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A Brainstorming Bullet Train! Nitro Narratives! Bombastic Casting!

There’s no stopping the fictional fabricating force that is Brian Clopper. This fourth volume showcases twenty shiny, new first chapters. A barrage of stunning inventiveness and creative gumption awaits. Plus, each entry includes an Author’s Commentary to spark fellow storytellers to embark on their own sagas, or at least the first chapters!

Hopeless romantic and recent arrival to the Great Beyond, Nathan Sparks, decides to join the Bureau of Meet Cute. Partnered with a jaded agent, Laura Temple, he gets to return to the mortal world to shepherd meet cutes galore. He soon discovers why his mentor is so detached from their missions and embarks on a risky op that could very well heal her broken heart. Along the way, Nathan learns it’s the small moments and gestures that spark true love.

Bureau of Meet Cute delivers heartwarming instances of sweet and tender overtures.

Thermonuclear Wit! Supercharged Foreshadowing! Mega Character Generation!

Brian is back with another volume of rowdy first chapters. Fueled by his boundless imagination, this third venture features twenty more ultra-cool concepts. Readers will get tantalizing peeks at the opening scenes of stories rich in lore and character development. These tales ooze wit and originality and will inspire the writer in all to pen their own first chapters. Each entry includes an Author’s Commentary that playfully delves into the creative process and origins of each dynamic property.

Fifteen-year-old orphan, Caleb Drexel, is convinced his parents are still alive and that Castle Dauntless is to blame for their disappearance seven years ago.

What secrets and dangers will the reckless boy unearth as he braves forgotten areas of the magical castle in the hopes of reuniting with his mom and dad?

Once again, Clopper creates a memorable cast that includes: a bog troll, a clingy gentleman ghost, a stubby dragon, a bounty-hunting warrior witch, and much more. Filled with wit and heart, Hero of Castle Dauntless is a timeless adventure about the power of friendship and family ties.

Hypersonic Creativity! Mind-Stomping Plot Dynamics! Storytelling Shots Fired !

The grand narrative experiment returns with twenty new first chapters. Brian digs deep to offer up another anthology filled with creativity and a salute to brainstorming. Thrill to the ambitious starts of all-new properties. Bask in the glory of the author’s full-throttle imagination. Learn tricks and tools of the trade for crafting your own first chapters from delightful Author’s Commentaries.

Imagination Overflow! Worldbuilding On Hyperdrive! Dizzying Character Generation!

Dear Reader, you hold in your hot, little hands a unique storytelling experiment. Brian Clopper has penned twenty all-new stories for you. The hook: they’re the first chapters to longer works that don’t exist. Or possibly they will. Who knows? To hear it from Brian, every one of these first chapters really spoke to him, and he’d love nothing more than to go back and write their entire epic sagas! Time will tell.

Kylie Rhodes just wants to get out of high school with no permanent damage and her self-respect intact. But both her quirky-loner status and class bully work overtime to keep that from happening.

Life grows even more complicated when a green door only she can see calls to her. On the other side, magic and a mysterious family legacy await. Will Kylie take the plunge?

Brian Clopper delivers a tale that is equal parts plucky, inventive magic and heartwarming teen snark.

After enduring a crippling loss, bestselling author Nell Carmichael retreats from the world. She stops writing. She stops leaving the house. She stops caring. The gaping void in her life can’t be filled . . .

Until a self-aware black hole barges into her living room and insists that she school him in the ways of being human.

With her emotional reserves at an all-time low, can Nell teach a literal void empathy and rescue herself from despair?

The Rot Storms have brought death and destruction to the world for the past hundred years. Only Scouts bonded with charm hounds, complete with their protective auras, can survive against the Rot in all its deadly forms.

Accompanied by Seekers with knowledge of life before the fall, Scouts and their dogs comb the ruins to unearth precious secrets and tools from the Dim Times.

Young Pilk wants to honor his late parents and earn the title of Scout alongside his scholarly friend Rove, who’s obsessed with becoming a Seeker.

Pilk has one last chance to bond with a pup. Will his dream come true even if he’s saddled with the runt of the litter? Will their recklessness endanger or save those close to them? And will they awaken something far deadlier than the Rot amid the Waste?

Find out in this Broken Earth saga that’s a heartfelt exploration of a boy and his dog.

