Derek Prior's Blog: D.P. Prior - Fantasy Author & Editor
May 25, 2022
Nameless Dwarf Discounts
Annals of the Nameless Dwarf is a completed 9-book fantasy series. It's available on all platforms, but the best and cheapest place to buy is direct from my store (link below).
I retain more of the sales price, which means I can afford to give substantial stackable discounts.
As well as discounted ebooks, the store also has a limited number of signed hard cover editions.
Please take a look!
Book 1: Free
50% off Mountain of Madness
25% off Curse of the Black Axe
25% off Land of Nightmare
15% off Skull of the Lich Lord
15% off Fate of the Dwarf Lords
10% off Last of the Exalted
10% off Dead Dwarves Don't Die
10% off Tomb of the Witch Queen
https://homunculusbooks.com
I retain more of the sales price, which means I can afford to give substantial stackable discounts.
As well as discounted ebooks, the store also has a limited number of signed hard cover editions.
Please take a look!
Book 1: Free
50% off Mountain of Madness
25% off Curse of the Black Axe
25% off Land of Nightmare
15% off Skull of the Lich Lord
15% off Fate of the Dwarf Lords
10% off Last of the Exalted
10% off Dead Dwarves Don't Die
10% off Tomb of the Witch Queen
https://homunculusbooks.com
November 9, 2021
New audiobook: Dead Dwarves Don't Die
My narration debut... Just released today. Special launch price of $7.99 (RRP $24.99)
#epicfantasy #audiobook #NewReleases
@FindawayVoices
#namelessdwarf #audiobooks
Check out the sample in the link below and let me know if you like it!
https://bit.ly/303wXEr
Dead Dwarves Don't Die
#epicfantasy #audiobook #NewReleases
@FindawayVoices
#namelessdwarf #audiobooks
Check out the sample in the link below and let me know if you like it!
https://bit.ly/303wXEr
Dead Dwarves Don't Die
May 12, 2020
Last of the Exalted
My new novel, Last of the Exalted, is available for pre-order. If you're quick, you can get the pre-order for $2.99, but only until midnight tonight (Tuesday 12th May, 2020). RRP is $7.99
Last of the Exalted has been a long time coming. The first draft was completed two years ago. It has since been through multiple edits, test reads, and revisions. Finally, with the restoration of complete creative freedom following the separation from my agent, I was able to restore the book to its original concept as a standalone set 200 years after the events of Annals of the Nameless Dwarf. Some old characters are still alive--albeit barely in a few cases; and there are some brand new characters to take the story forward.
It's designed to be accessible to new readers, but also has some nice Easter Eggs for readers of the Annals of the Nameless Dwarf series.
I'm sending out hard cover ARCs to established reviewers. If that's you, please email me at derekprior@gmail.com. I can also provide e-book ARCs.
The audiobook is already in production and is narrated by Larry Oblander.
Last of the Exalted
Last of the Exalted has been a long time coming. The first draft was completed two years ago. It has since been through multiple edits, test reads, and revisions. Finally, with the restoration of complete creative freedom following the separation from my agent, I was able to restore the book to its original concept as a standalone set 200 years after the events of Annals of the Nameless Dwarf. Some old characters are still alive--albeit barely in a few cases; and there are some brand new characters to take the story forward.
It's designed to be accessible to new readers, but also has some nice Easter Eggs for readers of the Annals of the Nameless Dwarf series.
I'm sending out hard cover ARCs to established reviewers. If that's you, please email me at derekprior@gmail.com. I can also provide e-book ARCs.
The audiobook is already in production and is narrated by Larry Oblander.
Last of the Exalted
March 29, 2018
Sorcerers' Isle audiobook narrated by Steven Pacey
The audiobook of Sorcerers’ Isle, published by Audible Studios and narrated by Steven Pacey (The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings) is now available.
Steven Pacey (born 5 June 1957 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an English actor, best known for his role as Del Tarrant in the third and fourth seasons of the sci-fi series Blake’s 7, and as a leading man in London’s West End.
Steven Pacey (born 5 June 1957 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an English actor, best known for his role as Del Tarrant in the third and fourth seasons of the sci-fi series Blake’s 7, and as a leading man in London’s West End.
December 29, 2017
Sorcerers' Isle pre-order and ARCs
The new D.P. Prior fantasy novel Sorcerers' Isle (published by Audible Studios and Homunculus Books) is available for pre-order on Amazon.
In the meantime, ARCs are available from derekpprior@gmail.com (please only apply if you can commit to leaving a review on Goodreads and on Amazon by 28th March 2018, which is the official release date).
Sorcerers' Isle
In the meantime, ARCs are available from derekpprior@gmail.com (please only apply if you can commit to leaving a review on Goodreads and on Amazon by 28th March 2018, which is the official release date).
