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Free Books During Smashwords Read an Ebook Week Sale

To celebrate Read an Ebook Week, Smashwords is having a sale. As a part, the eBook versions of Not Gods But Monsters , A Prison of Flesh and The Fifth Era of Man will be free to purchase.

Sale Dates: March 3 - March 9

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Throwback Thursday: Art from Not Gods But Monsters

A long time ago, long before the first line of the current Not Gods But Monsters was penned, the project was known as Fantasma. While there were a lot of similar elements and themes shared between the two tales, there is a number of items that never made the final cut into the final release. As with the current books, I did artwork for the original tale, including a number of character illustrations.

Below is posted a pair of original pieces (from the JBB Instagram account) and a comparison o...

Free Books During Smashwords End of Year Sale

As a part of Smashwords 2nd Annual End of Year Sale, the eBook versions of Not Gods But Monsters and A Prison of Flesh will be free.

If you’re interested, all you have to do is visit Smashwords between 12:01 Pacific time on December 25th and 11:59pm Pacific time on January 1st.

You got that? Pacific time. Which means if you’re in another time zone, you need to do some math.

The Art of TKK: Callie and Ceosan

Part two of the series for The Killing Kind. This pairing features a younger Callie Evans (around 14 during this story) and the Moa’rehnzan despot, Carolus Res Ceosan.

Fun fact: Much like the blue highlights found in the illustrations for A Prison of Flesh, the green color was supposed to tie in with color scheme of the book cover. The change to bronze was made well after this series was completed.

For part one, click here.

" Hair that had been curly and blonde was now knotted and caked with...

The Art of TKK: O'mas and Zonda

As with the earlier entries in the series, I worked up a series of character sketches on prominent characters in The Killing Kind. Much like A Prison of Flesh, this series is a set of four, with a limited color palette. Just like the blue used for APOF, this set features green as a major identifying color. Below are the first two in the series.

"The stubble along his jawline proved poor buffer to the sharp cold that dulled the feeling in his bare skin. As he scratched the thinning patch of ha...

The Art of TKK: Cover Painting

For those familiar with earlier books in the Realm of Tah’afajien series, the cover for Book 3 falls in line, layout-wise, with Book 2, where the image is features a major character and a prominent location in the story. This time around, the focus fell on Marianus O’mas and the Moa’rehnzan capital city of Gran’rehnza.

In truth, the painting did not end up how I originally intended it to be. As you can tell by the unfinished painting (see image on right), I originally considered illustrating...

Available Now: The Killing Kind

What horrors are uncovered when soldiers are sent on a secret mission deep behind enemy lines to end the machinations of an autocratic despot who thinks he’s rules with divine guidance?

Author Joshua Banker releases Book Three of his Realm of Tah’afajien series.

Author Joshua Banker announces the release of his fourth full-length work, The Killing Kind. Banker’s prequel to Not Gods But Monsters is a speculative fiction novel which blends elements of science-fiction and diesel-punk fantasy to...

Free to Read: The Killing Kind Chapter 04

As I've done with all my previous books, I’m adding a chapter of my upcoming release, The Killing Kind to the Free To Read program, where readers can get a sneak peak of a single chapter of the book to read here or download for reading on your mobile devices.

Feel free to have a read. Download links for PDF, ePub or MOBI are below.

You can also find Free to Read Chapters for my other books:

Not Gods But Monsters

A Prison of Flesh

The Fifth Era of Man

Links

PDF

ePub

Kindle (.mobi)

Book 3 is a Prequel?

The Killing Kind, the third book in the Realm of Tah’afajien series is a prequel that happens over a decade before the beginning of Not Gods But Monsters. Book 3 provides context, not only for what transpires during books 1 and 2 but for the series' eventual endgame. Think of it like The Phantom Menace (but, you know, better (hopefully)). Or like when they decided to film the Hobbit movies well after the Lord of the Rings.

It has always been my intent that the series was to be arranged as t...

Coming Soon - The Killing Kind to release on November 13th, 2018

Book 3 of Realm of Tah'afajien series and prequel to Not Gods But Monsters will be available in trade paperback and eBook on November 13, 2018.

About The Killing Kind

Lieutenant Marianus O'mas thought his days with the Intelligence Division were over. He’d made it pretty clear that he was done, and yet, soldiers came for him. After a cross-country trip takes him to Commander Lynwell, O’mas discovers why he is summoned: Moa’rehnza's autocratic government has sent invaders to attack Verenigen's...