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Author Archives: J.M. Ney-Grimm
Hunting Wild, 2nd Edition
I re-read Hunting Wild as part of my preparation to re-release it. I originally published it in 2015, and incredible as it may seem, I’d forgotten many of the details! That was rather fun—reading my own story almost as though someone else had written it.
The result was that I did a touch of revision. There were some passages that I found confusing, so I clarified them. There were others that seemed to require grater emphasis, so I expanded them.
The changes aren’t huge—it’s still the same story—and there aren’t a lot. But the prose is not identical. I’d love to hear from a reader who has read both! What did you think?
When a king begs a dread boon, dare she refuse him?
Remeya—fosterling and maid-in-waiting to the king’s sister—worships the old and forbidden horned god alongside the princess.
Despite the centuries-old taboo, a few believers still perform the rites in secret. And the king quietly tolerates their heresy until Remeya retrieves a cursed sword from its watery grave and bestows it upon him.
As the king’s mind unravels into violence, no one near him remains safe, not even his best beloved. Especially not his best beloved.
Fearing for all their lives, Remeya frantically seeks a means of curbing the king’s wrath. Appeals to religious authority and personal displays of public piety prove fruitless, while leaving salvation to her god delivers no sign that he will act.
Unless Remeya learns to engage more deeply with her beliefs—beyond obedience, beyond devotion, and into surrender—the princess will lose her head and Remeya her soul.
Hunting Wild is the evocative second tale in the Blood Blade fantasy series. If you enjoy vivid characters, exotic worlds, and intensifying suspense, you’ll love this engrossing coming-of-age story in which a teen girl grapples with how to connect with her god.
Read Hunting Wild now to forge faith from desperation in the eleventh hour!
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Revised Cover for Hunting Wild
Hunting Wild has always been part of the Blood Blade series, but, BUT, BUT…I didn’t really tell anyone that it was! Crazy me!
Anyway, now that I’ve released Blood Falchion (Tale One), I’ve revised the cover of Hunting Wild to reflect its status as Tale Two.
That was tricky work—keeping the original art and making it work with the dress for the series!
Newly Released: Blood Falchion
Once protected. Once beloved. Until a blood blade brutalizes his sire…
Young Caelan relishes the carefree days and friendships of boyhood despite his palsied limbs. He loves his aunt, the Lady Agace, who mothered him from infancy, and trusts his father, Lord Jekis, ruler of Castle Balazoron and proud to name Caelan as his heir.
But when a cursed sword enters his father’s possession, eroding Lord Jekis’ sanity and prompting him to evil, Caelan’s world falls apart.
Caelan plots to get the weapon away from his father, hoping that might restore him to reason and kindness. But…what will Caelan do with the blade, if he succeeds? Hide it? Send it elsewhere? Break it somehow?
As Lord Jekis’ madness escalates, he grows ever more angry, clashing with his sister until a complete breach divides the two.
When Lord Jekis decrees a horrific punishment for Lady Agace, Caelan must learn what it really means to leave childhood behind. If he fails, the only mother he’s ever known will die.
Blood Falchion is the riveting first tale in the Blood Blade fantasy series. If you enjoy high stakes, intensity, and the dark influence a cursed sword exerts over its wielder, you’ll love this story of a once-beloved son rising to heroism in the shadow of his father’s eclipse.
Read Blood Falchion to wrest trust from betrayal today!
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Cover Reveal: Blood Falchion
Newly Released: Eurydice Otherwise
I had so much fun writing the seven tales in The Hades Cycle. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. Tale One is now available on Amazon and in the Kindle Unlimited subscription program.
She’s not Eurydice, but she’s caught the eye of hell’s king…
Phoebe, a nature spirit of ancient Greece, loves her mountain birthplace and intends never to leave it. But the Olympian Artemis’ dazzling glamor lures her away to join the goddess’ retinue of handmaidens.
Initially the handmaidens welcome Phoebe warmly, but their friendship turns to bullying once Artemis turns her back. Phoebe’s inexperience makes her no match for the mean girls, who win every verbal battle.
