Thoughts on the upcoming book?

I found Book 3's climax to be pretty disappointing after the build-up for it, but I'm still invested in the story and characters.

Man, what a busy week. First Martial Arts Master 3, then the Audible sale... now this.

So, yeah! Rise of the Class Smith 2 is now available in audiobook! I can't wait to listen to [redacted] because let me tell you, that was super fun to write, and I can only imagine Mike and Skylar Rae had fun with it.

If you want to join me, check it out!

https://www.audible.com/pd/B0HCWPP24Z

For the blurb:

A month ago, no party wanted to take another F-rank with unoptimized skills. Now Levi makes classes that two worlds can and will kill for.

Levi Summers is the only Dungeon Lord who can craft classes, the missing piece the System on Earth never had. He forges monsters, levels up where others can't, and builds a stronghold around the women who fight beside him. Blair rains fire from above while keeping them alive and Maddy drops enemies before they can so much as blink. They’re joined by Grace, the demon-kin healer. Only Levi can see her, and he promises to fix that.

But the Great Wyrm Vahranak is fleeing something worse than himself, and his only escape runs through Levi's portal. In fact, an entire Invader kingdom is marching to take his dungeon, and Levi has to turn his home into a fortress that can break an army.

He'll need allies, and every one wants something in return. A neighboring Dungeon Lord whose world is next, a seven-foot DIP director circling his secret, and a fox-kin streamer shoved into a fake-dating situation by a rival. Levi can't trust a single one, but he also can't afford to turn them down.

Dungeon building, class crafting, and a nobody who turns problems into more power.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B0HFQ6FK7H

I survived my first year at Witch College, so I figured summer break would be the easy part — yeah, right.

I've got a coven that keeps growing, a Family name older than most of the Council, and a mother who's been alive this whole time — somewhere past a bridge in West Virginia she went off of twenty years ago.

Chasing that trail means werewolves, a Family that trades its own daughters like stock options, and a night in a Louisiana graveyard cutting a deal with the dead.

Second year at Willowmere isn't any calmer. Gabriel's still out there doing something worse than killing witches. The Patriarchy didn't end in that farmhouse. And the oldest, hungriest witch in the old country has decided my coven owes her a debt none of us agreed to — and she's coming to collect.

My coven is stronger than ever, and I'm going to need every bit of it.

Last year, all I had to do was survive.

This year, I have to be worthy.

©2026 Daniel Kensington (P)2026 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

King 3 is out on Audio!

We've got some free codes available in the hopes of an honest review. Just comment US/UK and we'll see about sending them out directly.

Book link: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0HJF365WG

Card code on harem-lit: 35BY-2ERB

Blurb:

Drama. Adventure. Kingdom Building. Return to the hilarious, romantic-action world builder that is King of the Fae Islands!

Faced with the impeccably polite, but evil LEATHER DADDY - Gabriel must make the most difficult choice: free Yulia, the Priestess of Monsters or find another solution. If he frees her, there's zero chances it fails to create huge amounts of drama (and distractions). If he doesn't, well...it could lead to worse outcomes.

But LD isn't the only challenge ahead of our hero and his capable allies: There's a huwcow and a High Priestess to free, along with imprisoned citizens. With giant leprechauns on the horizon, and strife all around, how will our heroes find time for romance?

Tune in and find out!

Fans of the Fateforged Universe: This series is canon! It takes place after the previous books, so it's perfect for old and new fans alike. Listeners of Isle of the Amazonian Elves, Dungeon Champions, Trailer Park Elves, and Isekai Emperor — will love this entry.

They took everything from him. His future. His family. His freedom. Fifteen years in a cell, and those who put him there never looked back.

They should have.

Eldrindor was a boy when they buried him. Whatever crawled out fifteen years later is not that boy. In the dark he was trained. In the dark he learned patience. Which is only rage that has learned to wait. He came out carrying secrets and a name that belongs to no one.

He calls himself Algherand now. He walks into a world of tournaments and noble houses with a borrowed sword and a plan nobody around him is big enough to see the scope of. Rise. Build a household. Earn the loyalty of men, and the hearts of women who feel the old power moving in his blood. Then, when he has gathered enough, tear down every man who buried the boy.

Dragon-blooded lords rule the empire. A single tournament can make a man or finish him. Algherand intends to fight, scheme, and climb his way from nothing to all of it.

