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December 2, 2020 By Skyla Dawn Cameron Leave a Comment

The Yukon Murder Book Is Almost Here!

The release date for The Silent Places is less than a week away, and paperbacks are already out in the world.

The initial plan was to have signed paperbacks available by now for those who wanted to order them as Christmas gifts, but unfortunately I was only able to order copies yesterday and they likely won’t be here until the end of the month. When they do arrive, I should be set up to offer gift boxes: a signed book, a handmade beaded bracelet, a mug cozy, and a bookmark (there will also be single books available in preferred, but the gift box will be set up for easy present-giving occasions).

If you haven’t preordered yet and are so inclined, you can grab it now and have it delivered on December 8 at midnight!

Kindle | Kobo | iBooks | Nook | Payhip | Print

It’s also an entirely new genre for me to publish in so there’s a steep uphill battle for readership–if you dig it when you read it, please consider dropping a couple words in review or tell a friend!

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May 3, 2019 By Skyla Dawn Cameron Leave a Comment

Shiva’s Bow Preorder

I’ve set a date for the fourth Livi novel:

August 27, 2019

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September 18, 2018 By Skyla Dawn Cameron Leave a Comment

One Month to Go

The countdown is on to the next Livi Talbot adventure: Emperor’s Tomb releases four weeks from today.

A reminder that if you pre-order or buy the week of release (print or ebook), you can forward the receipt/screenshot/etc (blank out personal info as needed) to me with your address and I’ll send you a personalized postcard from Livi late October (open international). I’ve tested out the email address a few times and it should work for forwarding, but I’ll reply with confirmation–if you don’t hear back from me, try again!

Preorder: Kindle US | Kindle UK | Kindle CA | Kobo | Nook | iBookstore | Smashwords

I’m planning a final proofread of this beast of a book early October. I have a couple of tweaks to do–there are a few lines that are bothering me, but I’m trying to give myself a bit more distance before I go back and tinker. I think I’ll need a bit of a break from Livi & co afterward, although the fifth book is in progress, the fourth is in revisions, and there’s a short novella in the works, I am exhausted. I don’t love the characters/world any less, I just need a vacation from it and come back refreshed.

There is still the Patreon postcard story in progress, and Solomon’s Seal from West’s POV for the West Is Best Club, but a few hours a month is vastly different from every waking moment being spent re-revising nearly 130K words for the bazillionth time.

Thankfully I have no shortage of things to work on, and maybe I’ll have news about something later in the year.

Speaking of vacation, I’m on my yearly week of holidays for my birthday. Nothing exciting except avoiding contact with humans, gaming (NEW TOMB RAIDER), bingeing Netflix, and doing big cleaning/purging projects. Saturday night is my birthday part–Google Hangout since most of my friends are in different timezones–and that’s about it. I’ll be back to work next Monday if the giant pile of laundry I’m tackling doesn’t kill me first.

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July 27, 2018 By Skyla Dawn Cameron Leave a Comment

“When’s That Book Coming?” Summer 2018 Edition

It’s very hard to write books when everything you love is dead. Also hard to do: get up, work, clean, bathe, breathe, not cry, have patience with people who discard their cats like trash. But alas I manage to do most of those things, even if it takes longer and is quite taxing, and last night I finished the fourth draft of the third Livi novel.

There’s still a fifth draft to go. And copyediting. And proofreading. But it’s a big chunk of work done at last, and the book is now up for preorder.

But first…

What’s New

The West prequel novel, Tiger’s Memory, is complete, polished, and available at Patreon for folks $10+.

The prequel novel about West’s first major assignment, his first girlfriend, and how it goes terribly wrong for him on both counts.

Before he was known as brutal operative Dale West, he was Suh Dae-il, a twenty-year-old rising star in the agency who escaped a North Korean prison camp five years earlier.  Charismatic, brilliant, and manipulative, he’s the perfect spy—right up until he’s assigned his first target.

Becoming the person who could convince a girl to flip on her family means submerging himself in another world entirely. If he disappears in this other persona completely, he risks losing his job, his purpose, and the people who gave him a new life after he fled hell; if he remains the operative beneath the surface, he could lose the girl he’s fallen in love with when she learns the truth about his subterfuge.

Either way it may not matter when agency operatives and their targets in the area are killed. Dae-il is in someone’s crosshairs—someone who shares his unique abilities and has no qualms about his girlfriend becoming collateral damage in a mission that will change the magical landscape of the entire world.

That’s about all I finished. The Livi Postcard Story is in progress at Patreon, and I’ve just started Solomon’s Seal from West’s POV.

 

What’s Upcoming

Mark your calendars…

October 16, 2018

Yes, the title changed, but the cover hasn’t.

Preorder: Kindle US | Kindle UK | Kindle CA | Kobo | iBookstore (more coming soon)

This is a big book. Current draft is at 121 525 words (Livi books are normally 106K). That might bump up a bit as the book needs some prettying up–I try (and hopefully succeed) to make Livi’s books very visual and cinematic, but this one was difficult to just get all the pieces in place. Next draft will smooth it out. I’m frightfully insecure about it because it was so difficult, and I know it’s a year behind schedule, but I sincerely hope it’s worth the wait for readers and y’all enjoy it.

This book has…

  • Livi vs a terracotta army!
  • The elixir of immortality!
  • A hot Australian treasure hunter!
  • SEA MONSTERS!
  • A sort-of apology for Certain Things in Oblivion!

I think when I’m done hating it, I will ultimately be very proud of it. It caps off Livi’s character arc nicely–if I ended it here, it would make a solid trilogy of books, I think. There are of course more–I’m writing the fifth right now–but Livi is on life support and can use all the help she can get. Please, during the blood moon/eclipse, sacrifice a virgin or two (I mean, whatever you can find) and at least half a dozen unicorns to whatever deity of your choice and maybe sales will increase.

