The Scare for the Cure is becoming a family tradition. We go to Good Luck Grill beforehand, have burgers (chicken fried steak for me, please), then venture through what amounts to a bloody escape room. This year went light on the puzzles and more heavy on the acting. Despite the fact that the adventure was book themed (the Hunter could only catch you when you were between the worlds of different stories, like Alice in Wonderland, The Time Machine, The Raven), without the puzzles, I found it less interesting than previous years. But it's still fun!

I'm ahead of schedule on Bones of Cenaedth... you know, because I no longer have a job... so, silver lining? All the final versions are already uploaded and the release is running on autopilot. Folks who signed up for the ARC should be getting a separate email today to remind them they can go put ratings/reviews on Goodreads.

Book 3, Secrets of Deara, has about 12k words written, and another 16k from the first pass that have to be redone. So it's got some meat. It has an entirely different set of writing difficulties than Book 2. Which is fun.

A bit of my reference material for book 3, along with some old Guardian League pics and baby pics

I also pushed the new cover for Book 1 of Guardian League into Amazon & Ingram. Oh, the audiobook too. Which reminds me, I finally hit enough sales that ACX gave me new promo codes. If anyone would like to listen to The Guardian of The Palace, narrated by the one and only Jillian Yetter, let me know. I would ask that you rate the audiobook if you use a promo code. Seems fair. I gave away the original set of promo codes way too freely... I think I have 3 or 4 ratings/reviews on the audiobook for a hundred freebies. Sad.

All books by Steven J. Morris

Indie Author Showcase

Story Origin has a pretty slick setup for getting free books in exchange for reviews

The Magic in Fire

Anthology

** 12 MAGICAL TALES IN ONE MASSIVE FANTASY COLLECTION **

Trolls standing up to a hungry dragon;
Fire sprites under siege from greedy humans;
A circus that upsets the universal balance;
And a solarium tan that's gone terribly wrong.

Visit twelve fiery realms of magic and mayhem all in one fantastical anthology.

Before the Resistance

by Renee Marski

The world as we know it is gone. Now what are we supposed to do?

A dystopian novel with a hint of love, set in the modern day.

Skye joined the military to defend her country. She never thought that it would all be for nothing, that she would see her President murdered on national television and then released from her military service before ever stepping foot on a ship. Now she has to figure out where to go from here, and what to do now that her dream is gone. She has to find purpose, whether that's in fighting back against the invaders or protecting those who can't protect themselves.