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About DJ Edwardson
DJ Edwardson is the Grace Award nominated author of several books and shorter works. He traveled a lot when he was younger. Now he’s busy crafting exotic destinations of his own. Although he has written both Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, he likes to say he writes in the “genre of imagination”.
He has a degree in English from Cornell College where his emphasis was on the works of Shakespeare. He’s tried his hand at both acting and directing in the theater, but these days is happiest with a pen in hand. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and three children amidst an ever-growing library of wonderful books.
Find out more about DJ Edwardson's work at www.djedwardson.com.
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Blog postEvery once in a while I get the honor and privilege of helping another story be ushered into the world. Books are such common things to most of us that the wonder and marvel of them can be lost on our consumer culture with its insatiable hunger for more.
Which is why today I hope you will stop and smell the roses with me (ahem) because there’s a new book on the horizon I’d like to tell you about.
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This year I spent countless hours editing Rimewinter in hopes of getting it published ahead of schedule. Sometimes you question yourself. You wonder if it’s worth al1 month ago Read more -
Blog postWinter has finally arrived!
Today is the official release day for the ebook version of the novel. It’s dropping on Amazon, Apple books, and the Barnes & Noble online store.
It’s tempting to just end the announcement right there and tell you to just go read the book.
But a launch day for a book only ever comes once. And so I’d like to offer just a few brief thoughts about why I wrote this book, what it means to me, and in general offer a little “behind the scenes” l3 months ago Read more -
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Blog postRimewinter is only a few days from its digital release. And the paperback is now officially live. And it’s a bit of a beast, clocking in at 453 pages, the longest thing I’ve ever written.
This second book in The Swordspeaker Saga has many new characters and new challenges for the heroes from the first book. And, just as in the first book, several songs and poems are woven into the tale.
Poetry in fiction, especially fantasy fiction is something I have always loved. It serves t3 months ago Read more -
Blog postAre you ready for something wintry and wonderful? Something that will send a chill up your spine in the best way? Then stoke up the fire, button up your coats, and grab a mug of hot cocoa because the Rimewinter cover reveal is here!
Before I get to the cover itself, I’d like to share a huge thank you to Janette Ramos, my cover designer. She has been one of the biggest blessings in my career as an author. It’s so amazing tp get to work with someone so talented and humble and pleasant t4 months ago Read more -
Blog postThe Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Wizard of Oz is a fanciful tale that is somehow more than the sum of its parts. The writing is rather artless and even formulaic at times, the plot is fairly scattered, and the emotional impact all but non-existent after the opening scenes. And yet the tale is such a flight of imagination that it somehow transcends the normal constraints for what makes a great story.
This tale is clearly aimed at children. Once that is realized, the simple prose5 months ago Read more -
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Blog postIs it winter where you live right now? For many of you there’s likely a little (or a lot of) snow on the ground right now. But whether or not you’re deep in winter in a few more weeks or basking in the sun, you’ll soon need to button up that coat and get your cold-weather gear ready because a new kind of winter is coming soon.
I’m talking about Rimewinter, book 2 of The Swordspeaker Saga!
The book is sitting with my editor as I write, and in the final stages of clean-up prior5 months ago Read more -
Blog postA quick note: this article originally appeared on a blog tour for Storyquest Academy. I’m not sure how many people who visit here saw it over there and so I’ve decided to repost it here, slightly revised. I hope you enjoy it!
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So let’s look back, shall we, at all the wonderful and serendipitous things that happened during year 9 in the books!
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A young man stained with his father’s failures. A sword of untold power. A legend rises.
Kion Bray can’t accept that his father was a coward. Bullied for his dad’s actions in the last war, the seventeen-year-old shepherd is determined to restore his family honor. And the only way to do it is to win the village’s annual sword-fighting contest.
Lacking experience and struggling to find time to practice, Kion fears he might only cause his kin further embarrassment. And with his biggest tormentor awaiting him in the competition and a dark army mobilizing to the north, his quest for redemption may come to a swift and bloody end.
Can a simple shepherd become a master swordsman before his hopes and his people are crushed?
Truesilver is the first book in the epic Swordspeaker Saga YA fantasy series. If you like gargantuan quests, towering bravery, and coming-of-age tales, then you’ll love DJ Edwardson’s razor-sharp story.
Buy Truesilver to hear the voice of destiny today!
Kion and Tiryn have not heard from their mother since the war began. It’s all but certain she was captured by the haukmar army and Kion blames himself. Now with his flaming sword, Truesilver, at his side, he’ll take on a whole host of foes to get her back. He only hopes his sister—who won’t be left behind this time—doesn’t get hurt along the way.
But the paths and wilds of the Four Wards hold more than just the haukmar hordes. Dark beasts lurk in the shadows. A traitor haunts their steps. And strangest of all, it’s started to hail—though summer’s just begun. Will the world ever return to the way it once was? And what chilling adventure awaits down their path?