Upon arriving in the Hereafter, Ty Wallace and Nell Travers grow suspicious of their wondrous afterlife.

Why do some residents seem to have their memories wiped? Why is it dangerous to be out after curfew? And finally, why so many celebrity sightings of the beloved Mel Patrick Farris?

To uncover the Hereafter’s dire secrets, Ty and Nell must work together or die ‘again’ trying.

Since the death of his parents, fourteen-year-old Donovan Strong has spent the last six years raised and schooled by his quirky Uncle Drexel in the remote woods of Maine. When strangeness intrudes on his sheltered life, he learns of his true heritage and a dire prophecy.

Hunted by the mysterious Twilight Monarch, Donovan seeks refuge at his aunt’s island bed and breakfast, where the once-every-decade Convocation is being held. With the help of a lobster warlock, an invisible ally or two, and numerous Convocation emissaries, he must master his magic and stop the prophecy from coming true.

This coming-of-age fantasy proves that Faeries do exist!

Magic doesn’t work around young Gray Willix. Turning this unique curse to his advantage, the seventeen-year-old has chosen to earn his living as a thief. But when his latest heist goes wrong, he finds himself hunted.

The resourceful orphan evades capture by signing on with Feerop the Daring, a demon and well-known scryer who posts his exploits on the popular scrying network, where he has a huge following.

In order to retrieve a prized magical artifact for the next dare, Gray joins a rowdy orc and a banished warrior princess. Will his curse prove to be a blessing or a calamity in their high adventure dungeon crawl?

Find out in this companion novel that digs deeper into the magical world of Emery Fogg.

Here’s the recipe for the most off-the-wall novel you’ll read this century:

--Take one underwhelming produce clerk, Justin Greenwood.

--Add a sentient lemon with extraordinary intelligence and abilities, Eureka.

--Blend together with an agent of the improbable, Agent Rollins.

--Fold in a cunning scientist with extra chutzpah, Doctor Rachel Honeycomb.

--Subject mixture to extreme heat and danger on a remote island filled with bizarre and dire mad science experiments.

--Serve alongside crackerjack action and wit.

Brian Clopper pens an absurd love letter to the technothrillers of Crichton, Rollins, Preston, and Child.

Brian Clopper adores the strange beasties and experiments his scrambled mind summoned for this novel.

Brian Clopper enjoys sounding off about his writing in the third person.

Finally, Brian Clopper wonders if this fever dream of a tale will be perceived as a cry for help. The past two years have been tough on everybody and no one would fault him if he cracked a little, right?

Emery Fogg is happy to learn from a light mage, even if Kelmor’s always bickering with his shadow-wielding brother over instructional methods. She can even deal with the mage’s other student, a jealous elf. After all, she’s back with her almost-madness-free mom, staying in touch with her sister Leyena in the shadow plane, and even struck a long-distance friendship with a dashing young vampire.

But her tranquil life is turned upside down when endless pesky prophecies convince her to venture back in time to rescue her dad.

Emery must brave ghost archers, warp dragons, dark elves, and the Shadow Swarm at the height of its power if she has any hope of reuniting with her dad. Making matters worse, she must enlist an unlikely ally to defeat the rekindled Shadow Swarm in the present day. Will her light magic along with her sister’s shadow talent be enough to bring victory? Find out in the concluding book in the Emery Fogg trilogy.

A new mage is teaching Emery Fogg to use light magic—but the training isn’t going nearly fast enough. And a minefield of prophecies doesn’t help. She’ll never acquire enough magic in time to cure her Mom’s fractured mind and set free her sister from the shadow plane.

When Skence arrives astride a warp dragon claiming her sister’s in danger, Emery heads to the Realm Undying to save her. There, she uncovers a threat that hits too close to home: Her town of Yilhavia, a place that’s always seen her as bad luck, is targeted for invasion by a dragon army.

Can Emery beat back the warp dragons and thwart their disturbing leader? Find out in the second installment of the Emery Fogg trilogy.

Emery Fogg has lived in her sister’s shadow all of her rather miserable fourteen years. Leyena is allowed to use magic, Emery is not. Leyena is adored by all in the town, Emery is not. Their own mother praises her oldest, but not poor, unremarkable Emery.

When she foolishly winds up in the dreaded Bracken Ruins, she dooms her mother and sister to a horrible demise.

