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 […]
Memorial Day didn’t start out as a day honoring all soldiers who’d fallen. It didn’t even start out being called Memorial Day! Like all good things, Memorial Day started in the Victorian era. The Civil War “claimed more lives than any conflict in US history and required the establishment of the country’s first national cemeteries.” […]