Welcome to my world!
I'm James Maxey, the author of the Bitterwood fantasy trilogy composed of
Bitterwood,
Dragonforge, and
Dragonseed, a pair of superhero novels
, Nobody Gets the Girl and
Burn Baby Burn, plus my new
Dragon Apocalypse series
. I've also published numerous short stories, the best of which are reprinted in my collection,
There is No Wheel. This website is focused exclusively on my published fiction. At my second blog,
Jawbone of an Ass, I serve up loudmouthed blathering about politics, religion, money, and other topic polite people have the sense to avoid.
If you're a fan of dragon-centric sword and sorcery with a touch of superheroics, the Dragon Apocalypse is being written for you! In fact, even if you're not a fan of fantasy, you might want to check out the books, since my approach to this series is to strip out everything I find boring about epic fantasy and focus on the fun stuff, like larger than life characters bravely throwing themselves into battle with dragons, and the dragons eating them. Greatshadow, Hush, and Witchbreaker are now available. The next book, Soulless, should be out in late 2013/early 2014.
Definitely coming out in 2013 will be my next superhero novel, tentatively titled "The Adventures of Cut-Up Girl." Watch this space for further news!
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4 comments:
The book is mostly wonderful. It's so totally interesting to see this process from the absolute beginning. Thanks for including me like this. I am looking forward to seeing how the book changes and evolves in the next drafts.
I love the font on the cover. However, a little more contrast for the figure might be nice. Right now it kind of blends into the background a little. At least that's how it seems to my eye.
Thank you, Mr. Cavin. I know the book couldn't have been easy to navigate given all the typos and missing words. I haven't gone back to read it yet, but the few times I went back to check on some detail I needed to reference again, it looked like I hadn't gotten a single sentence out without some glitch. But, while the writing is pretty raw, I arrived at the end of this book feeling good about it. I'm really looking forward to reading it!
Thanks, Loren. I'd already cropped out the figure and darkened it some to pull it out of the background, but may need to do a little more. I may also be cropping the cover differently to make the figure and the text larger and have left of the flames in the backdrop. Or, I may include some sort of blurb above the figure. I'll play with the cover more when I finally get ready to publish.
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