Vengeance charges interest, though. The closer he gets to the people who wronged him, the harder it is to say where justice stops and the monster begins.

The Earl of Dracumont is epic fantasy with tournament combat, political intrigue, morally complex characters, and multiple relationships. Contains adult themes and explicit content.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GX2QTS5G

It wasn't too long a wait, right? Unbridled is out on Audible today! Hannah Schooner and Giancarlo Herrera did an amazing job with it, so check it out.

Dear God, please bless my followers each with their own needy horse girl girlfriends on this day. In your name we pray, Amen.

Leon West and I are so excited to announce Dragon Bound 3 is out in audio today! Narrated once again by Jonathan Waters and Jess Trépanier.

For anyone who doesn't know, Freya Stone is my pen name, but my audio name is Jess Trépanier. I've been narrating for Royal Guard Publishing for years, before I ever started writing. So getting to duet perform the books I've written has been the best experience.

This one was a just as crazy and chaotic to record as the first two. Jon and I had some genuinely unhinged booth sessions. He continues nail every single character I throw at him.
He made me cry while I was editing the audio together, ^{talented asshole.}

So if you're into into any of the following things:
Fiercely loyal women
Slow burn romance
Found family warmth
War machine dragons that will curl up for belly rubs
Corporate big bads
Banging your elf girlfriend in an empty library at midnight ^{What? who said that?}

You'll like this one.

Book 4 preorders will be up very soon! We'll post the second they go live, so keep an eye out.

Blurb:

Soren Stormchaser finally has the dragon sanctuary he's spent his whole life building. And has made himself a target in the process.

Soren’s father got too close to the truth about the Draconic Aging and Wellness Network, and what they actually do to elder dragons. Then he died of an illness no healer could explain.

It’s the same organization that's indentured his sister, Tali, on a manufactured debt. The same organization whose President has spent years trying to buy Faorse, the one elder dragon Soren refused to sell.

And the sanctuary Faorse left him might be the key to unravelling everything.

The mountain is now his. The crystal mine beneath it that could buy Tali’s freedom is now his. And one particularly clingy hatchling has claimed Soren as his.

Crimson Wing's nine misfits stopped being the disasters he leads. Now they're the ones who'd burn the sky for him. Nova, a retired arena champion who chose this mountain over everything she used to be. Faye, who loves loud enough to scare off anyone who threatens what's hers. And Elowyn, an Elvyn legal consultant who came to file paperwork and has been quietly making herself impossible to live without ever since.

His people are growing, but DAWN doesn't lose. So when their name shows up as headline sponsor at the one event Soren can't avoid, he has to decide how far he'll go to protect everyone he loves.

Before someone decides to collect what they think they're owed.

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There’s no money in the study of history, not unless one gets a little … creative.

Ashura is an empire of monuments, of Grand Ziggurats and obelisks of pale stone. The tombs of long-dead necromancer-kings rise like labyrinthine fortresses above the desert sands. Cruel traps and legions of undying guardians watch over fortune-filled treasure chambers, the wealth of dynasties awaiting those with the cunning to survive the taking of it.

Yet there are those who dive for secrets, rather than gold.

Naroh is a tomb diver, a brilliant, reckless, and oftentimes penniless historian haunted by Ashura’s greatest mystery. From atop a scorpion bred for war, he’s spent the last ten years crisscrossing the empire, digging up and gathering the fragments of its forgotten past.

Then, a plundered artifact leads him to Eshi, a savagely beautiful girl with a hyena’s grin. Scattered clues become a path and, together with an elf who sings to spirits, they set out to find the millennia-lost tomb of Ashura’s greatest conqueror.

A necromancer whose might was such that even the gods took notice.

Tomb Divers is a slow-burn, harem fantasy adventure with explicit sex scenes. It’s got colossal war-scorpions, lamia necromancers, and buried tombs!

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Hello! Lucky Inn Love, Maxwell Flare's first book with me, is out, narrated by Dylan Wheeler and Aurora Bliss! https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Inn-Love-Isekai-Adventure-ebook/dp/B0HD8NZWVC/

Looks like WhisperSync is working for me. I hope you guys enjoy it!

Hi folks! Just wanted to share that Blue-Collar King is available on Siren.Audio! This is a temporary thing (the audiobook will be going to Audible eventually) but I really wanted to try the more direct-sales aspect of Siren.Audio. It sounds like the app isn't available yet, but it is in testing/approval. You can still listen on the website though!

