The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston

 

The Maleficent Seven       
Cameron Johnston

Out Now!

The dread demonologist Black Herran was the most ruthless general in all Essoran. Aided by the captains of her six armies, she brought the land to its knees...Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory. 

40 years later, she must get the band back together for one final stand, in the small town of Tarnbrooke – the last bastion against a fanatical new enemy tearing through the land, intent on finishing the job Black Herran started years before. 

Seven bloodthirsty monsters. One town. Their last hope.

“A fun, thrilling, and bloody novel filled with interesting characters and a unique world...You’ll be begging for more of Black Herran and the gang”
– Grimdark Magazine

A new collection from Michael Bishop

 

Forthcoming from Fairwood Press; pre-order it today, its going to be a good one!

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The Fallen by James A. Moore

 

The Godless
James A. Moore

 

 Out September 28th

 

 The long war with the Sa'ba Taalor has ended, but the land of Fellein does not know peace - only ceaseless change.

 

 A spate of murders draw the interest of Darsken Murdrow of the Inquisition, until the hunter becomes the hunted. Andover Lashk of the Iron Hands seeks a home in a world in which he no longer fits. An unholy necromancer steals souls, makes sacrifices, and sows fear.

And in the barren wastelands of the Wellish Steppes, the army of the Godless gathers. Driven from their homeland, abandoned by their deities, the Godless now follow the banner of a new Master, and are thirsty for blood.

"Fantasy does not get much better than this."
- Morpheus Tales

Twenty-Five to Life, RWW Greene

 

Out August 24th

 

 Life goes on for the billions left behind after the humanity-saving colony mission to Proxima Centauri leaves Earth orbit ... but what’s the point? 

Julie Riley is one of those billions, over-educated and under-employed, and bored out of her mind living under her mother's thumb. So when the opportunity comes to run away from home, she takes it.

 She runs, illegally, hoping to find and hide with the Volksgeist, a loose-knit culture of tramps, hoboes, senior citizens, artists, and never-do-wells who have elected to ride out the end of the world in their campers and converted vans, constantly on the move over the back roads of America.

 

 "Greene creates an all too realistic world filled with very real people. A tale of growing up and what it means to be an adult, this is one not to be missed"
– Gerald Brandt, international bestselling author of Threader Origins

The Fallen Ada Hoffmann

 

Out Now!

From the immersive and intoxicating world of The Outside, comes the exhilarating sequel

Hunted by the Gods and a disgraced angel, Yasira and Tiv must delve further than ever before into the maddening mysteries of their fractured planet in order to save – or perhaps even destroy – their fading world.

 

"Fast-paced adventure and intricate double-crosses sweep through Hoffmann’s magnificent sequel...This eerie, beautiful vision of collective action draws equally from Warhammer 40,000; cosmic horror; and the work of Becky Chambers"

– Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

 

 

ROAD’S END and Other Fantasies by Brian A. Hopkins

 

ROAD’S END and Other Fantasies by Brian A. Hopkins, Mystique Press, $19.99, ISBN: 9781637899533, reviewed by Barry Hunter.

The best thing about my recent eye surgery is that reading is fun again rather than being a chore that it had become. The second-best thing is the arrival of this fascinating collection by Brian A. Hopkins. 

Herein are the majority of his previously uncollected fantasy stories from anthologies and small press chapbooks.

“Roads End” opens the book with a fantasy tale of a king who has ruled his kingdom with prosperity and peace only to discover that he has one last foe to face before his life changes forever.

Next, we meet the last dragon and the last dragon hunter. That would make an interesting tale by itself, but Hopkins take it up a level by making the ending exactly NOT featuring what you expected.

John Chance, aka “One Eyed Jack”, appears in three western stories , co-authored with David Niall Wilson. Chance is a handyman, jack of all trades who deals poker when business s slow. Rumor has it that he traded one of his eyes to a Navaho medicine man for untold magic and a way to always win at cards. But heaven can’t help you if he removes his eyepatch.

“Sheepskins” is aptly named for where wolves are known to hide. “Wish One Knight” tells the story of a wish that comes true with unexpected results.

The book concludes with the three “Swords of Eire” sword and sorcery tales “Rhueshan’s Palladium”, “Kiamina’s Ghosts”, and “Do the Walls Come Down?”

All of the stories in this volume may not be what you are expecting. But you will find impressive characters, marvelous prose, a surprise or two and a lot of enjoyable reading.

Of all of the collections available, this is the one to be sure to pick up. Be sure to add it to your shopping list when you go to Amazon.com or any of your favorite booksellers. And if they don’t have it, have them order it! Available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audio formats on Sep 7^th.