The handiness of portal travel made itself evident when rather than having to make the trek from the strange containment cell back to the citadel, ...
2019-06-05 20:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I've mentioned this before, but I love all the art I get to commission, both for myself as an author, and for all the authors working at Shadow Alley Press. Here's some raw art (non-colorized) that I got back today for Aaron Crash's new series, an...
2019-05-26 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Two hours later, Roark respawned in the Keep throne room, wearing nothing but a threadbare loincloth and the World Stone Pendant. His Initiate’s...
2019-05-24 19:56:06 +0000 UTC View Post
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm giving the main series a facelift of sorts so that it's a bit more on brand with the rest of the VGO Expanded Universe books. Well, here's the new cover for book 1. Now with this one, I decided I wanted to st...
2019-05-15 14:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Roark huddled in the corner of a massive cage, disguised as a bent little kobold in a sea of larger creatures. They were below ground, beneath th...
2019-05-14 21:08:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The dungeon lords ate everything Kaz and Mai laid out for them, their faces lighting up with amazement at every new taste and texture. They gulped...
2019-05-09 19:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone. So though I LOVE the original VGO covers, I've decided to revamp the covers to better fit in with the rest of the VGO EU covers. To that end, I'm working to get the covers remade, though they won't be released (or even revealed) for ...
2019-05-02 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Griff returned two days later with Yevin in tow. The rog magic trainer looked a sight more impressive in his silver-starred azure cloak and sorcerer...
2019-04-30 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Zyra laughed at the sight of the gang’s culinary weapons. “I don’t know what you think you’re going to do with those in here. From what...
2019-04-26 13:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostRoark spent the remaining few hours to dawn pointedly ignoring the way Zyra was pointedly ignoring him. Using Danella to take a jab at his eventual return to...
2019-04-18 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Frostrime was a port city locked in perpetual winter.
Its buildings ran right up to the frozen docks and traced along the waterfront in...
2019-04-16 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone. Viridian Gate Online: Embers of Rebellion just dropped yesterday, and because you all are freaking awesome, I thought I'd give out gift cop...
2019-04-12 13:49:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10
The Hero Sieve
When Roark respawned in the Keep’s throne room two hours later, Zyra leapt up from the formidable black-steel chest she’d been lounging against.
“Who was it...
2019-04-12 13:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Really gonna try to get more Troll Nation chapters up this week, as well as post a big ol' chunk of War God 3. Not 100% sure it's going to happen though. We have this big Shadow Alley Press retreat we're hosting this weekend. All out...
2019-04-04 14:37:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! So I thought I'd share this beautiful cover with y'all. One of our authors, eden Hudson (my co-author on Rogue Dungeon) has been working on a new project for us called Path of the Thunderbird. It's a Wuxia novel--sort of a Chinese ba...
2019-04-03 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7
Mai’s Tale
“Our merchant’s in Chillend prison,” Roark said, slapping the wanted poster onto the kitchen table, deep in the bowels of the Cruel Citadel.
Kaz, Griff, and ev...
2019-04-02 20:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Four
Path to Progress
Using the telepathy function of the Dungeon Lord’s throne, Roark contacted Kaz, Zyra, and Griff and told them to meet in the kitchen. Kaz was already there when Roark ar...
2019-03-21 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, just wanted to show you all the finished product for the Firebrand 2 cover. Really happy with the way it turned out, and I think Otto is absolutely beastly looking. So cool. Here's the blurb for book 2!
A single spa...
2019-03-21 14:22:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys. Our own Chris Bell pointed me in the direction of a cool concept illustrator with pretty good rates, so I'm going to be getting some character art done. Chris is a MudMan fanboy, so I thought it only proper to start things off right with...
2019-03-20 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One
Bloody Recon
The Vault of the Radiant Shield was located in a sand- and wind-blasted wasteland of brilliant red rock towers that stretched up into the sky like a stone forest. Roark von Gra...
2019-03-19 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, so here is some very rough render art I just got back for the Firebrand 2: Embers of Rebellion cover. It hasn't been painted over yet and there are a fair few number of fixes to make--Otto's armor isn't dark enough, Abby needs to be ...
2019-03-17 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, so this isn't necessarily James A. Hunter art, so much as it is Shadow Alley Press art. But then I thought, I run Shadow Alley Press -- that's a big part of my work, and I wanted to give you all a little glimpse behind of the curtain of ...
2019-03-15 13:22:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I just wanted to apologize. Thank you all so much for supporting me here, and I am sorry that I've been so terrible with posting content. Life has been hectic lately, and in the rush and craziness of it all, the content on Patreon ha...
2019-03-12 17:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostFIVE:
The half-Risi grabbed my wrist and raised it. “No brand,” he told his partner.
“Doesn’t mean he belongs here,” she answered. “Are you drunk? Affka? Have you been doing drugs?”
“I’m s...
2019-01-22 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostSEVENTEEN:
As Above, So Below
Inside the palace was shockingly familiar. Polished marble hallways—black stone instead of creamy white—with arched ceilings and walls scones. These, though, were gleaming silver...
2019-01-18 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostTHREE:
The first thing Robert Osmark saw when he woke up was the ceiling fan spinning. Round and round. Bright daylight streaming in through the thin, strip window above and behind his bed told him it was late. He h...
2019-01-17 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostFIFTEEN:
Connections
Our footsteps clattered and echoed off the high ceilings as we made our way down one of the many marble hallways in the Keep. Cutter led the way, on high alert for any sign of traps or other ...
2019-01-16 19:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostONE:
The door slammed shut behind us. The three of us walked briskly down a long, private hallway that led to the central building. It was floored with square slabs of white granite, and a four-inch strip of the same m...
2019-01-15 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTHIRTEEN:
Respite
Cutter sent out a message to the rest of the crew complete with a map marker for the local Thieves Chapter House, which turned out to be an Apothecary in one of the classier sections of Cliffbur...
2019-01-14 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostELEVEN:
The Blue Lanterns
Cutter was the first one to land a blow, materializing like an avenging ghost directly behind the Risi enemy line the moment the words left Peng’s mouth. There was a gurgle and a gasp ...
2019-01-11 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post