I am excited to announce that I will be releasing the highly anticipated sequel to The Sorcery Code, The Spell Realm (The Sorcery Code: Volume 2) in just a few weeks!

After the battle with the Sorcerer Guard, Gala and Blaise take shelter in the mountains, a place of unique beauty and danger. Augusta, however, is determined to exact revenge—even as Barson, her ambitious lover, implements his own plan. But amidst politics, battles, and intrigue, something far bigger is brewing . . . something that could upset the balance of the Spell Realm itself.

If you haven’t read Volume 1 yet, I highly encourage you to do so before the sequel is released!

Here is a link: The Sorcery Code on Amazon.

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I am pleased to announce that Der Zaubercode, the German version of The Sorcery Code, is now available on Amazon.de! The print version and other ebook stores are coming soon.

Sorry for the long disappearance – I have been hiding in my writer’s cave and my recent addiction to Zelda: Skyward Sword is not helping. The good news is that the first draft of The Spell Realm is about 75% done, and Anna and I are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime, we got very excited to see that The Sorcery Code has been nominated for the RONE Award!

In other news, we are currently deciding whether the next book we write will be the third book in The Sorcery Code series (The Reign of Sorcery) or something else. The top contenders for something else are The Thought Readers (a start to an urban fantasy series) or Mind Awakening, a start to a scifi-fantasy series. Decisions, decisions.

And with that, back to the writer’s cave I go.

The Audiobook of The Sorcery Code is now live on Audible! Here is the link:
The Sorcery Code

It was narrated by the talented Emily Durante, who has done dozens of books, including the Dragonriders of Pern series, Close Remembrance, and many others.

I  am very excited to announce that The Sorcery Code, my collaboration with Anna Zaires, is now live on all platforms! 

It’s an epic fantasy novel with lots of action, adventure, romance, and intrigue. Grab your copy now, and please spread the word! 
 
The links are as follows:

Amazon
Barnes & Noble
iBookstore
Google Play
Kobo
AllRomance
Smashwords
Sony

I am super exited about the book coming out on Monday. In the meanwhile, here is a little excerpt to hold you over. Also, I am proud to present the map of the land of Koldun!

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Gala stared at the tall, broad-shouldered man who was her creator, trying to figure out the best way to answer his question. She found it difficult to focus, her senses overwhelmed by being here, in this place Blaise called the Physical Realm. Her body was reacting to the different stimuli in strange and unpredictable ways, her mind attempting to process all the images, sounds, and smells so she could understand everything.

One particularly strong distraction was Blaise himself. She couldn’t stop looking at him because he was unlike anything she had seen before. Something about the angular symmetry of his face appealed to her, resonating with her in a way she didn’t fully comprehend. She liked everything about it, from the blue color of his eyes to the darkness of the stubble shadowing his firm jaw. She wondered if it would be acceptable to reach out and touch his hair—those short, almost-black locks that looked so different from her own pale strands.

First, though, she wanted to answer his question. Concentrating, she thought back to before, to what had happened prior to her experiencing reality for the first time. “I remember realizing that I exist,” she said slowly, trying to put into words the strange sensations at the beginning.

“You mean you existed for a time without realizing it?” he asked, his dark eyebrows coming together slightly. Gala thought that expression likely meant confusion because her own eyebrows did the same thing when she didn’t understand something.

“It’s like there were two ways I existed,” she tried to explain. “One way would just happen. This went on longer. When I say I realized that I exist—that’s when this other part of me first realized that I am me. These parts are not separate; in fact, they are the same thing. There is a strange looping arrangement between the two parts that I don’t fully understand and don’t know how to put into words—”

“I think I do understand,” he said, leaning forward and staring at her intently. “You became self-aware. At first, you existed on a subconscious level, and then, at some critical threshold, you achieved a conscious state of being.” He appeared excited, Gala thought, somehow finding the right word to describe her creator’s emotional state.

“What is the difference between a conscious and a subconscious state?” she asked, hungering for more information.

“In a human being, the subconscious parts of the mind are in charge of things like breathing or the heart beating,” he said, his eyes gleaming brightly. “When I run, my subconscious figures out the complex trajectories of how my limbs move. Some sorcerers also think dreams form in that part of our minds.”

“I am not a human being,” Gala said, looking at him. That much she knew now. She was something different, and she needed to learn what that something was.

He smiled—an expression that made his face even more fascinating to her. “No,” he said softly, “you’re not. But you definitely seem like one to me.”