Deed of Empire is the first book of the big, sweeping, epic fantasy I’ve wanted to write since I read Lord of the Rings when I was nine years old. Of course, it’s me writing it, so it’s gritty and dark and populated with a great number of unpleasant people, but it’s still epic!
For anyone who likes hearing about the creative process, this is a piece on how I went about writing my latest book, Deed of Empire. If you don’t like reading about the creative process, I don’t know what to tell you — I’m going to do it anyway. When I wrote my first epic fantasy, […]
Nobody springs fully formed from the head of Zeus, and none less so than the writer. To attain any skill in writing, we devour thousands of books, write millions of words, and talk endlessly with each other about the act of turning our private thoughts into stories for strangers’ consumption. This list isn’t anywhere near […]
A werewolf tale like no other. I tried to write a non-genre piece and a werewolf showed up. Available from Wyldblood Press.
For some reason, I always wanted to set a story in the trenches of WWI. When I finally did, it pretty much had to be horror. Dark fantasy if I’m feeling generous. But trying to come up with something to move the needle on the men experiencing the every day terrors of trench warfare was […]
A short and violent tale set in the world of DUSTER. You get this story for FREE when you sign up for my newsletter. “No one writes bastard-son-of-a-bitch characters as brilliantly as Adam Stemple” Naomi Kritzer, Hugo award-winning author of CATFISHING ON CATNET
Book 1 of the Mika Bare-Hand Books DUSTER is my first venture into the world of self-publishing. I’ve quite enjoyed the process, probably largely because I’m such a control freak. I get to design the cover, choose the release date, write the flap copy etc. We’ll see how it goes, but I love this book […]
I thought I’d write a little about my process when I wrote Duster, my new novel that comes out in two weeks. I’m a huge process nerd, so this will be fun for me. You, I’m not so sure about. Duster came about during a period when I had set aside certain portions of the […]
On saturday, my fantasy novel, DUSTER, will be available for pre-order on Amazon. Two weeks after that will be the official release date. I’m calling it a dark fantasy about dead gods, older heroes, and a world at war. Here’s my current blurb: “From award-winning author Adam Stemple comes a gripping story set in a […]
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, 2019 I wrote this story a long time ago and was my audition piece for entry into my current writers group, The Wyrdsmiths. I rewrote it many times since then and am thrilled to have it out with a SFWA qualified market like CR&ES. You can read it here. It […]
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