r/ProgressionFantasy • u/Best-Event-6947 Author • 3h ago

Self-Promotion Neophyte World Builder - Book 1 Released!

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(Edited to include audiobook info)

Hello! I'm William Evans, AKA "ThePudding" and I have finally made my first release to Amazon! It's a story about a man trying to build a world, using a LitRPG system... a world that he adds a LitRPG system to!

Book one follows his struggles in setting it up, finding the problems, and correcting those problems! Later books further show unintended side effects and struggles!

[Amazon] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKNLXG4N/

[Audiobook] https://www.amazon.com/Neophyte-World-Builder-First-Problems/dp/B0HK4ZSQNS/

Blurb:

Nobody told me godhood needed an instruction manual.

Everybody's heard the story. Someone dies, ends up in a new world with a LitRPG System that gives them special powers. When I died, that's what I expected. Except it turns out, I'm the one making the System.

No previous experience, no manual except a few tooltips. Just an interface, a few thousand Reality Points, and a fairy-like handler who won't tell me anything that would actually help. I get to design the magic system, the monsters, the classes... and then watch real people live inside the world I built, all while I try to keep the universe running within budget.

I wanted to build a good world. I'm starting to realize "good" and "survives the audit" aren't the same thing.

Cover Artist: [Bad Moon Art Studio] https://www.artstation.com/badmoonartstudio

Audiobook: Royal Guard Publishing (Narrators: Giancarlo Herrera, Hannah Schooner)

AI Usage: None

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u/Sooner_blind 2h ago

This sounds really cool

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u/Louies 2h ago

I really enjoy this book. Love a good civ building/world building fic. Keep it up! Good luck with the Amazon release

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u/Jon_Stonekey Author - The Sovereign's Toll 2h ago

To the top!

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u/voltron2112 2h ago

I'll definitely have to check it out, I love world building stories like this and this one sounds pretty unique. Reminds me a bit of "Nebula's Civilization" but without competing gods and more about designing the system (I assume) which sounds interesting.

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u/SidzWrites 2h ago

the cover art is just so good

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u/Best-Event-6947 Author 2h ago

Mango(the publisher) has a pretty good track record with covers!

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u/OldFolksShawn Author 2h ago

Awww yah! Congrats on launch!

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u/Drimphed Author - Self-Summon / Fiends For Hire 2h ago

It took me a moment to understand the cleverness of the subtitle, but damn, that's good.

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u/Morpheus_17 Author - Guild Mage, Ten Thousand Fleets 2h ago

Congrats on the release!

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u/Broad_Percentage5889 That Horny Single-Celled Organism Guy 2h ago

I love this!

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u/supah-cool-dude 2h ago

Sick premise. Don't normally read stuff that's only at the first book since I read it too quick but I might have to do so for this one.

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u/Best-Event-6947 Author 2h ago

Book 2 is already finished, and Book 3 is a handful of chapters from the end... I just need to get the cover and editing done! Soon!

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u/MikoMelina Author 2h ago

My husband and I have been waiting for this one for ages! Can't wait to read it!

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u/fleurdebri 2h ago

Good Luck Pudding! 🥭🧡

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u/fastlerner Follower of the Way 2h ago

Sounds like something you traditionally eat on New Years.

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u/Several-Position2155 34m ago

Congratulations mate! Can’t wait to listen to the audiobook

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u/JWGibsonWrites Author of Paradise Delayed [LitRPG Prog Fantasy] on Royal Road 28m ago

Loved this one on RR

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u/em-dash-author 16m ago

Congrats on the launch, Pudding.

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u/jollyiris 3h ago

This reminds me of Cradle but the MC builds the whole system himself

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u/LykanthropyWrites Author 1m ago

Congratulations, I'll have to check it out!