Sorcerers' Isle
November 14, 2017
New deal: Sorcerers' Isle to Audible Studios
I'm pleased to announce Sorcerers' Isle (book one of The Shadow Cycle) has been sold to Audible Studios and is set for release in early 2018.
Thanks to my agent Laurie McLean for negotiating the deal.
Thanks to my agent Laurie McLean for negotiating the deal.
July 2, 2017
99cents Nameless Dwarf and Shader box sets
Just for today you can get the entire Legends of the Nameless Dwarf four-book series for 99 cents
and
the Shader Trilogy for 99 cents.
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and
the Shader Trilogy for 99 cents.
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February 22, 2017
New Release! DEAD OF ALIVE by D.P. Prior
Dead or Alive: A Novella of Shadrak the Unseen
Shadrak the Unseen should have known better. Stealing from one wizard on behalf of another was the sort of job he’d sworn never to take. But times were tough and grief had left its mark.
The thing that should have really warned him off, though, was that the artifact he’d been commissioned to retrieve was a ring crafted by none other than the Witch Queen of Thogani, the Desecrated City.
With the job half-done, Shadrak is caught between the minions of one wizard and the threats of the other. If he could just get the ring back to Pellor and the Stygian sorcerer who’d hired him, he’d have enough money to appease his creditors and buy himself some time.
But then his pockets are picked, the ring is taken, and the thief… is a ghost, silent, invisible.
Not daring to return to Pellor without the prize, Shadrak has no choice but to follow a barely discernible trail toward the last place in the world he wants to go:
New Londdyr, the greatest city on Aethir, where he once lorded it over the unified guilds.
And where the Senate have named him wanted…
DEAD OR ALIVE
April 24, 2016
FREE book: CARNIFEX: A PORTENT OF BLOOD
"Prior weaves a fully realized world in this rich fantasy, from history, political structure, and family life to work, food, drinking (lots of drinking), and romance." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Carnifex is a masterpiece of sword and sorcery storytelling. A visceral yet thoughtful epic." -- Bookwraiths Reviews
"Gritty, tense, and brutally tragic. High quality storytelling with great characters and a relentless plot." -- Mitchell Hogan, author of A Crucible of Souls and Aurealis Award winner.
"...by the end I did care about those people--all of them, including Carnifex, were flawed but fundamentally decent people. But I had read The Nameless Dwarf, and I knew what was coming, and how it all ends. That knowledge made the book both hard to continue reading and hard to put down." -- Black Gate Magazine
"And holy shit... the battle scenes. THE BATTLE SCENES!!! People don't actually realise how hard it is to write a good battle scene, but Prior makes it look easy. They are gripping, violent, and brilliantly choreographed." -- Smash Dragons
"A Fantasy Adventure of remarkable scope, populated by many memorable characters. Maybe D. P. Prior's finest work to date." -- Ray Nicholson (Amazon Top 1000 reviewer)
"Whenever I have high praise for a book, I usually like to find at least one aspect of the writing to challenge, but this one's got me stumped. I guess I could complain that it ended all too soon, but then there are three other volumes to enjoy..." -- Laurence Scotford
"It's not often I'm left speechless but this was one of those times. WOW!!" -- Ebookwyrm
"5 Stars is easily earned here and I'm sure it will not be long before we see this, the most unique of dwarves on the big screen! This year is indeed the year of the dwarf!!" -- Scott Morrison
From Kirkus Reviews
In this fantasy novel, a dwarf grapples with deception and a stark destiny that could save, or ruin, his people.
The Nameless Dwarf first appeared in Prior’s The Resurrection of Deacon Shader (2009) and later in his own series, collected in The Nameless Dwarf: The Complete Chronicles (2013).
Here, readers get the character’s origin story, including his name and how he came to lose it. Carnifex Thane wears the red cloak of the Ravine Guard in Arx Gravis but seldom faces real fighting in the safe and predictable city.
A theft in the Scriptorium by a homunculus, or deep gnome, is alarming, however. Even more so is a frightening and deadly incursion in the mines by a creature that the toga-clad human Aristodeus calls a golem. If golems are real, maybe the legendary Axe of the Dwarf Lords is, too. Carnifex’s brother Lucius, a scholar, wants to mount an expedition to find the Axe, but the city’s do-nothing Council opposes the plan.
Several losses send Carnifex to spar with baresarks (wild dwarfs) in the fighting circles of the lower city; feeling he has nothing left to lose, Carnifex makes the risky decision to follow his brother seeking the Axe and fulfill a fool’s prophecy: “You must forget in order to find the truth of who you are.”
Prior weaves a fully realized world in this rich fantasy, from history, political structure, and family life to work, food, drinking (lots of drinking), and romance.