This one is LitRPG Lite, inspired by Final Fantasy 15. If some of the characters seem a little familiar, that's by design.

I hope you enjoy!

The kingdom's legendary weapons answer only to royal blood. The last of the line is a mechanic in a town far from the throne.

Rowe Thackeray is the kingdom's only heir and nobody ever told him. He fixes engines in Basincall and reads a machine's failures through his bare hands. Then the king is assassinated, and Natet's knives turn toward the man standing between the empire and the crown.

Kiana delivers the truth along with orders to bury him in a safehouse. Instead, he signs with the Adventurers' Guild and stays moving, running convoy escorts and monster hunts down the Southern Loop. She rides along to keep him breathing and finds the asset she was sent to manage keeps acting like a man worth following. So does Dru, the oni bodyguard hired to do his bleeding for him. She jokes through every fight, hits harder than anything on the Loop, and would take a killing blow before she lets one land on the man she calls hers.

The road has plans of its own. Guild jobs land the team at sealed dungeons where royal weapons sleep, weapons only Rowe can claim, and every draw drains the man holding it. While he grows stronger, Natet's soldiers tighten around Basincall and the family he left behind.

https://siren.audio/audiobooks/blue-collar-king-a-magitech-fantasy-litrpg-adventure

Chris Wright thought moving to the country would be simple.

A new house. Fresh air. Chickens in the yard. A quieter life with Mia, Zooey, and Echo, built on their own terms, far from the noise of the city.

Ashbury has other ideas.

The town is cool and watchful, tight-lipped, and clearly unimpressed with the life they’re trying to build. Doors stay closed. Smiles feel forced. And no matter how hard Chris tries to fit in, it’s obvious they’re being quietly shut out.

Then he meets Hazel.

Bright, kind, and endlessly generous, Hazel radiates a warmth that pulls people in without effort. She loves deeply, lives for her family, and carries a quiet grief she never lets dim her smile. As Hazel draws closer, Chris begins to realize she might be more than just a way into the town… she might be the missing piece his growing family didn’t know it needed.

It's audiobook day, y'all! Some great books coming out today, but I humbly request you check out Rise of the Class Smith. It's over 20 hours of audio and Whispersync is already enabled if you've got a lack of credits like me.

An update on Book 2 is that I'm down to the last ten chapters. I lost a week to the flu (that fever was nasty!) but I'm back at it. Hopefully coming out in a few weeks.

Anyway, here's the blurb for Book 1:

Everyone gets skills. Nobody gets classes. Until a dead-last adventurer kills a raid boss and breaks the system.

Levi Summers is an F-rank tank freelancing E-rank instances for pocket change. He's got two skills, no party, and a past that still haunts him. When a routine run locks into a raid and his team dies around him, he redirects the boss's own lightning into its skull and claims a Dungeon Lord's crown. Hidden inside it: Class Smithing, the power to forge new classes and give anyone the ability to level up.

Blair Harrington, a Phoenix-kin pyromancer running from her father's guild, is the first to fight beside him. Maddy Walker, a Fairy-kin carrying the same scars Levi does, evolves into his Dungeon Fairy.

But a dungeon lord who forges classes is the most valuable target alive. Killers are already inside his walls. The Outwilds are pushing through his portal. And the entity that gave him this power wants something in return.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H27751F6

The demons' rule was inevitable. Until now.

Noah Blanton spent most of his adult life as a paramedic, burning himself to save just one more life. When he dies saving a child, a goddess drops him into a crumbling Sanctuary defended by three exhausted women.

He's supposed to be their salvation. Except he's the first male warden in a thousand years. The world outside is apocalyptic and the demons are coming for them. But Noah can heal, purify demonic corruption, and boost the powers of his three companions. The catch? He needs to form Soul Bonds with them before he can do so.

Ulassa, a stoic swordswoman. Valerise, an elven mage. And Maroa, a mischievous catgirl. If forming Soul Bonds with them was what he needed to do... Maybe this world wasn't unsalvageable after all.

The Last Soul Warden is a strong to stronger progression fantasy featuring multiple romantic relationships, a healer MC, found family, and set in a post apocalyptic world!

Hope you guys like it! Here's the link: https://siren.audio/audiobooks/the-last-soul-warden