I’ve been talking a lot about this little standalone fantasy book on my Twitter account, and possibly at least once in this blog if I can remember anything at all from last year (I had a baby! And I’m slowly losing my mind!); nevertheless, it’s now out in the wild! Available on Amazon Kindle and/or paperback, and featuring more fantastic cover art by Annadel Cinco.
For those who don’t know, the novels in Agos-agan (which also incorporates novels in the Chronicles of the Wolf Queen and Legacy of the Lost Mage) are interlinked. Stuff happening in one part of the world will affect the other part of the world, and so on and so forth. Now, as can be expected, this can be intimidating to think about–but that’s where this series comes in. Blackwood Marauders is a series of standalone fantasy books featuring both new characters and a band of mercenaries which function sort of as an in-between to gently guide people. I’ve designed them to be a gentle start to people who are not quite sure if Agos-agan is their cup of tea, and every little book is packed with the same stuff you can expect from my bigger series, just in a smaller scale.
Daughter of the Wolves (which is, again, a standalone! You can read it by itself!) is a book I wrote sometime in the mess of 2020, when I was feeling particularly pessimistic about the state of affairs and the mess capitalism had forced us into. The end result is a novel that at least one reader has described as Fantasy Squid Games (keeping in mind I wrote this at least a year before that particular TV series came out). It is also a sort of indirect prequel to The Wolf of Oren-yaro, showing the reason Warlord Yeshin’s war ever came to be. (The 2nd book in Legacy of the Lost Mage, Aina’s Breath, also shows this event up-close, but in Daughter of the Wolves, we see what causes it). This reason is none other than Warlord Yeshin’s pursuit of the not-dragon, the one-eyed, necromantic beast everyone in the continent is going crazy about because power, amirite? There are cameos of Warlord Yeshin, Lord Ozo, and at least one surprise character by the end.
I write books when I am upset, and as much as I hate it the last couple of years has yielded productivity like no other. So come and grab a copy of this book, and then stick around for the announcement of my other self-published pandemic novel sometime this year.
