Author: C.T. Phipps

Guardians of Dragon Keep (Dark Undermaster #2) is now available

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The sequel to my humorous LitRPG isekai is now available for those who want to pick up a copy! On Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in paperback!

“So, what you’re saying is the Dragon Queen is dead.”

“No, what I’m saying is the Dragon Queen is dead and there’s an imposter carrying on in her place. Possibly someone you know. Your girlfriend’s ex is back from the dead. Your brother is evil. A dead god is trying to take over your body. We’re running out of time until it becomes impossible to save the world. Also, I’m pretty sure the giant blind redheaded swordswoman chick wants to bang you to death.”

“So, normal Tuesday.”

    Aragorn “Aaron” Bartkowski and his merry band of miscreants are back! Having successfully slain the demon god Chernabog, they’ve managed to buy a little more time for the planet Mokosh. However, a hero’s work is never done, especially when a hero is underleveled and with low WIS. From a mission to a haunted vampire-filled castle to rescue the little girl Pope to the deeps of elven territory to the heart of Ledziana’s civil war, Aaron must now engage with the complicated politic underlying the dark fantasy setting he’s found himself in. It’s win or die when playing the games of kings and queens, though, and our hero is absolutely terrible at them.

    GUARDIANS OF DRAGON KEEP is the second volume of the Dark Undermaster Saga, a humorous send up of dark fantasy like Game of Thrones, The Witcher, and Dark Souls. It is a progression fantasy LitRPG that follows the adventures of video game computer programmer, Aaron Bartkowski as he is hurled bodily into the world of his favorite author, Larry C.C. Weis. Unfortunately, Weis turns out to have been much better at stealing from other, better, authors than he was in giving his heroes a break.

Available here

Brighteyes, book two of the Morgan Detective, is now available!

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Hey folks,

I’m pleased to announce that BRIGHT EYES, the second MORGAN DETECTIVE AGENCY novel and 12th novel of the UNITED STATES OF MONSTERS series is now available on Kindle as well as paperback.

The United States of Monsters books are a collection of urban fantasy novels all set in the same world where the supernatural was revealed to the world in 2008 and society has been catching up ever since. Vampires, slashers, werewolves, weredeer, and more all struggle to integrate with a human race that either worships or hates them.

What is Bright Eyes?

Ashley Morgan has been many things: a trainee spy for the House, a psychic superhero, a private detective, and a bounty hunter. However, she’s lost all of those jobs because it turns out none of them are very easy in a city run by vampires. Now having her wounded sister recovering in her apartment, Ashley has to figure out who her latest enemies are. What she finds out are they may be closer to home than she ever imagined and targeting her old classmates at spy school for sale at an undead slave market.

Armed with a magical sword containing an angel, her ex-boyfriend’s magic, her devious brother, and the dubious help of New Detroit’s ex-voivode, Ashley has to set out to smash a conspiracy before it turns everyone she used to know into playthings for the damned. But can she trust even those closest to her?
Brighteyes is set in the same world as the Red Room series, The Bright Falls Mysteries, and Straight Outta Fangton.

It is available on KU, Kindle, and paperback.

Available here

United States of Monsters series

Book Giveaway – Lords of Dragon Keep Oct 17-20th, 2024

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Book Giveaway

Hey folks,

I am incredibly happy to share the news that LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP, the first book of the Dark Undermaster Saga is going to be free for the next three days (October 17th to 20th). If you wanted to pick up a copy of the hilarious story of a guy getting dumped into a Witcher/Game Of Thrones-esque universe and doing his best to do a Paragon run while increasing his stats D&D style (which makes him an utter monster) then this is the book for you. Laughs galore. The sequel is almost finished on Royal Road too.

“A hilarious parody of everything fantasy fans love and hate in equal measure.” – The Bookwyrm Speaks

High ratings and positive feedback so far! 🙂

Blurb

“Give me the incredibly short summary of what the hell is going on, please. The kind you could fit into a movie trailer.”
“You’re trapped in a video game world based on a hack dark fantasy author’s rip-off of better books.”
“Uh huh. Maybe you could be a bit more detailed.”

Aragorn “Aaron” Bartkowski was a programmer working at Epic DungeoneeringTM, the world’s largest fantasy video game company. Much to his surprise, he was selected to pick up the latest manuscript from reclusive author Larry C.C. Weis. Weis had been working on his newest book for over a decade and the good folk at Aaron’s company had dibs on adapting it. Unfortunately, Weis was also a wizard and sent Aaron to the world that inspired his books.

Aaron proceeded to find himself in a Slavic mythology themed world where he’s believed to be Weis’ main character, Garland of Nowhere. Equipped with the powers of a RPG protagonist, Aaron must accumulate experience and equipment while navigating a setting that seems worse off than Game of Thrones and Dark Souls put together.

LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP is a LitRPG progression fantasy isekai that takes the grim out of grimdark with biting humor as well as intelligent exploitation of the rules. It has excellent world-building, a great supporting cast, a bit of romance, and lots of laughs. Oh and there’s a talking raven.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Dragon-Keep-Dark-Undermaster-ebook/dp/B0DF38YSTD/

Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/89337/lords-of-dragon-keep-a-humorous-isekai-litrpg

Space Academy Miscreants (Space Academy #4) now available for preorder!

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NOW AVAILABLE FOR AUDIOBOOK PREORDER!

SPACE ACADEMY MISCREANTS (Space Academy #4)

“Captain’s log… we’re doomed.”

Captain Vance Turbo of the E.S.S Ares has managed to save the entire universe and gotten himself a big fat promotion for it. However, that doesn’t mean much as he’s just received a message that his daughter is in peril! His daughter that he didn’t know about because she was cooked up in a lab by his ex-girlfriend. Knowing he can’t take his ship on a personal vendetta, Vance decides to charter a pirate ship to head to the distant tyranny of Crius. Unfortunately, his journey isn’t exactly a secret and he finds himself ambushed. Ambushed by someone Vance never thought he’d see again.

Space Academy is an all-new series from the hilarious duo of C.T. Phipps (Supervillainy Saga, Agent G) and Michael Suttkus (I Was a Teenage Weredeer, Lucifer’s Star) that lampoons the space opera as well as military science fiction genres.

Vance Turbo remains the luckiest unlucky character I’ve created. Lucky because he grew up in a Post-Cyberpunk utopian future created by the sacrifices of people like Agent G, Kei Springs, and Detective Neal Gordon of the Moon PD.

Unlucky because it seems like every single threat to that peace falls to him to fix and everyone in the galaxy wants to burn down said Utopia for not being human friendly enough or too human friendly. Now he’s on a quest to find out if he’s a father that involves his long dead parents, his promotion to High Inquisitor (err, Protector), and the slave holding world of CRIUS! Yes, a link to LUCIFER’S STAR! Released on October 22nd! The Kindle is already up.

Audible (Preorder): https://www.audible.com/pd/Space-Academy-Miscreants-Audiobook/B0DJ3MZ8FH

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Space-Academy-Miscreants-C-Phipps-ebook/dp/B0DHR8X69M/

Two new series on Kindle Unlimited

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Hey folks,

I’m pleased to announce that there’s now two more series of mine available in Kindle Unlimited. The first of these is LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP, which is my new fantasy parody series. It is to the fantasy genre what the Supervillainy Saga is to superheroes. The second is FUTUREPUNK, which is the collected volumes of AGENT G, THE CYBER DRAGONS TRILOGY, and MOON COPS ON THE MOON.

LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP

“Give me the incredibly short summary of what the hell is going on, please. The kind you could fit into a movie trailer.”
“You’re trapped in a video game world based on a hack dark fantasy author’s rip-off of better books.”*
“Uh huh. Maybe you could be a bit more detailed.”

Aragorn “Aaron” Bartkowski was a programmer working at Epic DungeoneeringTM, the world’s largest fantasy video game company. Much to his surprise, he was selected to pick up the latest manuscript from reclusive author Larry C.C. Weis. Weis had been working on his newest book for over a decade and the good folk at Aaron’s company had dibs on adapting it. Unfortunately, Weis was also a wizard and sent Aaron to the world that inspired his books.

Aaron proceeded to find himself in a Slavic mythology themed world where he’s believed to be Weis’ main character, Garland of Nowhere. Equipped with the powers of a RPG protagonist, Aaron must accumulate experience and equipment while navigating a setting that seems worse off than Game of Thrones and Dark Souls put together.

LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP is a LitRPG progression fantasy isekai that takes the grim out of grimdark with biting humor as well as intelligent exploitation of the rules. It has excellent world-building, a great supporting cast, a bit of romance, and lots of laughs. Oh and there’s a talking raven.
I’m pleased to share my latest book with y’all and thought you’d enjoy that, for the price of a cup of coffee, you can continue an author ruthlessly mocking dark fantasy. So toss a coin to your Witcher and pick up a copy.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Dragon-Keep-Dark-Undermaster-ebook/dp/B0DF38YSTD/

FUTUREPUNK

“The world is a neon-ridden hellhole, how did we get there?”
-Anonymous cyberpunk

A high-class corporate assassin. An ex-Yakuza smuggler. A detective with a robot dog. Three generations of individuals struggling against the rain-soaked technology dominated world of Futurepunk. A place where there are no heroes but only winners and losers. 

I wrote this nine-book series as an indie author who was absolutely in love with cyberpunk since the day he first booted up the original Deus Ex game in 2000. It found a decent-sized fanbase and the series remains one of my favorite works. I am now going to be sharing its characters and their journey across a shared world that spans a century of time. They’re available on Kindle, paperback, and audiobook form.

