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Welcome back to Blackwarren Reads, where we continue Season 2 with our latest release, David M. DeMar's "On the Air", the opening of his "Certified Gold" urban fantasy series.

Welcome to Allora University, the Argent City's premier institute of higher learning! You'll find all kinds of mythic creatures here - including Allora University's newest freshman, Ricky Konacsz, next in line to be named king of the Dragons. Not that he ever wanted the job. He'd rather just listen to his vintage Joy Division LPs in peace.

Ricky's been having an eventful semester. His roommate is a Satyr, and his polycule vacillates between constantly propositioning Ricky and eating all his snacks. The Sidhe noble in Ricky's accounting class has been tormenting him nonstop, threatening to turn him into a set of matched luggage. And the human girl at the library front desk has been hunting him on another playing field altogether! All he wants to do is listen to music and be left alone - and maybe get a job working behind the scenes at the college radio station.

Ricky had hoped he could just have a normal life, but Fate had other plans. One night, he ends up behind the Allora University Radio's microphone instead of the soundboard. What began as a one-time event becomes a viral sensation. Things get even worse when he accidentally insults the father of a Sidhe noble on the air - the same noble who's been making his life miserable all semester. Now, all eyes are on him, and not in a good way. What's a young Dragon King to do?

Cast:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dave DeMar⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Ricky Konacsz

⁠⁠⁠⁠Kezz McDonald: Anagen

⁠⁠⁠⁠Renard DeFleuraux⁠⁠⁠⁠: Byron

⁠⁠⁠⁠Skye Sisk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Thorli, Morrigan

Welcome back to Blackwarren Reads, where we continue Season 2 with our latest release, David M. DeMar's "On the Air", the opening of his "Certified Gold" urban fantasy series.

Welcome to Allora University, the Argent City's premier institute of higher learning! You'll find all kinds of mythic creatures here - including Allora University's newest freshman, Ricky Konacsz, next in line to be named king of the Dragons. Not that he ever wanted the job. He'd rather just listen to his vintage Joy Division LPs in peace.

Ricky's been having an eventful semester. His roommate is a Satyr, and his polycule vacillates between constantly propositioning Ricky and eating all his snacks. The Sidhe noble in Ricky's accounting class has been tormenting him nonstop, threatening to turn him into a set of matched luggage. And the human girl at the library front desk has been hunting him on another playing field altogether! All he wants to do is listen to music and be left alone - and maybe get a job working behind the scenes at the college radio station.

Ricky had hoped he could just have a normal life, but Fate had other plans. One night, he ends up behind the Allora University Radio's microphone instead of the soundboard. What began as a one-time event becomes a viral sensation. Things get even worse when he accidentally insults the father of a Sidhe noble on the air - the same noble who's been making his life miserable all semester. Now, all eyes are on him, and not in a good way. What's a young Dragon King to do?

Cast:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dave DeMar⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Ricky Konacsz

Kezz McDonald: Anagen

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Vaughn R. Demont⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Chauncey

⁠⁠⁠Skye Sisk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Dagmar Konacsz

⁠⁠⁠Listen to our interviews with Dave about his first novel here!⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Buy the book direct from Blackwarren⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Buy from Amazon, including hard copies

Welcome back to Blackwarren Reads, where we continue Season 2 with our latest release, David M. DeMar's "On the Air", the opening of his "Certified Gold" urban fantasy series.

Welcome to Allora University, the Argent City's premier institute of higher learning! You'll find all kinds of mythic creatures here - including Allora University's newest freshman, Ricky Konacsz, next in line to be named king of the Dragons. Not that he ever wanted the job. He'd rather just listen to his vintage Joy Division LPs in peace.

Ricky's been having an eventful semester. His roommate is a Satyr, and his polycule vacillates between constantly propositioning Ricky and eating all his snacks. The Sidhe noble in Ricky's accounting class has been tormenting him nonstop, threatening to turn him into a set of matched luggage. And the human girl at the library front desk has been hunting him on another playing field altogether! All he wants to do is listen to music and be left alone - and maybe get a job working behind the scenes at the college radio station.

Ricky had hoped he could just have a normal life, but Fate had other plans. One night, he ends up behind the Allora University Radio's microphone instead of the soundboard. What began as a one-time event becomes a viral sensation. Things get even worse when he accidentally insults the father of a Sidhe noble on the air - the same noble who's been making his life miserable all semester. Now, all eyes are on him, and not in a good way. What's a young Dragon King to do?

Cast:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dave DeMar⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Ricky Konacsz

Kezz McDonald: Anagen

⁠⁠⁠⁠Vaughn R. Demont⁠⁠: Wyndham Summers, Chad, Mack, Misc. Voices

⁠⁠Skye Sisk⁠⁠⁠⁠: Dags, Thorli Konacscz, Ellen, Misc. Voices

⁠⁠Listen to our interviews with Dave about his first novel here!⁠⁠

⁠⁠Buy the book direct from Blackwarren⁠⁠

⁠⁠Buy from Amazon, including hard copies

Welcome back to Blackwarren Reads, where we begin Season 2 with our latest release, David M. DeMar's "On the Air", the opening of his "Certified Gold" urban fantasy series.

