Since I’ve gotten a few questions about my original books and where to find them, I figured I should do an introduction/master post, because I’ve a whole heap of things I do.
I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain
If you’ve enjoyed my Solavellan meta and want to support me, I would be honoured. I’ve just been totally cleaned out by a gruelling and traumatic immigration process (that is ongoing), and honestly *any* support is an enormous help in getting back on my feet so my life in my home can…finally begin.
I’m a fantasy author of over 25 novels across several subgenres, but all of my books have a romantic element or are romances. I’m also an award-winning Gaelic singer and songwriter who has represented Scotland internationally twice and been invited to perform for our parliament’s 25th anniversary celebration.
I’ve been at this a long time, and I keep kind of getting knocked backwards onto my arse and am pretty exhausted! Here’s my erm…life’s work below the jump!
Books
If you want to read my current series as I write it, check out my Patreon! I’m back on my Solavellan bullshit with it: if Lavellan met Solas somehow both as Solas and simultaneously as rebellion-era, peak traumatised Dread Wolf…and had to reconcile those experiences on the fly as her people’s oppressors subject her to impossible trials to steal what remains of their Indigenous magic? Aye, that’s Wilder.
You can follow along for £1 a month on Patreon. It’s going to get very spicy.
My most recent published series is a Solavellan-inspired romantasy trilogy (complete!) that I wrote over the last five years of absolute panic that we wouldn’t get a happy ending.
Complete trilogy!!!
Mutual pining
Souls bound across time and space
Big Dragon Age and Solavellan vibes
Banter!
“We shouldn’t” 👀
Low spice (honestly I kinda regret not making it spicier so might make some erm…bonus scenes at some point)
In KU/ebook and available in bespoke deluxe paperback from my own shopfront
Elven gods and mortals romance episodic series where the gods are being punished by a greater power for being assholes and can only find redemption by winning the heart of their mortal soulmates 😌
Queer-norm world!
Book 1: m/f
Book 2: f/f
Book 3: enby/f
Book 4: m/f
In KU and ebook only; they’re just short lil guys
Complete trilogy!
Spell-induced climate change, one land magically draining the resources from another, and those dead set on righting the wrongs (or making it worse 😳)
Giant sapient bats
Giant cats and those who bond with them and ride them
A land cut off from the world by an ancient curse
Ace rep!!!
Profound friendships and trust
Available in ebook, hardcover, and paperback
Complete quartet!
Lots of snark
My earlier work but I’m still proud of it 🥹
Bi lead, f/f endgame
So many butts
Adorable demon hybrid lads who are very wholesome and also always naked
NANA THE BUNNY, best bunny
Available in ebook, hardcover, and paperback (and audio, narrated by the amazing Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame—she’s truly an absolute legend 😭!)
Look to the Sun and A Hall of Keys and No Doors are both available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audio. Also narrated by the amazing Amber Benson!
Two standalone YAs, both lightly paranormal
Non-binary autistic leads in both
Big themes of surviving and recovering from trauma
Sweet romance in each
Demi/grey ace rep in each
Will is obsessed with Solas just like me lmao
Target of banning in plenty of US states 🙃
Sam got nominated for a Nebula award 🥹
Available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audio (Sam is narrated by Allegra Verlezza, and Will by Vico Ortiz—yes, that Vico Ortiz!)
Seonag and the Seawolves: free to read at Reactor Mag!
A Gaelic reimagining of a Green Man tale with a sea-based protector and their wolf guardians. Set in South Uist!
Long listed for a Hugo award 🥹
The Quiet: A tale of a woman who bridges worlds to seek out her lost sister in the face of an ancient threat. Has selkies!
Perchance to Dream: An m/m tale of Sleeping Beauty if the legends didn’t get it quite right and neither Aurora nor Phillip wanted anything to do with one another, beginning from the wake-up kiss
The Quiet and Perchance to Dream are both available in ebook and KU!
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Beyond this, I have a whole series of LitRPG under another name that I’m toying with outing myself about.
Music
I also have a wee EP of demos of my original Gaelic songs and one translation of Once Upon a Dream over on Bandcamp. It’s a pay-what-you-want dealio!
Art
You may have seen my lil Solavellan art going around! You can get it on a T-shirt in my shop, along with other wee bits and bobs I’ve painted.
