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

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

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

Writing Update – April 24, 2024

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!