Hi! Welcome to my experimental blog post. As this is the first and I’m not confident about the mechanics of this site yet, I’m not going to write much today. But here, look at the cute cover for Don’t Pay the Piper.
What is Don’t Pay the Piper, you ask? It is the second book in the Patience Red series. I wrote the first book several years ago. And although I published it in 2023, I didn’t market it hardly at all. It’s a very niche, lighter (compared to my normal darker fantasy content) new adult contemporary fantasy adventure about a young immortal woman named Patience and her attempts to survive the hand she’s been dealt in life long enough to get her life debt marked as paid. It’s got some action, some unknown magic abilities, more than a little accidental trampling of supernatural bureaucracy, and a main cast of found family characters who are near and dear to my heart. So near and dear, in fact, that when I need a break from main projects, I will work on this series.
And through the power of procrastination, the second book is now done. So I’ve decided to put it out into the world for the people who want to know what happens to the crew next. The second story picks up several months after the first leaves off. The crew is back to working odd jobs and attempting to lay low. But laying low is taken off the table when a prison bounty hunter arrives at their door and threatens the group to find Stence’s biological father by the end of the month or else he’ll open an investigation into their adventure last year. So the crew is going back onto the road once again.
Don’t Pay the Piper will be out on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited after Christmas.
If this doesn’t sound like your jam, don’t worry. Our regularly scheduled control issues content is all right on schedule. Mage Healer and Mage Manticore are both well into edits, and the second Ravager book is slated to be out in the second half of 2025.
And… that’s it. That’s the end of my first blog post. Later!
Ella Elliott Books 