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...
“The Elect Stories” is back! After a pause to catch up on our paperback releases, brand new chapters are coming to Amazon Books, starting with chapter 8, “Belief and Understanding, or, The Swordbearers’ Quandry”. Much like you do after a favorite streaming series returns, we’re sure you’ll need to...
It’s been a lot of fun rolling out the paperback versions of chapters one through seven, but I have to admit we’re super excited to be sharing a new chapter again! “Belief and Understanding, or, The Swordbearers’ Quandry” arrives today and it picks up right where we left off...
“Grimdark” is a term that I only picked up on in the past year or so, mostly on Reddit and Goodreads. It is a descriptive, and increasingly pejorative, name for a subgenre of Science Fiction and Fantasy that is pervasively bleak in tone and dwells on the most negative...
We can’t say that it was by popular demand since the first drafts of these stories were written years ago, but a character whom many readers have claimed as their favorite comes blazing back into the stories this month with Chapter 7, the full, glorious title of which is,...
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