CLOAK OF DRAGONS underway!

Now that SEVENFOLD SWORD: GUARDIAN is out and selling briskly, my main focus is going to be CLOAK OF DRAGONS.

I’m on Chapter 7 of 20, and if all goes well, the book should be out towards the end of April.

I’m also on Chapter 1 of 11 of MALISON: DRAGON UMBRA.

Here’s a short excerpt from CLOAK OF DRAGONS:

“Tell me,” said Tarlia, and I moved up to walk at her side. “How does the city fare?”

“Uh,” I said. “It’s getting better. I think most of the road damage from the Archon attack has been repaired. People are still kind of on edge. But life goes on.” I realized that most of what I had said was banal. But Tarlia had said she had recruited me for reasons other than my dazzling eloquence.

I glanced to the right and saw bullet holes marking the wall of the building, some of the windows still boarded over. There had been heavy fighting on this street during the Rebel attack.

“Yes,” murmured Tarlia. “You would hardly know that nineteen thousand people were killed during the attack, would you? But life does go on. The rent needs to be paid next month. It is the one thing humans and Elves crave above all else.”

I blinked. “Owing rent?”

Tarlia’s red lips curved in a smile. “Something that doesn’t exist. Constancy. So we yearn for the illusion of it.”

-JM