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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...

https://josephnassise.com/pages/the-carrion-king-preview

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

Must Read Urban Fantasy #7

I know it's been awhile, but I'm picking back up my "Must Read Urban Fantasy" series of blog posts after a bit of a hiatus and I'm starting with this post right here. Sometimes, absolutely excellent urban fantasy series by lesser known writers get lost in the shadows of the big boys (and girls!) and that is certainly the case of the subject of today's post.

Ever hear of Laura Caxton? How about Jameson Arkely?

Yeah, didn't think so. You need to rectify that oversight...

I'm participating in a promotion for paranormal and urban fantasy authors between now and February 17th. Visit the link below and download your choice of thirty different titles absolutely free simply by joining the authors' mailing lists.

I've included The Heretic, the first book in the Templar Chronicles series, as well as Eyes To See, the first book in the spin-off Jeremiah Hunt series.

Participating authors include:
Joseph Nassise - 2 titles
C. Gockel - 7...

It's a new year and I've got a shiny new website to go along with it!

This one was built using Author Websites by Bookbub and I'm quite happy to say that it was very quick and easy to build just the kind of site I wanted. Links to all of my books with purchase options, books divided by series and by edition type (ebook, print, audio), a blog available on the front page so visitors don't have to dig for it, and so on.

If you're an author and are looking for...

The latest in the HELLStalkers action-adventure series is finally here! HELLStalkers: Dark Night in Caracas takes the HELLstalker team to Venezuela to investigate the latest possible incursion by transdimensional monsters into our reality.

Here's the summary:

No sooner has HELLstalker One returned from their search for the missing scientists in Antarctica that they are thrown immediately back into the fray. There’s a possible new incursion they need to...

I've partnered with Book.io again to bring you all another limited digital NFT collector's edition of one of the Templar Chronicles novels, this time book six, Fall of Night.

Details:
Mint Time: Tomorrow, 5 PM EST, 21:00 UTC, May 29, 2024.
Chain: Cardano
Edition: Collectors Ebook
Series: Living Author 2.0
Volume: 530
Price: 110 ADA / 89 ADA with The Heretic and Gutenberg Bible
Purchase Limit: 5
Unique Covers: 139
1:1 Covers: 48

I have a lot of shorter works, both novellas and short stories, where it just isn't feasible to pay a narrator to produce them as audiobooks. Given the technology has reached the point where I can record and produce audiobooks without a full sound studio, I thought I'd try my hand at recording and releasing some on my own.

The first two selections - audio productions of my short stories Carrion Man and Down Among the Bosnian Dead - were launched via my Shopify store this morning. They're just...

On Friday,I'll be minting the NFT edition of Judgment Day in partnership with Book.io.

As all of the other books have sold out very quickly, I expect this one to do so as well. We're minting 530 ebooks with 139 unique covers and 48 rare 1:1's. I handled cover art duties once again, with covers in the following categories: Templar Squad, Boggarts, Demon Streetwalker, Phantoms of Poveglia, Council of Nine Acolytes, The Ritual, Grand Master Deveraux, The Bell Tower, The Forsaken One, and...

The first time I caught Covid-19 was in April of 2020.

You remember those days, don’t you?

People were getting sick all across the world, but no one knew what to do about it. Here in the United States, President Trump declared a national emergency only a few weeks earlier on March 13th, the response to the pandemic was slow, to put it kindly. Disaster declarations were being made in state after state and deaths from the virus and its related symptoms were steadily increasing all over the...

Continuing the release of NFT editions of my Templar Chronicles series from Book.io, next up was Infernal Games. As with A Tear in the Sky, the exclusive cover art for this edition was created by yours truly and I'm proud of the variety I managed to bring to the table with this release.

For this edition, we offered 530 ebooks, with 139 unique covers and 48 1:1 ultra rare covers, and the entire offering sold out in a couple of hours. As usual, copies are now available on the secondary market...

WTF is The Taternomicon? The Taternomicon is an anthology of stories from a group of Book.io’s first “living” authors, pitting their series characters, or personal universes… against the overpowering essence of potatoes. Monsters, smugglers, Elder Gods, a wizard, and so much more. It is the perfect mashup of horror, fantasy and nonsense.

Paul Jenkins (@mypauljenkins) has been creating, writing, and building franchises for more than 25 years in the film, graphic novel, and video game...