Death Before Dragons Bonus: Interview with Col. Willard

If you’ve read my Death Before Dragons urban fantasy series, you’ve met Val’s boss Colonel Willard (and her cat Maggie).

The new prequel adventure Mist and Magic shows the story of how Val first came to work for the somewhat testy Willard, so I thought it would be interesting to interview her.

I asked on Facebook for some questions, so most of these are from you guys. Thanks for reading along!

Interview with Colonel Willard

Greetings, Colonel Willard. You may have heard that there’s a new adventure coming out that shows how you and Val Thorvald first met. To celebrate the release, I’d like to do an interview of you for your fans. Would you mind answering a few questions?

My what?

Fans. They’ve been reading along with the stories I’ve been printing. Of course, Val, Sindari, and especially Lord Zavryd the dragon have the most fans, but a few people are curious about you.

You’re from the press? Who let you in this office? Do you have clearance? Continue reading

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Mist and Magic (the Death Before Dragons Prequel) Is Available!

Mist and Magic is officially out on Amazon!

Urban fantasy with a magical tiger cub. Also bad guys and sword fights and snark too. But an especially cute tiger cub!

Amazon US: https://amzn.to/39ABVZU

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mist-Magic-Urban-Fantasy-Adventure-ebook/dp/B08BHCB69W/

Amazon AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/Mist-Magic-Urban-Fantasy-Adventure-ebook/dp/B08BHCB69W/

Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/Mist-Magic-Urban-Fantasy-Adventure-ebook/dp/B08BHCB69W/

Amazon DE: https://www.amazon.de/Mist-Magic-Fantasy-Adventure-English-ebook/dp/B08BHCB69W/

This is a stand-alone prequel adventure to the Death Before Dragons series. Book 6 in the main series will be following in August.

The fabulous artwork is by Luisa Preissler. She’s done some more Val stuff for me that you’ll see soon too. If you have a minute, go check out her gallery. 🙂

Also, I’m working on a bonus character interview with Willard and hope to have it up here on my site tomorrow. Thanks for reading!

 

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July Free Fantasy Novels!

Happy July!

Some of these fantasy novels are always free, but some are going back to paid soon. Please grab them if you’re interested! (The Books2Read link will take you to all the book links for the various stores.) The complete series for all of these books are available on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, and Google Play.

Warrior Mage (Chains of Honor, Book 1):

https://books2read.com/WarriorMageCoH1

Dragon Storm (Heritage of Power, Book 1):

https://books2read.com/DragonStorm

The Dragon Blood Bundle (Books 1-3):

https://books2read.com/DragonBloodCollection

dragon blood bundle

The Emperor’s Edge (Emperor’s Edge, Book 1):

https://books2read.com/emperorsedge1

Emperor's Edge Book 1

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Death Before Dragons Book 5 (False Security) Is Available!

I’m a little late updating the website (what’s new?), but if you didn’t see it, my fifth Death Before Dragons novel, False Security, is out on Amazon.

I have one more novel coming in the series (Book 6, Storm Forged, in August and also a Val and Sindari prequel story at the end of July, Mist and Magic), and then we’ll see if you guys want more!

In the meantime, thanks for reading along with Val and Zav and the gang. (I’m not telling Val that several people have referred to these as my “Zav books” or “Zav series.” I think she would be put out to find out that the dragon is getting top billing.)

A note for my sci-fi fans:

I’m writing Star Kingdom Book 8 (Layers of Force) as we speak, and I’m over halfway through. It’ll be out in September!

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Huge “Fantastic Beasts” Fantasy Story Bundle (includes my complete Heritage of Power series)

I’m editing my Zav bonus scenes for my Death Before Dragons series and should have them out to newsletter subscribers in a few days, but if you need something to read right now, you can check out this huge bundle of fantasy novels (including my five-book Heritage of Power complete series) from numerous indie and traditionally published authors.

Hosted by StoryBundle, the books are available from now until June 18th.

The bundle includes: Moonshadow, the first book in the three-part series by USA TODAY and New York Times bestselling author Thea Harrison; The Heritage of Power series (Books 1-5) by Amazon bestselling author Lindsay Buroker; and Bloodrush, part one of the bestselling Scarlet Star series by Ben Galley, among many others.