The characters are also well-developed. Carnifex, for example, though a doughty fighter and drinker in the best dwarf tradition, struggles with a black-dog depression that “feasted on scraps of vitality, hunted for glimmers of hope and happiness.” Dwarf women play a larger and more vigorous role than in most fantasy novels, as when “hammering out a beat on the top of a long table, froth spraying from their whiskers.”
Immersive worldbuilding adds texture to this dark, intriguing tale about a fighter.
"Carnifex is a masterpiece of sword and sorcery storytelling. A visceral yet thoughtful epic." -- Bookwraiths Reviews
"Gritty, tense, and brutally tragic. High quality storytelling with great characters and a relentless plot." -- Mitchell Hogan, author of A Crucible of Souls and Aurealis Award winner.
"...by the end I did care about those people--all of them, including Carnifex, were flawed but fundamentally decent people. But I had read The Nameless Dwarf, and I knew what was coming, and how it all ends. That knowledge made the book both hard to continue reading and hard to put down." -- Black Gate Magazine
"And holy shit... the battle scenes. THE BATTLE SCENES!!! People don't actually realise how hard it is to write a good battle scene, but Prior makes it look easy. They are gripping, violent, and brilliantly choreographed." -- Smash Dragons
"A Fantasy Adventure of remarkable scope, populated by many memorable characters. Maybe D. P. Prior's finest work to date." -- Ray Nicholson (Amazon Top 1000 reviewer)
"Whenever I have high praise for a book, I usually like to find at least one aspect of the writing to challenge, but this one's got me stumped. I guess I could complain that it ended all too soon, but then there are three other volumes to enjoy..." -- Laurence Scotford
"It's not often I'm left speechless but this was one of those times. WOW!!" -- Ebookwyrm
"5 Stars is easily earned here and I'm sure it will not be long before we see this, the most unique of dwarves on the big screen! This year is indeed the year of the dwarf!!" -- Scott Morrison
From Kirkus Reviews
In this fantasy novel, a dwarf grapples with deception and a stark destiny that could save, or ruin, his people.
The Nameless Dwarf first appeared in Prior’s The Resurrection of Deacon Shader (2009) and later in his own series, collected in The Nameless Dwarf: The Complete Chronicles (2013).
Here, readers get the character’s origin story, including his name and how he came to lose it. Carnifex Thane wears the red cloak of the Ravine Guard in Arx Gravis but seldom faces real fighting in the safe and predictable city.
A theft in the Scriptorium by a homunculus, or deep gnome, is alarming, however. Even more so is a frightening and deadly incursion in the mines by a creature that the toga-clad human Aristodeus calls a golem. If golems are real, maybe the legendary Axe of the Dwarf Lords is, too. Carnifex’s brother Lucius, a scholar, wants to mount an expedition to find the Axe, but the city’s do-nothing Council opposes the plan.
Several losses send Carnifex to spar with baresarks (wild dwarfs) in the fighting circles of the lower city; feeling he has nothing left to lose, Carnifex makes the risky decision to follow his brother seeking the Axe and fulfill a fool’s prophecy: “You must forget in order to find the truth of who you are.”
Prior weaves a fully realized world in this rich fantasy, from history, political structure, and family life to work, food, drinking (lots of drinking), and romance.
The characters are also well-developed. Carnifex, for example, though a doughty fighter and drinker in the best dwarf tradition, struggles with a black-dog depression that “feasted on scraps of vitality, hunted for glimmers of hope and happiness.” Dwarf women play a larger and more vigorous role than in most fantasy novels, as when “hammering out a beat on the top of a long table, froth spraying from their whiskers.”
Immersive worldbuilding adds texture to this dark, intriguing tale about a fighter.
January 19, 2016
It is in blood that legends are born
Carnifex (Legends of the Nameless Dwarf Book 1) was released this week, along with books 2-4 of the series.
"Gritty, tense, and brutally tragic. High quality storytelling with great characters and a relentless plot." -- Mitchell Hogan, Aueralis Award- winner and author of A Crucible of Souls.
You can find out all about the series at http://www.dpprior.com
If you are a blogger, booktuber, or reviewer and would like to feature/review carnifex, please message me, or email namelessdwarf@dpprior.com
All other enquiries to Laurie McClean, Fuse Literary (http://www.fuseliterary.com)
"Gritty, tense, and brutally tragic. High quality storytelling with great characters and a relentless plot." -- Mitchell Hogan, Aueralis Award- winner and author of A Crucible of Souls.
You can find out all about the series at http://www.dpprior.com
If you are a blogger, booktuber, or reviewer and would like to feature/review carnifex, please message me, or email namelessdwarf@dpprior.com
All other enquiries to Laurie McClean, Fuse Literary (http://www.fuseliterary.com)
