“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...
“The Elect Stories” is about many things, but one central theme is the importance of both beginnings and endings. We aren’t gonna lie, 2021 was a hard year for damn near everybody, and we’re glad to see its end. That said, 2021 was also the year that we began...
Back in August, a reader commented that Chapter 5 – in which (no spoilers) Arden Clarkson makes his first contact with the sylueds and discovers his father’s secret – could easily have functioned as the opening of the book. At the time, I replied that the first five chapters...
“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...
This month’s cover art by Todd Sharp features the blood-red silhouettes of three men mounted on galloping horses. The curlicues of the art nouveau background, rendered in textured shades of brown, evoke the hand-tooled leather of western saddles. All three of the men are wearing broad-brimmed hats. Two of...
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,...
It is always exciting when a new month begins because that means there’s a new chapter to share! “Stone and Sword, or, The Insidious Influence of the Other” arrives today, and it marks a distinct turning point in our series, not only returning to the story of Father Saren...
A friendly reader recently commented that this month’s chapter – “Argument, or, The Raising of the Elect” – could easily function as the book’s opening chapter, despite being the fifth in the release order. We absolutely agree! It is easy to imagine the story beginning right here with Arden...
When I moved from Boston to Los Angeles in 1996, the plot of what would become “The Elect Stories” was already (more or less) fully formed. While many of the characters and most of the world-building details have changed over time, the plot was already clear to me from...
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