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November 23, 2016
New Series Plus Extra!
First… I can finally reveal the new secret project I’ve been working on! A brand new shared world and collaborative Urban Fantasy series taking Arthurian legends and bringing them into the modern world. Twelve New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling authors – including Lilith Saintcrow, CJ Lyons, Joseph Nassise, Steven Savile, and me!! are all working together to bring you peeps a new series under the name Rowan Casey. We’ll have a new book in the series every month (two this month!) so there’s no waiting on my slow ass to get you books for this one, hehe.
The first book is available for only $0.99 for the first week, so get it quick HERE. Book 2 comes out in less than a week!
Also, Hunting Season (20sided book 4) is now out in audio! Go to Audible to get it HERE.
In 20sided news, book 8 is in progress and should be done and out in December as promised. Thank you all for your patience and enjoy the Veil Knights while you are waiting.
Also, if you need *even* more reading material… The Barrows is included in a Storybundle this month: Go HERE for that.
Other awesome books in the bundle are displayed in this cool cover compilation, so check it out!
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November 15, 2016
November 2016 Update
First… some good news! New box set featuring my dark fairytale novel A Heart in Sun and Shadow plus nine other fantasy novels cover multiple sub-genres from epic to urban fantasy. It’s $0.99 for a limited time and also available in Kindle Unlimited to borrow. Get it here.
Other news… next week I’ll be announcing a new Urban Fantasy project I’m super excited about. Just one more week of secrecy and I can finally talk about it, yay!
The recent election here in the USA has some potential real-world impacts on my life that I won’t go into, but I bring it up because one of the immediate ones is that I won’t be releasing Harper’s novel this year for personal reasons. It’s a side novel and doesn’t effect the main plot of The Twenty-Sided Sorceress, so it won’t delay book 8. Harper’s book is just too close to some things in my life right now and I don’t feel like I can finish it properly at this time. Thank you for understanding. I’ll still have Dungeon Crawl out in December. I think we could all use some Jade kicking ass right now.
That’s the news for November. Thank you!
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October 24, 2016
October 2016 Update
Quick update.
Harper’s book is taking longer than I expected. The themes in this book are very close to home for me and I want to make sure I do it justice. I’m almost done, but considering time for external editing and formatting etc, it’ll be another couple weeks until release, sorry.
Book 8 is in progress also (yay juggling multiple deadlines) though I’ve set it aside for the moment to give Harper full attention at the end here. But I don’t foresee missing any deadlines on book 8, so still aiming for that to release before end of 2016.
Also have a secret project I’m involved in that I think ya’ll will love and that should be revealed soon, too!
In even better news, just approved the audio for book 4 of 20sided, so Hunting Season should be up on Audible within the next two weeks (depends on how long it takes them on their end to get it live). It sounds awesome. 
October 4, 2016
Level Grind
It’s here! Release day for the new omnibus paperback and hardcover(!!!) editions of The Twenty-Sided Sorceress. Books 1-4 are collected here in Level Grind, with 5-7 to come in January in Boss Fight.
The book should be available in your local bookstore, but if you want to order online, here are some handy links:
Powell’s Books (my local bookstore, and I’m going to go sign some stock, so there’s always a chance of grabbing a signed copy)
Tribes: Harper’s Tale is coming in a couple weeks, Dungeon Crawl (book 8 of 20sided) by Christmas. Meanwhile, enjoy the awesome paperbacks! They’ll make a nice set.
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September 16, 2016
September Update
Finishing up Harper’s book, Tribes, this week. Which means given time needed for edits and formatting etc, odds are it might not come out exactly in September, sorry. Might be the first week of October. The print volumes for the first 4 Twenty-Sided Sorceress books are also out first week of October, so it’ll be like double bonus? Shiny hardcover 20sided. I am going to hoard ALL the copies.
