Urban Fantasy author Anton Strout is pleased to announce the third and final installment of his Spellmason Chronicles, INCARNATE, coming to readers' bookshelves and e-readers on September 30th from Penguin/Ace Books. Like the two previous books in the series, ALCHEMYSTIC and STONECAST, the book will focus on spellmason Alexandra Belarus, who has the ability to give stone life-like qualities, and Stanis, the centuries-old gargoyle who has sworn to protect her. At the end of STONECAST, readers Continue Reading
Guest Author Anton Strout: Para-urban Rom-antasy
Para-urban Rom-antasy By Anton Strout If there’s something that the publishing industry loves to do, it’s to put authors neatly in their respective pigeonholes. In fact, they give us not only genres of books out there to catch up on, they create subgenres too. I’m not knocking this approach. After all, people looking for the latest Laurell K, Hamilton and Jim Butcher can also discover my Simon Canderous paranormal detective novels or my newly releases Spellmason Chronicles on the shelves Continue Reading
Review: Alchemystic by Anton Strout
Alchemystic by Anton Strout (The Spellmason Chronicles #1) Urban Fantasy Released: September 25, 2012 Ace Reviewed by May Alexandra (aka Lexi) Belarus lives in her family’s posh New York City building, where she spends much of her time struggling as an artist and admiring the work of her great-great-grandfather. That is, until a series of events find her with a deceased brother, discovering a gargoyle guardian that watches over her family, and having an evil group of men out to kill Continue Reading