Cover Design Walkthrough
Indie authors issued over 3.5 million ISBNs in 2025. How do you stand out? I walk through building the cover for The Stygian Blades, from blackletter type and a stock photo to an oil-painted finish, then put it in the bestseller grid to show where it fits the genre and where it breaks the mold.
A Brutally Honest Review of The Stygian Blades
Heists, jinn, ninjas, and Shakespearean filth dialed up to 11. “Worth the price of admission for the word play… Chaucer's The Miller's Tale has nothing on The Stygian Blades.”
— Joanne Budzien, Goodreads ★★★★
New Release: The Stygian Blades
Katherine Tarlton is a traveling player on the lam for stabbing a nobleman’s heir in his poxied stones… and a habit of pinching things that don’t belong to her.
The Stygian Blades Exclusive Preview
The Stygian Blades is a dark and bawdy late-Tudor secondary world fantasy featuring a motley cast of mages, rogues, trulls—and a sticky-fingered actress—as they race to stop a regicide and save their own skins (they couldn’t give a clipped farthing about the Crown).
A Moste Terrible and Trve Discoverie
Meet the Stygian Blades—through the eyes of the man trying to destroy them. A full broadside from my upcoming historical fantasy, written in authentic 1590s pamphlet style. Complete with woodcut.
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