Tag: cozy fantasy

Two New Books

Coming soon to Kindle Unlimited, the two newest novels in The Library Saga: The Algorithmic Draft and The Unwritten Fallout. Both of these novels are available to pre-order now, or you can wait until Monday when they’ll be available. All four are exclusive to KU, and will be followed by at least six to eight more novels, depending on where the characters take me. They will be in paperback and audiobook too.

Every story has a beginning… but what if the beginning was the flaw?

When the Library fractures under the weight of algorithmic forces, the companions are thrust into a gauntlet of corrupted genres — sitcoms, fairy tales, mysteries, pulp war novels, and even the library’s own foundations. Each shard hunt becomes a parody of pop culture, but also a mirror of the heroes themselves: the Princess trapped in glass crowns, the Marine saluted by mannequins, the Detective’s notebook writing without her, the Sitcom Dad haunted by laugh tracks.

As the Arcane Archivist’s echo grows stronger, the group realizes the shards aren’t just fragments of story — they’re pieces of the library’s origin. The final keystone lies in the Founder’s Wing, where the library began on a faultline of narrative convergence. To save what remains, they must tear out the very heart of the library, knowing the victory may destroy it.

The Algorithmic Draft is twice as long as its predecessor, escalating from playful parody to existential stakes. It closes with a Pyrrhic triumph: the shards recovered, but the library collapsing, and the whisper of the Archivist promising, “This is only the first draft.”

On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Draft-Library-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B0FXBDJC7G

The Unwritten Fallout is Book 4 of The Library Saga, a genre-bending ensemble novel that bridges the collapse of canon with the rise of chaos. It sets the stage for the character spotlight novellas to come — where myth, bureaucracy, and metafiction collide.
 
While the library’s stories are breaking loose, a genre corruption spills into the town, and reality begins to rewrite itself. Council hearings glitch into game shows. Newsrooms dissolve into narrative loops. And the Library’s surviving staff — Alexandria, Bonnie, Dewey, and a cast of reshelved fragments — must navigate a world where every headline is suspect and every character arc is up for grabs.

On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Fallout-Library-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B0FXHJZFKN

Series page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVV6HM92

Guardians of Genre Chapter Sample

Introducing The Library Saga: Where Stories Fight Back

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New Short Story Series

Hey all. While I’m attempting to write another novel (my seventeenth), I’ve decided to go back into my files, a mix of digital and written on paper, and look for every short story I’ve ever written to see if I can clean them up and publish them. Since my novels are somewhat serious, ten of which being Christian end times, I figured I’d do something light-hearted.

With that in mind, I remembered one that I started writing back in 2008 when I worked in a library, before I had independently published anything online (I first vanity published with iUniverse for Out of Time in the later part of ’08, KDP wasn’t letting in self-published authors just yet & Smashwords was a couple years later), and it was a story that I really kind of just wanted to make my co-workers laugh. I have this weird sense of humor sometimes, when I’m not an oh-so-serious introvert, and I was thinking of having various characters from the books in the library meet each other in a goofy kind of way, maybe magically, maybe technologically.

The library staff in the story gets mixed up in all sorts of shenanigans from Sam I Am randomly appearing to Nancy Drew investigating the various mysteries of the goings-on in the library to the actual physical card catalog causing book classification anomalies because of Melvil Dewey himself to The Communist Manifesto and The Federalist Papers arguing with each other in the background on the The Shelf of Disputed Ideas. The staff gets everything sorted out at the end of the story-or so they think….

The story’s name is Guardians of Genre. It’s for anyone who love whimsical fantasy, libraries, metafiction, satire, and genre mashups, and might appeal to people who like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. It’s probably not for everyone, but what is?

Here’s the cover.

This is a ten chapter short story. Thirty pages, 9400 words. Depending on how well this does, I’ll probably make it a series. I will release this first in ebook and paperback and then I’ll make an audiobook.

Will be widely available, instead of just on Amazon, and I’ll also put it on my website bookstore to give away copies for free. If you want a free copy, just let me know.

Here’s the Amazon Kindle sample: