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...
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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...
Chapter 8 is NOW available!
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...
Happy New Year!
“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...
The Beginning of the End
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...
Lighting up the Grimdark
“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...