“Story telling and descriptions of the highest quality.” Ray Nicholson, Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer “Prior weaves a fully realized world in this rich fantasy.” — Kirkus Reviews “A masterpiece of sword and sorcery storytelling.” — Bookwraiths Reviews The only thing keeping the Nameless Dwarf from once more becoming the Ravine Butcher is a helm made from the sorcerous…
It’s been a busy year, but finally it’s all coming together. All 6 books in the Annals of the Nameless Dwarf series have now been released in hardcover format. These beautiful editions are published via IngramSpark and are available from all major retailers. If you would like a signed copy of any of the hardcovers,…
I’m excited to announce that Mike Carnes has agreed to narrate the Nameless Dwarf series. Mike emerged as the top choice of my listening team after a few weeks of very high quality auditions from more than thirty talented narrators. Appropriately, he brews his own beer, smokes cigars, and once even made a life-size Dalek.…
I had initially planned on paying for audiobook production for Annals of the Nameless Dwarf series in 2020, or seeking an audiobook publisher for the series. For some reason, as yet unclear to me, I decided instead to put the series up for audition on ACX. I guess I figured it couldn’t hurt, but in…
I’m 1/3rd of the way through revisions of book 3: Curse of the Black Axe. So far I’ve fully revised book 1: Ravine of Blood and Shadow, and book 2: Mountain of Madness. I intend to have all 6 original Nameless Dwarf books revised by mid-late October. I’ve written two chapters of book 7, planned…
It’s been nine years since I wrote the first Nameless Dwarf story, a short story called The Ant-Man of Malfen. Ant-Man was accepted for publication in volume five of Pulp Empire, and from then on in I began to receive emails asking for more. The first five Nameless Dwarf novellas I subsequently wrote were published…
I have ten free copies of the Sorcerers’ Isle audiobook (narrated by Steven Pacey) to give away to prospective reviewers. If you run a review blog or are simply prepared to write a review on Audible.com and Amazon.com please email me your interest at derekpprior[at]gmail.com To listen to a sample, please click on the image…
The audiobook of Sorcerers’ Isle, published by Audible Studios and narrated by Steven Pacey (The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings) is now available. Listen to a FREE sample of Sorcerers’ Isle here: Steven Pacey (born 5 June 1957 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an English actor, best known for his…
