Arctic Comic Con!!!

I'm so excited to see you all at the Arctic Comic Con in Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow and Sunday! I've been hard at work here in the lab getting ready, and I've got 15% off discount cards for everyone who stops by! The discount cards will be usable for any order made from my website here.

Due to a glitch in the warehouse, I'll be going digital this time around. Let me break down what this means for you:

Kindle eBook versions of Dark Fantasy epic Kill All Christians: In the Village of the Devil's Daughters and Low Key Super Hero Drama Tribus Dulce will be available for $7.50 each from Amazon for the duration of this event. After the con is over, the eBooks will go back to full price!

The 15% off discount cards can be applied to orders made on my website for paperback versions of Kill All Christians and Tribus Dulce.

If you make your order with me directly at the convention, I'll discount your order even further!

What's more, these 15% off codes will be good from now through the end of May, and All Ages High Fantasy Epic Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel will be launching early May! 

So the best bang for your buck would be to pick up your books from me directly at the Arctic Comic Con in the Dena'ina center and consider saving your codes for Nora's release in the next few weeks!

But of course, go forth and buy as you please! And above all else, be blessed, and happy reading!

-Eugene the Author
a.k.a. Xeawn Cross
a.k.a. Gentleman Raptor

Spotlight on Tribus Dulce

Available now on Amazon with a limited time sale price of $4.99 for the Kindle Edition!

What is it about?

The name Tribus Dulce translates to “Three Sweets”, and represents the distinct flavors of each short story in this novel. The first narrative carries the taste of “Bitter”, and follows the struggles of seventeen year old high school senior Abra Ostberg and her best friend Judith Lee. Abra has endured a violently abusive household at the hands of her father from the time that she was very small, and takes refuge in Judy’s house whenever the maelstrom of her life grows too much to bear on her own. Abra remains in this environment, hoping that by serving as a lightning rod of sorts she can protect her mother and younger brother, even though her mother has never intervened in her father’s abuse.

One night, Abra experiments with a drug known as Hyperion, and what follows is a whole new world of horrors as the drug awakens Abra’s latent power to World Walk into the depths of the soul.

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Spotlight on Kill All Christians Book 1: In the Village of the Devil's Daughters

Available now on Amazon with a limited time sale price of $4.99 for the Kindle Edition!

What is it about?

Kill All Christians Book 1: In the Village of the Devil’s Daughters is a story about a young man named Moon and his dark blood companion Fox trying to survive in a world where all forms Christianity has been outlawed. 99.8 percent of Christians in the world were slaughtered in a three-month massacre known as The Liberation, and the world left behind is shaped by demons and their followers. This is a world without morality. People often say they’d love a world of nothing but moral grey, but Kill All Christians shows what that would really be like.

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The Three Categories of My Novels

Salutations! Today I'd like to talk about the three levels of content/maturity that each of my novels fall under.

One of the things I'm a firm believer of, is being open and honest with my fan base. To me, to create a series and draw people in, having every aspect of it appear to represent a certain set of purpose, morality and narrative flow, only to at the last minute once you've gained a following and a steady stream of cash throw in something that completely changes and turns on its head everything I told you I was about is the height of cowardice and sneaky marketing. Consider that harsh, and a run on sentence. I'll accept that it's one of those things.

I have no desire to draw you in, make my money in a safe way, then flip the script and exclaim "JUST KIDDING, YOU THOUGHT THIS STORY AND THESE CHARACTERS WERE LIKE THIS BUT I CAN MAKE MORE MONEY LIKE THIS!"

I also would never want a young reader who enjoys, say upcoming all ages novel Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel to see my name on Murder the Citizens, think the novel is safe for them to read and suddenly be thrust into a far more maturely written world. To that end, I established three levels to my novels:

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On Writing Badass Female Leads

A lot of the protagonists in my retinue are female leads of varying age and ethnicity. To be quite honest, this was somewhat accidental. I consider my novels to be broken up into four primary "ages" in history. The True Mythology series encompasses the warriors of legend that helped forge the world the protagonists live in today. The Era of Conflict is how the high holy orders that stand above all the others were established. The Modern Age is where you dear readers come in, with such fascinating reads as the upcoming Murder the Citizens: HungerTribus DulceOchre AlleycatPretty Little WhispersIn Defense of the Heart. These stories take place in or around the bubble of 2017, plus or minus ten or so years.

Well, when I began writing all of these narratives, I realized that I had a bit of an abundance of male leads and not enough female leads. What's more, an over abundance of narratives that seem only to know how to sell a female lead by stripping her of her clothing and having her defined by little more than sexuality and ambiguity cemented the necessity for a higher caliber of heroine.

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