The Audacity Gambit – Serialised

Back in 2017* I wrote a book about chosen ones and trailer parks and loss. And people read it and liked it but I think its time to release it into the wild via serialising it. What’s funny is it was serialised originally. Right here! On this blog/site! That was a very early version of it. So we’ve come full circle, and that feels nice.

A gold-framed oval of a photograph of an arbour on fire, around the frame are painted flowers like marigolds and daisies, done in a folk-art style single-stroke painting. This is a crop of the cover for The Audacity Gambit.

The serialisation of the story has ended, but if you sign up below you’ll get any random supplementals from the same world and info on if I serialise something else!

Here’s a blurb:

It’s the back half of the 1990s and recently-graduated Emily’s big life plans include maybe getting promoted at her grocery store job, and not much else. It’s not that she doesn’t have ambitions, it’s that she feels more or less fulfilled already. She has a roof over her head (her aunt’s trailer), friends (the much-younger kids she babysits), hobbies (babysitting, reading), what more could she want?

Of course, it’s not about what she wants. It’s about what she was made to do. With little choice in the matter, Emily is plunged head-first into a fairy world that isn’t nearly as fabulous and fantastical as books would lead you to believe, though it’s a nice enough place for a vacation.

*It was in 2012, actually, but it took me a while to do all the bits to finish it.

I interviewed with Night Beats about TAG in April 2025, check it out here!

Find all the places you can buy a copy here!
Available in ebook and print on demand paperback–heck, you can even request it at your library.

Some story tags for you

Portal fantasy, hidden identities, fae and fairies, monsters.

Here are some content warnings

Genre-typical violence, smoking, death, abandonment, light horror elements.

The archive will auto-fill below, every Thursday, beginning on 06/20/2024, there will be 32 parts and it will end 01/23/2025.