I’m excited to share that The Last Red Dragon is now available in ebook and audiobook formats.
This is a clean romantasy, an exploration of dragon hoards, and a high fantasy quest. Again, this is a novella, and available in e-book form. However! This time, the novella will also be available as an audiobook via audible.com! (Order link coming soon)
This piece began as a short story, but it continued to grow in complexity and length until it became the novella available now. Even during the process of creating it, the story was only meant to be fun. A quest, a romp, a love story.
The Back of the Book
Nica Clearsight is the last of her kind. Following the Dragon Wars, she remains hidden in human lands. If any Black Dragons were to know of her whereabouts, they would immediately kill her for access to her vast ancestral hoard of treasure.
Merrik Strongtooth is ambitious, and hungry for the prestige that holding a lordship like Thunderkeep castle would give him. Having earned his position through hard work and questing, he wasn’t about to give it up just because of angry ghosts.
When Merrik learns that the ghosts would relent and let him stay in Thunderkeep if he married the castle’s rightful heir, the solution was obvious. But first, he had to find her.
A Few Self-Publishing Experiments
With both Arrows and Ambrosia and Magic, Murder, and Machines, I produced those things non-exclusively. They are available on Amazon, but they are also available everywhere else, too. This means that Amazon pays half the royalties they usually do, and they don’t really bother with any marketing on the author’s behalf.
For this novella ebook and it’s audiobook, I am only publishing them on Amazon. I’d like to see what the difference in visibility is, as well as the potential difference in royalties. I’m likely to do a bit of a mix of these things in the future. But it’s good to know how all of the various levers work, depending on the piece.
The gorgeous cover art was created by Renée Everhart. Renée was able to translate my truly abysmal sketch into something beautiful and a little foreboding, which suits Nica’s emotional state when the Black Dragons arrive in Swordlight.