That Saturday, after the last of the Placement Exams, it seemed all of Arborea was shut down. Breakfast was a ghost town, lunch was leftover breakfast, and Logan was going to skip dinner completely. Logan had no idea where the academy staff were, but the majority of the students were either sleeping after the exhausting tests, or they were out in the Xiru Forest, drinking and celebrating at the...
2020-11-04 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was grateful for every Monday night he’d spent using his Braincap spores to inhabit the bodies of Inga’s centipedes. Moving all those legs in unison was a tricky bit of business, but he’d taken the same lessons he’d learned during physical therapy and applied them to the creature. Now, it felt almost as natural as walking on two legs. He slithered forward, the rough stone floor se...
2020-11-03 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostRockheart’s voice boomed through their simulated dungeon. “All right, Logan and Inga, your six hours is over.”
Both dungeon cores returned their minds to the gems floating over their pedestal, which was surrounded by an underground mushroom forest. Some of the fungi were decorative, but others had a definite sinister purpose. Strands of purple-black Ghoul’s Snare covered the groun...
2020-11-02 15:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt took us two hours to get back to the safe house in the Big Easy with the Scion in tow. She had about a million questions—where were we going? Why was the Morrigan after her? Who was the Savage Prophet?—which Sullivan handled with his usual easy going wit. He could be a colossal asshole, but it was easy to forget how charismatic he could be when he wanted to turn on the charm. An...
2020-10-31 17:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is near and dear to my heart, because Amara is of course a Huntress. Although this isn't her, eexactly, its close to what she would look like.
2020-10-30 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt took another month to get through all the material in their classes and to work through the seemingly endless sea of students who needed to take their Placement Exams. The staff ran the Tartarucha Cells twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to get through the school.
For Logan and his friends, it was largely business as usual—cultivating in the Akros Coliseum in the morning, pe...
2020-10-30 15:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, James here. So a couple of things to share. First, I'm going to be doing an exclusive Zoom AMA this Friday. It'll be live, and please feel free to jump on the call and ask me anything. I'll be more than happy to talk about what projects I'm working on, what's up coming, or pretty much anything else you want to know. The event will take place this Friday, October 30th, at 8:30 EST....
2020-10-27 18:03:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe next night, Logan sat with his friends, near the back of the Golden Serpent Hall. Naturally, the First Cohort sat in the front, close to Skip Shadowcroft and Professor Rockheart. The headmaster and the rector prime stood on the dais of the main hall, presiding over the evening’s proceeds like a battalion CO and the sergeant major giving the weekend safety brief. Shadowcroft was as regal i...
2020-10-27 17:54:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here it is in all it's weird and wonderful glory! Hope you all like it!
2020-10-24 18:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt took six weeks for Logan to talk with Tet Akhat alone. The cat woman was always either out of sight, in her room, or with the First Cohort. And if he went to her room, or asked to talk with her in private, that might raise all sorts of red flags and put her in an awkward position. Something shady had definitely gone down at the Slaughter Pits, and Logan suspected Chadrigoth was behind the in...
2020-10-23 17:28:29 +0000 UTC View PostLogan and the rest of the Terrible Twelfth walked at the rear of the group. Rockheart had insisted they come last, since they were the most pathetic cohort at the academy. Logan wanted to stay longer, but they had to get back to Arborea.
Logan was ambling with his friends down a straight corridor when he noticed the wall on his right wasn’t made of bloodstained stone. It was a wooden wa...
2020-10-20 14:25:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, I'm smitten with this art. Love, love, love the colors and Logan the mushroom man came out awesome! Title treatment soon to follow!
2020-10-18 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Ferraro, behind me!” I brought up both hands and conjured a shimmering dome of raw force, air, and water, all reinforced with potent bands of Nox. The fire slammed into the shield like a wrecking ball, but I was ready. Protecting yourself from fire was a helluva lot harder than deflecting a few stray bullets, but trekking around the second circle of Hell had taught me a thing or two about ...
2020-10-17 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Who’s Canarom?” Logan asked.
Kyvandry shrugged. “One of their party, an Azure Branch Dread Totemist who didn’t duck my level-one saw trap. I had Petunia grab his corpse. Petunia, she’s my torture orc chieftess. Big. Mean. Pretty. Don’t get me wrong, I love Rosie, but Petunia is my little angel. You’ll see her in a minute. But let me catch you up. The Jade Leaf magic-user ...
2020-10-16 18:49:23 +0000 UTC View Post
And here is the third brand new cover -- probably my favorite one so far! In other news, Strange Magic will go live this upcoming Tuesday!
