E.C. Myers's Blog

Happy pub day to LITTLE NIGHTMARES: THE LONELY ONES

I love the Little Nightmares video games, and it was thrilling to bring the atmosphere and mystery of the series to the written page. Thank you to Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe and Scholastic for trusting me with such an intricate and compelling world. I hope all the other LN fans out there read and enjoy this original story. If you do, please consider telling your friends, requesting it from your library, and leaving a review. And don’t forget to pick up Little Nightmares III on October 10...

Sometimes the adventure chooses you

I missed the announcement in Publishers Lunch, but FYI: I wrote a Choose Your Own Adventure! It’s called Kaiju Gaga, a book for younger readers about a romp through a museum where a movie prop egg cracks and a real-life baby monster emerges.

CYOA was a big part of my childhood, and young me never could have dreamed I would get to write one. I hope when this book debuts early next year, YOU will choose this adventure! I promise that it’s monstrous fun for kids and kaiju enthusiasts.

Gamers Pub Day!

Gamers: Attempting Connection is out today! If you are a gamer, or the parent of a gamer, or just game-curious, please pick this one up wherever books are available (including and especially your local library). Of all the books I’ve had published so far, writing this one felt the most like play.

In addition to being an author, I’m a parent, and a gamer, and a live streamer—and Gamers brought all of those diverse experiences together. I would love to make video games too, but at least in this bo...

Stream Team Pub Day!

The Stream Team #1: Battle Squad is out today! It should be available wherever books are sold, or you can request it from your local library. This was a fun book to write with NickEh30 and the team at Andrews McMeel Kids, and I hope kids (and kids at heart) enjoy reading about Teddy, Stackz, Tina, and Yuri.

Anyone who likes playing Fortnite or watching people play Fortnite, or streaming video games themselves should check out Battle Squad. But you don’t have to take my word for it: Publishers W...

Pre-order THE STREAM TEAM today!

My new middle grade novel The Stream Team: Battle Squad, written with Fortnite streamer Nick Eh 30 and illustrated by Ronaldo Barata, will be published next week on March 18 by Andrews McMeel Kids! This is a really fun story about a group of live streamers who band together to stop a global infection straight out of a video game, which turns regular people into “the Glitched.” Fortunately the kids end up with some super powers of their own, but it’s their personal strength, heart, and teamwork t...

Two new books out!

I have two new books out, for fans of Five Nights at Freddy’s and Choose Your Own Adventure books.

The Week Before is an interactive prequel novel to the video game that started it all, featuring YOU in the role of the famous “Phone Guy,” with two difficulty settings, hidden secrets, and more than 50 endings. It’s available now as a paperback wherever books are sold and as an eBook for your favorite eReader.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the FNAF franchise, VIP is a FREE eBook giving you a...

New Short Story in The Sunday Morning Transport!

I have a new short story in The Sunday Morning Transport, “Alone With Your Thoughts”:

In this week’s story, E. C. Myers entangles life’s last moments with a startling new technology. One that might change everything.

If you don’t already have a subscription (you should), click here for a free 60-day trial subscription, so you can read both my stories in The Sunday Morning Transport and many others! Please enjoy, and thank you for reading and sharing.

Where Honor Lives

[image error]Overwatch 2: Heroes Ascendantis now available! I was thrilled to contribute a Hanzo short story to this anthology, “Where Honor Lives.” Like the game, writing it was a team effort with the talented editorial, narrative, and lore folks at Blizzard Entertainment. I love how it turned out and I hope you do too. Please pick it up at your local book or comic shop or online.

Experience the story of Overwatch 2 from a multiple points of view in this star-studded short story collection, featuring eigh...

The Lonely Way

My episode of The Sounds of Nightmares, “The Lonely Way,” is out today on YouTube and your favorite podcast platforms!

It was an honor and a joy to collaborate with writer and showrunner Lonnie Nadler and the BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe team in writing the conclusion to the first ever Little Nightmares audio drama. They are all amazingly talented storytellers and passionate about this beloved video game franchise.

The soundscape of the series is phenomenal—truly nightmarish—and

GAMERS in 2025

Look for the first book in my new middle grade series GAMERS from Pixel + Ink in early 2025! A story for the young and young at heart, celebrating how video games can bring us together and make lives better.—Kate Egan at Pixel + Ink has acquired Gamers, a middle grade series by E.C. Myers, in which a group of kids who love gaming comes together to form a competitive e-sports league, and discovers that strategies from gaming also help them handle other issues in their lives. Publication of the ...