I hope you enjoy.

Books 1 -3: The Agent G Saga

Books 4-6: The Cyber Dragons Saga

Books 7-9: Moon Cops

New Release Sale – Lords of Dragon Keep

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“Give me the incredibly short summary of what the hell is going on, please. The kind you could fit into a movie trailer.”

“You’re trapped in a video game world based on a hack dark fantasy author’s rip-off of better books.”

“Uh huh. Maybe you could be a bit more detailed.”

Aragorn “Aaron” Bartkowski was a programmer working at Epic DungeoneeringTM, the world’s largest fantasy video game company. Much to his surprise, he was selected to pick up the latest manuscript from reclusive author Larry C.C. Weis. Weis had been working on his newest book for over a decade and the good folk at Aaron’s company had dibs on adapting it. Unfortunately, Weis was also a wizard and sent Aaron to the world that inspired his books.Aaron proceeded to find himself in a Slavic mythology themed world where he’s believed to be Weis’ main character, Garland of Nowhere. Equipped with the powers of a RPG protagonist, Aaron must accumulate experience and equipment while navigating a setting that seems worse off than Game of Thrones and Dark Souls put together.

LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP is a LitRPG progression fantasy isekai that takes the grim out of grimdark with biting humor as well as intelligent exploitation of the rules. It has excellent world-building, a great supporting cast, a bit of romance, and lots of laughs. Oh and there’s a talking raven.

ON SALE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH FOR 99C

Tales of an Eldritch Wasteland coming out on July 23rd!

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Hey folks,

A lot of interesting news this month with the release of TALES OF AN ELDRITCH WASTELAND happening on July 23rd. This is the fourth volume of the CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON series that will be finishing later this year with the fifth volume, CTHULHU’S CANYON.

Tales of an Eldritch Wasteland is a collection of the various short stories and novellas I’ve written for the Cthulhu Mythos over the years, including several important ones for understanding the main series. Mostly, they’ve been divided over the Books of Cthulhu and other anthology books I’ve participated in but now they’ve been assembled into a single volume.

There’s going to be plenty of John Henry Booth stories but also contemporary Cthulhu Mythos tales as well as a few set back in ye olden times of the Middle Ages or Al-Hazred’s days. All of them are canon to the setting. Well, except the Cinderella meets Nyarlathotep one. Probably.

“There are a million tales of the Mythos. Here are some of mine.” – C.T. Phipps

Author C.T. Phipps wrote the post-apocalypse meets H.P. Lovecraft novel Cthulhu Armageddon in 2015 but he had been a fan of the Cthulhu Mythos for far longer. Having written stories ranging from Assassins in Acre to detectives in the Dreamlands, he’s tackled every part of the sinister tentacle-filled world that has been influenced by authors ranging from authors Robert E. Howard and Brian Lumley to film directors George Miller and Stuart Gordon.

TALES OF AN ELDRITCH WASTELAND collects over a dozen of his short stories, novelettes, and novellas set both before as well as after the Great Old Ones’ rising. Stories of action, horror, and everything in between.

“I’m a sucker for anything C.T. Phipps. I can’t get enough of his style of writing.” – Brian’s Book Blog
“Dark and sinister with a side order of action.” – The Bookwyrm Speaks

“Phipps […] should appeal to those who like full kitchen sink Cthulhu Mythos stories and the attendant sports of restructuring the Mythos.” – Marzaat.com

Available here for preorder

Moon Cops and Tales of the Al-Azif on sale for 99c

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A pair of sales are ongoing for the last bit of Summer for those people who still want to pick up some of my lesser known works. MOON COPS ON THE MOON and TALES OF THE AL-AZIF (Books of Cthulhu #1) are on sale for 99c from May 27th to the 31st. The tale of a corgi cop and his human partner (or maybe it’s the reverse) in a cyberpunk humor setting next to a bunch of pulpy action tales including a Cthulhu Armageddon one.

Blurb: “Welcome to the moon!”

Neal Gordon screwed up his assignment on Mars and they reassigned him to Antarctica. Now he’s being reassigned some place even worse: Luna City. A crime ridden hellhole with a super-rich ruling class, he almost immediately finds himself targeted by bounty hunters and cyborg terrorists. Thankfully, Neal has an unusual set of partners in robot dog, Barksley, and the snarky but badass Lucy Westenra. Yes, make all the vampire jokes you want.

It’s tough being a corporate cop on humanity’s foremost colony and before this adventure is over, he’s going to have to deal with deranged influencers, mysterious female secret agents, and a 1970s themed flying car called the Purple Rain. Can he survive to get reassigned? Who knows.