The countdown is on to be thanked in the acknowledgements of Emperor’s Tomb! Like the producer credits on the movie, Patrons of Snark get thanked for their monthly support in all my books. Join for as little as a buck a month and get added to the acknowledgements.

Then, coming either next month or in September,

The Oblivion bundle will be on Kindle Unlimited for three months before distribution is expanded elsewhere. Here’s the table of contents:

Bloodlines
“Thrall”
Hunter
“Malice”
Lineage
“Sunrise”
“Whiskey Sour”
Exhumed
“Fated”
“Prey”
Oblivion

It does not include 9 Crimes (or “Aftermath”), Damaged, “A Vampire Walked Into a Bar”/”Zombie Faeries”, “Resist“, or Dial V for Vampire.

I wanted to give the series a quick proofread (again) but I haven’t the mental capacity for it, so that’s why I’m being vague on the release right now. So…”soon”.

 

What I’m Working On

Besides more revisions on Livi 3, I have other stuff in progress I’m not ready to talk about yet. When I have details, I’ll share them, I just don’t like to jinx projects in early development.

 

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April 24, 2017 By Skyla Dawn Cameron Leave a Comment

Hauntings Pre-order

Looky what’s coming soon!

So you might recall back in January I was on a reading kick of haunted house stories and really wanted to write one (it’s one of my favourite tropes since childhood, and I haven’t written one in a while). I played around with a few things, but I just…like, I have so fucking much to do, and stories take up a lot of mental space now and have to simmer before they’re ready to be written, and creating a whole new world… Just ugh. I haven’t been able to do that on top of freelance work right now, so I wanted something fun in an established world.

Demons of Oblivion would seem the obvious choice, but it’s now something I struggle a lot with–both for external reasons, and because the characters are still recovering from Oblivion (and so am I).

But why not Livi?

And then I bugged Dina James about it, because she also writes paranormal, and surely she could come up with something related to a haunted house in either her Key to Hell or Stranger Things worlds. We’ve also been talking about doing something similar with Zara and Kyle stories at some point, but that’s early planning stages.

We have writing dates a few times a week, to help us both keep on track–that’s how I wrote Resist, and how the bulk of this new novella was written. And the result of our labor is now up for pre-order, with a release date of June 27!  (It will be available in ebook and print, although ebook is just up for pre-order right now.)

A drafty old house, or the steps of a creature lurking in the dark?

A trick of the light, or is the shadow in the corner of your eye something more?

A natural wind, or was that a whisper in your ear?

Read two tales of haunted houses that are not what they seem from (evil) paranormal authors Dina James and Skyla Dawn Cameron.

In RITUAL, a novella in Dina James’ Key to Hell series, Kyle Carillron knows every trick across the realms when it comes to dealing with the supernatural. Once a demon himself, the vampire has seen it all. When a divine assassin, half-angel Sebastian, comes to him with a scrap of paper discovered in a supposedly haunted house where some teenagers are playing Ouija, he can’t help but roll his eyes. But the paper has an unfamiliar symbol on it, written in human blood. Very little on the planes mystifies Kyle, but upon investigating the premises, he discovers evidence of a ritual with far with deeper consequences than humans attempting to contact the souls of the departed.

ASHFORD’S GHOST follows part-time adventurer and full-time mom Olivia Talbot in a novella continuation of Skyla Dawn Cameron’s Livi Talbot series. Four months ago, Livi successfully killed the afreet who abducted her family and tried to murder her. Then she took over his villa and made it her base of operations/home, as any respectable treasure hunter in need of better digs is wont to do. But this house is haunted, and she’s starting to think the ancient murderer she used the Seal of Solomon to destroy might not be entirely dead after all. Isolated in the house by a violent snowstorm, Livi is trapped with a dark force gathering strength by the hour, threatening not only the safety of her family but possibly her very sanity.

Kindle US | Kindle UK | Kindle CA | Kobo | iBookstore | Nook  (that Nook link should work in a few days)

Ashford’s Ghost isn’t really standalone–it’s directly about the consequences of Solomon’s Seal (and to a lesser extent, Odin’s Spear), and sets up both Zheng’s Tomb (#3) and some worldbuilding stuff for the untitled fifth book. So while it’s a fun, smaller story, it’s not one without importance to the series as a whole.

There’s another way to read it: my supporters on Patreon are getting this 40K word story (about 40% the length of one of Livi’s usual novels) serialized and posted over the next three months.

  

Part One on May 1, Part Two on June 1, and Part Three on July 1. All supporters at all reward levels get to read it.

Like the first two Livi books combine traditional urban fantasy with adventure, Ashford’s Ghost combines adventure with the haunted house trope, and I think it’s a lot of fun. You get to catch up with Livi, Pru, Em, Laurel, West, and a new character three months after the events of Odin’s Spear.

Ashford’s Ghost will also be available as a single release toward the end of the year (no firm date yet). I’m still picking at the third book–returning to late night walks/jogs is helping me sort it out in my head, and I’m trying to better hammer out the structure. I have the beginning and the end written, however, it’s just the slog in between that needs help.

December of this year, there’ll be a longish Livi short story posted for Patrons of Snark. It’s just something fun I wrote for Christmas a few years ago–Livi’s first Christmas at the villa, set prior to Ashford’s Ghost–that isn’t really something I’d sell? I guess? But it fills in a few blanks and if you’re a fan of the characters, I think you’ll enjoy it.

That’s it for Livi news for now. She’s still on life support for the foreseeable future, and if you can leave a review or tell a friend to check out the books, that’s always a big help. I still have some print books for sale, too.

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