By Elizabeth Donald
I’m happy to announce that Blackfire Rising has finally been resurrected, and is now shambling your way via the Literary Underworld.
Longtime readers know that the Blackfire series has been going on for 15 years in various forms, beginning with a novella published by Sam’s Dot Press and continuing through novels, short stories and another novella, published a few years ago by Crone Girls Press. Now the good folks at Falstaff Books have picked up the series, and our first release collects all the Blackfire pieces into one volume with some new stories and a look forward at what might be ahead for Sara Harvey and (what’s left of) her team.
It was an experiment. A way to create a better soldier. Colder, more efficient.
But some things shouldn’t be altered, and some creatures are best left to myth. The dead know no peace, and they are coming for Sara Harvey.
Sara has faced the Cold Ones again and again, losing friends and comrades in a running battle to keep the world safe from the monsters released by an experiment that should never have happened. Again and again, Sara is drawn back into Blackfire, as it hunts the things that hide in the shadows.
The clock is ticking, and the slaughter has begun.
And you shouldn’t have to pray to just stay dead.
From award-winning horror author Elizabeth Donald comes a compendium of the entire Blackfire series… so far.
Blackfire Rising is published in ebook, trade paperback and hardback. Preorders are on their way and will be shipped as soon as they’re in our hands. If you didn’t preorder, feel free to order right away! If ordering through Literary Underworld, you can have it signed upon request – be sure to indicate it in your checkout.
And you can join me on Monday for a live Zoom chat where I will read selections from the book, talk about its weird shambling journey to resurrection, what might be coming in the future for this series, and also pass the bourbon. Click here to RSVP on Facebook, or if you eschew the book of face, you can register at EventBrite. The Zoom link will be shared closer to the event.
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Many thanks to the awesome folks at Falstaff Books for their fine work on this book, even making me fix all those em dashes. Special thanks to Rachel Brune, editor extraordinaire (and fellow Underlord!), and publisher John Hartness for their hard work and patience and faith in this series.
I have had so much fun with this book in all its iterations. I hope you enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed writing it.