Things we've unlocked through only a week of Kickstarter:
Foiled dustjacket
Two additional art pieces for all tiers
An audiobook for all tiers
New shiny things we can unlock in the next 2.5 weeks:
A map.
A spirit glossary.
A single-page manga panel.
Thank you so much to everyone joining Kazuki on his journey.
One of my first experiences in the indie author community was seeing my cover lose a cover contest to an AI book cover despite there being a no-AI rule.
Artists came out and said “that’s AI” and authors… refused to believe it. The artists were disparaged. It was ugly. And it🧵
Indie characters you cannot forget.
1. Cael Oberlan - Crown & Tide @mikesroberti
2. Quinne Voxx - Death Show Colossus @williamjadams3
3. Muradi - Obsidian @Siennafrst
4. Lin - Binding Tenets @Stat_Mo1
5. Pon-Pon - Yasekigatari @PinsonBaptiste
I might make another list!!
No Heart for a Thief is now on audiobook. @dcmryder delivers an outstanding performance. It is available at all major audiobook retailers. Please check it out.
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Do you like poetic prose? Introspective characters? Are you interested in non-standard fantasy settings crafted with respect and a love for the influences ?Perhaps simply supporting smaller artists/creators trying to break out in a sea of releases?
Well, I've got an upcoming release for you available for pre-order. Coming late June.
Ku leaves home with his missing mother's rules and his dead father’s sword, venturing north into the unknown. Demons, spirits, and Gods all haunt his steps, and the closer he gets to the truth, the further from himself he becomes. His name forgotten.
Can he find his mother, or will the wild consume him?
@LordTBR_FFA Crushing it!!
I remember killing the reading challenge so hard in middle school that I won a trophy for earning the most page reads/points for the entire school.
I miss those days of freedom, lol.
Hey everyone, today's my second day back at work from paternity leave.
I'm a big dummy who thought I could manage both the cover reveal and the work day, and boy I was ✨️WRONG✨️ but I wanted to say thank you all so much for the outpouring of love
COVER REVEALS
Ecstatic to help my boi @ZB_Steele reveal the new covers for 'Whispers of the Storm' and 'Rising Gale', Books 1 & 2 in his 'Song of the Damned' series.
Both by the GOAT @jeffbrown67
New ebook cover for Whispers goes LIVE today, Rising Gale releases on June 16th.
Extremely excited to show off the new covers for...
SONG OF THE DAMNED
Whispers of the Storm & Rising Gale
Art by the GOAT @jeffbrown67
Interior design of the physicals (available Friday! If you want a copy of the OG, order now!) done by the electric @monteroauthor
Since I've read Our Lady of Blades, Fall of Hyperion, and Shadows Upon Time in the front half of 2026, these are the 4 I'm most excited for in the the back half!
@MichaelBookCult@NoahsBrisk@Pierce_Brown@JVA_writes
I realized I haven't released stats in awhile, but the anniversary of Bloodless has come and passed, and with He Who Ate the Wild hot on the horizon, I thought sharing some humble stats for the Binding Tenets Trilogy would be cool.
Bloodwoven has the benefit of being the first in the series and having audio (but Bloodbound is in the works).
The graphs don't account for direct sales/events or freebie copies, but those numbers are all pretty good.
I started in 2024 after turning down a revise and resubmit (of my bio) with a goal of dropping a new book every 6 months. A pace I've more or less kept, even if some of the books were novellas, like The Not So Mundane Mysteries of Norman Melamourne.
I'm beyond thankful for the friends and fans I've made along the way, and if things go well, my "new release every 6 months" goal will continue to be met this year with a possible fall release of my long teased Cracks of the Deepest Black-- cover reveal sometime in September (I think)
Is it too many books from me? Maybe lol. Do I care? A bit yes, tbh. Will I stop? Possibly, but as long as even the shadow of demand is there, I'll keep trying to put out fantasy books that were a joy to create.
Just this week, for two very different books, I got messages saying F*** Aemun and F*** Boko, two highly different characters. I love it.
Thank you everyone who has made this dream a reality. I'm going to keep grinding, writing, and hopefully making characters you want to curse out.
Here they come!
I am beyond excited to finally have this in the hands of readers & can’t wait to see what my ARC team thinks!
This story has been percolating in my mind a long time and it’s WILD to finally be sharing it
DM me or sign up below if you’d like to join the ARC team
Abel breaks down Bloodwoven, and why it will (or possibly won’t) work for you.
Thank you so much 🔥
(Also, plenty of excellent fantasy books on the radar here!!)