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The RA, Volume VI
🕑 Added 2024-09-07 06:35:35 +0000 UTCEdit: The honorable WDB is right about our awesome online community in his comment below. If you'd like to join us, share your thoughts and feelings and crushing disappointment in this series, and DEFINITELY you should check it out just for the RA musical, all of which is fun and much of which is actually legit good.
Holy shit, we did it! The RA 5 was published late February of this year. The sequel, attached here, is the result of over half a year of on-going work. This might be my new favorite thing? This installment is a variety of short ("short" - mostly like 20k+ words) stories, each told from a different character's perspective. As of the conclusion of this book, every single Hottie on Higgins 3 has had their own narrative here or in RA 4, or a major role in the Spencer-narrated installments. Even the folks we barely knew before this are now here on the page, Hotties in full. We've got sex and smut and cries and smiles in here... it's just fucking good.
This is the single longest book I have ever written, around 280,000 words. As of this publishing, The RA as a series is now longer than the Bible, and waaaaay more fun to read. (Much less begetting. Some begetting, but in moderation.) Because of that, it was simply too large for the software to handle in one file. Attached are both; the cover art with an image of Leigh is for part 1; the cover art with an image of Kitty (heh) is part 2. The chapters I already released are here in the exact same order as before, so if you read last week's post, you can pick up with Part 1 and go to Kitty's chapter, which follows right on the heels of where you left off with Ellie. The posted order of chapters is my recommended order, but aside from the final chapter, I think things will still generally make sense, just some cross-referencing and foreshadowing might be weird. Sorry I couldn't get it in one file, but hopefully it doesn't cause too many problems.
You may notice there is fresh artwork in the index; a reader generously volunteered some really cool new images, and was kind enough to let me use them here. I have no idea what the canon is, but they're reasonably consistent and definitely super cool, super hot. So thanks to that reader, and I hope they add a little extra to your enjoyment!
This book would not have been possible without your on-going support, so I want to think all of you from the bottom of my heart for making it possible for me to get to put this stuff out there for a living. This series, and this volume in particular, is straight from my heart. I know there's sometimes a month that goes by where I have almost nothing to share, so while these two installments are retailing for $20 over at Amazon, I'm passing them onto you all for a fraction of that as an expression of my deep and sincere gratitude, just like I have with the past books.
There's a ton of new stuff coming on the horizon that I'll get into with folks in a later post, but for now, go read a great book. You earned it.
More to come.
Comments
Remora
dozens of unforgettable characters and also nikki and emma.
Ice Bear
I did not know about that workaround, but I did know about that bug! I've added the docx files. Thanks for the ask.
Merlyn MacGreine
Congratulations on this massive volume! Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but any chance of getting the docx files so I can make my own ePub? The ones posted only show up as being 1 page long on iOS.
WDB
The RA series is fantastic -- dozens of unforgettable characters, a mounting collection of indelible moments, the kind of horniness and heat that would burn the aforementioned Bible to cinders -- but here's the secret best thing about it: It created an actual community. For those who haven't stopped over at the Ice Bear Cave Discord, you might not be aware of how beloved this series has become. To calibrate your expectations a little, please remember that Ice Bear started this post by suggesting it might be his new favorite thing, and then recall that he is the harshest critic of *everything he's ever written*. If HE thinks this one's great, imagine what the average reader has been making of The RA chapters that've been dribbling out. But beyond the fervent desire of fans to get their digital digits on this book, the last several months have seen an influx of RAdmirers (not going to stick) that have been reading and re-reading the past volumes, posting fan theories and citing beloved passages. We've had fan art posted, which Ice Bear is kind enough to include in this volume. We've had debates over character rankings, including some delusional respondents who think Savannah isn't great. (I swear! They really said that! In public!) Folks, we have a member who has been crafting an entire RA musical, with over an hour of material already produced. It has been one of the best parts of my year to see a community spring up around this series -- not only orgasmically, but *organically*. It's a community that loves a hot piece of erotica, but has *embraced* a harem dramedy with entire chapters devoted to sadness, pain, hope, loss, love, and personal growth. This series managed to make its art real, and that's as cool to me as 280,000 new words, a few thousand of which are synonyms for "moist". I love this book -- it might legitimately be the best thing Ice Bear's ever written, excepting the eventual RA7 and that dog short story he wrote about TIOS -- and I love getting to see this series become a juggernaut via its community. What an exceptional author, to make both those things happen. Well done. also vanessa is endgame i'm sorry savannah you're still the best but vanessaaaaaaa
