Category: Jakes Novels

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How Do I Catch Up or Read/Listen to The Thieves Guild?

The Thieves Guild epic fantasy audio drama podcast is becoming quite popular. It is also available as novels and also as a serial at Kindle Vella. With so many options across three platforms, how can you catch up if you’re interested? Let me give some recomendations.

You Want to Read The Thieves Guild

The Thieves Guild started out as a book series, and that will continue. However, the podcast and Vella are currently ahead of the book series. Basically, when there is a book’s length of material from the podcast available, I will publish it in book form. These will always be available for the lowest ebook prices available in Amazon, which is currently 99 cents. Additionally, the books are available in Kindle Unlimited as part of your free subscription.

However, the easiest and cheapest way to get caught up on The Thieves Guild is to join my mailing list. By signing up, you will be mailed links to download the ebook of The Thieves Guild and The Burning City for free. I will never sell or share your data, nor willI I spam you. The volume of emails will be less than once per month. You will also receive all subsequent volumes for free.

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If you don’t want to sign up for my mailing list, here is how to read the series:

Episodes 1-99

You can find episodes 1 to 99 in two books: The Thieves Guild and The Burning City. Here are the links to buy them:

The Thieves Guild on Amazon

The Burning City on Amazon

Episode 100

Episode 100 is an interview with me and not available (yet) in text format.

Future Episodes/Books

Once I get to about episode 130, I’ll be releasing two books:

The Third book in The Thieves Guild series as a stand-alone novel. This will simply be a continuation of The Burning City and be similarly priced at 99 cents. This book will be available for free to my subscribers.

An omnibus of books 1-3. This will be a single volume of the first three books and be priced at $1.99.

You Want to Buy the Paperback or Hardback

You can currently buy the paperback version of both books of the series via the above ebook links. Click on the paperback box on the upper right.

You Want to Listen to The Thieves Guild

Podcast

All of the episodes of The Thieves Guild are available as a podcast on every major podcast provider. Below is a link to a page with direct links to nearly all of them.

The Thieves Guild podcast

Audiobook

The Thieves Guild is not available as an audiobook. I may release it as an audiobook in the future, but it is currently not being planned.

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The Thieves Guild Hits 100 Episodes!

The Thieves Guild, the audiodrama podcast written by me, has offiically reached 100 episodes. I’m quite proud of this podcast, as it’s a full cast production and is epic in scope, even as the characters are personal and easy to root for. I started writing The Thieves Guild as a serial and an homage to the pulp writers and nineteenth century writers that gave me so much joy. So this podcast is a way for me to honor them.

The 100th episode features an interview with me, and it does contain a few mild spoilers, so if you are interested in checking out the interview and the podcast, you should listen to the first 99 episodes first. Don’t worry, they’re all about 10-15 minutes long, so it’s not as much of a time commitment as you may expect.

If you’re interested, you can listen to the podcast below or subscribe via your favorite podcast app.

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Thursday is Now Available!

My sci-fi thriller Thursday is now available to buy. You can find it at all major bookstores in either ebook or paperback. I hope you enjoy it. I intentionally wrote it to be a fast-paced edge-of-your-seat read, but I also wanted to examine the question as to who is the “bad guy” when you are undercover.

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Stories of My Life

To celebrate the upcoming release of my first science fiction novel, Thursday, I’ve decided to share some stories of my life: Tales from the music industry, tales from my career in writing, tales from my work as a Silicon Valley business development executive, and possibly some random life moments in there, too. You can find them on Youtube on via the below playlist. I hope you enjoy them as much as I’m enjoying sharing them.

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My First Science Fiction Novel Cover Reveal!

When SF author John Scalzi was in town a couple weeks ago I was joking with him that I messed up my writing career with some poor choices. One of them was that, while I was nominated for the Nebula and Sturgeon Award for my science fiction short fiction, the first novels I wrote were all fantasy. I was (mostly) joking, as the Tommy Black series has sold quite well, but it was definitely true in some areas, as I have quite a few readers that are mostly fans of my science fiction. Well, the wait is over! My virtual reality science fiction thriller Thursday will be released on November 1, and I’m thrilled to death to share with you the cover!

Thursday cover - ebook
On sale November 1!

Here’s the blurb from the back jacket of the paperback:

NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED AND NOTHING IS REAL

In a near future of decaying cities and gray skies everyone has escaped to the wondrous life of virtual reality.

Including the criminals.

And the most dangerous criminal in the world is Sunday, the leader of the terrorist group the Order of Days, whose sole mission is to destroy the false paradise of VR and return people to the land of reality.

While on a simple reconnaissance job, young FBI agent Gabby Kane stumbles upon Saturday, a key member of the Order of Days. Kane brashly tries to single-handedly capture the terrorist, only to mess everything up in the process. She not only allows Saturday to escape, but she also seriously injures her own neural connection to virtual reality, a critical requirement for an undercover agent. With her career in jeopardy, Gabby agrees to an impossible mission: Infiltrate the Order of Days as Thursday and kill the mysterious Sunday.

Deep undercover and chased by the police and FBI while getting closer to uncovering the Order of Days, Gabby finds herself in increasing danger and without allies. But do enemies and allies even exist when no one can be trusted and nothing is real?

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The Thieves Guild Shenanigans!

I’m very excited to have The Thieves Guild now on sale in all major bookstores in both print and ebook. This is the first book in an ongoing series. Book two, The Burning City, will be available in December, and book three will be available in the first half of next year.

My publisher, Broadsword Books, and I are actually doing something quite cool. Rather than release the audiobook immediately, we are going to release a free full cast audiobook podcast over the next half a year, with the audiobook available next Summer. But no need to wait for the audiobook! Just subscribe to The Thieves Guild podcast and listen to the book just like a serial from the thirties or via a magazine in the 19th century… one cliffhanger chapter at a time! The good news is that you won’t have long to wait for each chapter, as they are released twice a week. In fact, you can listen to them right here:

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The Thieves Guild Now Available for Pre-Order

Thieves Guild ebook cover

I’m so excited for this release. Back when I was in my teens, classic fantasy by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Conan saved my life by giving me a much-needed escape. I loved the rollicking adventures and colorful characters. Later I was similarly taken away by Charles Dickens and his ability to make me anxiously turn from page to page. I promised myself I would write a book like that.

This is what The Thieves Guild is for me—the series I’m writing to honor the epic fantasies I read when I was little. The Thieves Guild features all the things I loved—unexpected twists, colorful characters, the mischievous kid thrust into a role he did not expect. It’s just been so much fun to write, and now it’s available.

The first book is available September 1, while book 2 will be published on December 1. You can pre-order book one via the link below:

https://books2read.com/thievesguild

I hope you enjoy reading the book as much as I did writing it, and I sincerely hope I did justice to the wonderful writers who inspired it.