after you have claimed them, the counter showing how many you have left will appear in the same place. Click on the counter if you need to buy more tokens.
The first three episodes of every story are free, and after that, you will need to unlock them with tokens. You can “follow” stories to be notified when new episodes drop, you can leave reviews on any story the way you would on a regular Kindle book, and each Sunday you can “crown” a story as your favorite of the week. You can also “like” individual episodes by pressing the thumbs up icon, or leave comments on them.
Once you’ve read the latest episodes of our stories, please remember to:
-Follow the Stories to Get Updates!
-Like Any Episodes that Appeal to You!
-Crown Your Favorite Story on Sundays!
New Episode for Hunter Healer King

To claim her inheritance, Chloe Fortabat has to leave her ranch and come to the Old World, where she mingles with monster hunters. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man. Dr. Maxim os Storm’s mission is to destroy those monsters which feed on human pain. He is drawn to Chloe, but she is being slowly transformed into the exact type of monster he hunts. He does not know if he can cure her in time, or what she will do when she learns his secrets…
I plan to drop new episodes for this serial every Sunday in the Kindle Vella store for the foreseeable future. To learn more about Vella, keep reading.
Continue reading “New Episode for Hunter Healer King”Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, On Numenor
This was the one storyline I was really looking forward to, and nothing exemplifies the strengths and weaknesses of Rings of Power Season 1 more completely.
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, On Numenor”New Episode for Hunter Healer King

To claim her inheritance, Chloe Fortabat has to leave her ranch and come to the Old World, where she mingles with monster hunters. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man. Dr. Maxim os Storm’s mission is to destroy those monsters which feed on human pain. He is drawn to Chloe, but she is being slowly transformed into the exact type of monster he hunts. He does not know if he can cure her in time, or what she will do when she learns his secrets…
I plan to drop new episodes for this serial every Sunday in the Kindle Vella store for the foreseeable future. To learn more about Vella, keep reading.
Continue reading “New Episode for Hunter Healer King”Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, the Southlands
This should be one of the more exciting storylines, because it involves the forces of evil being openly and violently evil, but a combination of dull characters and poor world-building at the script level(1) drag it down.
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, the Southlands”New Episode for Hunter Healer King

To claim her inheritance, Chloe Fortabat has to leave her ranch and come to the Old World, where she mingles with monster hunters. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man. Dr. Maxim os Storm’s mission is to destroy those monsters which feed on human pain. He is drawn to Chloe, but she is being slowly transformed into the exact type of monster he hunts. He does not know if he can cure her in time, or what she will do when she learns his secrets…
I plan to drop new episodes for this serial every Sunday in the Kindle Vella store for the foreseeable future. To learn more about Vella, keep reading.
Continue reading “New Episode for Hunter Healer King”Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, Concerning Harfoots
The harfoots have the most poorly developed storyline, to the point where they should perhaps have been introduced rather later in the show. They exist to introduce Probably Gandalf to hobbit-like creatures, allow him to regain his memories, and satisfy a general audience’s craving for more hobbity goodness. Although, they are the most uniformly well-acted group of characters, most of them don’t have enough screentime to stand out, so I’m going to talk more about the culture at large than I usually do in these posts.
Continue reading “Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, Concerning Harfoots”Hunter Healer King in Vella

To claim her inheritance, Chloe Fortabat has to leave her ranch and come to the Old World, where she mingles with monster hunters. The most dangerous of these doesn’t look the part: a quiet, sharp-dressed medical man. Dr. Maxim os Storm’s mission is to destroy those monsters which feed on human pain. He is drawn to Chloe, but she is being slowly transformed into the exact type of monster he hunts. He does not know if he can cure her in time, or what she will do when she learns his secrets…
I’ve decided to serialize Hunter Healer King, the more advanced of my two WIPs, on Kindle’s Vella Store, to help motivate me to keep plugging away at it. If you would like to know more about Vella, read on…
Continue reading “Hunter Healer King in Vella”Weird Wednesday: Rings of Power, the Movers and Shakers
Three characters largely drive the storylines of Rings of Power. From least to most screentime, they are: Adar, Sauron-alias-Halbrand, and Galadriel.
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