Welcome to Allora University, the Argent City's premier institute of higher learning! You'll find all kinds of mythic creatures here - including Allora University's newest freshman, Ricky Konacsz, next in line to be named king of the Dragons. Not that he ever wanted the job. He'd rather just listen to his vintage Joy Division LPs in peace.

Ricky's been having an eventful semester. His roommate is a Satyr, and his polycule vacillates between constantly propositioning Ricky and eating all his snacks. The Sidhe noble in Ricky's accounting class has been tormenting him nonstop, threatening to turn him into a set of matched luggage. And the human girl at the library front desk has been hunting him on another playing field altogether! All he wants to do is listen to music and be left alone - and maybe get a job working behind the scenes at the college radio station.

Ricky had hoped he could just have a normal life, but Fate had other plans. One night, he ends up behind the Allora University Radio's microphone instead of the soundboard. What began as a one-time event becomes a viral sensation. Things get even worse when he accidentally insults the father of a Sidhe noble on the air - the same noble who's been making his life miserable all semester. Now, all eyes are on him, and not in a good way. What's a young Dragon King to do?

Cast:

⁠⁠⁠Dave DeMar⁠⁠⁠: Ricky Konacsz

⁠⁠Kyrone Rustmore: Wyndham Summers

Skye Sisk⁠⁠: Thorli Konacscz, Ellen, Misc. Voices

⁠Vaughn R. Demont⁠⁠⁠: Chad Konacsz, Naveen, Misc. Voices

Listen to our interviews with Dave about his first novel here!

Buy the book direct from Blackwarren

Buy from Amazon, including hard copies

Dave DeMar returns to to talk with Chris about his new book On the Air, and the launch of a new series, Certified Gold.

Digressions include: impostor syndrome, vinyl, college radio, working in an established setting and leaving your mark on it, and navigating the awkwardness of your family asking which characters are based on them.

Pick up Certified Gold: On the Air from BlackwarrenBooks.com or Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover.

Blackwarren Books is proud to announce our next roundtable discussion! Hot on the heels of our very popular queer horror fiction roundtable, our new podcast focuses on representation in tabletop roleplaying from an intersectional point of view. Our esteemed guests for this Saturday include:

Alison Cybe (they/them): Returning from our horror podcast, Alison is a prolific game contributor, having written for Call of Cthulhu, the Fallout RPG, Starfinder, Vampire the Masquerade, Blue Rose, the most recently published Shield Maidens, and many more. Alison is also a fiction author and avowed Gunpla addict. Read more about Alison here.

Chris Bissette (they/them): Chris is the owner of Loot the Room, an ENnie Nominated blog providing free resources and articles for tabletop RPGs every week. They’re also responsible for creating The Wretched, A Dungeon Game, and adventures for Troika! and MÖRK BORG. Chris is also an accomplished musician. Their most recent release is The Moss Mother’s Maze, a standalone module for A Dungeon Game.

Linda Codega (they/them): A journalist writing for Gizmodo, Dicebreaker, and others, Linda was the first to break the story this spring about Wizards of the Coast breaking the OGL. They’ve also recently written about has also recently written about trans representation in Nintendo, racism in Magic: the Gathering, and Critical Role’s “Candela Obscura” game. You can find Linda on Twitter @lincodega.

Savan Gupta (he/him): CEO of multimedia company Steam-Funk Studios and editor-in-chief of fandom anthropology journal The Unconventional, Savan is a former WotC employee turned business analyst and marketing consultant for conventions and related businesses. His background includes stage performance and improv, project management and LARP production with years of industry experience, championing diverse representation in gaming. Steam-Funk’s magnum opus, The Living Multiverse tabletop RPG setting, is currently developing actively.

As always, our Allora Public Radio roundtable will be moderated by our APR host Chris. More info can be found at the Blackwarren Books Discord. See you there!

Blackwarren Reads returns with the finale of the publisher's debut anthology, Samhain Secrets: World Premiere.

In the Argent City, where supernatural creatures like dragons, fae, and tricksters live alongside blissfully unaware humanity, Halloween Night remains the craziest night of the year. A dragon who would be king struggles to establish his identity and find his passion in hosting a popular radio show, while the wily Kitsune seek to unmask a conspiracy against the feuding Tricksters of the City, where anyone could be the culprit. Across the City, a pair of Fae entrepreneurs stake their future on cleansing a murder site for the police, but a nosy Brownie can't accept the given cause of death and suspects murder. And finally, a hopeful actress takes a chance at scoring the lead in the reboot of a much-beloved vampire action series, only to find the audition process far more bizarre, and deadly, than even the most committed actor would expect.

Secret McQueen returns! At least on television, that is. With the revival of Bloody Good making its world premiere Halloween Night the question on every fan's mind is who will step into Ashley Carpenter's shoes as the new Secret McQueen? Monique, working actress and Bloody Good superfan, sees an ad for an open call for the lead role. Is it too good to be true? And aren't the producers just a little too Method for an audition for a vampire hunter show? How far would you go for the role of a lifetime?