Distraught, she remains convinced that her family didn’t actually perish. When a dark mage arrives claiming he is willing to take her on as his apprentice, she knows it must be the way to uncover her family’s true fate. Shadow magic doesn’t come easy, and there’s always a price. Is Emery willing to pay even more for the truth?

A bold start to an enchanting new fantasy trilogy! Come visit a world of warp dragons, menacing magic, and vexing balls of light that spell disaster whenever they come on the scene.

Baron Orb demands every species in Perpetua suffer a magical tax, thus grounding dragons, stripping orcs of their frenzy, and imprisoning abducted ghosts.

Powerful magic buried in three nerdy middle-schoolers is the realm’s only hope. Each has trouble interacting with their peers in the real world let alone the outlandish.

Lou Walker withdraws into her father’s comic book collection to cope with his death. Nelson Rivers avoids physical touch and eye contact, only able to summon empathy for nature and not his fellow homo sapiens. Hugo Hammersmith immerses himself in tech and video games and rarely interacts with others except for his baby sister. He’s aces with her.

An attack by mysterious shadow creatures and a visit by a spell-casting, hydration-obsessed golem toss them together for the first time. These misfits are sent on an epic adventure where they must reach out and trust one another if they hope to have a chance of defeating the horribly wretched Baron Orb.

Collecting the first three books of the Graham the Gargoyle series under one cover, this massive tome will brighten any magic lover's bookshelf!

Bad luck happens to Will Strooter when he’s away from his goldfish. And today he wakes to find his pet belly up.

Now minus his aquatic talisman, he predicts a whirlwind of trouble at the office. Just as expected, a dark cloud of misfortune surrounds him when he finds himself at the center of a confounding glitch and bizarre happenstance that could cause him to lose his job.

His parade of bad luck continues when he barely evades a hit squad in a grocery store parking lot and is rescued in the nick of time.

By aliens.

Will is whisked off into space aboard a clunky freighter, with his former babysitter/no-nonsense intergalactic warrior concerned about a cosmic artifact embedded in Will's puny mortal frame. This is news to him, but it turns out several alien races are convinced the Earthling has an ancient anomaly tucked away in his psyche that, if extracted, could either bring unlimited universal power . . . or end all of time and space.

Strooter does what any hunted human alone in the galaxy would do to survive: he surrounds himself with a ragtag band of misfits and hopes for the best. Along the way, he must avoid destroying a prison planet, escape from a death cult, and do his best not to anger a powerful god whose disciples are sentient asteroids.

Oh, and save all of reality. That goes without saying, of course.

Eleven-year-old Max Edgars would rather be anywhere but his grandmother’s creepy old house this summer . . . especially when the creek floods and dark magic rises from its depths.

His grandmother is becoming unhinged. With the spooky basement, oppressive household rules, and cryptic warnings to steer clear of the locked-tight storage under the garage, Max's one escape is playing out back in the gentle creek. But the flood soon puts an end to that.

Only when he braves the basement and forbidden garage does Max begin to understand his grandmother’s past and her hidden loss. And only then does the true menace of the chaotic creek water rise to the surface . . .

Can Max trust magical strangers and brave an underwater journey to unlock the mysteries of Arcana Creek?

This is a standalone dark fantasy tale suitable for readers 10 and up.

Felix Martin finds his luck has drastically changed for the better. He realizes his good fortune can’t last. His life just doesn’t work that way. Sure enough, complications arise, divine complications.

He finds out that everyone has a god wheel, a metaphysical device spun by a dutiful squire that steers one’s fate. Each mortal has a personal pantheon of gods just a spin away. Felix’s squire turns up MIA. This sets off a chain of events that leads him to more direct contact with his quirky band of gods and goddesses, and each has strong feelings about the direction in which he should conduct his life.

Making matters worse, Felix is mentioned in a vague prophecy that far too many know dribs and drabs about but can’t tell him what’s what in a big picture sense. Felix uncovers it involves saving all of reality from a thoroughly despicable elder god with a hankering for chaos.

Witty and intricate, The God Wheel is a modern fantasy that is sure to have readers rethinking how they’d stop the end of the world.

Dean Harmstrike is fed up with supervising the characters that attend the Questing Academy and will stop at nothing to invade the real world. Irving and his eclectic classmates, along with a very special stranger, risk it all to stop him.

