In honor of Tuesday's launch of Operation Shambling Tide, my first LitRPG novel, I'm sharing the first two chapters here for your enjoyment!
Chapter One
Afghanistan
The HMMWV’s engine growled beneath Sergeant Solomon “Sol” Drake as he navigated another pothole in the cracked asphalt road. Dust clouds billowed behind the convoy, coating everything in a fine layer of tan grit that had become as familiar as breathing during his fifteen months in this godforsaken...
For the last several weeks I've been working on my first LitRPG novel entitled Operation Shambling Tide. It is set in my Great Undead War universe but features different characters than those in the main trilogy.
Here's the back cover copy and the cover art:
When the IED exploded, Staff Sergeant Solomon Drake thought his war was over. He was wrong. It was just beginning.
Bleeding out in Afghanistan, Drake awakens in a field hospital tent that reeks of...
Transform Your Manuscript Dream Into Published Reality
One Year. One Book. One-on-One Guidance from a Bestselling Author.
For 25 years, I've helped writers break through the barriers between "aspiring" and "published." With 72 books to my name and bestseller placements on both the New York Times and USA Today lists, I've guided hundreds of authors from blank page to finished manuscript—and now I'm opening limited slots for writers ready to commit to their craft.
Each year, I accept only 4-6...
Somehow, I missed this review when it came out oh-so-many-moons ago from Fritz over at the Seattle Post Intelligencer...
Book Review: Eyes to See by Joseph Nassise
By Fitz,
BLOGCRITICS.ORG
Nov 25, 2012
When I recently heard about Joseph Nassise's Jeremiah Hunt Chronicles urban fantasy series, it was news to me. Somehow I'd managed to miss the series entirely when it began in 2011. And rather than dive into the second book (King of the Dead out this month), I decided to grab a copy of the first...
Thanks to the work I did with the fine folks at ElevenLabs on their Eleven Reader product, I've made the cover of Publishers Weekly Magazine for the first time.
My novella, Tooth and Claw, part of the Templar Chronicles series, is featured prominently on the cover of the Nov. 3rd issue.
The Midnight Project: Revolution, the second book in my audio-only original trilogy for GraphicAudio is now available!
https://josephnassise.com/books/the-midnight-project-2-revolution-dramatized-audio
by Joseph Nassise
Running Time: 6 Hours
Content Rating: Ages 18+
Genre: Fantasy
Graphic Audio continues an Original Fantasy trilogy available in no other format!
Follow Jessica Shine, a supernatural agent turned rogue as she and her...
There's a nice write-up about my use of the new ElevenReader service (AI Audiobooks) over at their site today...
https://elevenreader.io/blog/joseph-nassise-author
The day we've all been waiting for is finally here! With this final episode of Spoken Into Existence, Tom and I complete the task we set out to do at the start of this project - use Spoken's AI tools to create a multi-voice audiobook of a story we planned, wrote, and published live.
In this episode, we complete the final steps needed to launch our novella, Of Sackcloth and Blood - Vol. One: War, as an audiobook available for anyone to listen to and enjoy absolutely free of charge. (It won't...
The Midnight Project: Revolution, the second book in the audio original trilogy that I wrote for GraphicAudio, is now available for preorder!
Release Date: Sep 18, 2025
Approximate Running Time: 6 Hours
Content Rating: Ages 18+
Genre: Fantasy
Graphic Audio continues an Original Fantasy trilogy available in no other format!
Follow Jessica Shine, a supernatural agent turned rogue as she and her companions Ephram and Nikolai embark on a thrilling and exciting globe-trotting quest.
Jessica has magical...
My first, straight-up horror novel (as opposed to spooky urban fantasy) in twenty-five years is finally here and I can't wait to hear what you think about it!
Here's the summary:
What if the apocalypse isn't coming... but is already here?
Dalton James is just trying to survive his grief. Nine months after his wife's death, he's at a hunting lodge retreat when reality itself begins to unravel around him. The walls pulse. Shadows move independently. And a dying...
Want to read the first three chapters of The Carrion King before it launches next month?
Download the preview in your choice of epub or pdf files...
In Episode 4 of Spoken Into Existence, listeners are invited behind the curtain—into a digital writer’s workshop where story meets sound, and authors transform into audio directors in real time. (Thanks to two bestselling authors, Joseph Nassise and Tom Leveen, for letting us hang out with them.)
This episode is about craft. Specifically, the craft of performance—how every line in a story becomes a sonic event, sculpted with precision inside the Spoken Studio.
We’re no longer simply writing...
In Episode 3 of Spoken Into Existence, authors Joseph Nassise and Tom Leveen joined the Spoken team—Stacy Smith Rogers, Patrick Wimp, and Joshua David Pivato—for a creative deep-dive into something every author needs to be thinking about right now: how to to support your story the way people discover today.
This wasn’t just a conversation about writing. It was a working session—an inside look at how a story can become a multi-sensory asset that builds anticipation, extends your brand, and...
What if the most powerful rewrite isn’t on the page—but in the voice that reads it?
Spoken Into Existence returns this week with a question that reshapes how we craft character: If the audience’s first experience of your character is through their voice—how does that change the way you bring them to life?
It’s not just a fun narrative exercise. It’s a glimpse into a revolution. And at the center of it all… Voice! Real, resonant, character-crafting, audience-immersing voice.
The Alchemy of Audio...
Last week, we kicked off Spoken Into Existence—our real-time audio storytelling experiment—with authors Joseph Nassise and Tom Leveen. Together, they’re writing, voicing, and publishing a serialized novella series using Spoken’s AI-powered tools. This week, they dove headfirst into the creative trenches, revealing how Sackcloth and Blood is anything but your typical apocalypse story.
Writing From the End of the World
At the heart of Sackcloth and Blood is a bold reversal: the Four Horsemen of...
I'm very excited to introduce Spoken Into Existence — a first-of-its-kind, real-time audiobook series from me and acclaimed novelist Tom Leveen, in conjunction with the team at Spoken Press.
Over the next five weeks, we'll co-write, voice cast, and publish a brand-new serialized audio story in real time using Spoken’s AI-powered studio tools.
Written for audio. Voiced with AI. Published as it happens.
This project isn’t just about releasing a story—it’s about pulling back the curtain on the...
In partnership with Elevenlabs new audio publishing program, you can currently listen to sixteen of my audiobooks absolutely free.
Did I say free? You bet your *ss I did!
These books include the three books in the Jeremiah Hunt trilogy (Eyes To See, King of the Dead, and Watcher in the Dark), the five books in the Lord of Misrule series (Ritual, Revelation, Relentless, Rapture, and Reckoning), the Shades of Reality short story collection, and the four novellas that accompany the Templar...
The Midnight Project 1: Renegades
by Joseph Nassise
Running Time: 5.5 Hours
Content Rating: Ages 18+
Genre: Fantasy
Graphic Audio introduces an Original Urban Fantasy trilogy available in no other format!
Jessica Shine is perhaps the most powerful magick user in the world. But even with all that power, she is trapped.
Trapped by the Midnight Project, a secret government agency charged with battling vampires, shape shifters and dark magicians. But in order to...
Received an email last night informing me that my audiobook short story, Carrion Man, had been voted a 2025 Spoken Staff Pick. Rather pleased with this award, to be honest.
Best part - you can listen to the story entirely free!
https://ihave.spoken.press/p/EYepqO9_Z8n
I'm participating in the beta launch of a new audiobook company called Spoken and have recently made two of my audio shorts available to listen to FREE at the site.
You can find both Carrion Man and Dawn Patrol HERE
