Writer of epic fantasy. SFWA member. The Warrior of Happiness! Partial to amazing covers, board games, airports, and painting minis.

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The Triempery Revelations series is complete! Six books of fantasy on an epic scale! Curious about what lies within the pages? Here's a glimpse. Available at all Forest Path Books (paper books get the ebook included) or at all bookstores.
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Mortality Gauntlet is available NOW! But only ebook. Paperback and hardcover will be available very soon, but due to a screwup (mine), the covers aren't ready yet. Sorry for the delay!!!
TODAY is your absolutely last chance, forever and ever, to pre-order Mortality Gauntlet. After tonight NO PRE-ORDERS will be available, ever! Because it will be released. So, you know. Do your thing. amazon.com/gp/product/B0HL55…
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How's the move going? Well, I am ready to throttle some underwriters; the financing is rock solid but they keep asking for paperwork and I'm this close to creating an underwriter villain. Oh, and my house looks like a hoarder has gone wild. Empty furniture and boxes everywhere.
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Any indies have SF/F/Horror books coming out in November? I'm building next month's new release post, and there's room for new titles! You can submit the book info using the form here linked in the comments.
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 20: Would my MC prefer going to a fall festival or a haunted house? Fall festival for Kate! It's probably a human event (the nomari don't have festivals) and she's not in the kind of mental (safe) space where scary feels fun. Plus there'd be good food!
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There are certain tropes I hate. At some point in a fantasy novel, the wounded hero inevitably ends up struggling through a forest/desert/dungeon. All hope is lost. Except, obviously, it’s not. I’ve had enough of this. Unfortunately, this book has it too. But what Dogged also has is an incredibly fresh story and a wonderfully dry sense of humour. This is some of the best writing I’ve read in fantasy. I love intimate stories that turn out to have much bigger repercussions, and this is exactly that. When the wardog Dogged Determination loses her mate, she sets out to discover who was responsible and why. What she finds gives her an entirely new perspective—and a new purpose in life. I loved this book. I’ve been eyeing @FletcherMR's books for a while, but held back because I don’t enjoy grimdark misery. When he described this one as lighter fare, and the fantastic @JoeBerne1 recommended it, I finally committed. Best decision. Highly recommended for anyone who loves great characters and sharp, modern prose.
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#vss365 #training #limerick The young athlete was always complaining About all the time he spent training. It was hot, it was boring And soon left him snoring, But he found his skills rapidly waning. -Profe Steve
#vss365 #prompt #Training Those sneakers took us all over yesterday. So today let's see how many different kinds of training we can imagine. I know I have the energy to follow you.😊
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 19: Flash fiction featuring fear I don't write flash fiction, so here's a snip from THE WALLED CITY which features fear. Dorilian asks Aubrey why she isn't afraid of him. Because she should be.
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Okay, so I have some free audiobook codes for the US and UK Amazon sites. I'm happy to give some away on here to people I know. If you can write up a review, it would be a bonus (I won't hold you to it 😉)! It's 7 hours of 1st person high fantasy. DM if interested!
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 18: Monsters in WIP NOMARA has giant arthropods, which Kate, a spacefaring Terran, considers monstrous. Giant wasps and spiders, scavenger beetles that feast on flesh. The humanoid nomari are dangerous too, and inescapable.
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A couple of pieces I did for Warhammer 40k Roleplay, I believe the final printed versions of these were given a final pass by Sam Manley, (a wonderful Warhammer RPG artist). But these were my versions I sent. #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #ttrpg
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 17: Saturday Snippet A bit from THE GOD SPEAR today. Nalf is a fun character; I never quite knew what he would do or say and he gave both Hans and Dorilian what my husband calls agita. Hard-headed men will do that.
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I've had a couple additions since this initially went live. Happy reading!
It's October - and there's a great lineup of new releases coming this month! You can view the full post here: ajcalvin.net/the-indie-autho… (There are a lot of amazing titles that I could not fit on the graphic, so please check out the full post!)
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 16: Free Friday Ever moved house after 30 years? Buying a house is already an adventure and packing up two lives is exhausting. On the plus side, the underwriting experience has led me to imagine new villains and forms of torture.
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This one was for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Death on the Reik. May have some more Warhammer Fantasy work coming up soon. Always exciting! One of my favourite all time settings. #warhammerfantasy #WHFRP #TTRPG
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 15: Tricks in WIP Tricks in my WIP are spoilers, so I won't reveal those. For fun, here's a scene involving one of Dorilian's tricks. Over the course of the series, he manages quite a few. This is the aftermath of his best one.
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When I first released Reconcile, some people were upset that we used some AI in the cover. So, we reached out to Georgia artist Katie Daker, and she recreated it in oil on canvas. That’s right, a human replaced AI. Enjoy!
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 14: Favorite paranormal creatures I'm partial to ghosts. The notion that our spirits might linger seems somewhat hopeful. A way of continuing. I like to think my spirit would linger for good reasons, though there are people I would like to haunt.
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As we're preparing to move, my husband finds me useful. I'm not physically useful at the moment but my inner executive has re-emerged (Dorilian comes by some traits naturally). I make decisions. And boy are we throwing out a lot!
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