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Dawn of Chaos: Book Sale

September 6, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce that Dawn of Chaos, Volume One of the Sanctum of the Archmage Saga, will be included in the upcoming Big Based Book Sale!

“Bypass cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free!“

Sponsored by Hans Schantz (aka Aetherczar) and scheduled to coincide with the BasedCon Science Fiction and Fantasy conference, it will begin on Thursday, September 7th, and run for seven days through midnight, Wednesday, September 13th.

Dawn of Chaos - Cover

I’m pleased to be returning as one of the sale’s “fan favorite” authors, as well as a new arrival for the debut listing of Dawn of Chaos. During the sale week Dawn of Chaos will be available from all online bookstores for only $0.99. So check it out now for some great works of science fiction and fantasy!


It wasn’t demons, death, and slavery to the Dark that truly frightened her. It was the woman she would have to become to fight them.

Filed Under: Books, Dawn of Chaos

Filed Under: Books, Dawn of Chaos

Liberty Book Sale, 2023!

June 19, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce Andarian Publishing’s “Liberty Book Sale!” It will begin today, June 19th, and run for three weeks, through July 9th. It will begin as part of the “Big Based Book Sale” scheduled to coincide with the LibertyCon Sci Fi and Fantasy conference, and continue through Independence Day holiday week in the US.

Each of the e-books in Dawn of Chaos will be available at a substantial discount on all platforms, starting with the full volume omnibus edition at only $2.99. Each of the individual books in the series will be either free or $0.99, including the full length novel, Hell Gate.


In preparation for the sale, all the books in the series have also been updated to the new June 2023 revised edition. That includes an epub 3 update with improved formatting built off a single master for consistency, and a final edit to clean up most of what remained of the more clumsy “first-time author” prose.


Updated prices and sales pages are at the image link above. Now, on to continuing work on the next book, Wrath of the Peregrine King!

Filed Under: Books, Dawn of Chaos

The Next Phase

April 21, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

It’s been a little over a year now since I was forced, early, into my planned “retirement pivot” to writing epic fantasy. I’ve devoted a lot of effort during that time to learning the ins and outs of indie publishing, building an online platform, and improving and re-releasing the first trilogy in my Sanctum of the Archmage Saga. I’m now writing the second volume in the series, working on an audiobook of the first, and planning a regular and ongoing release strategy to Substack and then to bookstores.

So I think it’s time to start a new phase in my publishing career, one that I’ve probably been putting off for too long. That’s to focus more on the roadblock that stymies most new authors: visibility. My work has essentially none, despite near universal raves from the few who’ve read and reviewed it. It’s easy to publish an indie book today; the trick is getting anyone to notice (much less buy) it, regardless of how good it might be.

I’ve been researching and making notes on indie publishing “best practices” for this, and I’m going to start devoting some serious time and effort into putting them into practice. If anyone has thoughts or advice on what’s working well for this in today’s market, I’m very interested in feedback on this — so please feel free to comment. 🙂

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The EPIC Spring Sale is ON!

April 1, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

The EPIC Spring Sale is now live! These authors have teamed up to offer an extraordinary selection of EPIC Science Fiction and Fantasy tales. I’m proud to have my Sanctum of the Archmage series in it, including the new single-volume edition of the Dawn of Chaos Trilogy (also available now in print). Click the image below to check them out!

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Would You Be Willing to Write a Review?

March 14, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

The single most helpful thing that an appreciative reader can do for an author is to write a review of their book.

Re­views are incredibly im­por­tant to help in­die au­thors be­come known and rec­og­nized for our work. With­out them, we are es­sen­tially in­vis­i­ble to the com­mu­nity of read­ers who might oth­er­wise find and en­joy our books. They are also one of the best ways for us to get the feed­back we need to grow and im­prove as writ­ers. Just a line or two of hon­est feed­back (or even just a rating) can make a huge dif­fer­ence, so I hope you’ll be will­ing to help.

