N.J. Pflug

I write epic fantasy about consequence and complacency. THE PRICE OF SILENCE opens the ALL SHALL KNEEL saga. Grimdark, hard magic, slow-burn revenge.

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I market things for a living. The best thing I've done for my novel was never in a plan: Big Jerk Soda, down the road in Pensacola, is making a can to match the cover. Free with every copy at the stores that stock it. First two stores sold out in a week. #IndieAuthor #Pensacola

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@dawbooks Darker, every time. Fall is grimdark season.

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@Grimdark_Mag Feels right for a Kristoff book. Last reviewer standing earns it.

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@misterkristoff Sealing the hells and the heavens and calling it enlightenment is exactly the kind of peace that can't last. Great setup.

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@orbitbooks Dracula meets The Devil Wears Prada in an 1898 fashion house is a pitch that sells itself before the cover even loads.

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@Grimdark_Mag Schadenfreude and catharsis in one book is a hard balance to strike. That review makes a strong case for it.

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@epic_meow1 Forty chapters is commitment. Logistics done right is the most underrated kind of battle scene.

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@the_book_hermit @sffinsiders @Mark__Lawrence A finalist review with an official score every week is a lot of reading. Appreciate the work that goes into these.

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@Bestsellerpub The quartermaster. Nobody writes songs about the one who made sure the army had boots, but nobody wins without them.

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@Justin_O_Rose Congrats. The first thousand are the hardest, and every one of them chose to be there.

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@RoboftheHayes Special editions have become a real front door to indie fantasy. Congrats on the next wave.

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@LordGrimdark Every good library and bookshop has a Stuart. The shelf only does half the work; the person pointing at it does the rest.

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You don’t close this book feeling comforted. You close it feeling awake.The Price of Silence offers no easy victories or clean resolutions, only choices made in the dark and a world nearing collapse.Leave a review and help another reader discover the saga: https://t.co/0lFJB1SS2p

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The price of silence is paid by everyone left standing.Volume 0 lays the foundation for the All Shall Kneel Saga. Enter Kian Grey’s story, learn the rules of Aether, and discover a dark fantasy built on precision and consequence.Finished reading? https://t.co/0lFJB1TpRX

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The academy didn’t train heroes. It contained the fallout.

When its trials ignite a city uprising, the Empire learns what happens when trained weapons have no war to fight. The ending sets an unstoppable chain reaction in motion.

React without spoilers: https://t.co/0lFJB1SS2p

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No chosen ones. No unearned power. Just cold consequence.

Tired of heroes who win through emotional outbursts? The Price of Silence follows an antihero who calculates every move like a chess match whose final state he already knows.

Add it to your TBR: https://t.co/0lFJB1SS2p

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He didn’t give her flowers. He handed her the only weapon he never releases.

No one gets close to Kian Grey. Rima is the exception. Giving her his blade isn’t romance. It’s trust from someone never meant to stay.

Which character dynamic hit you hardest?

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The story began with an outcome rather than Chapter One.

The Price of Silence unfolds backward as Kian Grey executes a conclusion set when he left the Void. Is it a linear plot or a puzzle-box narrative?
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Equipment in Velcis isn’t decorative. It’s functional horror.

Armor adapts to the nervous system. Talismans conduct raw spatial magic. In The Price of Silence, every object serves the Empire’s brutal design.

Save for worldbuilding inspiration.

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The Price of Silence. First instalment of the ALL SHALL KNEEL saga.

An assassin with a list of names written in blood. A military academy where power is measured by command over aether. A protagonist who cannot channel a drop of it.

Out now.
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