Harmstrike expels Irving to the mysterious Domain of Sagas where Irving must inhabit the title role in three quests. He can’t lose himself in the heroic characters he’s hijacked as he barrels through the epic adventures, beating back the madness and searching for his true cast amid the narrative archetypes so they can all escape.

Can Irving escape his storybook prisons and defeat the dean once and for all?

The Domain of Sagas is the fourth and final volume in the Irving Wishbutton fantasy series.

It’s been a month since Roon and Irving snuck off campus to rescue the vampire’s brother from Revision Ravine. Though tempted to investigate the school's secrets, both have worked hard and attended classes to stay in Dean Harmstrike’s good graces. And then Roon and Irving stumble upon the secrets of the Tomb of Tomes. Venturing into this off-limits area angers Harmstrike, who once again makes their time at the academy miserable.

Campus life becomes even more chaotic. Irving must find time to perfect his team’s dungeon runs, confront Harmstrike’s writers to find out the dean’s dark agenda, and figure out his spunky fairy girlfriend’s tragic secret and its connection to the Tomb of Tomes.

The third book in the Irving Wishbutton saga offers up strange answers and even more mysteries. Readers will love the new characters of Cocoon Boy and the vile Vincent and welcome back favorites like Sarya, Lord Raggleswamp, Valiant Forge, and the ice princess Stacia. Although, to be honest, the princess is really nobody’s favorite but maybe a few might warm to her this time out.

For the past six months, rookie world mage Randall Flood has been hunting down and capturing anything that stinks of magic and stashing it within the pages of a spellbook named Chuck. But is there more to his breakneck missions than meets the eye?

The talkative tome claims Randall’s predecessor, Mitch, is to blame for magic’s reappearance. The previous wizard had banished most anything magical and hoarded the remaining spells and mystic weapons for himself. Now, as magic resurfaces with greater frequency, Randall doubts the wisdom of capturing the arcane and socking it away in the spellbook.

An encounter with an attractive and crafty witch through an enchanted dating app upends his wizardly purpose and sets him on a path to halt a magical disaster.

Randall must decide whether to save the world using his tried-and-true spellbook or through another mystical avenue that is unusual and untested.

Brian Clopper lends his trademark wit and talent for concocting clever magical mash-ups to a new fantasy novel that explores the archetype of sorcerer as earthly protector in a dynamic new light.

Leon Spingle's subpar walk through life is divinely sidetracked when a disfigured Son of God drags him into a cosmic murder mystery. Someone is knocking off alternate reality Jesusi, and the key to finding the godkiller lies in Leon. With reluctant allies like Atomic Jesus, Mauled Jesus, and a spirited disciple named Dewey, Leon must face absurd dangers and dire introspection if reality has any hope of not unraveling. Dripping with sacrilegious wit, Burnt Jesus explores science fiction and religion with a piercing eye and unflinching bravery.

Ocean City, Maryland, 1988. While most thirteen-year-old boys are spending the summer soaking up the sun and chasing cute girls up and down the Boardwalk, Reece Narrows is staying with his aunt in her bayside trailer while his mom wastes away in the hospital.

As if the situation isn't bad enough, his antagonistic older cousin just loves making trouble for him. Laney hurls insults his way at every turn as well as refusing to take him along on her expeditions to find the Maiden in the Marsh, a local legend she’s determined to prove exists.

But there's more. A newfound paranormal gift thrusts Reece into dire circumstances with a gaggle of eclectic ghosts haunting the coast. Through it all, he must keep his spirits up and find a way to save the decent souls that brand him their reluctant protector.

Brian Clopper once again dips into 1980s nerd nostalgia like his previous novel, The Powers That Flee. This time, he puts a fresh spin on the supernatural genre.

It’s October 1985, and sixteen-year-old comic book nerd Darin Forrester is given a special arcade token by a cute but mysterious girl. He soon finds himself granted super powers with a catch—they don’t stick around. With a revolving door of abilities, Darin must fight off a deranged villain on a power grab himself.

Brian Clopper delivers a sincere trip back to the 1980s where hair was big, music videos reigned supreme, comic book reading was resigned to social outcasts, and young science fiction geeks traveled at warp speed to track down the newest issue of Starlog.

