Two Sword of the Gods Novels!

In Book One: Sword of the Gods, Demascus has lived hundreds of lives, and in each one served as an assassin of fate. 

But something's gone wrong with his latest incarnation. Operating with only fragments of his memory and former abilities, the Sword of the Gods must defeat a nemesis whose name he can't even remember.

In Book Two: Spinner of Lies, the ghost of a previous lover haunts Demascus, accusing him of her murder.

To prove his innocence, he must find a stolen portrait containing the trapped soul of a demigod, sending him on a trail that stretches between the Demonweb, Airspur, and an island that appears on no map.

Sword of the Gods "appealed to me on almost every level."

The review by Darrin Drader for Sword of the Gods freshly posted to Amazon put a big smile on my face. 

An excerpt: "Damascus and his friends are characters I'd happily follow for as many books as he cares to write. I'm very much looking forward to Spinner of Lies." 

My familiar response: Yay! 

Find the whole review here -http://www.amazon.com/review/RMHK0PWUN6J9Y/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004HFRJIA&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=

Necropolis of the Sword

Sword of the Gods includes a scene where the characters Demascus and Chant (and Riltana) discover a portal to a mysterious destination. Demascus knows his enemy Kalkan has recently fled through the portal.

When Chant and Demascus decide to follow Kalkan, they find a strange new place—the lost necropolis of Khalusk.

The backdrop article I've written provides an excerpt from the novel, some background history, context, and a bit of game mechanics for Khalusk. You can use the information to inspire a few D&D game encounters, or use it as the basis of a longer adventure set in one of the lost places of the Forgotten Realms® setting.

Article: http://bit.ly/khalusk

Complete Back Cover Copy

Check out the complete back cover copy for Sword of the Gods, which doesn't appear on Amazon or in other places marketing the book. Which is a shame, because it's distinctly good:

Demascus wakes up on the cold stone slab of an ancient altar. He doesn't know who he is. he doesn't know where he's from. He doesn't even know his own name until a stranger tells it to him. But someone--or something--wants to kill him. This he knows with the certainty of the grave.

At the same time, a demon from a dead universe, a gift from the Chained God, is freed from its fossilized prison. Its essence takes root in the nightmare reality of the living, sparking a transformation once thought halted by forgotten heroes.

Demascus is the last of those forgotten heroes. He alone knows the havoc that will follow in the demon's wake. And he is all that stands between the light of the world and the phantasmagorical torments of the Abyss.

But Demascus keeps secrets . . . sometimes even from himself.

Fable the Cat

Did you know Fable the Cat, Chant Morven's vociferous feline pet in Sword of the Gods, is based on my own cat CC? No?

Well, it's true.

Here's a link to a growing link of of pictures starring Fable:

Fable the Cat Facebook Album

(Yeah, that's right. Now I have a legitimate reason to post cat pictures on the internet. I win.)

High Quality JPEG of Sword of the Gods Cover

Want a copy of the wonderfully colorful cover of Sword of the Gods, showing Demascus and the plague demon Murmur?

Then you've come to the right place.

Just click on the photo to the right, and from that screen, download the art. Man, it rocks!

e-signing for Sword of the Gods

Taking a cue from Paul S. Kemp, I'm doing an e-signing for my novel Sword of the Gods.

So if you’re interested in a signed softcover first edition of Sword of the Gods, read on!

If you live in the United States, you have a couple options. You can send me $17USD to me via any of the following methods (see? I aim to please!):

1) Pay Pal (my paypal account is bruce at brucecordell dot com).

2) via Cashier's check. This requires that you email me here to get my address of course.

3) forget USD; send me bitcoins (email me here to get my bitcoin address and in this rapidly fluctuating bitcoin market, how many bit coins to send!)

The $17 covers the cost of the book, tax, and priority mail shipping via the USPS. Include your address and any personalization instructions (if you provide none, I’ll make something up). After that, I'll get it out to you as soon as I can, though please don't expect overnight!

I have several copies of the book on hand right now, so the first dozen or so participants should have their copies pretty quickly. After I get through those, I’ll have to order additional copies (so the process of getting signed copies out will take a few days longer at that point).

If you live outside the US and are interested in one or more copies, email me here and tell me your address. I’ll let you know what the total cost of the book and shipping will be and you can decide if you want to proceed (international shipping costs can be prohibitive, according to Paul's blog, from which I'm cribbing much of the format here--Thanks Paul!).

Welcome Readers

Thanks for stopping by to learn more about Sword of the Gods!

A few quick bits to get out of the way first; if you just want to buy the book, click on the link to the right; you can get a physical copy or a kindle ebook from that link.

Further down the right sidebar, you'll find various other resources on the novel, including reviews, behind-the-scenes commentary, wiki entries on some of the main characters of the book, and other articles and reviews as they go live.

I'll use this main blog entry to introduce new elements to this page as they occur--for instance, when a certain Backdrop article goes live, I'll create a stand-alone post here, and link it on the right hand sidebar under resources.

This is also a good place to comment and ask me questions about the novel.

Stay tuned for a post about e-signing, and how to get a full-color electronic photo of the Sword of the Gods novel cover.