And, of course, if you want to just read my Solavellan long fic, you can do that here. 💕
Now available at all major retailers in print, ebook and audio!
“she will give them hell!”
Please help us celebrate with author Emmie Mears whose bestselling urban fantasy series is now available at all major retailers in print, ebook and audio!
STORM IN A TEACUP, Book #1 of the AYALA STORME series, was called “creative and fast paced” by New York Times bestselling author Ellie Ann.
Narrated by the amazing Amber Benson (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the audiobook has been an Audible bestseller multiple times!
Listen to an audiobook excerpt of STORM IN A TEACUP here.
The Examiner called this book “riveting” and went on to say, “STORM IN A TEACUP is a wonderful page-turner. Fans of J.R. Ward’s “Fallen Angels” series and Laurell K. Hamilton’s earlier books in the “Anita Blake Vampire Hunter” series will enjoy the opening book of this new series. The author’s unique voice makes this fast-paced, captivating book a must read.”
Find out more about the AYALA STORME series on Emmie’s website: www.emmiemears.com
Say hi and congratulations on twitter @EvanMatyas
Now available at all major retailers in print, ebook and audio! was originally published on kt literary
2. Are you a fan of agender, bisexual people writing awesome books?
3. Are you a fan of Amber Benson’s voice reading you awesome books?
GO BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!
(Here’s a nifty thing: when you buy the ebook from Amazon, you can add the audiobook for $2. Two bucks! That’s $6 for an awesome ebook PLUS narration by your favorite person!)
Please help us celebrate with Emmie Mears whose LOOK TO THE SUN releases today!
LOOK TO THE SUN is an important, personal and timely book about fighting fascism with love.
Yesterday, Emmie and Sara posted a co-written article about this book and about “What Comes After Agent?”
Follow Emmie’s books and blog on their website at: www.emmiemears.com
We also want to give a huge shout out to TV Star Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Audible who worked with Emmie to produce an outstanding and exciting audiobook of LOOK TO THE SUN!
LOOK TO THE SUN
The National People’s Voice speaks for Sanmarian and all of Kael.
For fifteen years, they have ruled Kael in relative peace.
For fifteen years, they have quietly snuffed out dissent wherever they found it.
Rose Abernethy and Beo Mataya are two strangers drawn together by one thing alone: Red Sunrise, a book no-one else seems to have read. A book only two types of people ever ask about — collectors…and the NPV. A book both Rose and Beo feel was written just for them.
As winter falls in Sanmarian’s cobbled streets and the fifteen years of seeming calm seethe into violent protests in the city square, Red Sunrise’s secrets pull Rose and Beo into the twisted mysteries of Sanmarian’s past and into the centre of a forgotten tragedy that inked itself into the city’s very blood.
Say hi and congratulations on twitter @EmmieMears
Happy Book Birthday to Emmie Mears!!! was originally published on kt literary
Please help us celebrate with Emmie Mears whose A HALL OF KEYS AND NO DOORS releases today! The audiobook is available immediately – produced with our hugest thanks from Audible and narrated by TV star Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
“Mears’ world is creative and fast paced…characters witty and engaging.” – New York Times bestselling author Ellie Ann
A HALL OF KEYS AND NO DOORS is a very personal book about grief and healing. Emmie wrote a moving blog post about this novel here: Grief, Death, and Rebirth
A HALL OF KEYS AND NO DOORS
Ella Keyes thought the death of her twin brother, Stuart, was the last time she’d let life surprise her. She’s up for tenure at her university, she escaped a doomed engagement, and her fluffy cat knows exactly when to expect her home every day. But when her grandmother passes and leaves Ella her house, Ella discovers that the third-floor corridor of keys is more than just a family pun. The seemingly unremarkable keys don’t unlock any doors in the house, but each time Ella touches one, something in her life shifts. Her life’s carefully grown roots are ripped out of their soil. Flowers bloom in the middle of a Buffalo winter. A blind date with the wrong person ends up being just maybe the right one.
Her grandmother’s batty twin sister turns up every day searching for something even she doesn’t know how to identify, and Ella’s parents refuse to return her calls. Worse, she finds trinkets from Stuart everywhere she goes, ghosts of a game they used to play. The leash she’s kept on life’s surprises for three years has snapped, and Ella will have to learn that the road to peace starts with letting go of control and that sometimes the best family you have is the family you build.