The Goodreads and various e-store pages for a book are the best places to leave a review. Here’s how to find mine, including the handy BookFunnel and UBL pages that collect all the store links in one place.

Sanctum of the Archmage, Volume One: Dawn of Chaos
Available as a single Volume in E-Book and Print
Review it on Goodreads, Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo, StoryGraph,
from the BookFunnel or UBL Page, or at Andarian Publishing.

The Dawn of Chaos Trilogy: Sanctum of the Archmage, Volume One – Available as Individual E-Books

Prologue to Chaos
Review on Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo
or Andarian Publishing
Review on Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo
or Andarian Publishing
Review on Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo
or Andarian Publishing
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Dawn of Chaos, Book 2: Hell Gate – Available in 4 Novella-Length E-Book Episodes

The Return of the Horde
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Prospectus 2023, Part 2

February 20, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

In my last post (Prospectus 2023, Part 1), I talked about how I’ve spent the last year getting over most of the “learning curve” for my new writing and publishing career. In this post, I’m going to talk a little about some of my plans for what to do with that new knowledge.

I’ll start with an update on my major task last week, which was to do a deep dive on the extensive documentation for Scrivener 3’s new features. Scrivener’s a fantastic writing tool for serious authors, and I’ve used it for most of the last decade. It has many powerful capabilities, and it takes a lot of time and study to learn how to use them fully. That’s especially true of some of the new ones added since the version 3 upgrade.

I learned enough of Scrivener’s new compile system last month to create the upload file for the new Dawn of Chaos paperback. I spent much of last week learning the rest, along with its new “style” system. As a result, I’ve now been able to create fully functional template for the upcoming books in the Sanctum saga. That’ll start with the next volume, Crucible of Heroes. All I have to do now is write them. 😁

I’ve also made a “release strategy” decision on something that I’ve been debating for a while. I had decided to break Dawn of Chaos into an e-book trilogy consisting of a full-length novel (Hell Gate) sandwiched between prologue and epilogue novellas (Prologue to Chaos and Aftermath). I then released Dawn of Chaos as a “compilation volume” of all three, in e-book, print, and (coming soon), audiobook formats. That’s the pattern I’m planning to continue for the remainder of the nine planned volumes in the series. Each will come out first as a trilogy of e-books (consisting, typically, of two novels and a novella), which will then be published as a collection in e-book, print, and audio. So Sanctum of the Archmage will, essentially, be a ten volume series of trilogies.

I’m also planning to end an experiment I tried with further breaking the novels into a rapid-release series of “episodes,” as I did with Hell Gate. To put it simply, that just did not work out. So the next book, Wrath of the Peregrine King, will not be coming out in two parts, as I’d suggested in some of my newsletters last year. It will be a full length novel, and likely won’t be available until summer 2023. I am still thinking about whether I could develop an “interim release” strategy for parts of the series, so that interested readers might have a way to get some of it in installments. But if I do, it’ll likely be through a subscription service like Patreon or Locals, and wait until I actually have enough interested readers to make it worthwhile. 😉

Wrath of the Peregrine King

In the meantime, I’m going to get busy on my two major book publishing projects: writing Wrath of the Peregrine King (WPK), and publishing Dawn of Chaos as an audiobook. Writing WPK will be especially interesting for me, because it’s the one book in the series that I didn’t already have an outline for. Readers may know that I’ve been working on this story “in my head” for decades, and that much of Volumes Three and Four (The Sight and The Miracle Worker) are already familiar to players of my Sanctum RP Adventure games. WPK represented a gap in the tale that needed to be filled, though, and I’m looking forward to finally filling it.

That’s all for now. In Part 3 of my “Prospectus 2023” series, I’ll go into some of my other upcoming project plans for the months and years ahead. I’m excited to talk about that because I feel very much as though this last year has been all about “getting things ready” for those future plans, and that 2023 will be the year when I can actually start moving forward on them. So stay tuned!

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