Tribes has been scary and awesome to write. It’s longer than any 20sided book so far (you peeps asked for longer books, I’m doing my best to deliver while still keeping up action and fast pace that I love so much, hehe), and maybe the nerdiest thing I’ve written, which you know is saying a lot. I’ve only done a little cosplay, so I had to do tons of research for various characters in this. I did almost lose part of a finger (3 stitches!) to making a bunny fur bikini once, but I’m not great at sewing or crafts unless you count painting D&D minis (and I’m only decent-ish at that). Anyway, enough rambling about a book you can’t read for at least 2 more weeks, sorry!
Brood Mother, the last Gryphonpike Chronicles novella (there will be 4 novels, it isn’t the end of GPC just end of novella length GPC) is basically done but again needs edits etc and I set it aside to work on Tribes.
Dungeon Crawl, Book 8 of 20sided, will be out by Christmas/Holidays. I’m not going to give a harder deadline than that until it is done, for obvious reasons.
Also have a couple other crazy projects in the works that I’ll be excited to announce. Tease? Why yes.
So that’s the September update.
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September 10, 2016
The Little Extras in Life
(If you haven’t read books 6 and 7 of The Twenty-Sided Sorceress, this post contains a giant spoiler. You were warned!)
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Peeps!!!! The awesome artist Rob Carlos (http://www.colorsmith.com/) drew/painted his interpretation of Jade’s dragon (taking only from description in the text plus his imagination of course).
It’s finally done. I get the painted version hanging in my office. Ya’ll get the digital of it here. If enough people want, I’ll see if Rob can offer prints of it etc as well. Please respect the copyright of the artist.
August 16, 2016
Quick Update for August
Working on Harper’s book still. Hoping to have that out in September, so look for it then. Also finishing up the fifth Gryphonpike Chronicles novella, which will be the last novella-length work in that series. After that I’m planning on a novel (working title: Into the North) to bridge Gryphonpike Chronicles over to the trilogy Gryphonpike Legends which will come in 2017/2018 and likely wrap up Killer’s story.
So… the good news is, more books coming soon! And they’ll be longer!
Bad news is not sure I’ll be ready with anything in August. So hopefully two releases (the last GPC novella- Brood Mother, and Tribes: Harper’s Tale) in September. Then book 8 of 20Sided Sorceress should follow in November. Plus the re-release of the awesome hardcover omnibus edition in October.
Lots of good stuff coming, thanks for your patience! Meanwhile, book 2 in The Twenty-Sided Sorceress is on sale at .99 and book 1 is still free, so if you aren’t catching up yet on the series, what you waiting for?
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June 13, 2016
Big Announcement!
I’ve sold the print rights to The Twenty-Sided Sorceress to Saga Press! They will be putting out two collected editions, one with the first four books, one with the books five through seven.
What does that mean for the books? It means you can get them in hardcover or trade paper! It also means that very shortly, the paperback versions of the individual books will disappear. The ebooks are still up and for sale of course and nothing will change there.
For details, see the reveal post on the Barnes&Noble Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog!
To pre-order the first volume (books 1-4 in Level Grind):
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June 8, 2016
Schedule Shift
Well, I *was* going to take more of a break from Twenty-Sided Sorceress and work on a couple Pyrrh novels, but I’ve fallen behind due to a few factors (one of which is this year I’m putting health first instead of work first, sorry). That and, as I sit here finishing up a new Gryphonpike novella which should be live by July or so, Harper won’t stop crawling into my head and telling me all about what happens in her book. I have enough notes about her book now to practically be an outline in and of themselves, ha.
So… I’m pushing Pyrrh off until end of year/X-mas time and going to work on Harper’s book and probably Dungeon Crawl next. Again, no promises on release dates, but I’m loosely aiming for September for at least Tribes (Harper’s novel).
I’m also working on a secret Urban Fantasy collaborative project that I hope I can announce by this fall. It fell into my lap and I think it’s awesome and couldn’t resist saying yes.
So yeah. Once again, plate is full but hey, 20sided sooner than later is good, right? 
April 22, 2016
New Audiobook
A lot of people asked for an audio book of the omnibus for the first three Twenty-Sided Sorceress books, so here it is! Get on Audible. Or get it from the Amazon store.
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