Cast:

⁠⁠⁠⁠Skye Sisk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Monique, Grace

⁠⁠⁠⁠Vaughn R. Demont⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Elder, Titan

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Renard DeFleuraux⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Dragomir

⁠⁠Dave DeMar⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Horatio

Chris Shaffer⁠⁠: Dark-haired Vampire

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kezz McDonald⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Khalea

Want to follow along?

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Shout out to the Goblins out there!

Blackwarren Reads returns with the publisher's debut anthology, Samhain Secrets: World Premiere.

In the Argent City, where supernatural creatures like dragons, fae, and tricksters live alongside blissfully unaware humanity, Halloween Night remains the craziest night of the year. A dragon who would be king struggles to establish his identity and find his passion in hosting a popular radio show, while the wily Kitsune seek to unmask a conspiracy against the feuding Tricksters of the City, where anyone could be the culprit. Across the City, a pair of Fae entrepreneurs stake their future on cleansing a murder site for the police, but a nosy Brownie can't accept the given cause of death and suspects murder. And finally, a hopeful actress takes a chance at scoring the lead in the reboot of a much-beloved vampire action series, only to find the audition process far more bizarre, and deadly, than even the most committed actor would expect.

"Whether you're cleaning up after a party, staging a condo for sale, or cleaning up a crime scene, call G&C Ablutions! There's no mess we can't address!"

Claire Lascelles, a Brownie with a housekeeping pedigree and an Ivy League business degree, is still struggling to get her company, co-run with her friend and partner Gunnar "Gunny" MacNamara, to a level beyond advertising on social media. When called in by the police to clean a crime scene about to be released, Claire's obsession with hard-boiled whodunits comes out. Did the occupant die of natural causes as suspected? Or was it murder? Join Claire to find out and solve the mystery with her in this two-parter from Blackwarren Reads!

Recorded Friday, May 12th, 2023

Cast:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Skye Sisk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Claire Lascelles

⁠⁠⁠Vaughn R. Demont⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Gunnar MacNamara

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Renard DeFleuraux⁠⁠⁠⁠: Constable Thomas Canmore

⁠Dave DeMar⁠⁠⁠⁠: Liam O'Shea, Landlord

⁠⁠⁠⁠Kezz McDonald⁠⁠⁠⁠: Julia Reeve, Anne Swanroad, Hope

Ellie DeMar: Casey

Want to follow along?

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Shout out to the Goblins out there!

Blackwarren Reads returns with the publisher's debut anthology, Samhain Secrets: World Premiere.

In the Argent City, where supernatural creatures like dragons, fae, and tricksters live alongside blissfully unaware humanity, Halloween Night remains the craziest night of the year. A dragon who would be king struggles to establish his identity and find his passion in hosting a popular radio show, while the wily Kitsune seek to unmask a conspiracy against the feuding Tricksters of the City, where anyone could be the culprit. Across the City, a pair of Fae entrepreneurs stake their future on cleansing a murder site for the police, but a nosy Brownie can't accept the given cause of death and suspects murder. And finally, a hopeful actress takes a chance at scoring the lead in the reboot of a much-beloved vampire action series, only to find the audition process far more bizarre, and deadly, than even the most committed actor would expect.

"Whether you're cleaning up after a party, staging a condo for sale, or cleaning up a crime scene, call G&C Ablutions! There's no mess we can't address!"

Claire Lascelles, a Brownie with a housekeeping pedigree and an Ivy League business degree, is still struggling to get her company, co-run with her friend and partner Gunnar "Gunny" MacNamara, to a level beyond advertising on social media. When called in by the police to clean a crime scene about to be released, Claire's obsession with hard-boiled whodunits comes out. Did the occupant die of natural causes as suspected? Or was it murder? Join Claire to find out and solve the mystery with her in this two-parter from Blackwarren Reads!

Recorded Friday, April 28th, 2023

Cast:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Skye Sisk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Claire Lascelles

⁠⁠Vaughn R. Demont⁠⁠⁠⁠: Gunnar MacNamara

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Renard DeFleuraux⁠⁠⁠: Constable Thomas Canmore

Dave DeMar⁠⁠⁠: Liam O'Shea, Landlord

⁠⁠⁠Kezz McDonald⁠⁠⁠: Julia Reeve, Anne Swanroad

Want to follow along?

⁠⁠Blackwarren Books (epub format)⁠⁠

⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠

⁠⁠Smashwords⁠⁠

Follow us on social media! ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Tumblr

This week, Chris interviews our newest assistant editor and budding voice artist, Skye Sisk, on her journey into creative writing and publishing, lifting the hood on a manuscript to help fine-tune the language, her minor font obsession, advocacy for a writer's voice, and love of her two American Akitas. Skye discusses writers and editors she admires, influences, fantasy nerdery, and the importance of well-executed symbolism and metaphor.

⁠⁠Learn more about Skye here at Blackwarren Books ⁠

⁠Hear some of Skye's voice work in Blackwarren Reads

Read Skye's blog articles on Representation and Character Identity in tabletop gaming.

Find Skye on Twitter