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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

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...

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