SOUL OF SERPENTS – new cover art

Cover design by Clarissa Yeo.

I started writing SOUL OF SERPENTS in May of 2011, and it has a special place in my heart for several reasons. First, it was my return to the DEMONSOULED series after a gap of six years, after I had written SOUL OF TYRANTS in 2005 and given up on writing any new DEMONSOULED books.

Secondly, it was the very first book I wrote intending to self-publish it as an ebook from the beginning. Everything else before that, I wrote in hopes of selling to the nonsensical and byzantine meat-grinder that is the traditional publishing system. I don’t miss that even a little bit.

Third, this book made the rest of the DEMONSOULED series possible. I had intended to finish with SOUL OF SERPENTS. I would have my trilogy of fantasy novels, and then I could move on to writing more technical books, which at the time I thought sold better. But I added that final scene in the final chapter, and that was the hook that propelled the later books.

So needless to say, I’m grateful that over 7,800 of you have enjoyed SOUL OF SERPENTS so far. 🙂

-JM