Read the second book in the epic Swordspeaker Saga series, a tale of legendary weapons and the heroes who wield them.
A man with no memories. A device with the power of time. Is it his salvation or the end of humanity?
Boxed Set: Escape into 1100+ pages of thought-provoking dystopian conspiracy, as a hero with no past battles to uncover his universe’s shocking secret.
Adan remembers nothing before his imprisonment at the Institute. Waking up with strange technological enhancements, he just wants to know who he was and why he’s here. But when he attempts a daring escape from the Collective, he finds himself in the deadly and unforgiving desert with no food or water.
With the help of another augmented escapee, Adan plots to return and defeat the scientists who broke his identity. But with betrayal around every corner and the mysterious Chronotrace device at his command, the embattled amnesiac worries the cure may be worse than the disease.
Can Adan reverse the damage while there’s still time?
The Chronotrace Sequence contains all three books in the epic science fiction series. If you like bold heroes, thoughtful explorations of the intersection between humanity and technology, and jaw-dropping twists and turns, then you’ll love DJ Edwardson’s ticking bomb.
Buy The Chronotrace Sequence to uncover the shocking truth today!
This short, science fiction romance traces Shelia's unexpected journey of love and loss as she braves her fears and discovers the true spirit of Caledonia.
Cast out of the craft hall in his prime and bitter from his many losses, a blind artificer has taken on an apprentice to make what he no longer can: a device that will enter him into the Grand Competition.
The Artificer’s Apprentice is a short story set in a medieval city where magic and technology blend seamlessly and the Artificer guilds make handsome profits keeping the city's systems running. The leaders of these guilds have complete control over their members, but one man is about to challenge that authority.
Follow the tale of The Artificer’s Apprentice to see what he shall fashion in his shop...
A man with no memories. A device with the power of time. Is it his salvation or the end of humanity?
Adan remembers nothing before his imprisonment at the Institute. Waking up with strange technological enhancements, he just wants to know who he was and why he’s here. But when he attempts a daring escape from the Collective, he finds himself in the deadly and unforgiving desert with no food or water.
With the help of another augmented escapee, Adan plots to return and defeat the scientists who broke his identity. But with betrayal around every corner and the mysterious Chronotrace device at his command, the embattled amnesiac worries the cure may be worse than the disease.
Can Adan reverse the damage while there’s still time?
Into the Vast is volume one of The Chronotrace Sequence, an epic science fiction trilogy. If you like bold heroes, dizzying technological battles, and jaw-dropping twists and turns, then you’ll love DJ Edwardson’s ticking bomb.
Buy Into the Vast to uncover the shocking truth today!
A hunted child. A magical curse. And a tailor in over his head.
Every century a motley is born. Though only children, their patchwork skin marks them as dangerous, especially to those who know about the first motley. That one nearly destroyed the world.
But a chance meeting with Roderick the tailor may hold the key to breaking the curse. Roderick has no sword or armor or power of his own. He's not even rich. But he’s the motley’s only hope. Can he end the curse before the motley’s pursuers destroy him once and for all?
Old legends spring to life. Nightmares walk the land. But heroes may be found in the most unlikely of places.
If you like world-spanning quests, unpredictable magic, and unusual heroes, you'll love this epic fantasy novel from Grace Award finalist DJ Edwardson.
What readers are saying:
★★★★★ “…for anyone who loves a grandly told, beautiful tale with ribbons of truth weaved though it.”
★★★★★ “...feels like a classic sort of fantasy tale, while at the same time being quite unique and not at all what you’d think!”
★★★★★ “One of the strongest things I got out of it was the focus on family. I LOVED that.”
★★★★★ "The fantasy world of Arinn was fascinating...I felt instantly at home..."
★★★★★ “Edwardson is an amazing storyteller...The setting and the characters all came alive for me."
Truth, honor, faith: these are the true strengths of a warrior.
For Sun li the Code is more than a way of fighting; it’s a way of life. But her beliefs are not enough to save her father from the wasting disease ravaging their planet.
The only hope for a cure lies in the hands of an underworld insider, whose price requires Sun li to follow him into a war between drone armies and cybernetically enhanced humans. There, she’ll need more than her energy blades and the Code to survive. Saving her father, and herself, may be a test of faith beyond anything she could have imagined. For, as the Code teaches, sometimes the most difficult battles are the ones we fight within.
Read this action-packed sci-fi prequel to the Grace Award nominated trilogy Chronotrace Sequence.
The third and final book in The Chronotrace Sequence brings the series to its thrilling conclusion as threats long thought buried are resurrected from across the vagaries of time and space.
Will this ragtag band of outcasts survive? Does their leader have a hidden agenda? And just where have all the missing Sentients been going?
Find out in Awakening the Sentients.