Now that the first twelve chapters of “The Elect Stories” have been released for a bit, it seems like a fine time to talk about where the tale goes from here. After all, some of you who have finished reading these 12 have been asking for a while about...
Thanks to all of you who attended the Facebook Live author reading of The Elect Stories yesterday! We enjoyed it so much, that we will, indeed, be doing more. In the meantime, we decided to go ahead and leave it up for others to take a watch of it...
Our friends over at The Cultural Gutter — full disclosure, Cultural Gutter editor, Carol Borden, is also a friend of John and I — well, they just put out their 2024 Summer Fun Time Reading list, and guess who made the cut(s)? Carol has been a big supporter of...
Author John Crye is doing a Facebook Live reading form Chapter One of The Elect Stories on Thursday, July 11th, at 2pm Pacific (5pm Eastern). It’s a bit of an experiment to see if it’s something to continue doing in the future. Won’t you please join us? The link...
A friend of mine who has diligently purchased every installment of “The Elect Stories” upon its release recently made a confession: he hasn’t actually started reading them yet, but he enjoys collecting them. Fair enough. You don’t even have to open them to see that Todd’s covers are super...
The end is near! “Reckoning, or A Gathering Darkness” is the second-to-last chapter in this volume and it’s now available on Amazon and Kindle Direct. When we last left Palm and Timriel, they had sought to refuge at the home of Jonathan Guess, where the injured Gelgarth Arbekka was...
“Fathoming, or, The Width of a Circle” arrives today and it is the biggest installmentyet – a whopping 153 pages of gripping adventure! We pick up where we leftPalm and Timriel back in #8, bringing the wounded Rider of the Wyrn to the onesafe place they know in Vessena,...
Intrigued by Todd Sharp’s portrait of an angst-ridden Jonny Guess featured on the cover of Chapter 9, a friend asked if each issue contains a stand-alone story, or if he’d need to read all eight back-issues before finally learning about the long-haired dude in the purple coat. Well, “The...
If you’ve started reading Chapter 9: “Delving Deep, or, The Macabre Misadventures of Misters Scrivener, Bellwether and Guess,” you’ve likely noticed that it does not pick up where Chapter 8 left off. When last we saw Mister Guess, he was sheltering the fugitives Palm and Timriel in his home...
“Delving Deep, or, The Macabre Misadventures of Misters Scrivener, Bellwether and Guess” arrives today, bringing with it the return of everyone’s favorite mushroom-poppin’ scoundrel, Jonathan Guess. We last saw Guess in #4, which features the memorable painting by Bella Bergholtz of the middle-aged Guess grinding his way through a...
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