📚 Paperbacks Officially Exist! 📚
Jun 11, 2025 3:01 pm
Yep, I know it's been 'awfully quiet on the C.L. Carhart front' for the past two weeks, but today I'm popping back into your inbox to announce that paperbacks for Claimed by the Undead are available on Amazon! 🥳
My cover artist, J. L. Wilson Designs, did a fantastic job on the artwork, and she even made a cute little graphic that gives you a peek at how it looks:
Get yourself a hard copy of Helena and Konstantin's wild adventure through dark magic and forbidden love right here:
Within a week or two, the paperbacks should also appear on other retailers like Barnes & Noble and various non-US places that US-me is unaware of. 😉 So if you'd rather toss your hard-earned cash to a bookseller other than Amazon, your moment will come. As it should!
Review of Claimed by the Undead
Now that Claimed by the Undead is out in the wild in multiple formats, I think today is the perfect moment to share a fun reader review with you. Back when I first started publishing the Elemental Bloodlines series, I began uploading my ARCs to BookSirens. In fact, quite a few of my books are still available as ARCs on BookSirens, so if you're a reader over there, feel free to read and review whenever your muse leads you into the Teutonic Fantasy Realm. 🪄
A book blogger named Anárië stumbled across Gift of Fire when I uploaded it to BookSirens back in 2022. Anárië has read and reviewed every book I've published since then. 🥹 She does a fabulous job with her critiques, and she catches nuances I always wonder if readers will notice.
Here's a snippet of what you'll find in her review of Claimed by the Undead:
"Imperative to read before diving into this one is Gift of Light, a prequel novella in the Elemental Bloodlines series, because it introduces us to Helena and Konstantin, gives us Beauty and the Beast to the max, and then you get to thump back down to reality when you try to figure out:
how WILL a living, breathing witch manage life with a priest who's been brought back from the dead, is technically not even alive anymore, wants her more than the air they breathe and has a hair-trigger on an anger that can flatten anyone within miles?
Welp. That's what this book's all about, y'all."
Check out the rest of her review here:
https://reviewsresort.blogspot.com/2025/06/tome-thursday-claimed-by-undead.html
**Fair warning that there are a LOT of spoilers in this review. If you'd rather avoid such things until you've read the book yourself, you'll have to just take my word for it that Anárië writes meticulous, intriguing reviews.
Ready to dive into Claimed by the Undead? Get your copy today!
If you're on a tight budget for reading indie eBooks, you can ask your local librarian to order Claimed by the Undead, especially if your library uses the Libby app. If you subscribe to Kobo Plus, you can read it for free. Lots of options on the table!
Book Fairs and Indie Books
I'm taking part in two BookFunnel events this month, and I've got another four indie books to share with you too. I know I said I'd be back to sharing just two books per email, but since last week got away from me, I'm catching up today. Be sure to browse both book fairs and add some new stories to your TBR!
(And don't forget to enter C.L. Cannon's Romantasy giveaway if you haven't done that yet.)
With the pack on the verge of war and its leadership in question, Tessa didn’t consider the necromancer she hired as anything other than a solution to the pack’s problem. So why can’t she stop looking at her or refuse the help she’s offered?
Penelope shouldn’t have agreed to help Tessa, but she couldn’t turn down the money or the look in her eyes. Now she’s caught in the beginning of a war. So why did she offer to stick around and help? It might be her big heart or the way her pulse races when Tessa looks at her.
With the clock ticking, can Tessa and Penelope pull themselves away from each other long enough to find the answer to the pack’s problems? And will bringing the pack together rip them apart?
Farm girls and princesses can never be friends.
With the enemy closing in to kidnap her, Princess Foliana glares at Brodia, the wizard’s apprentice assigned to her protection. So far, she’s done a lousy job and now the troops have trapped them in a pine forest as a blizzard freezes them. Farm girls are really the most worthless creatures the Gods ever created!
As Foliana traipses through the trees, this peasant wants her to wear the dead coach driver’s clothes. But she is a princess and has appearances to maintain.
Then the troops catch up to them and the princess must learn some hard truths about her world.
Ever since that stick in the mud, Wulfredo Tremayne, became principal of the Royal Academy for Magical Advancement my job has been hell.
My name is Madora Troy, but most people call me Dora. Not him, of course, but I don’t take it personally. He is like that with everyone.
I can’t even blame him for his standoffish behavior. I mean, I can’t fault anyone for not catching feelings for someone else just because she has them.
Besides, although he is technically single, he is sort of involved with someone.
See, there is this one female who has Principal Tremayne wrapped around her finger.
Her not entirely grown up finger.
You guessed it, I am talking about his daughter, Cynthia.
Sixteen years old and the most popular girl at the Academy, little Cyndi is not the angel everyone thinks she is. She’s been accused of bullying other students, cheating on tests, and just plain old rudeness towards the staff and select professors.
Yours truly included.
Get the first 5 books FREE in the Megabundle on Lisa Blackwood's Bookshop. Or FULL PRICE on all the major ebook retailers.
As a gargoyle and the male half of the Avatars to the gods, his duty was to protect the other half of his soul—The Sorceress.
He failed.
Now, when he wakes to a new life and finds the female half of his soul missing, he soon learns she’s been captured by their oldest enemy, the Lady of Battles. This time the battle goddess has gone too far. She foolishly stole the most vital part of him…
Now it’s personal. He will not fail his sorceress a second time…
And he’s willing to BURN his enemy’s entire kingdom to the ground to prove it.
**Note from me: If you haven't read the Gargoyle and Sorceress series yet, you NEED to grab the above deal right this second. I've read the entire series—and I've got 'em in paperback—so this is a personal recommendation. 🙂
That's pretty much all for me right now, because in case you haven't guessed, things have been a little crazy in the Carhart household lately. For one thing, an author-related course I bought over a year ago has suddenly decided to NOT provide lifetime access 😱, so I'm hurriedly copy-pasting everything inside so I can actually apply this stuff to my career at some point. Sigh.
Plus, it's garden season. And I've nearly finished harvesting all of my onions.
And I'm trying to convince my cucumbers to climb a lattice instead of wrapping around their nasturtium cousins. 🌱
And I'm fighting the bugs who just want to EAT the leaves of my pepper plants.
Welcome to 'gardening in South Carolina.' 😵🪲
I might have another book to write as well. Something about Konstantin and Helena and what becomes of their relationship after...things...happen...in Claimed by the Undead.... 😬
What are you up to this lovely summer season? Send me a reply and let me know! Are you having success with your garden? Going somewhere on vacation? Enjoying a relaxing read by the pool?
No matter what you've got going on, I wish you a wonderfully weird week!
Talk to you soon,
C.L. Carhart
Get Claimed by the Undead:
https://bf.clcarhart.com/fd9deoy799
Elemental Bloodlines series:
https://clcarhart.com/collections/elemental-bloodlines-series-ebooks
His Name Was Augustin series:
https://clcarhart.com/collections/hnwa-series-ebooks
Romantasy giveaway: