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...
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The Cultural Gutter Summer Fun Time Reading List!
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...
Facebook Live Reading!
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...
The End of the Beginning, or, Closing out Volume One of The Elect Stories
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...
Chapter 11 is available NOW!
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...
Chapter 10 is NOW available!
“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,...
Doubling back
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...
What-the-when?!? Placing Ch 9 on the Fractured Timeline
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...
Chapter 9 is NOW available!
“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...
SPOILER ALERT? “Previously On…” A Fast Refresher Before Chapter 8
“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...