Coming Soon: MONSTERS!

Well, actually the 2nd Classic Monsters anthology.

Are you ready to get your Frankenstein on?

We have 10 stories taking the trope of Frankenstein or his monster, and turning it on its ear! Guaranteed you’ll be delighted by this collection of stories — you’ll smile, you’ll shiver, you’ll cringe, and you might even shed a tear or two for one side of the story or the other. Coming October 15. Stay tuned, and you’ll be able to pre-order soon.

Consider:

Who really is the monster in the Frankenstein mythos? Creator or Creation? Who is the victim, and who is the victor?

Join us as we explore variations on the theme of Frankenstein — doctor and monster — in modern-day, historic and fantasy settings, through the eyes of creator, creation, and those they encounter along the way. We’ll visit some friends and settings we’ve met before, and new ones to make you smile, shiver, and shed a tear.

Guaranteed, you’ll never look at a mad scientist the same way again.

Get your Freebie here!

BOGO — buy one, get one.

Buy a copy of ETRUSCA’S VOW, AFV Defender book 3, and you can get a free short story ebook of the “early years” of the crew of the Defender, free!

If you buy the book here from Ye Olde Dragon Books, we’ll send you the Book Funnel link right away. If you buy the book elsewhere — whether ebook, paper, or audio — just send us a copy of the electronic receipt, and the ebook is yours.

What’s it about:

FOR THE BIRDS

Before Genys Arroyan was captain, and M’kar was Chief of Talents and Treinna was head of linguistics and Jasper was chief engineer … in the golden years under Captain Rob Hollis’s leadership …

A dark shadow from the crewmates’ past shows up to make life and a new, precarious mission difficult for the junior officers of the Defender. A nomadic fleet grudgingly agrees to host a diplomatic team from the Alliance.  M’kar’s animal-focused Talent is needed to help the ambassador leave the flagship when the birds that inhabit and overwhelm and perhaps even run the ships of the fleet … won’t let him leave.

Everybody Love BOGO?

Etrusca’s Vow, AFV Defender Book 3, is releasing in ONE WEEK.

To thank everybody who buys a copy, whether here at Ye Olde Dragon Books, or elsewhere online, we’re offering you a goodie:

Everybody who buys a copy of Etrusca’s Vow will be eligible for a free AFV Defender short story: For the Birds.

HOW do you get your copy?

If you buy here from Ye Olde Dragon Books, we have your email address, and the Book Funnel link will go out automatically.

If you buy anywhere else online, email us at 2OldeDragons.gmail.com with the electronic receipt, and we’ll get the link out to you ASAP.

Yeah, that easy.

Offer good through October 15.

Pre-Release Special!

Etrusca’s Vow: AFV Defender Book 3

COMING September 14
In paper, e and audio.
The third book in the AFV Defender series.

Etrusca was a warrior woman in the distant past of Nisandros, who defied the clan heads and fought to turn her world from the worship of the Ancestors and back to worshipping and serving Enlo.

For that she nearly died. Many times.

Multiple blue lines mark the scars around her eyes and mouth where her enemies tried to blind her and silence her forever.

Women of Nisandros mark their eyes with blue lines to honor Etrusca and to vow service to Enlo.

M’kar earned her blue lines at age 8, when an adventure nearly killed her, and dropped her into a mystery she would spend the next twenty-some years trying to unravel. Follow her as her Talent awakens and she gains allies and enemies, until the day she returns to Nisandros to solve the mystery, very much against her will.

What do you get if you pre-order?
Books will be sent as soon as they are ready, instead of making you wait until release day.
Print will come straight from the printer.
Order print — you get your choice of ebook or audiobook, FREE.
$1 discount.

This offer is good until September 10.

Check out the storefront to order!

We have WINNERS!!!!!!!

I am delighted. Thrilled. Overjoyed. Still BUZZED over the incredible news.

TWO Ye Olde Dragon publications WON in the Realm Awards last week.

First up:

Our very own resident Dragon, Deborah Cullins Smith, WON in the paranormal/supernatural category with her novel, MINA. Warrior in Shadows Book 1

THEN … from our first Fairytale Anthology, Kristiana Sfirlea won with her short story (1-10K words) AFTER HAPPILY EVER.

Can we give a WOO HOO and a WELL DONE to our winners?!?!?!?!

New Release! LISTEN CAREFULLY, Young Defenders Book 2

Now available — in print, ebook and audio.

Tress Lore, daughter of the chief engineer and chief linguist, was born on the Defender. Only nine years old, her life is about to change.

While exploring the space station where their ship is undergoing upgrades, she overhears people saying things that frighten her. Threats against her friends, and even the ship. But when she tells the adults, nobody else has heard what she heard. Tress is confused. What is wrong with everybody?

