Forteller

Being the author of the breakout novel, Gates of The Primordials, Jarren Fletcher did not care about the constant critiques claiming he had a habit of treating extra characters as mere plot devices, creating and then dumping them once they’d served their purpose.

To Jarren, it didn’t matter. Extras were just that—extras. All that mattered was the main character.

But Jarren never expected to wake up in his own story, reincarnated as one of the meaningless, disposable extra characters, Deremiah Morcant—a coward who took his own life to escape the perilous challenges of the Gate Trials.

Now, Jarren has to face those deadly challenges himself in the body of a weak, insignificant extra. He must find a way to survive in the rules of the dangerous world he had created, whilst also trying to save it. 

But time is running out. The next Wave is coming, and so are the paragons.

The Author Reincarnated As An Extra

As usual, the whiteness at the beginning of every Trial stretched endlessly around Deremiah. This pale void of nothingness was the true form of a Corridor before it began to take shape, building itself based on the properties of the participant who had stepped into it.

Or, aligning them with another participant's Corridor at random.

Deremiah stood silently as he waited for this to happen. Even with the time that had passed, he still couldn't believe his actions back in the last Trial, the way he dispatched those reflections.

Clenching his jaw, he chased the thought away and saw that the Corridor was slowly starting to come to life. Faint shapes began to materialize in the emptiness, the whiteness gave way to corners, creating layers like a real life 3D printer.

• Dawn is Almost Upon Us