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Blackthorn Coming Soon!
Alternate history and contemporary fantasy, Action, Adventure, intrigue, inter-creature conflict, culling, human relations board, dark elves, Huldufólk, Silent Ones, demons, anime. - 308 pages - 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 15 and up.
Merrideath Blackthorn is a new student at the prestigious St. Barts University. A school that loathes giving out scholarships. She shares her world with powerful and intelligent creatures. Some of them dream of eating humans. To her annoyance, Merrideath finds she resembles a popular anime character who slays creatures similar to those who ate her parents when she was twelve.
As a twelve-year-old, Merrideath proved that underestimating her is a terrible mistake. Some are determined to test that again.More indepth information on this novel.
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The Fae's Dagger New!
Fantasy, Action, Adventure, intrigue, war, Fae, Elves, Dwarves,
ogres, spies, huge sparrows, sea monster, assassins.
374 pages - 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 15 and up.
Life has been a series of failures. His perpetually inebriated father proudly tells him that someday he will be just like him. His aunt, a shady gambling house proprietor, agrees and tells him to lose his name and leave his hometown and never come back.
Nameless and without a plan, his fortunes change when he finds an ancient fae dagger that kills with the slightest cut. In a world of archery, spears, swords, and powerful mythological creatures, no one fears a mere human and his dagger, but they should.
This is a bit more mature than the Ruferto series but still is fun, plus having a snarky lead. Yes, I pick on the elves again.
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Science Fiction
The Fall of Heaven
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, intrigue, war, robots, colony planet, assassins. - 429 pages - 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 17 and up.
Book One in the Newcastle Saga
The beautiful blue planet of New Jerusalem is home to the wonderous megacity of Heavensport, “the place where dreams come true.” For Rolland Newcastle, that dream is not to die.
Rolland inherited his troubles from his ancestors, the legal owners of New Jerusalem. After cryrosleeping for 223 years, they found that technological advances had allowed squatters’ ships to make the journey in just 3.5 years.
Arriving 200 years later, they found an established world that didn’t want them. The Fall of Heaven was just the start.
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The War Within
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, intrigue, war, robots, replicants, colony planet, assassins. - 242 pages - 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 17 and up.
Book Two in the Newcastle Saga
Miles deep in the Great Solomon Mines, a covert meeting is taking place that could determine the fate of New Jerusalem and maybe the known universe. A mysterious leader and his cadre of deadly assassins arrive to change the balance of power. If they are allowed to escape, there will be hell to pay. Thrown into war, will New Jerusalem survive where beauty is at the core of the problem?
Rolland’s troubles may have started with the Fall of Heaven. This time there is The War Within.
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Fantasy
The Adventures of Ruferto Bassaretti- Overview - 44 seconds.
The Adventures of Ruferto Basaretti
"Best series ever! It's my guilty pleasure when I'm supposed to be doing something else. Like sleeping.”
Trolls and Other Trouble • Prophecies and Other Problems • Dark Elf Danger
Fantasy, Action, Adventure, chaos, Trolls, Gnomes, Elves, goblins, Sand Djnn, bandits. 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 10 and up.
Trolls and Other Trouble
"Best series ever! It's my guilty pleasure when I'm supposed to be doing something else. Like sleeping.”
The Adventures of Ruferto Basaretti - Number One
Fantasy, Action, Adventure, chaos, Trolls, Gnomes, Elves, goblins, Sand Djnn, bandits. - 275 pages - 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 10 and up.
In the northern dell of Nöstervalley, visitors are rare, but two large and hungry trolls have come down from the mountains to feast. This startling event launches Ruferto Basaretti on an impossible journey full of peril, intrigue, and chaos stretching across much of the changing world.
Technologically advanced races once ruled this world. To their great annoyance, the era of the humans is at hand, and they see humans as just slightly more acceptable than goblins. Choosing avoidance has many humans believing the elder races are fanciful stories designed to scare children into behaving.
Walking among human society are ancient races. Some do it for profit; some because they believe the plague of humanity must be brought to a bloody end.
Meeting between cultures can bring about unexpected cascading change. This is such a story.The cute guy on the cover is a goblin scout. As friendly as rabid wolverines. Goblins turn into flaming black, stinky goo when struck by sunlight. It is nigh impossible to get that stuff off your shoes. A slap is the least of what they deserve.
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Prophecies and Other Problems
“This series just keeps getting better and more exciting! I keep sneaking off to read more!”
The Adventures of Ruferto Basaretti - Number Two
Fantasy, Action, Adventure, chaos, war, Red Dragon, Gnomes, Elves, goblins, undead, sea hags, and more. - 275 pages - 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 10 and up.
A princess in peril, a prophesy, sea hags, sea goons, goblins, the army of the undead, and the angry king of the red dragons are a few of the problems that Ruferto Basaretti and Bert Kronk run into on their wild adventure that takes them across the known world.
Will they have what it takes to survive? Well, of course they do. There is a third book in this series.
Technologically advanced races once ruled this world. Many humans believe the elder races are fanciful stories designed to scare children into behaving.
Some ancient races walk among humans. Some because they believe they must bring the plague of humanity to a bloody end.
Travel can bring about enjoyable and gentle change.
This is not that story.
The handsome dragon on the cover is Warren, King of the Red Dragons. He is a jerk and he hates Bert. The feeling is mutual.
My friend at Felonious Art https://www.facebook.com/felonious.art was the one that showed me the website to create these animated images. I think they are fun. Check out his work!
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[In Dark Elf] "Then you shall have war!"
Dark Elf Danger
“I love Bert and Ruferto! I want to hang out with them and Narda!”
The Adventures of Ruferto Basaretti - Number Three
Fantasy, Action, Adventure, chaos, war, Gnomes, Elves, Dark Elves, Wood Elves, goblins, dwarves, and more. - 308 pages- 6x9 Trade paperback. Ages 10 and up.
Menacing flying black ships are attacking the kingdom of Báthan! Ruferto and Bert are caught up in another adventure that flings them across the globe. Dark elves are just one of the many foes that would love to see them dead.
Once again, Ruferto and Bert prove that the advanced elder races are NOT just stories designed to scare children. They also scare adults.
Ancient races walk among mankind; a few for nefarious reasons, and one, because he has some good human friends, and for the food.
Travel often comes with trouble. With Bert and Ruferto, that usually ends up with things blowing up spectacularly, followed by more treats.
This IS that kind of story.
On the cover is the Queen of the Dark Elves. Her name is Danger. Dark Elves think they are dark and edgy. They are more like five-hundred year-old, angsty teens who name themselves things like Pain, Dread, and Tumult. She is beautiful and ruthless.
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