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Hungry Eyes is Out

My Valducan short, Hungry Eyes, is now available in the SNAFU: Hunters anthology.

Description: Paris, 2009– Something lurks beneath the City of Light and Valducan knights NickTavitian, Colin Delaney, and new recruit Malcolm Romero intend to find it. But as they search the catacombs for their quarry, something hungry is watching them from the darkness.

It was a lot of fun to write and will work very well into Ibenus, which references this particular adventure. I hope you all enjoyit.

Other st...

Ibenus Cover Reveal and a New Look

On December 27th, 2013, Joe Martin with Ragnarok Publications sent me a message saying, “Something for you to look at.” It accompanied my very first glimpse of Dämoren’s cover. It was still a bit rough. I hadn’t secured my blurb from Elizabeth Bear yet, the gun had a couple tweaks left to do, but it was the cover. It was MY cover, and it was amazing. After a fewmore weeks, we had the finished product.

I love this cover.

It graces my business cards, even my mouse pad. As I type this, it hangs...

2015 in Review

This year has been incredible. In the 10 years since my first sale, 2015 was the first time I openly referred to myself as an author. Before that, it felt sort of weird, like I was some wanna-be pretending I was something that I wasn’t. Even after Dämorenreleased in 2014, I was apprehensive about throwing that title out because I remembered some opinion piece that said to be called an author, one must have two published book. It’s silly, I know, but I was never able to really put my chin up...

Sea of Quills is on Audible

Audiobook lovers can now find Sea of Quills on Audible, narrated by R.C. Bray. While I haven’t finished my initial listen (I’m halfway through City Beneath the Kaisers right now), I can safely say that R.C. hasdone another fantastic job bringing Ahren to life. It’s been ten years since I penned my first Black Raven adventure and I’m very happy to finally have both books fully out.

In other news, I’ve finished the first draft of Ibenus and am making a few final edits before sending it off to R...

The Serpent’s Army is Out

The first of my Valducan Archive Adventures is out. Set twenty years before Dämoren, The Serpent’s Army follows knights Clay Mercer and Max Schmidt as they hunt a lamia outside of Dallas Texas. I thought it would be fun to show them when they were young, capablehunters, and wanted to try a “buddy cop” sort of feel with it. I’ve touched onlamia in bothDämoren and Hounacier, but never had a good opportunity to really show them off until now. Also… biker gang.

I enjoyed writing Schmidt so much t...

Review of The Gentleman Bastards (1-3)

Two years ago, I was bumming around a bookstore and saw display that stopped me cold. It was for a newly released book, and the cover depicted two figures dressed to the nines in Venetian masks and attire. Now, I’ve mentionedbefore that I’m a huge fan of Venetian Carnival, so it’s no surprisethat I was immediately, “Oh hey there, Good Lookin’. You waitin’ for me?” The novel was Republic of Thieves, a title that also completely had my interest. Picking it up, I read the back, and was sad to se...

Sea of Quills is Out

Once again, a lunar eclipse had heralded a book release. My second Black Raven collection, Sea of Quills is out on Kindle today. Other formats, including Audible, will be available shortly. Needless to say, I’m very excited. I want to thank Tim Marquitz, Joe Martin, and Jason Waltz for making this happen.

In honor of the release, I have a guest Blog over at The Quillery, discussing why we love fictional thieves. I also have an interview over at Galleywampus where I discuss Black Raven as well...

Story Acceptance – Hungry Eyes

I’m very happy to announce that my short story Hungry Eyes has been accepted by Cohesion Press for their upcoming SNAFU: Hunters anthology.

Set in 2009, thiswill be part of my Valducan Archive Adventures. It follows Malcolm, Colin, and Nick as they explore the Paris catacombs in search of a demon. I had a lot of fun with this one since Colin was one of the characters inDämoren that I just didn’t have enough time to really expand on. Nick has been referred to several times, but we never got to...

So You Want To Be An Editor

Recently, I was joking about how I want a 1920/30’s movie about some paranormal or occultish investigators, similar to a Call of Cthulhu game. I threw out the title ‘Fedoras, Flappers, Tommyguns, and Tentacles’ and said that might actually make a good title for an anthology. It was mentioned that I should make that anthology and instantly my mood changed from a joking “What if” to avery serious“Oh, hell no.”

Being an editor is a lot of work. And by that I mean, BEING AN EDITOR IS A METRIC SHI...

Mountain of Daggers is on Audible

Mountain of Daggers is now available on Audible, narrated by R.C. Bray. Once again, R.C. has done a fantastic job.

I’ve said before how scary, yet exciting, it is to hear your story for the first time. Ahren has been with me for a long while, and getting to not only hear his voice, but also Volker, Polncoh, and all the others, is simply amazing. I hope everyone enjoys his adventures.

While listening the the first story, “Birth of the Black Raven”, I started wondering how long ago it was that...