Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 6 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 6: Gertrude meets Grimoire Society of Assassins’s Keeper and must travel a level deeper into magic itself to try to locate the Grimoire of Blood […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 5 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 5: Carmichael meets Phineas Fenn and finds that he’s a little too familiar in an unexpectedly painful way. In my Patreon post, you’ll always get […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 4 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 4: Humphrey heads back to his pharmacy to get Anne medicine, and finds “Dr.” Blood waiting for him. On his way back, a vision comes […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 3 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 3: Knox finds out that Anne is now paying a price for her use of prohibited magic, and he’s devastated. But he doesn’t know how deep […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 2 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 2: Gertrude wakes up in Grimoire Society of Assassins’s magical realm…and she’s not alone. In my Patreon post, you’ll always get exclusive content. What Prohibited […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 1 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up three days later on Kindle Vella. Carmichael finds himself captured rather than in control when the Ruin Rats transport themselves and him to a place he doesn’t recognize—and then another. […]
As of today, I’ve been on Kindle Vella for 2 years, and in that time, I’ve published two full-length gaslamp fantasy books and am 9 episodes (20K+ words) into writing the third. Time has flown! Originally, I had two goals for writing on Kindle Vella: To see whether or not readers would be interested in […]
It’s panel time! This Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 4 p.m. ET, I’m going to be discussing writing history into your fiction, hosted by the fabulous A. F. Stewart. As you all know, I’m a historical fantasy and historical suspense author, so both of these genres will be what I talk about. Whether you’re a […]
In spending hours trying to choose the cover for Prohibited Magic, I found there wasn’t anything that suited both the series and the book. So I decided to hire Konn Lavery, who also designed my website, to design Prohibited Magic‘s Vella cover, and ended up having him design the covers for books 1-3 since the books […]
One of the things that is so well-loved about stories like Cinderella and similar fairy tales is the rags-to-riches trope. This…is not that. This is riches-to-greater-riches, and then an insulting poem! Here’s what happened. The Bride, The Groom, and The Jewels On October 13, 1859, 18-year-old Frances Amelia Bartlett married 55-year-old Cuban planter Don Esteban […]