Daily Grind

An IT worker explores an alternate dimension in his office in the first book of a fun and fast-paced series blending cubical life and dungeon fantasy. Working as overnight tech support, James Lyle has long said he'd do anything to escape the boredom. But his commitment to excitement is tested when a slight coincidence one shift sends him to a different part of his office building . . . and he discovers a stairwell that contains not stairs but rather a landscape of seemingly infinite cubicles against a distant horizon. Unwilling (and unable) to stay away, James and a few of his trusted friends begin to explore this endless maze of supernatural business ennui, a few minutes in the real world turning into eight hours of encounters with strange creatures and even stranger interior design choices. But in a realm that allows them to level up in fax machine repair and provides them with enough cash to pay the rent, there are also adversaries that are quickly becoming dangerous-and potentially lethal. As James, along with his companions, delves ever deeper into this extraordinary place, he starts to realize that animate staplers and time dilation might not be the biggest challenges they face, and those challenges might not stop at the entrance . . . The Daily Grind is the epic beginning to a slice-of-life urban fantasy that effortlessly blends wry commentary on office life with intricate character- and world-building. The first volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series-with more than four million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

Romance, drudgery, and dungeons collide in the second book of this inventive progression-fantasy series blending office humor and RPGs. Ever since James Lyle found an alternate dimension hidden in the stairwell of his workplace, things have been, well, weird. For one thing, when he's not working the night shift, he's battling killer mail carts and ravenous swarms of sticky notes. For another, he's dealing with some very complex and intense emotions for several of his friends. Meanwhile, his parents have offloaded his younger sister on him, a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things but it certainly doesn't help. As if all this weren't enough, James's voyages into the dungeon world seem to be having a strange effect on the world in which he actually lives. His memories are disappearing, changing-to the point where people he knows should exist somehow seem to have been wiped from reality. Logic would say he and his questing mates should maybe, I don't know, stop heading into the eerie maze of seemingly endless cubicles and dubiously useful skill orbs? But if James is going to set his plane of existence right, he'll need to defeat the corporate darkness he's uncovered . . . Blending slice of life with snarky working-class humor, brilliant role-playing mechanics, and irresistible world-building, The Daily Grind 2 is a pitch-perfect continuation of an epic series, guaranteed to charm anyone who's ever dealt with the nine-to-five slog. The second volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series-with more than four million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

An IT-worker-turned-interdimensional-adventurer contends with deadly dungeons, relationship woes, and office ennui in the third book of this madcap series. You might think a month away from fighting sentient cubical supplies in a threatening alt-reality office would mean a break for James Lyle. But . . . you'd be wrong. Even though James has taken a beat from adventuring into the dungeon hidden within the stairwell of his workplace, he's been dealing with plenty of stress-inducing issues, from raising a recently corporeal infomorph to navigating his newly minted relationship with his best friends, fighting his own depression, and wrestling with the moral implications of his burgeoning powers. Meanwhile, James, Anesh, and Alanna are searching for other dungeons to explore-to worrying results. While they've been seeking out more of the magical zones, it seems those very places have been looking for them in return. Now it's time for James and his crew to go back into the office dungeon, no matter the danger. Because it appears the latest world they've stumbled upon is starting to fight back-and they might be the only ones standing between humanity and some rather gruesome deaths. The brilliant, hilarious, and moving blend of slice of life, role-playing games, progression fantasy, world-building, and office snark continues with the unputdownable third entry in the Daily Grind series. The third volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series-with more than four million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

Corrupt conspirators threaten an IT worker whose transdimensional dungeon explorations could change the world in the fourth book of this visionary series. James Lyle, Anesh Patel, and Alanna Byrne have spent much of the past year exploring a secret realm in which the phrase "cubicle hell" isn't just a metaphor. Stalked like prey by sentient staplers and hostile computer hardware, the trio has managed to amass a collection of magical abilities that are rapidly adding up to something more significant. But they aren't content to just sit back and take it easy; rather, they hope to harness their newfound power to benefit humanity. So they've recruited a bunch of adventurers-many of them rescues from past quests-to their cause and set out to change the world for the better. But building a utopia is not without its complications. When the do-gooders receive a distress call from an unlikely source, they begin to question who-or what-exactly they're doing all this for. And while it comes as no surprise that the well-off like things the way they are, what is shocking is that some of them possess powers of their own. As if all that weren't enough, a secret agency that keeps people from learning about magic by any means necessary has discovered a dungeon underneath a high school. As teenagers start to get wiped from existence, James and his team quickly realize that making the world a better place is going to take more than just helping the needy . . . Humorous and thought-provoking, the fourth misadventure in the Daily Grind series is an unpredictable combination of detailed world-building, RPG action, and slice-of-life encounters set in the corporate sphere. The fourth volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series-with more than four million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

A group of survivors battle interdimensional monsters as they work to save the day in the fifth book of this action-packed portal fantasy series. James Lyle has achieved his career goal of being promoted from IT professional to wizard, wielding magic against deadly sentient office supplies in an alternate-reality corporate dungeon. He's become the reluctant leader of the Order of Endless Rooms, a band of professional heroes dedicated to acquiring the skills, knowledge, and power to help people in need and improve the world in general. But their altruism hasn't gone unnoticed by the shadowy agents in the background, who've been hoarding the secret sorcery of the dungeons to maintain order and control over what they see as a stable society. But no one can control when and where a dungeon will suddenly appear. Eight students have gone missing, and warped creatures are prowling a high school's halls. The veil between a dungeon and the real world has been breached by an entity different from anything James and company have encountered before. And this abnormally powerful being isn't the only thing threatening James and his friends. The operatives of the Status Quo have been working behind the scenes, seeking revenge and preparing to strike . . . Delivering imaginative world-building and snarky slice-of-life moments in a corporate setting, this is the action-packed fifth installment the Daily Grind fantasy series. The fifth volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series-with more than four million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!