4/15/19 Due to the number of questions I have received about this box set, I felt the need to add this update so that there is no confusion about what is or is not available:

Q: Why don’t any of the buy links work for Wrath and Ruin?
A: Wrath and Ruin was a limited edition collection of stories that was available for three months only from Jan 2018 to March 2018. Since then the box set was taken down, and the individual authors have taken back the stories. Some authors have republished the stories by themselves, some have not. If you are interested in reading any of them, I would look at the individual authors’ pages on Amazon, or else contact those specific authors directly to find out where their story is available.

Q: Where can I buy “When the Gods Laughed: Part 1”?
A: Thank you for wanting to read my epic fantasy story from the Wrath and Ruin box set! Unfortunately, I have not yet republished it and do not have a firm date set as to when it will be available in any format.

Q: Why haven’t you republished “When the Gods Laughed: Part 1”?
A: Several reasons. The most important is that the book ends on a massive cliffhanger, and since I don’t have Part II (or Part III, haha!) written or even know when I will have time to write it, I felt it would be disingenuous to readers to put Part 1 up until I can at least let them know when the rest of the story will be released. I am not, after all, George R. R. Martin. The second reason is that I have submitted it to several publishers to consider and have not heard back from them yet, so until I do or I have decided for sure I’d rather publish it under my own imprint, Chenoweth Press, as opposed to going through another publisher, I cannot put it back up on Amazon.

Q: Why haven’t you written the rest of the story yet?
A: The short answer is – 7 month old baby. The long answer is a bit more complicated.

When the Gods Laughed is actually an origin story in a roleplaying world my husband built. We are both storytellers, but so far my husband hasn’t had a chance to write down any of his stories. So when I had the chance to write an epic fantasy book for a limited edition box set, and since my stories are all urban fantasy, I asked my husband if he would like me to write the backstory for his roleplaying world called Ashlar. We worked together on the worldbuilding and loosely based the plot on a myth told in the current timeline of his roleplaying game. Thus “When the Gods Laughed” was born. However, I tend to be a rather loquacious person, and by the time I was 1/4 of the way through my outline, the story was already 100,000 words long. So I decided to cut the story in two, and the first half ended up being just shy of 200,000. I intended to write the second half sometime the following year.

Then I got pregnant.

14 months later I have an adorable, wonderful, precious little baby boy named Wesley. But no “When the Gods Laughed: Part II” I did, however, make a goal this year to thoroughly outline the rest of the story so it is ready to write, and in doing so realized that I can’t write the rest in just one book, and that it will have to be a trilogy.

So, I apologize profusely to anyone who has read Part 1 and is dying to know what happens. Right now my family depends on my book income, and my main series “Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus – The Lily Singer Adventures” is what puts food on the table, so I’ve been focusing on continuing that series. I’m down to writing a book a year with little Wesley to distract me, so it may be a while, but I absolutely know I will finish When the Gods Laughed at some point.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

(the rest below is my original blog post in Jan 2018 when the box set came out)

I’m very excited to announce that our epic science fiction and fantasy box set has finally been set loose upon the interwebs! I enormous amounts of fun writing When the Gods Laughed for this box set, especially designing the map for the world of Ashlar.

We have a ton of fun stuff going on this week as we celebrate the release. Jump over to our WARriors Facebook Group to participate in ongoing games and giveaways all week, and we also have a $120 Amazon giveaway going on where you can get more entries the more you share!

Don’t forget, of course, that for RELEASE WEEK ONLY you get a special gift if you buy the ebook: access to our exclusive Wrath and Ruin coloring book! After release week, the coloring book file will be taken down, so hurry and order the book now and download that file while you can!

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