GRAB THE BUNDLE NOWBrotherhood of the Wolf #1 & #2 + False Light novella. Dark fantasy that doesn’t insult your intelligence.→ https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/ An editor sent back my manuscript with hundreds of tracked changes. One scene: a character looks at someone. Only one other person in the room. She changed “him” to “Cem”…as if you’d forget who was standing [...]
A nice parent sends me a message: Can my four-year-old read Brotherhood of the Wolf? Upshot: See for yourself: https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/ I stare at the question. On the sales page, there’s a splash panel of a man’s skull split open by an axe. The cover of Issue #1 has a pile of bones. Issue #2 shows a burning [...]
When you’re a kid and the world keeps moving you (state to state, country to country, school to school )you learn fast that people don’t stay. So you stop trying. I spent my 11th grade in a stairwell. Sometimes the gym. Once or twice the lunchroom, until a couple of girls sat across from me and I [...]
He was supposed to bring back boys for the Sultan Instead, he found something else waiting in the dark. You know, I’ve always been drawn to stories where the odds are hopeless.Where you look at the hero and think, how the hell is he still standing? That’s what Blood Tax is about.In the wake of the Battle [...]
Tahsin is a Janissary who just wants to keep his head down. He gets sent to a backwater Serbian town to collect taxes. Simple mission. In and out. Except the local despot won’t hand over the ledgers until Tahsin handles two problems: a “wolf” killing villagers, and missing children. The wolf isn’t a wolf. The tavern owner tells [...]
Someone asked if Brotherhood of the Wolf was available digitally. Here’s what I’ve got: The Blood Tax arc spans five issues. Tahsin, a Janissary, gets sent to collect taxes in Serbia. Simple mission. Except a despot won’t cooperate until Tahsin hunts a “wolf” killing villagers. The wolf isn’t a wolf…it’s something that leaves child-sized bite marks on corpses. Tahsin [...]
Cem (pronounced “Gem”) is convinced he’s destined for greatness that will “shake the world.” He’s a Sipahi warrior, son of a Sanjak Bey, and hunting a wolf is frankly beneath his superior intellect. The entire concept is beneath him: tromping through the woods, hunting a feckless beast which has no chance against a mind like his. Except [...]
Order your copy today. Read the saga of the Sultan’s elite secondary guard. In 15th-century Ottoman Europe, the Empire’s elite guard weren’t nobles. They were captives.Taken from Christian villages, trained as Janissaries, and forged into the Sultan’s elite weapon.That paradox of devotion and servitude powers Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax. It’s a historical dark-fantasy (yes, [...]
Order your copy today. Read the saga of the Sultan’s elite secondary guard. In 15th-century Ottoman Europe, the Empire’s elite guard weren’t nobles. They were captives.Taken from Christian villages, trained as Janissaries, and forged into the Sultan’s elite weapon.That paradox of devotion and servitude powers Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax. It’s a historical dark-fantasy (yes, [...]