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"The Wakes accept no cowards and produce no Heroes. In order to survive you'll need to become something worse than nightmares."

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Welcome to my page! Please feel free to poke around and learn about the world I've created for my upcoming book. I'll keep you all updated as I get closer to publishing Book 1 in the Wake Saga Series and Book 0.5, a Novella.

I hope you enjoy and have as much fun looking at these creations as I had in dreaming them up!

I've just completed my second concept for the cover of my novella.

I truly don't understand how some of you all produce such wonderful pieces. The color alone took me forever.

#indieauthorsofinstagram #darkfantasy #darkfantasyart #digitalart

I'm trying to make a book cover, and I just want to give a shoutout to all you legit artists out there.

I imported one of my concept arts, extracted the lines, and then did all the color work myself. It was comically difficult. Just finding the correct pigment for the skin about made my head explode.

So, to those of you who do this from the ground up, my hats off to you.

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I started a short story mini-series on my site! Go to the link below to check out Ep 1 of the Iron Veil: Contracts in the Shadow - A Wage Saga mini-series that I'm using to expand on the criminal underworld of the Wake Universe.
https://www.jameskking.com/post/iron-veil-contracts-in-the-shadow-ep1-dark-fantasy-short-story

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Concept art for an Abysscaller.

A Shardkin that got their powers from the Dreadmarrow, a world of water, pressure and primordial fluids.

Learn more at jameskking.com!

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A Skyrazor!

A fierce Wake Beast from a Storm Wake. Learn more about it and many other of my creations from the Wake Saga at my site www.jameskking.com

I also just released my first article!! Just some insights on what I learned through the process on my first book.

https://www.jameskking.com/post/dark-fantasy-world-building

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To celebrate my author site going live - A Shadow Wake Anchor Crystal!

If you would like to learn more about the Wake Saga Universe and support my work by going to my site and reading my material, please visit www.jameskking.com

Thank you!

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Wake Beast - Ironfang Ram
These creatures come from the Wake known as Stonehollow. A place of stone and oppressive gravity.
An abomination of ram and badger with living stone makes this creature especially difficult for the Wardens to fight.

I had a lot of fun with this one. Anyone who’s been around billy goats or rams know they’re aggressive asshats. So just imagine if they were 800lbs with sharp teeth and claws!

#fantasybookseries #fantasyhorror #indiebooks #originalmonster

Wake Horror - Bloodthorn Creeper

I did a lot of work on my site today and working to expand my codex and this was by far my favorite creature I came up with today.

Hope you all enjoy!

#indiebooks #fantasyhorror #fantasybookseries #grimdarkbooks

Monster classification:Wake Beast
Wake Origin:Shiverdeep Wake (Frozen Wake)
Creature destination: Frostgnasher

3-4ft at the shoulder / 5-6ft long
Weight 120-220lbs

Hunting pattern - ambush predator, uses storms and terrain for concealment.

Aggression Level - extreme, attacks anything warm blooded on site.

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This is my first post for my author page.
I’m not an author so much a story teller, I can barely spell. But I can imagine some pretty cool things I think to share that on my first post about my first original world here is the first Wake monster I cooked up—Mirrormen!

Mirrormen are turned humans who were affected by Shadow Wakes too long. They can mimic others, both sound and voice, to try and lure others into ambushes.

Scenes with these are pure psychological horror and they’re one of my favorite. Hope you all enjoy!

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