Learn more about Emmie’s books on the website: www.emmiemears.com
Say hi and congratulations on twitter @emmiemears
Happy Book Birthday to Emmie Mears! was originally published on kt literary
Congratulations to Emmie Mears whose EYE OF THE STORM releases today!
EYE OF THE STORM is Book #4 in Emmie’s fabulous urban fantasy series – follow the adventures of Ayala Storme on Emmie’s website here: www.emmiemears.com
In addition to print and ebook, these books are available in audiobook. We’re excited to be working with Audible and TV star Amber Benson (Buffy, The Vampire Slayer) and happy to share a free audio clip provided by Audible:
LISTEN HERE Audio Clip
EYE OF THE STORM
Earth teeters on the edge of a razor sharp blade.
With the Summit on barely-unified tenterhooks and hellkin bubbling into Earth with no sun to stop them, Ayala Storme has her hard-won family, an uncertain new love, and a team of allies — half of whom have betrayed her in the past.
When the cities of North America begin to fall to demon hordes, Ayala has to fight her way back into Nashville in a desperate hope to save her city. With the witches trying to find the original source of the imbalance that allows hellkin a tie to Earth and the Mediators ready to draw their swords every time they see a shade, time is ticking away.
The witches are working as fast as they can, but what they find may shake the foundations of everything Ayala has ever known — and the answers needed to salvage what’s left of Earth may only lie beyond Earth itself, in the sixth hell.
The battles are over. It’s time for the war.
Say hi and congratulations to Emmie on twitter @EmmieMears
Read Emmie’s amazing blog post, “When It’s Personal. When It’s Political.“
Happy Book Birthday to EYE OF THE STORM! was originally published on kt literary
Huge congratulations to Emmie Mears whose first stand alone fantasy, A HALL OF KEYS AND NO DOORS, sold audiobook rights to Audible today!
Author and TV star Amber Benson of Buffy The Vampire Slayer will narrate A HALL OF KEYS AND NO DOORS which is scheduled for publication on September 6, 2016.
From Publishers Marketplace:
June 8, 2016
Audio Rights
Author of EYE OF THE STORM, Emmie Mears’s A HALL OF KEYS AND NO DOORS, a stand alone novel about a young woman haunted by the memory of her deceased brother and by family trinkets that change her life at a touch, to Lee Jarit at Audible, to be narrated by TV star Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in a nice deal, for publication in 2016, by Sara Megibow of kt literary (World).
A HALL OF KEYS AND NO DOORS
Ella Keyes thought the death of her twin brother Stuart was the last time she’d let life surprise her. She’s up for tenure at her university, she escaped a doomed engagement, and her fluffy cat knows exactly when to expect her home every day. But when her grandmother passes and leaves Ella her house, Ella discovers that the third floor corridor of keys is more than just a family pun. The seemingly-unremarkable keys don’t unlock any doors in the house, but each time Ella touches one, something in her life shifts. Her life’s carefully-grown roots are ripped out of their soil. Flowers bloom in the middle of a Buffalo winter. A blind date with the wrong person ends up being just maybe the right one. Her grandmother’s batty twin sister turns up every day searching for something even she doesn’t know how to identify, and Ella’s parents refuse to return her calls.
Worse, she finds trinkets from Stuart everywhere she goes, ghosts of a game they used to play. The leash she’s kept on life’s surprises for three years has snapped, and Ella will have to learn that the road to peace starts with letting go of control and that sometimes the best family you have is the family you build.
In a moving blog post and cover reveal, Emmie writes, “I wrote this book in 2013, a little over a year after my beloved cousin passed away suddenly in a car accident barely a month after my grandma died. Because of that, it’s a very, very personal book. It’s about grief, and it’s about control, and it’s about chaos. It’s also about love and family and how those we love never really leave us. It’s a book about accepting ourselves, accepting what life throws at us, and forging new paths when the ones we’ve chosen get irrevocably altered. It’s a quieter book than the Ayala Storme series, but I hope you’ll love it as much as I do. And there are non-tragic lesbians and bi folks in it, so I count that in the plus column. (Yes, queer folks ARE allowed to have HEAs. WHO’D’VE THUNK.)”
Follow Emmie’s book news at the website: www.emmiemears.com
Say hi and congratulations on twitter @EmmieMears
SOLD!!! Congratulations to Emmie Mears! was originally published on kt literary
