If you’d like to try out some of my fiction, here you can find excerpts from my novels and some of my short fiction that’s freely available online, in print or in audio (and in one case, in translation!). The short fiction has grown plentiful enough that at this point I’ve culled it down to works that are not currently available in my short fiction collections — there is still quite a lot to choose from, and this way it’s a more recent selection!

Novel excerpts | Short fiction | Poetry | Extras | Gaming | Readings on YouTube

Novel excerpts

Doppelganger series
• Warrior (formerly Doppelganger)
• Witch (formerly Warrior and Witch)

Onyx Court series
• Midnight Never Come
• In Ashes Lie
• A Star Shall Fall
• With Fate Conspire

Wilders series
• Lies and Prophecy
• Chains and Memory

Memoirs of Lady Trent series
• A Natural History of Dragons
• The Tropic of Serpents
• Voyage of the Basilisk
• In the Labyrinth of Drakes
• Within the Sanctuary of Wings

• Turning Darkness Into Light

Varekai series
• Cold-Forged Flame
• Lightning in the Blood

Rook and Rose series
• The Mask of Mirrors
• The Liar’s Knot
• Labyrinth’s Heart

Legend of the Five Rings
• The Night Parade of 100 Demons
• The Game of 100 Candles

Other
• The Waking of Angantyr

 

Short fiction

• “Any Rose My Mother Raised, Any Lane My Father Knows”
• “As Tight as Any Knot” (audio here)
• “Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya” (audio here — read by yours truly!)
• “Daughter of Necessity” (audio only)
• “Embers Burning in the Night”
• “Fate, Hope, Friendship, Foe” (audio here)
• “Guidelines for Using the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library”
• “In the Paradise of the Pure Land”
• “Mad Maudlin”
• “A Mighty Huntress”
• “Oak Apple Night” (audio here)
• “Sankalpa” (audio here)
• “The Twa Corbies” (audio only)
• “Vīs Dēlendī” (audio included in podcast here)
• “Waiting for Beauty” (y en español, con audio aquí)

 

Poetry

• “Damnatio Memoriae: A History of the Past That Used to Be”
• “To the Angels Alone”
• “A War of Words”
• “Hermit of the Crossroads”
• “Axis Mundi”

 

Extras

• “The Long Fall” (Turning Darkness Into Light)

 

Gaming

• Legend of the Five Rings: “The Rising Wave” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “In the Garden of Lies (Part I)” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “In the Garden of Lies (Part II)” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “To the South (Part I)” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “To the South (Part II)” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “Between the Lines” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “Like Seeds on the Wind” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “Two Swords Fall from Heaven” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “Pine and Cherry Blossom” (pdf; fan-produced audio here)
• Legend of the Five Rings: “What the Eye Cannot See” (pdf)

Readings on YouTube

• Midnight Never Come: Prologue
• In Ashes Lie: Prologue