Author: Caitlin Kittredge
Series: Black London
Number: One of six
What It’s About:
Years ago, sixteen-year-old Pete Caldecott fell in love with Jack Winter, mage and lead singer of the Poor Dead Bastards. When a summoning goes wrong, Jack ends up dead and Pete thinks she’s lost him forever.
Fast forward twelve years. Pete, now a Deputy Inspector for the London police, is investigating the disappearance of a young girl when a call comes in...
There’s a new post up over at the Storycoach Patreon entitled “So Good…Until It Wasn’t,” focused on a major blunder that will up definitely screw up the emotional connection between your hero and your reader.
Title: The Hush of Dark Wings, Winter Knight, Hunting Ground, When the Cold Wind Blows
Author: Charles L. Grant
Series: Black Oak Investigations
Number: Two through five
What It’s About:
Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. He takes on cases that range from the normal to the unaccountably bizarre. The series, of course, focuses on the latter and not the former.
Why I like It and You Should Read It...
Title: Genesis
Author: Charles L. Grant
Series: Black Oak Investigations
Number: One of five
What It’s About:
Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. He takes on cases that range from the normal to the unaccountably bizarre.
In Genesis, book one of the Black Oak series, one of Proctor’s people has gone missing while on an investigation in the Kentucky wilderness, his last communication an answering...
The Shadow Saga (Books 2-7)
Titles: Angel Souls and Devil Hearts, Of Masques and Martyrs, The Gathering Dark, Waking Nightmares, The Graves of Saints, and King of Hell
Author: Christopher Golden
Series: The Shadow Saga
Number: Two through Seven
What It’s About:
The continuing Shadow Saga, featuring vampire mage Peter Octavian as he fights to
Why I Like It and You Should Read It:
If you liked Of Saints and Shadows, you’ll love the rest of the series as well. Simple...
Title: Endsville
Author: Clay Sanger
Series: The Outlaw Arcana
Number: One
What It’s About:
Welcome to Los Angeles—where the secret worlds of the criminal and supernatural collide. Crime and black magic pay. In the City of Angels, no one does it better than Gabriel St. John and the House of the Crow…
Endsville introduces readers to the House of the Crow. Led by their enigmatic street captain Gabriel, the Crows are a secret coven of high-rolling occult gangsters...
Title: Of Saints and Shadows
Author: Christopher Golden
Series: The Shadow Saga
Number: One of seven
What It’s About:
Private eye (and vampire) Peter Octavian is drawn into the search for an ancient book known as The Gospel of Shadows as the Defiant Ones (vampires) clash with a secret sect of the Catholic Church hellbent on ridding the earth of the vampiric plague.
Why I Like It and You Should Read It:
As bestseller Jonathan Maberry notes in his cover blurb for...
I know, go figure, right?
As the conversation progressed, I became a little bewildered. I would mention classic urban fantasy series and authors, books that literally helped define the genre in several cases, and many of the other...
Several years ago, I partnered with my buddy Steve Savile to write a epic grim dark fantasy novel. We published it under the pen name Matthew Caine, thinking it too different from our usual work to list it under our own names.
Unfortunately, that also meant that many of our fans simply weren’t aware that we’d put out a new novel and it kind of languished on the shelves unnoticed.
Since we both had a bit of free time on our hands lately between projects, we...
I’m excited about this series – it is full of all the action, intrigue, and supernatural elements that are the hallmark of my other books and I had a great time working with Christine to bring it to fruition!
Here’s the description of book one:
Time is running out…
Thanks to his father...
Darkness Reigns, book 7 in the Templar Chronicles series, is now available as an audiobook! It is narrated by Jarret LeMaster and is six hours of high-octane supernatural action adventure.
Hard on the heels of their awesome adaptation of Fall of Night comes the complete dramatic adaptation of book seven in the Templar Chronicles series, Darkness Reigns.
Approximate Running Time: 5 Hours
ISBN #: 9781648818394
Content Rating: Ages 18+
Genre: Fantasy
The world changed while they were away…
Gabrielle Williams has done the impossible. She pierced the Veil, entered the Beyond, and located the long-lost leader of the Echo...
GraphicAudio has done it again with the release of the dramatic audiobook adaptation of Fall of Night. Hear the Templar Chronicles come to life with full cast narration, sound effects, and original music score!
Approximate Running Time: 5 Hours
ISBN #: 9781648817748
Content Rating: Ages 18+
Genre: Fantasy
At long last former Knight Commander Cade Williams has defeated the Adversary, but his victory has come at a terrible cost. His...
I spent some time over the last few days updating all the Audiobooks on the website. Information is now available for all Templar Chronicles audiobooks (both audio narration and audio dramatizations,) the Rogue Angel audiobooks (audio dramatizations,) and the Jeremiah Hunt audiobooks (audio narrations.) I should have the two Great Undead War audiobooks up shortly as well.
If you’re not familiar with the different between the two types of audiobooks, audio narrations are straight readings of...
I’m very happy to announce that the new audiobook edition of Infernal Games is now available!
Narrated by Jarret LeMaster, this audiobook edition of the fourth Templar Chronicles novel is five hours and 16 minutes in length. It is available at Audible, Amazon, and in the Apple Books store. (It is also available for free as part of a thirty-day trial at Audible.com.)
When I was younger I belonged to a tabletop role-playing group that met regularly to play a variety of games. Dungeons & Dragons, Car Wars, Gamma World, Traveller were common for our group but some of our favorites were the World of Darkness games put out by White Wolf. One of my personal favorites was Wraith: the Oblivion.
Twenty years later I was given the chance to write a story for an anniversary edition anthology set in the world of Wraith and I...
Villains have all the fun—everyone knows that—and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from sixteen urban fantasy series get their own stories—including the baddies of New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan McGuire, and Jonathan Maberry.
For every hero trying to save the world, there’s a villain trying to tear it all down.
In this can’t-miss anthology edited by Joseph...
I’ve mentioned a secret project a number of times over on Facebook and I’m proud to say that it’s finally here! Introducing Rowan Casey and the Veil Knights series!
Arthurian Myth Meets Urban Fantasy
Twelve New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling authors – including CJ Lyons, Joseph Nassise, Steven Savile, Annie Bellet, and Lilith Saintcrow – have come together to create a modern reimagining of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table sure to please fans of urban...
Very pleased to announce that my first major anthology for Harper Voyager – URBAN ALLIES – is now available! And even better, it includes a new Templar Chronicles story called “Pig Roast”, co-written with Sam Witt!
Fabulous writer and all-around cool chap Kevin Hearne (author of the Iron Druid Series) is hosting a cool meet-and-greet-and-signing event at the Poisoned Pen on June 1st at 7pm called Elevengeddon and I’ve been invited to join the fun!
Kevin and I will be joined by – you ready for this list? –
Brandon Sanderson
V.E. Schwab
Pierce Brown
Mary Robinette Kowal
Scott Sigler
Dan Wells
Beth Cato
Jason Hough
Django Wexler
Leanna Renee Hieber
Sam Sykes
Michael J. Sullivan
Adam...