If you've never read the series, but enjoy action adventure, definitely give it a read. And for those who have read the series, this is a new updated version of the book with some fairly significant rewrites and edits. Hope you all enjoy! Y...
2020-10-09 21:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here's are little mushroom friend Logan, now in HD and color! I'm really loving the look overall, and think the Tree of Souls in the background is almost as cool as the mushroom man himself! Hope you all enjoy and I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments!
2020-10-07 20:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostLogan enjoyed his victory for three days, until the next Core Calisthenics class. Chadrigoth hacked off his left arm with a broadsword while Magmarty watched, quietly chuckling with satisfaction. The earth elemental’s trash talk was subdued because Logan had reduced him to a rocky mound of mushrooms. Chadrigoth, on the other hand, seemed bound and determined to prove that Logan was just as wo...
2020-10-07 00:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, so here's the early art for Shadowcroft! Gotta say I'm loving the look of this mushroom man. Let me know what you think though. Love it? Hate it? Is there anything that's worth changing?
2020-10-02 19:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Logan finally found sleep, deep and dreamless. He’d slept like that before, but not since his time in Iraq. True, he’d worked some grueling hours in his landscaping business, but nothing had compared to coming in after a three-day patrol then collapsing onto his lumpy mattress, body worn out and mind broken from the prolonged stress and anxiety. Those had been difficult d...
2020-10-01 17:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the two from the last suit, the Murk Elves. Lots of cool art in this suit, but this card is a firm reminder that the Murk Elves of the Storme Marshes aren't big fans of outsiders.
2020-09-30 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostLogan’s eyes snapped open just as Rockheart came slamming down on the ground in front of him. His wings grated as they closed. He could hear the smile in the gargoyle’s voice. “Your lack of respect is noted, Mr. Murray,” he grunted. “But since it seems you’re finally ready to join us, may we begin today’s lesson?”
Logan didn’t answer. He slowly stood, straightening himse...
2020-09-29 18:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Lugh’s portal dropped us in a cramped alleyway, the air filled with a sour stink, the ground littered with garbage of a questionable origin and variety. There were dirty diapers, old tires, a spattering of used syringes, and enough broken glass to fill a friggin’ bathtub. Things scurried and scampered just out of sight, rustling balled up newsprint in their passing. Likel...
2020-09-26 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Forevergreen Festival was Saturday, but that Friday, Logan was trying not to lose his mind. He sat in the worst class possible for someone in agony.
At the front of the classroom, the vulture-headed Professor Bartholomew Nekhbet rested on his big feathery butt, droning on about the Tree of Souls. Logan was having a hard time following. It felt like spiders had spun a cottony web of co...
2020-09-23 22:41:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! So I pulled the trigger today and unpublished the Lazarus series in preparation for the relaunch later this year. Book 1, which is getting an overhaul and a rewrite, will go up for preorder next week and book 2, Cold Hearted, will follow shortly. And here's the new Cold Hearted cover, hope you all dig it!
2020-09-19 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLogan and the rest of the Terrible Twelfth sat in their crafting class, far across Arborea, nestled deep in the fiery expanse known as the Heckish Hills.
Professor Crucible’s classroom was about half a mile away from the entrance of the Bloodrock dungeon. In theory, not a terribly far distance to navigate. In reality, however, it was half a mile of sheer terror and nea...
2020-09-18 17:27:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, if it isn’t our esteemed guests,” came the patronizing voice of Lord Lugh as I pushed my way through a set of colossal doors at the far end of the nightmarish banquet hall. I grit my teeth and reached for the Vis, just out of sight, preparing for more tom-fuckery. I let out a sigh of relief when I found myself in a room I instantly recognized, even though it had been twenty years sin...
2020-09-12 18:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, It's the one and only Spider Queen! I think this is one of the coolest and creepiest cards in the deck. Love it to pieces and think it turned out fantastic! Nightmare-fuel for sure, but fantastic!
2020-09-11 15:31:12 +0000 UTC View PostProfessor Yullis Rockheart stood on the iceblade grass of the Akros Coliseum. A light snow covered the ground. Winter had come and while it meant fires and hot cocoa, it also meant snow, and Rockheart crossed his arms, a tad chilly.
Logan went screaming by on the dirt track, waddling as fast as his legs could carry him. It wasn’t fast enough. A doomhound pounced on him. Golden spoors le...
2020-09-10 15:34:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! So, in preparation for the release of Lazarus book 6, Red Reckoning, I decided to give the res of the series a bit of a facelift. Strange Magic, the first book in the series, is also going to get a small edit, although the rest of the books will remain the same. Just with some fancy new artwork. Hope you enjoy this. I think it turned out super awesome, but I'd love to hear everyon...
2020-09-04 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post