Reader Question Day #24 – the Ghosts, the gates of hell, and a soul of sorcery

lucy asks:

How many books in the Ghosts series?

Four, currently. There’s CHILD OF THE GHOSTS, the (free!) first book in the series. It is followed by GHOST IN THE FLAMES, GHOST IN THE BLOOD, and GHOST IN THE STORM. I’m planning a fifth book, GHOST IN THE STONE, but I don’t think I’ll get to it until September or so.

Manwe asks:

Sweet cover art! What’s it called?

Specifically, the cover art for the first volume in my new urban fantasy series, THE TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS:

The image for the cover is “Pandemonium” by John Martin – it’s the scene in Dante’s Inferno when Satan builds Pandemonium and summons the demons to an infernal congress.

Granted, it has no bearing on anything in the book whatsoever. But it is evocative of the mood the Tower of Endless Worlds inspires in anyone who looks up on it.

Bob asks:

When are you going to start Soul of Sorcery?

June. The minute I am finished preparing THE TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS. So, ideally, no later than June 15th. I’d like to have started sooner, but Real Life has been eventful the last few weeks.

What does the title mean?

Each of the previous books – DEMONSOULED, SOUL OF TYRANTS, SOUL OF SERPENTS, and SOUL OF DRAGONS – had a title that reflected a bit on what happened in the book. SOUL OF SERPENTS, for instance, had quite a bit to do with the San-keth, the scheming race of serpent people. So SOUL OF SORCERY will have quite a bit to do with dark magic.

Any more details would be a spoiler. 🙂

-JM