First, let’s look at the covers for Books 1 & 2 (you can order at the link below) https://amzn.to/4wLgH5p Blurb The skae have emerged. Once thought to be little more than myth, the creatures of shadow now spread across Zapour, conquering kingdoms and driving humanity to the brink of extinction. Raiz Glaive has spent his […]
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Cover Reveal: Fool by K.R. Lockhaven
Blurb Kyrien’s ascendancy from a prisoner of war to the trusted “Fool and Advisor to the God-King” has been the stuff of storybooks. He owes his dramatic reversal of fortune to Vaerain, the God-King himself. Kyrien’s life in the capital city is blessed with fame, riches, and a beautiful young family. But when a group […]
Elvenbane (The Halfblood Chronicles Book One) by Mercedes Lackey & Andre Norton
For more than thirty years the Halfblood Chronicles stood unfinished — three books and a promised conclusion that never came after Andre Norton’s death. Now it is whole. Mercedes Lackey completes the story with Ben Ohlander, in memory of Norton: four books, revised and newly illustrated, beginning to end. Start book one knowing the ending […]
Cover Reveal: BLIGHT WARDENS (Titan Hoppers #5) by Rob J. Hayes
Blurb War has come to Leviathan. As Iro and Emil face off over a city chamber turned to ruin, greater powers threaten to tear both fleets asunder. The war between the Home Fleet and the raiders reaches a crescendo as the Emperor’s mysterious orders are carried out and nothing will ever be the same. With […]
Cover Reveal: The Ashen Viper (Volume One of the Forahm Papers) by Joseph John Lee
Blurb Were we not meant to know the truth? It is by the hands of loresmen that heroes and villains are risen from history’s foundations, today’s stories that became yesterday’s histories that became the legends of yore. And from those legends emerge truths…of a sort. The truths that best serve a story when the facts […]
Cover Reveal: Embers of the Empire by Logan D. Irons
Blurb The Lothlian Empire is a corpse, and the Wyrm Lords have come to feast. On the crumbling frontier of the Reaves, three lives collide: a Nothman sword-maiden who must choose between a cage and a war, a horse lord who sustains his people through monstrous necessity, and a disgraced imperial bodyguard drowning in a […]
Cover Reveal: And Then There is the Bard by D. W. Walters
Blurb A party of heroes, who are far from zeroes. Quests to slay a dragon, so join the bandwagon. But with such high stakes, do they have what it takes?
Guest Post: Self-Pub: A Very Merry Midyear Report by Michael Michel
Luck is nice, being willing to tirelessly grind is better. Since I started my publishing journey over three years ago in 2023, I’ve managed to stay in the green every year. Not only that, but I increased my income in each subsequent year. It’s not necessarily because I’m “one of the lucky ones” but that […]
COVER REVEAL: Stranded (Sanguine Stars) by Nicholas W. Fuller
Blurb Poey Targe is stranded. His skug-sucking captors dragged his ass all the way across the galaxy to who-the-hell-knows-where instead of just killing him when they forced him to watch his home planet’s destruction. Fortunately, even on this mud ball in the middle of nowhere there’s a bit of civilization; enough that there’s a bar […]
Guest Post: Why Sci-Fi Still Doesn’t Have Its Hogwarts by Josh Weiss-Roessler
Brakebills. Mystwick. Avalon Academy. And, yes, Hogwarts. Fantasy is full of schools where discovery is part of the (literal) magic. They serve as places where students can grow, stumble, and slowly figure out who they are. In many ways, they’re not just a home away from home – they become home. Which is what made […]
Cover Reveals: Whispers of the Storm & Rising Gale (Song of the Damned Book #1-2) by Z.B. Steele
Blurb REDLIN OF THE WOLVESVANGUARD, LEGEND, ASSASSIN, REAPERListen to my story:I wasn’t always the monster they see me as. Half of the songs they sing are stories of my grandeur. The other half are tales of my misdeeds.The sad truth is that they’re all true.So, listen to my tale and learn why it all happened. […]
Excerpt: A Dance in the Dust: A Prelude to the Last Ballad by Scott Palmer
A Note on the Last Ballad Reading Order: I called this the Last Ballad Series with the idea that I could write an epic fantasy series like a song—a song that echoed across tens of thousands of years, across multiple continents, cultures, religions, families, and people. A song of myth, and legend, heroes, and of […]