Category: Shaman States of America

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Bracing the Mantle Available for Preorder!

Were you looking for another book to pre-order while you wait for The Mantle to unlock next week and Inheriting the Mantle the week after that? Well, I’ve got you taken care of. Book Three of Shaman States of America: The South will be available on October 29th!

In Bracing the Mantle, life is going beautifully for Edward Mauer – so it seems. He has a mentor in the Hunt, and is more successful than he could have possibly dreamed. Outside of the Hunt, Edward’s even found love and is starting to picture of what his ideal life could look like.

When Edward returns from a nearly disastrous Hunt and finds someone unexpected in his apartment, everything in his life starts to unravel. Well-intentioned deceptions are discovered, and everything he says is suspect.

With his life starting to crumble around him, can Edward keep his ties to both the powered and non-powered world intact?

Pre-order Bracing the Mantle here!

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State of the Mantle

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve updated here and I wanted to update you all on some fun things going on right now. Currently, the first couple drafts of Bracing the Mantle (book 3) are complete and I’m working on the first draft of book 4. It’s feeling pretty good so far, and I am tremendously excited for the events in it.

This weekend, Chrishaun and I will be at Wizard World Austin to talk about the various Shaman States of America world. There’s a ton of really cool stuff planned. With that in mind, James Osiris Baldwin’s first SSoA book, https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Crows-Shaman-America-Steelheads-ebook/dp/B07H436TJL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537406567&sr=8-1&keywords=murder+of+crows+shaman+states  is now available. If you’d like to join us, you can use our promo code to get a discount.

Wizard World Austin

If you’re going to be there, come see us! One of the things we’ll have there is a very limited run of The Mantle which includes both Priming the Mantle and short story that won’t be available anywhere else for a while.

Since not everyone can make it to show, we have decided to soft-launch the paperback version of The Mantle a month early. Early buzz has been very positive and I’m so grateful for all of the feedback. If you’re so inclined, you can snag a copy over on Amazon now.

https://www.amazon.com/Mantle-Shaman-States-America-South/dp/1720039984/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1537407428&sr=8-3&keywords=the+mantle

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Inheriting the Mantle ALSO Available for Preorder!

Inheriting the Mantle

So, if having one book available for preorder wasn’t zany enough for me, why not add another one into the mix?

After the events of The Mantle, Edward has an answer about what his future now holds. The problem is that his peace with that answer is short-lived as threats to The South become much more apparent. We also become much more aware of why Stefan and Maria Mauer decided to step so far away from the powered life of the Hunters…

In addition to this book, I’m still working away on book three in The Mantle series and a few other projects that I am very excited to talk about soon.

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The Mantle Available for Pre-Order

Hello all!

It has been a long road since I first met up with Chrishaun for coffee and to deliver my belated Christmas gift that I’d carved for her. That night, she offered me a gig writing within her world. That night, despite telling her that I wanted some time to think about the offer, I’d come up most of the outline for the series we’re now calling The Mantle.

Chrishaun primarily writes about the Shaman State of Texarkana, which is presented here.

The Mauers been hurt by the Hunt and want to distance themselves from that world. When their son leaves home for college, the world they tried to protect him from starts to seem like a closer reality than any of them would prefer.

You can pre-order the book now. It will be available on October 11th.

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Priming the Mantle

To celebrate my upcoming series with The Shaman States of America, I am releasing my prequel short story Priming the Mantle for free. Along with it, I will also have a short section from The Mantle which will be coming out in October.

When a rash of abductions plagues a favorite vacation spot in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, it doesn’t take long to see to figure out that this is not the work of humans.

First, there are too many missing at once. Second, human bones are piling up, and third, people are vanishing, but no one can see who took them. Including the survivors.

This is definitely not the work of humans. And just the kind of work the monster hunting team StopGap loves. Nathan, Sarah, and Billy quickly find out that there are goblins are snatching up people. Stopping them will be harder.

If you love fantasy with a dose of action and monsters, then Priming the Mantle is your introduction into the world Shaman States of America.

TO THE HUNT!

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Hello world!

My first inclination was to delete the default WordPress blog title, but there’s something a little special with it being called Hello World! It was the first program I ever wrote in C++, likely my first website that I coded a thousand years ago, and it kinda makes sense to publish the first blog post as such.

I hope you’re doing well. I’ll be posting a bunch of content here in relation to my writings, both within the Shaman States of America and other books that I have ruminating around inside my brain. I have a ton of plans that will be unfolding in the coming months… man, it always frustrates me to no end when folk say that online but I guess that I’m now that guy. Sorry?

This is tremendously exciting for me and I’m very much looking forward to this weird little journey ahead of us.

-WT