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Hood and the Highwaymen

Hood and the Highwaymen is now available on Amazon (and it's in KU). This was my 2018 Patreon story where my patron voted on the direction of the story after each instalment.

Aubrey is a Red Hood, one of the king’s dispensers of justice. He likes that the job gets him out of the city, but he tires of seeing too many abuse the privileges of the role. After three hoods go missing in Nightlark Woods while supposedly capturing the highwaymen, Aubrey is sent to investigate. The king warns him to be careful of werewolves, but Aubrey doesn’t believe in peasant superstitions. 

Lyle and Jardin are forest folk; they live in the woods not the town. They keep the trails clear and eke out an existence. For Jardin it’s not enough. He wants more than scrabbling around to survive. With his lover, Lyle, he has been robbing the rich as they travel through. Some of the coins they share with the rest of the village, the rest go into their cache for the day they leave. Jardin isn’t sure he’s ready to leave his pack—he is one of the few werewolves still roaming the woods. If he leaves, he won’t be allowed back, but he hungers for more. 

When Aubrey arrives in Nightlark, he finds far more than he expected. Can he protect the wolves and serve his king? Or will he follow his heart and carve out a new life for himself far away from court intrigues?


I have a new story running on Patreon this year, The Witch's Familiar. You can check it out for $1/m.

Lust and other Drugs

Lust and Other Drugs book 1 in the mytho series (my new series) is up for preorder and will be out on April 2 2019.
https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/boo...

Lots of mythological creatures, crime, a dragon shapeshifter with an invisibility problem and a cop with a Bliss habit and they most definitely shouldn't be getting together... :)

New series

I have a new urban fantasy series starting in mid 2019.
Lust and other Drugs is book 1.

There be dragons...
And satyrs...
And a dead body or two...
And a cop who the dragon really shouldn't be involved with...

Blood for the Spilling

Here's a little teaser from Blood for the Spilling:

Terrance took control of the ball. Something was different this time, though Angus couldn’t say what. He watched sports for the aesthetics of the players, not for the rules, and the rules here were vastly more deadly than he was used to. He didn’t doubt Terrance’s fitness or skill as a sportsman. Terrance knew how to get in the right place as the ball was passed between him and his partner.
But then he ran at the wall, and Angus stopped breathing. What was he doing? Was he going for the hoop? If he failed….
People were cheering—for failure or success, Angus didn’t know. The words became lost in a roar of rising emotion, a tide of magic that needed direction. And Terrance was a warlock who’d had wizard parents.
The ball spun off his partner’s arm toward Terrance, who met it midair in a move that should’ve been impossible, that was impossible without magic. The ball hit his forearm and was redirected toward the hoop, still high above.
The crowd took a collective gasp. It would be counted as an attempt, and failure would end the match. While the other team had made some effort to get close, they hadn’t taken a shot at the hoop. Had they acted as though the hoop was their plan to force Terrance’s team to act rashly?
Angus’s heart stopped beating as the ball flew through the air and silence filled the court.
It was going to hit the edge and bounce away. Terrance would be killed. Angus closed his eyes. He couldn’t watch. He couldn’t breathe.

Preorder link: https://www.dsppublications.com/books...

Coming in December....

The Legend of Gentleman John will be out in December as part of the Dreamspinner Press Advent Calendar :)
There are fairies and bushrangers and it's set in Tasmania (where I grew up).

Werewolf on sale!

A Wolf's Resistance is on sale until the end of the month (June) for 99c.
kindle: https://amzn.to/2twUQkI
Dreamspinner store: https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/boo...

Weekend Writing Warriors--Hood and the Highwaymen

I have a story that I'm writing on Patreon where at the end of each part patrons get to choose from three options what happens next. I thought I'd share a snippet from part 1. (Part 3 goes up on the 1st of May).
~~~Lyle stuck his hand in the leather pouch around the man’s waist. Dried blood stained the leather dark. The inside was sticky and cold. He pulled out several half-crowns a gold ring with some kind of marking and a dozen coppers that would buy a day’s bread for a family.

He wiped his fingers on the dead man’s scarlet cloak and then cleaned each of the coins on the expensive fabric. It was a luxury they couldn’t afford to keep.

“What did you get?” Jardin leaned on the shovel, his dark hair sticking to his forehead. His shirt clung to him in all the right places, but for all the wrong reasons. They shouldn’t be doing this again.~~~If you want to follow along or help pick the direction of the story you can follow me here: 
https://www.patreon.com/TJNichols/http://www.wewriwa.com/

Hood and the Highwaymen

This weekend I'm working on the next part o Hood and the Highwaymen, the story (novel?) I'm writing over on Patreon. After each part I put up three options about what could happen next which my patron then vote on. For me this means I can't plot too far in advance, for my patrons they get to help choose how they want the story to go (it will have a HEA). The first 2 parts are available to read so if you like werewolves, Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood (I've written a post over there about the influences of this story) check it out.
https://www.patreon.com/TJNichols
Hood and the Highwaymen

Cover Reveal

I know some of you have been waiting for a very long time for this (and release day is still a few months away--May 22). But here is the cover for Rogue in the Making (Studies in Demonology 2).
Hmm...Demonside looks a little different...

Patreon story

I now have a Patreon page where I'll be writing a new story called Hood and the Highwaymen. I wanted to try something a little different so after I've written each part there will be three different options to vote on, so you get to help choose the direction of the story :)
https://www.patreon.com/TJNichols