The Time Has Come... The Evil Chicken is Free
Nov 01, 2025 5:01 pm
November brings the Evil Chicken...
Tales of the Norse Gods is available for preorder!
(at least the ebook; the print is coming soon)
Tales of the Norse Gods: Loki Saves the World
What if the legends of the Norse gods were lies? What if Loki was the hero of the story…
Once, Loki was an honourable god. Slandered and betrayed, he lost family, friends, and his reputation. He rebuilt his life from ruins and now lives the life of a shopkeeper in 19th-century London. Until one fateful Yuletide season, when he is visited by three odd ghosts…
No, not those ghosts. Elven ghosts.
Come read five tales of the gods as Loki’s life is turned upside down by these unwelcome visitors. He embarks on a quest to save the Yule tree, a crazy rescue mission to Helheim involving an evil chicken, and the epic showdown of Ragnarök. Along the way, he finds new allies, old enemies, and his tragic family secrets are revealed, all weaving into his ultimate fate and a looming armageddon. Can Loki be the god he once was, or is the world doomed?
Tales of the Norse Gods: Loki Saves the World is a wild ride through myth, humour, and tragedy. Don’t miss out on this unpredictable set of stories!
Oh, there’s also a tiny dragon!
The release date is Thursday, November 27th.
----------------------------------------------
Other Book News
I'll be participating in Novel November and working on my lighthouse ghost book, Dark Beacon. It'll be good to get back to writing instead of editing, and I'm looking forward to the madness.
----------------------------------------------
Book Tidbits
And apparently, my brain is not done with Loki and his misfits, as the evil chicken has been whispering in my ear; the stupid bird wants a sequel. So there may be more adventures on the horizon with a novella and some short stories (including an evil chicken origin story, and one titled, Norse Werewolves in London).
----------------------------------------------
The Shadows and Ink Podcast
October's podcast episode dropped, with a lively discussion about slasher books and movies, with author Stephanie Rose. And the episode coming up on November 20th is all about how fog and mist play a vital part in horror.
Check out the link below to see the latest episode.
----------------------------------------------
Giveaways and Books To Browse
C.L. Cannon’s Halloween Horrors Fan Giveaway!
Horror fans, this bookish giveaway is to die for!
Enter to win these bestselling horror books & goodies!
Prizes:
All the pictured books
Horror Movie scratch set
Slay All Day mug
Pennywise Funko
Literary Places magnetic bookmarks
So pop on over and enter by signing up to follow other great authors.
***
HorrorReadersList Book Sale Promotion!
Ends December 2nd!
***
HORROR FANTASY
The Eighth Dwarf by R.A. Goli
Everyone is familiar with Snow White's story. What about the story of the dwarf who helped make her stepmother queen?
Tiberius is no hero. Rather a curmudgeonly blacksmith with lofty aspirations, a tongue sharper than his chisel, and no tolerance for his seven roommates' chirpy, sing-song lifestyles. Hi ho, hell no.
So when a witch offers him power, wealth, and a chance to live like a king in return for crafting an unbreakable coffin? He's in. No questions asked.
(He probably should have asked at least one or two.)
Suddenly he's the unwitting participant in the queen's murder. Nothing works out as planned, and now he's stuck with royal secrets and a vindictive sorcerer whose dark magic could end him if he makes one wrong move. Tiberius merely wants to keep his head, the queen won't remain dead, and the king demands answers.
The Eighth Dwarf is a twisted, humorous, and wickedly entertaining retelling of a dark fairy tale where there are fatal consequences for ambition, no one is innocent, and a happily-ever-after comes with a death toll.
Perfect for fans of The Witcher, Once Upon A Time, and Game of Thrones.
FANTASY
Silken Demon by Emma Jane Holloway
Henrietta Telford’s beloved brother is dead, and she’s desperate to know what happened. The wall of silence surrounding his end implies a scandal, but Henrietta refuses to believe it. To clear Charlie’s name, she must find the truth.
But Henrietta is a gently-bred lady, not a detective, and she has only one clue—her brother died in Silken Alley in the deepest hours of the night. Investigation will be perilous. The place harbors danger she cannot hope to understand.
Yet the challenge cannot be denied. With the help of unexpected allies and her own ingenuity, Henrietta plunges straight into peril—and not just for her life. She quickly learns the greatest risk is to her heart and soul...
Set in the Hellion House universe.
STEAMPUNK
Dead Drop by Abi Barden
It’s a new world, with old problems.
A routine walk turns into so much more when the dead drop onto the street.
It’s a rough area of town, so finding a dead body isn’t entirely unusual. But no one saw where this one came from. Honest gov, it just appeared, like witchcraft.
Finding how a man lived is the way to find out how he died, and solving this mystery leads to new highs and lows for the investigator.
This is the prequel to the upcoming Haven City series, staring this investigator.
Murder on the Aerial Express by M. K. Rumsey
This is a sample/preview free download.
Murder on the Orient Express gets a steampunk makeover, a little romance, and a grumpy teen heroine.
Meet Lady Isabelle Huxley. All she wants to do is concoct wild alchemical experiments and find the secret to renewable energy. But when she takes a trip aboard the Aerial Express, someone murders the airship's owner on the first night.
Everyone's a suspect — including her friends — and Isabelle turns her attention to the mystery. As if that weren't distraction enough, she even finds herself falling for a roguish new acquaintance. And who has time for that?
Subscribe for free, and each Thursday, you’ll receive the next chapter by email! Plus you'll get a free sample of the premium digital text — a scrollable adventure designed to be enjoyed on any device.
Join the adventure and download the first ten chapters today!
----------------------------------------------
My Merch Stores:
Vintage and artsy designs on a variety of products
Scifi, fantasy, and horror designs on a variety of products
My shop on Redbubble featuring a variety of products.
Including evil chicken merch.
(with new Canadian designs and evil chicken merch)
----------------------------------------------
Find me on:
Website | Facebook Group | YouTube | BookBub
Instagram | BlueSky | TikTok| My Amazon page
Lemon Squeezy Store | My Books on StoryOrigin
----------------------------------------------
That's it for this edition. And I'll return next month with more updates.
