The Rebel Lore Vault has grown quite a bit since I first opened it. What started as a place where I could sell my books directly to readers now holds multiple series, complete trilogies, premium print editions, preorders, the Vault VIP Club, and boo...

Every book has characters who drive the story and characters who quietly steal it. In Astray Mage, Annikki falls squarely into that second category. Kaija Jokiharju remains the center of the story. She is the character readers follow through the unc...

A first book has one job that matters more than almost anything else: It needs to make readers want the next one. That sounds obvious, but plenty of series starters forget it. They either dump the entire world onto your lap before you care, or they ...

Some books tell you exactly what they are by waving the same five tropes in your face. Tropes like the chosen girl, magical school, mean rival, creepy adult, Prophecy in the title, the glowing hallway, the suspicious teacher, and the inevitable spee...

Some fantasy heroines discover magic because an owl shows up, a mysterious stranger knocks on the door, or somebody finally tells them they’ve secretly been special all along. But Kaija Jokiharju doesn’t get anything that clean, because Cursed Mage ...

Some fantasy series open by screaming at you with a dark tower, blood sky, doomed prophecy, broken crown, and everyone already looking miserable before page one. The Arcane Prophecy does something quieter at first. Look at the cover, and Yote Diamon...

Fantasy gets boring as hell when every rebel sounds committee approved. Those books all have the same lame formulas, often with characters who “challenge power” without ever making the reader uncomfortable, and worlds where the bad guys are bad beca...

Kaija Jokiharju begins Cursed Mage trying to do what a lot of people do after loss: find the next solid thing and hold onto it until life stops shaking. Her dad's dead, she doesn't remember her mom, and movers cleaned out and turned her old apartmen...

Yote Diamondback had the grades, ambition, image, and competitive streak to expect the result she wanted. An elite elemental academy would have made all of it visible. The right school, reputation, and proof that Yote played the game better than the...

Quinn knows governments turn violence into virtue. Beyond the Lost tests if he’ll do the same thing once the gun lands in his hand. Quinn Cozens enters Beyond the Lost with an argument already loaded: America’s defenders insist the country kills to ...

This ain't no polite author update or another soft-focus dispatch about word counts, cover reveals, or whatever sanitized little ritual the modern fiction machine expects writers to perform before asking readers to care. This starts with the promise...

My Vault VIP Club has officially opened, and it's the best way to catch ALL of my current and future unconventional fiction with a one-time payment. One small payment (or a yearly subscription) gives you complete access to the following: My entire ...

"From the plot itself, to the political points, to the realistic drama with other survivors, I felt like all of this could really be happening," - Katie, ARC Reviewer Each review snippet you catch above and below will show you exactly what Beyond the...

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With The Rebel Lore Vault expanding at the end of February, ALL of my readers can spread the word far and wide. For the past six years, I’ve had the luxury of living the so-called “laptop lifestyle.” Most of that time was spent sportswriting, coveri...