And when Phoebe chooses a protector other than the often-absent Artemis, she courts a danger far worse than cruel taunts or stinging slaps. Unless she learns to value herself for herself—rather than depending on the regard of others—she will perish in Hades’ depths.
“Eurydice Otherwise” is the intense first tale in The Hades Cycle. If you enjoy ancient mythology brought to vivid life, you’ll love the entrancing characters, inventive world building, and startling twists in J.M. Ney-Grimm’s gripping short story of the old gods.
Read “Eurydice Otherwise” to turn hell into heaven today!
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Cover Reveal: Eurydice Otherwise
Eurydice Otherwise will release on June 7, 2022!
Initially it will be available on Amazon for purchase and in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription service for free download.
Eurydice Otherwise is the first of seven tales in The Hades Cycle.
Some months after the seventh tale is released, Eurydice Otherwise will leave the KU subscription service and be available for purchase on all major e-tailers, including Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Amazon, and more.
Newly Released: Right, Wrong, and Amazing
And now for something completely different! 😀
I usually write fantasy. Sometimes I write science fiction. But this time I was inspired to tell the story of a mother and her teenage daughter living in our own 21st century. There’s no magic in it at all, unless you count the magic of a mother’s love for her child.
Sometimes there’s no way to be right. Sometimes you must simply show up and hope that wrong will be enough…
Genevieve, mother to a teenage girl, believes that if she does everything right she can prevent life’s pain from touching either of them. But 15-year-old Kaitlyn failed to get the memo. She’s sullen, sulky, and resentful.
All the patience, humor, and active listening in the world aren’t worth spit when a teen refuses to talk.
And when Kaitlyn declares that Genevieve isn’t her mom—with good reason—their mother-daughter relationship hits crisis. Unless Genevieve can let go of her parenting strategies and tactics to simply be present, Kaitlyn will take a crippling blow to her identity.
“Right, Wrong, and Amazing” plunges straight to the heart of the dilemma that faces all parents: what do you do when your stellar skills prove powerless against one of life’s curveballs? If you enjoy emotional intensity and rites of passage, you’ll love J.M. Ney-Grimm’s intimate story of how a friend’s secret upends the balance between mother and daughter—and the choices they face to restore it.
Read “Right, Wrong, and Amazing” to rescue trust from doubt today!
Cover Reveal: Right, Wrong, and Amazing
Right, Wrong, and Amazing released on May 7, 2022!
Initially it is available on Amazon for purchase and in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription service for free download.
On August 7, Right, Wrong, and Amazing will leave the KU subscription service and be available for purchase on all major e-tailers, including Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Amazon, and more.
Newly Released: Read-Only Ash
Before I started writing regularly every week, I’d envisioned myself creating fantasy and science fiction. But when I actually sat down at my keyboard three mornings a week (and then five days a week), the stories all seemed to be fantasy.
I was surprised, but okay with it. As long as I was telling stories, I was happy.
Then, 7 years into my writing journey, a science fiction tale collared my muse, and I wrote what would eventually become “Read-Only Ash.” As of this week, “Read-Only Ash” is available for your reading pleasure in both ebook and paperback editions. 😀
Check it out!
When utter defeat confounds you, where might victory hide?
Uzuri, a new-minted astronomer on her first posting, can’t wait to observe the stars from deep space. But when she awakens unable to form or hold new memories, probing the mysteries of the universe must surrender to unravelling the mystery of her own loss.
She finds the space station entirely deserted and all its floors coated by a black, gritty ash. Alone and without recourse, Uzuri hunts answers.
When she learns the truth of what happened, she must abandon the comforting path of retreat to face disaster, no matter the agony, or suffer her soul’s death.
“Read-Only Ash” is a science fiction tale of valor in extremity. If you enjoy heroic last stands, grab-by-the-throat intensity, and ultimate peril, you’ll love this ringing-the-changes-on-catastrophe story.
Peruse “Read-Only Ash” to wring hope from despair today!