Gideon Thump knows magic abounds in his town, that a tight crew of his classmates are secretly champions of the light and face down evil on a daily basis. All he needs is proof. He foolishly trails their leader and soon finds himself no longer a simple observer. Dropped inadvertently into the role of the major hero, with heavy sword and all, Gideon must win over a supporting cast that blames him for the loss of one of their own, while facing down magical baddies that are thoroughly modern and a little absurd.

Making matters worse, his annoying cousin moves in with him and runs afoul of magic herself. With a sinister foe dead set on harvesting Gideon's fledgling magic, he must rally the troops and employ his addled wits to carve out a destiny that doesn't result in him shuffling off this mortal coil.

Maggie and Heath won’t be finishing high school. Ever. The arrival of the Makers made sure of that.

Their ships hovered above major cities, dispersing a bioweapon that transformed a subset of humanity into the Altered, mutated killing machines programmed to scrub clean all that remains of mankind. But the aliens miscalculated. A certain population didn’t fully transform. These hybrids, Offshoots, must overcome the fear they inspire and use their special abilities to overthrow the aliens.

Maggie and Heath are blessed and cursed to be the first of the Offshoots. They, along with others of their kind, must unite the scattered humans to fight back with them against the Makers and their engineered army, the Altered.

A fast-paced alien invasion epic begins here!

Angus Farseek is snatched away mere seconds before his unfortunate death. Teleported by strange creatures called Quick Slivers to another dimension, Angus discovers he has earned the honor of becoming an Untimely Agent, one who roams across time, safeguarding it from those dead set on unraveling the cosmos. But all is not as it seems with his newfound station, and he is shocked to find he has numerous family ties with time travel, one of which seems to be working for the other side.

Alongside a teenage girl his daughter’s age and a rogue Quick Sliver, he’s flung into the timestream well before his training is complete. Overwhelmed and desperate to get back to his family, he must take action even if it tampers with history itself.

What dire conspiracies will he uncover? What damage to the timestream can he possibly inflict? And what exactly does the essence of H. G. Wells have to do with the caretaking of all things chronological? UNTIMELY AGENT is the first of two books that will dazzle readers with time travel trickery and mystique.

Childhood friends Lucas and Renee reunite as adults thanks to their mysterious smarter-than-average smart phones. Their Crossroads apps work more like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, tossing trouble at them and seemingly knowing the future.

This can only be the work of otherworldly forces. Strange happenings drive Lucas and Renee together at every turn, and the reluctant duo have to own up to the grave mistakes from their past if they hope to have a future.

Like D. Spangler’s first romance novel We Three Meet, Decisive Magic conjures up a modern day romance that immerses the reader in the points of view of the two leads through their childhood and adult lives.

Sebastian and Brooke find their lives upended when they become aware that they’re characters in a novel. With the writer watching over them, manipulating forces to drive them together, each responds differently to the narrative intrusion. Will the path they take be one forged together or will the writer drive a wedge between them? This metafiction romance is D. Spangler’s debut novel.

Time and space about to crash in on itself thanks to paradoxes galore? Check.

An invasion of Earth by ghastly monsters? Most definitely.

A super-baddie named Horde Lord? Absolutely.

Four unsuspecting kids suddenly able to become super-powered monsters courtesy of high-tech boxers? You know it.

Bullies, betrayals, and bombast? Of course we have the three B's.

The Monsters in Boxers series is a rowdy mash-up of monsters, time travel, and magical undergarments that’s filled with action and wit.

Kyle and Logan long to return to their families – or, better still, bring both worlds into phase so they can all be together.

With Abe Torren's help, perhaps they can do just that.

Tunnels have been discovered deep below the enclaves and under the city. Within the darkness are signs of a lost civilization. But according to Abe, it isn't lost at all. In fact it's the third phase of Apparatum, very much alive today and filled with untethered spirits.

Only these spirits are flesh-and-blood creatures...

Nathan and Trina, a soon-to-be-dead boy and an already-dead girl, are running from the Darkness and its zombie army. They must make it to the mountains of North Carolina for that is where the entity of Light claims humanity's salvation lies. Their bond grows deeper as they face hordes of the undead, trigger-happy survivors, and a fractured US military.