When she hears Lt. M’kar wishing to play a nasty trick on some people who are giving her trouble, Tress breaks some rules to try to help. When she is caught, the captain and her parents begin to understand what is happening to her. She isn’t hearing people’s voices, but their thoughts.

As she starts training to use her new Talent properly, Tress starts to understand what her parents have been teaching her: Enlo gives gifts for a reason. And the reason for her Talent appearing far too soon may already have arrived.

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SHORT TIME ONLY: Get the ebook or audiobook from Ye Olde Dragon Books for 99 cents!!!!! Go to our storefront NOW!

LISTEN CAREFULLY, Young Defenders Book 2. Coming July 15

Ready for release, July 15 — in print, ebook and audiobook!

Listen Carefully

Tress Lore, daughter of the chief engineer and chief linguist, was born on the Defender. Only nine years old, her life is about to change.

While exploring the space station where their ship is undergoing upgrades, she overhears people saying things that frighten her. Threats against her friends, and even the ship. But when she tells the adults, nobody else has heard what she heard. Tress is confused. What is wrong with everybody?

When she hears Lt. M’kar wishing to play a nasty trick on some people who are giving her trouble, Tress breaks some rules to try to help. When she is caught, the captain and her parents begin to understand what is happening to her. She isn’t hearing people’s voices, but their thoughts.

As she starts training to use her new Talent properly, Tress starts to understand what her parents have been teaching her: Enlo gives gifts for a reason. And the reason for her Talent appearing far too soon may already have arrived.

FINALISTS!!!

We’re delighted to announce that THREE stories published by Ye Olde Dragon Books have been named FINALISTS in the 2022 Realm Awards Competition:

MINA: Warrior in the Shadows, a novel about Mina Harker after the defeat of Dracula, by Deborah Cullins Smith.

And two novellas in the WHEN YOUR BEAUTY IS THE BEAST (Beauty & the Beast theme) anthology:

SHADOW OF THE CINCHONA GROVE, by Cassandra Hamm

DAUGHTER OF THE BEASTLY BEAUTY, by Michelle Levigne

Winners will be announced July 22 at the costume/awards banquet at the Realm Makers conference in Atlantic City.

Stay tuned for updates!!!!

Who’s YOUR Monster?

It’s spring, so it’s time to start thinking … MONSTERS!

As in the 2nd Classic Movie Monsters anthology from Ye Olde Dragon Books.

This year the title is WHO’S THE MONSTER? and the theme is … Frankenstein (both the monster and the mad doctor, for you purists out there).

For submission guidelines, write to 2OldeDragons@gmail.com.

Start brainstorming — submissions open June 1!

Double Trouble, Anyone?

TWO new releases on Monday, May 1. Are you ready?

First, we have the second Fairytale Anthology: TALES FROM THE TOWER. 16 stories launching off the story or trop of Rapunzel. We have all kinds of towers, all kinds of prisoners, all kinds of hairdos, villains, heroes, rescues, magic.

A burst of inspiration drives a baker to build a tower—without a door. But it proves to be the perfect dwelling for a certain old woman. The question is –Why?

A tower can be a safe place, especially during a zombie apocalypse. But what do you do when your safe place becomes a prison?

When communications between two castles have been cut off, a maiden must ride to rescue her friend from an evil … realtor?

We all know the tale of Rapunzel and her hair growth problem, but what if her hair grew – everywhere? When the moon was full and bright? Yes, we have a werewolf in our midst!

Chemical warfare is a sad fact of our modern life, but what if scientists learned to modify people to give them supernatural abilities? Like telekinesis? Or maybe tentacle hair?

On a spaceship far away, a young woman lives alone in a different kind of tower. One day, her songs reach a fellow travele

These are but a few of the stories you are about to dive into! To the realms of the fairies, to desert lands far away, to war-torn places where weary characters just try to survive, to forests, to windswept seascapes, to London and New York City, and into the far reaches of the galaxy. Explore the realms with us!

Then we bring you the 13th and FINAL book (maybe …) in the Neighborlee Ohio fantasy series.

The guardians face their greatest dilemma, when a New Age cult threatens to drive the Grandstones out of Neighborlee — and take their place. Better the devil they know than the one they don’t?

Saving Neighborlee Children’s Home from foreclosure, and stopping an invasion from otherworldly forces could all depend on Pastor Rocky “getting the band back together.” Problem: everyone else died in a fiery crash.

Or did they?

Multiple enemy forces unite to attack the town of Neighborlee, attempting to turn Pastor Rocky into their newest weapon.

Big mistake.