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 | Extras | Gaming
Novel excerpts
- 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
- Varekai series
- Cold-Forged Flame
- Lightning in the Blood
- Rook and Rose series
- The Mask of Mirrors
- The Liar’s Knot
- Legend of the Five Rings
- The Night Parade of 100 Demons
- The Game of 100 Candles
Short fiction
- “As Tight as Any Knot” (audio here)
- “Chrysalis”
- “The City of the Tree”
- “Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya” (audio here — read by yours truly!)
- “Cruel Sisters”
- “Daughter of Necessity” (audio here)
- “The Faces and the Masks”
- “Fate, Hope, Friendship, Foe” (audio here)
- “The Gospel of Nachash”
- “Guidelines for Using the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library”
- “Mad Maudlin”
- “The Me of Perfect Sight”
- “Never to Behold Again”
- “Oak Apple Night” (audio here)
- “The Old Woman and the Tea”
- “On the Impurity of Dragon-kind”
- “Sankalpa” (audio here)
- “Silver Necklace, Golden Ring”
- “The Şiret Mask” (audio here)
- “This is How” (audio here)
- “The Twa Corbies” (audio only)
- “Vīs Dēlendī” (audio included in podcast here)
- “Waiting for Beauty” (y en español, con audio aquí)
- “The Wives of Paris”
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)