Things grow deadlier when the Dark Being creates huge organic domes over key cities and begins to herd its zombies toward the hideous structures. Both teens are lured from their mission by inhuman treachery and drawn to the domed city of Asheville. What they find there will lead to a transformation that will make the Darkness’s army even deadlier and threaten to rob Trina of the last traces of her fragile humanity.

What new hideous creatures will emerge from the domes to ravage the survivors? Overwhelmed, Book Two of the Turncoats saga brings you zombie mayhem like you’ve never seen before.

Irving and Roon brave the wilds outside of the Questing Academy as they seek to rescue her brother from Revision Ravine.

Their adventure finds unlikely alliances forged with Druthers the wish dragon, along with Gnarl and his sharp-edged wife, Lady Edith. As the pair delve deeper into Revision Ravine, they learn more than they bargain for about Dean Harmstrike's sinister reach and his foul plans.

Can Roon and Irving escape the Machine and the dark hold the ravine has on trespassers? Find out in the second book of the Irving Wishbutton saga.

New Asgard offers Graham, Ot, and Flenn wonders and dangers alike. Hobnobbing with valkyries, minotaurs, changelings, and elves is a far cry from their once-isolated village life. Their role as emissaries is clear: they must be in the thick of things to keep the belief in gargoyles and trolls strong. Attending the Celestial Institute can do just that. Things are amiss at their new school. With several unlikely allies, they must unearth the secrets of the headmaster and thwart the schemes of a fresh batch of elven bullies. All answers seem to lie in the school's forbidden tower. But are they willing to sacrifice their most precious memories to make things right?

A fantasy anthology featuring the work of five talented writers. My contribution is "Job Opportunity at the End of the World."

The world of Apparatum is divided. To the west lies the high-tech city of Apparati, governed by a corrupt mayor and his brutal military general. To the east, spread around the mountains and forests, the seven enclaves of Apparata are ruled by an overbearing sovereign and his evil chancellor. Between them lies the Ruins, or the Broken Lands – all that's left of a sprawling civilization before it fractured.

Hundreds of years have passed, and neither world knows the other exists.

Laws are harsh. Two young fugitives – Kyle from the city and Logan from the enclaves – escape their homes and set out into the wastelands to forge a new life. But their destinies are intertwined, for the separate worlds of Apparati and Apparata are two faces of the same coin... and it turns out that everyone has a twin.

This novel is the first part of a 2-part story, although the book is complete in itself. The second book explores another aspect of the story, a natural extension of the first, but will be entirely optional. For sci-fi and fantasy fans aged 10 and up.

The Firebreaks are a family of dragonslayers. After dispatching the unruly lizards, this father/son team brings back the fair maidens to live on their magically protected princess reservation. At least that's what their brochure would have you believe.

When Ned wakes up from a coma, he finds key memories relating to his rescue missions and missing-in-action father erased by magic. With the help of three motivated princesses and one who’s rather a hindrance, he sets out to uncover his missing memories and reveal the truth of his family's dealings with the dragons of the Eight Kingdoms. Along the way, Ned picks up a tree sidekick, a wizard versed in the ludicrous art of pun magic, and a healthy respect for both princesses and dragons alike.

Can he make the world outside of the reservation safe for the princesses? Will he uncover the true threat to the maidens' well-being? Can he find his father before he must face off against the nefarious black dragon, Rackeesus, who dogs his trail every step of the way?

Find out Ned's fate in this rousing tale that blends fantasy with mystery and heaping helpings of wit.

Being a gargoyle with tiny wings, learning to fly is just the beginning of all too many of life’s challenges. It has been a year since Graham took his first flight and said goodbye to his grandfather. Even a trip to New Asgard isn’t enough to take his mind off the anniversary of his grandfather’s crossing over.

As Graham returns home, he learns from his hero escort, the Flying Mummy, that Cascade isn’t as safe as it seems. When mortals stopped believing in magical and mythological creatures, myriad magical denizens faced extinction without belief fueling their existence. They banded together and migrated to the new dimensional home of Cascade, hoping that belief in each other would keep them alive. But survival isn’t guaranteed. If a species closes themselves off from others, they risk fading out of existence. This has the young gargoyle worried, both his people and the nearby troll village, home to his best friend Ot, keep to themselves.

When Flenn and Graham wind up at the troll village, they are shocked to find the trolls fading out of existence. Deeply disturbed the same fate awaits his own hermetic people, Graham and his sister defy convention and champion making changes. As they wrestle to convince the gargoyle council to take action, a deadly new complication arises. Gargoyles and woodland animals alike start popping up as statues. Can they make things right and save both their villages?