MOON COPS ON THE MOON is set in the Futurepunk setting of Agent G, the Cyber Dragons Trilogy, and Space Academy novels but functions as a standalone series. It is a humorous action-filled romp that fans of The Expanse, Robocop, Demolition Man, and Blade Runner will enjoy.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Cops-C-T-Phipps-ebook/dp/B0CD7QKBQJ/

Blurb: The Necronomicon was not the first book by H.P. Lovecraft to terrify readers with tales of dark and twisted horrors from beyond. No, the Al-Azif, or Book of the Insect, is the first work that told mankind of Cthulhu, Azathoth, and other terrors. Indeed, it was the book that inspired “The Mad Arab” Abdul Al-Hazred to write its more famous successor.

Join us for a collection of novellas written by some of the best Neo-Lovecraftian authors today: Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran, The Trials of Obed Marsh), David Hambling (Harry Stubbs, The Dulwich Horror), David J. West (Porter Rockwell, Redneck Eldritch), David Niall Wilson (The Call of Distant Shores), and C. T. Phipps (Cthulhu Armageddon) in telling stories of this mysterious book.

Find out where the nightmares began!

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Al-Azif-Cthulhu-Mythos-Anthology-ebook/dp/B07PYZDF8D/

The End of Cyber Dragons is now available

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I’m pleased to say that THE END OF CYBER DRAGONS is now available for purchase on ebook, paperback, and audiobook. The ending to the Cyber Dragons trilogy is something that I’m greatly proud of and think everyone will enjoy.

Revenge is all she has—or is it?

A year has passed since the disastrous Elysium massacre that left Keiko “Kei” Springs traumatized and hungry for revenge against her former mentor, Snake. However, going after the world’s second most powerful man is not as easy as it sounds. Kei must make a series of deadly alliances and navigate the complicated web of politics that will give her a chance to take him down. But will going after him destroy the family she’s managed to build? Experience the final exciting chapter of the Cyber Dragons trilogy!

Includes a bonus short story, “Old Wounds Never Heal.”

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/End-Cyber-Dragons-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B0CQ6FN4FN/

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/End-of-the-Cyber-Dragons-Audiobook/B0CS11Q8Y5

Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/end-of-the-cyber-dragons-c-t-phipps/1144486659

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/sg/en/ebook/end-of-the-cyber-dragons

Writing Update – April 24, 2024

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Hey folks,

I thought I would give a wonderful update about what’s going on with my current projects because what is the point of this if not to keep my fans updated with what’s in the works? This has been a very busy April and the news is both good, bad, and in-between.

  • The Supervillainy Saga: The next book, THE RISE OF SUPERVILLAINY, is presently slated to be the finale of the series. It’s lasted ten books but sales are a bit down and Gary has achieved a lot of what I’ve wanted to tell so putting the series to rest for a time seems like a sensible choice. The premise for it is well-timed, though, because we’ll be doing a “Gary meets the X-men” style story.
  • Fear not fans of the Gary universe as when the Supervillainy Saga is finished, we’ll be doing a sequel series called WORLD’S WORST SUPERHERO. Which will take place in the same world and deal with Gary’s opposite number in would-be patriotic superhero, Jack Washington Junior. Except, well, he just
    keeps doing villainy! By accident, really!
  • Space Academy Miscreants (Space Academy #4) is now off to the recording studio at Podium where we’ll be seeing Vance Turbo’s adventures against the evil SLAVE LORDS OF CRIUS and meeting someone he never expected to see: [spoiler]! I think this will be a very enjoyable work.
  • Speaking of Space Academy, SPACE ACADEMY VAGRANTS will be coming out probably just two months after the release of Space Academy Miscreants. It will be a massive treasure hunt story and a redoing of the planned third Lucifer’s Star book. Basically, the concept just fit for Vance and crew.
  • We will actually be wrapping up the Lucifer’s Star series with a short story included with Miscreants called “The End of History” which will provide a nice epilogue for Cassius and company looking back on their connections to Vance Turbo and his crew.
  • The fourth and final Cthulhu Armageddon book, CTHULHU’S CANYON has been started up and I hope to have it done by the end of Summer. This will return John Henry Booth to the Wasteland for one last time to discover the fate of his two children and whether it’s possible to save what little remains of humanity.
  • Speaking of Cthulhu, I have a novelette in TIME LOOPERS, a Cthulhu Mythos anthology edited by David Hambling of Harry Stubbs fame. We’re also going to be releasing THE BOOK OF HASTUR, which is another set of excellent Cthulhu Mythos stories that will be starring John Henry Booth. It’s my hope to eventually do a compliation of all of the short stories into one Pulpy mythos volume.
  • Plans remain for the third Moon Cops book and second Morgan Detective Agency book. A Peter Stone sequel too but finishing up the above is currently preoccupying me. Not that I have too much on my plate, no sir!