Most of the earnings are split between the authors, and there’s also an option to donate 10% of the purchase to charity. The ebooks are DRM-free and come in .ePub or .mobi format (so good on all e-readers).

Here’s the link if you’re interested: https://storybundle.com/fantasy

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Bonus Story: The Forbidden Ground (Death Before Dragons)

Hey, folks!

I was hoping to have this ready last weekend as an ebook (along with the Zav point-of-view scenes) for my newsletter subscribers, but the cover art and bonus scenes aren’t quite done. I should still make my end of May goal though. If you’re not already a subscriber to my my newsletter, you can sign up here and get a free copy of the ebook when it’s ready: https://lindsayburoker.com/book-news/

For those who don’t want to wait for the ebook and would like to read this extra adventure now, I’m publishing it right here. I wrote story to stand alone (so if you’re a new reader, you can jump in and enjoy it), but it does have some spoilers for the earlier books. It takes places between Books 4 and 5 in the Death Before Dragons series.

Thanks for reading!

The Forbidden Ground

a Death Before Dragons story

Part I

The beat-up orange camper van chugged down the interstate, getting passed by semitrailer trucks, Volkswagen beetles, and motorcycles with dogs in the sidecars. As a begoggled husky looked over at us, I rubbed my face and wondered if other assassins traveled by such means. Hollywood was convinced every gun-wielding independent contractor made millions, but it didn’t work that way when you worked for the military. Or maybe the problem was that people are willing to pay more to have government dictators killed than they were man-eating wyverns and murderous vampires.

My mood brightened when the exit sign for Gold Hill, Oregon, came into view. Almost there. Continue reading

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Death Before Dragons 4 (Elven Doom) and Audiobooks for the Series

If you’re on my newsletter, you already know that Elven Doom (Death Before Dragons, Book 4) came out last weekend, and may have already read it (thank you!). For the rest of the world, here is the official announcement.

Book 4 is out!

Blurb:

Dragons make life complicated. Extremely complicated.

After returning from Idaho, I was hoping to have time to figure things out with Zav—also known as Lord Zavryd, the dragon who claimed me as his mate without asking—but the dark elves are up to their old tricks again.

Actually, they’re up to far more deadly tricks, using more powerful magic than I knew existed. I have no idea how I’m going to stop them, but if I can’t, my entire city and everybody I care about could be obliterated.

To make matters worse, Zav’s sister has shown up and is rooting around in my life. His family doesn’t approve of me, and she plans to put an end to our relationship… one way or another.

Links:

The series is exclusive to Amazon this year (if you’re not a Kindle fan, remember that you can get all of my ebooks before they release by subscribing at the $5 level on Patreon), and here are the links to the various stores there:

Books 5 and 6 are in the works. Will there be more? We’ll see how things are going after 6. I am planning to work on a prequel novella (or maybe novel) that gives the story of how Val and Sindari first met. It may not have been love at first sight!

Audiobooks:

Thanks to CoVid and other craziness this spring, the distributor was very slow with approving the audiobook of Book 1 in this series, but it’s finally available. And so are Books 2 and 3!

If you’re an audiobook listener, I hope you’ll check out Death Before Dragons. Here are some of the links (unlike the ebooks, the audiobooks are not exclusive to Amazon, so you can find them on Kobo, Apple, Audible, Google Play, and many other audiobook stores as well as in some libraries — make sure to request them if your library doesn’t have them).

Thanks!

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New Books!

I’ve been so busy writing that I haven’t updated the site with new releases this spring (we’ll pretend that is a rare thing).

Here’s what came out recently:

Tangled Truths (Death Before Dragons, Book 3) is out on Amazon:

Home Front (Star Kingdom, Book 7) is out on Amazon:

My complete Heritage of Power fantasy series is now available outside of Amazon.

The first book, Dragon Storm, is free everywhere this month (the Books2Read link will take you to a page with the links to all the stores):

https://books2read.com/DragonStorm

What’s next? Elven Doom (Death Before Dragons Book 4) is coming to Amazon on May 16th.

Thanks for reading. I hope you’re staying safe!

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