FLAME AND FORTUNE is a spry fantasy featuring a combustive fire elemental, a hapless were-elf, and a willful will-o’-wisp on a quest to retrieve a lost mortal.

Hot-headed Flame is too loud and flashy for his own good, while poor Fenris Fortune is a young elf burdened by a werewolf's curse. Each flee their unsettled lives and meet on the road, where they find a shared knack for hunting down mortal children that have strayed into the Shattered Realm. When the pair are joined by the strong-minded will-o’-wisp, Maleeka, the trio finds themselves battling a sinister foe who threatens to unravel their very reality.

Their adventure take them from Seeker’s Sanctuary, the capital city where everybody and their nephew has a statue erected for themselves no matter how trivial their heroic deed, to a fantastic endgame at the besieged outpost of Grimhold.

Welcome to the Questing Academy, a campus devoted to helping book characters learn their roles. They attend classes while their authors finish their stories, only graduating upon publication. With a student body made up of heroes, villains, support characters, and folks who are just plain narrative window dressing, there’s conflict galore.

Irving Wishbutton arrives at the Questing Academy incomplete. His author hasn’t fully described him, which leaves parts of him fuzzy and indistinct. Branded a smudge, he is treated like a second-class citizen. Trouble dogs Irving at every turn. He runs afoul of Sir Gared, a villain who’s convinced he’s destined to be a hero. Lord Raggleswamp and Dean Harmstrike also seem to have it in for him. Plus, far too many of the professors are villains. Something is amiss at the academy and Irving, willing or not, must unearth the school’s dark secrets. Aided by Roon, an undead detective whose fickle author can’t decide what undead type she truly is, and Sarya, a spunky fairy that sees Irving quite clearly for what he is even though he’s a lowly smudge, he embarks on a dangerous quest, one not written by his author.

The Questing Academy is volume one in a four-book saga that tells a coming-of-age metafiction story for the ages.

For high-schooler Nathan Bristol, finding out his sister's best friend, Trina Bivens, has come back as a zombie is the least of his problems. While she may not have a hankering for his flesh, her visions predict the world will soon be overrun by zombies who do. Further, she reveals Nathan will play a huge part in saving the world. The boy can't even make it through third-period Chemistry without making a mess of things, much less stop a zombie apocalypse. What follows is a harrowing race to rescue his mother, deliver his family from teeth-chomping danger and maybe, just maybe, save the world.

BOOK ONE: OVERRUN deals with Trina and Nathan's tenuous relationship with each other and the rest of the world. Branded as turncoats by zombies and humans alike, the two must forge a bond in order to rescue Nathan's family and put them on the road together to save the world from the evil entity that has released the undead.

What's a little magic without a little mortal perspective? Dylan Thadmussel is the class geek, expert on all things magical and cryptic. Mitch Trick is the class bully, his number one client: Dylan. Both find themselves dumped into the magical dimension of Myriad, and set upon by Grimble, a gremlin guide who declares himself their appointed tagalong and takes them on an adventure that is a dream come true for Dylan, who is starstruck by meeting and defeating trolls, bushwhacking bigfoot and sidestepping snallygasters. Mitch doesn't buy into it. Suspecting their quest is planned, he constantly points out fantastic fabrications a little too convenient to believe. Soon, their adventure takes a turn for the worse and both find themselves in the thick of real peril. Can they act together to stop the true dangers that threaten to unravel all of Myriad?

For Graham, his first flight is sure to be a disaster. Expectations are high for him to fly. Teased for his puny wings and fear of heights, his only friends are an equally picked-upon troll named Ot and his grandfather who has hardened so much he may not make it to Graham's rite of passage. When his grandfather must leave Cascade to ascend to his final resting place atop a church tower, Graham makes a heart-wrenching decision and sneaks through a dimensional portal with him, keenly aware he may have just trapped himself alone on Earth. Will he make it back in time to attempt his first flight? Will Blord, the village bully, prove to be too much of a thorn for the earnest young gargoyle? And what does his sister's volcano project have to do with saving his rocky hide? Revel in the answers as you read this heartwarming tale of friendship and faith. Only 99 cents!