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Rogue Myths (Gatekeeper #1) for download - releases July 1
Download from Bookfunnel in your choice of format.
This is the book that was released as Wayward Myths in 2018. THANK YOU to anyone who bought it then, and my sincere apologies for the re-release; you can get the revised ebook edition here, and if you bought a paperback copy, email me and I'll replace it at no charge.
I sold so few of them that this is no hardship. XD
This edition has been lightly edited: typo fixes, tightening paragraphs/dialogue and so forth, but the only factual change that actually creates a continuity error from the original edition is that Kay's car is now a Subaru. I think this is a stronger book than the previous edition, but the rewrites are minor, and you can go straight to Echo City without reading the revised version and have absolutely no issues.
Gatekeeper trilogy release schedule:
1. Rogue Myths - July 1, 2020
2. Echo City - Aug. 11, 2020
3. Hollow Souls - Sept. 22, 2020
These are full-length urban fantasy novels, primarily action/fantasy/friendship/slow-burn-found-family with a friends-to-lovers F/F pairing.
The free download will be online until June 30, going offline before the book's official release as per Amazon's Kindle Unlimited terms. In addition, all of my weekly free stories on the mailing list from now 'til September will be Gatekeeper-related, including the original short story (now completely out of continuity) that introduced Kay and Muirin in 2009, before I started writing the first draft of the novel. Join the list here if you want to!
(Some of the stories will be long enough to put up on Bookfunnel, but some are short-shorts written through the development process to explore the characters, and will only be on the mailing list.)
Extra enticements: this series was designed so that each book would be centered (very loosely) around a specific mythological/folkloric tradition and that book would echo, in its plot and themes, the general mythological motifs and themes of that tradition. This was both my attempt to be respectful of the mythological creatures or heroes that I was writing about by keeping them in their cultural context as much as possible, and also a fun and interesting way to distinguish the books from each other. Therefore, we have:
#1: Rogue Myths - Greek mythology. A hero's journey; battling a monster; a hero brought down by hubris; a difficult quest involving a trip to the underworld and gifts obtained from magic helpers, followed by a return to a home that you can never quite go back to.
#2: Echo City - Celtic/Irish/Welsh. A clash between rival gods/warlords; midsummer; tragic lovers; hostages in the historical sense; raiding parties; a trip to the fairy otherworld; the Wild Hunt; magic wolfhounds; people turning into animals; curses.
#3: Hollow Souls - Folklore of New England. Ghosts, graveyards, cryptids, demonic entities, cultists raising the dead, frost-covered dead leaves and jack-o-lanterns, deals made in liminal places, selling your soul for power or love.
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I read Rogue Myths... but found it much like Dragons Luck.. in that I just could not connect with the characters. The mythology and world are interesting, but I found both main characters to be sort of jerks.. and had a hard time with them. The culture of the next two sound fun - and I really do love the celtic/irish/welsh stuff - so looking forward to that.
I do hope it gets more attention this time out!
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But I ran into a series of delays with edits on the second book, and hadn't even written the third book yet, and kept pushing the release of book 2 back and back - and at some point, since the first book was still languishing in obscurity, I decided that it made more sense to just pull the first book and release the three of them together, rather than having a 2-year gap between books 1 & 2. The relaunch is also taking advantage of having a decent-sized mailing list this time around; I've been actively working on growing it since last winter. And yeah, this is my preferred title; the other time, I went with flist advice (which is probably good advice!), but I never was entirely happy with that title and I like this one better.
Anyway ... I don't expect everyone will love everything I write; it doesn't bother me! Perhaps the sequels will be more to your taste, but if not, there will be more books in the future. :)
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I didn't realize that book three wasn't written. From what I remember of the earlier discussions, I got the impression you wrote all of them years ago.... now I see why you stalled out - and understandably!
I am glad your mailing list promo and advertising is working out. And think that'll help with the re-release!
Oh - and I happily got the complete Dragon & Detective story and can't wait to finish :) LOVE the cover you gave that one!
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No, book 3 wasn't written, which was part of the problem. I had planned to edit book 2 and write book 3 in a matter of months in the back half of 2018 and, uh. Things did not work out as planned. So at that point it was just like ... well, okay, let's have a do-over. xD
And thank you so much! That cover was super fun. I think I'm probably putting it out as an actual (short) book on Amazon sometime this winter.
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I'm really happy with Hollow Souls; it's where a lot of relationship threads finally come together and the characters start to Team properly.
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