Stefon Mears

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  • Bibliography:
    141 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2013
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Jumpstart Duchy

1 - Into the Torn Kingdoms (Nov-2022)
2 - Triumph in the Torn Kingdoms (Jan-2023)

Book List in Order: 141 titles

  • Magician's Choice

    2025. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.

    Courier-wizard Donal Cuthbert barely lands on the red dirt of Mars before people try to kill him. Rival corporations, willing to kill over his delivery. Donal escapes a spaceport explosion and...

  • The Curse of Valassa

    In a world full of gods and magic, a town stands ruined. Cursed by plagues that foul the water and fields, and reduce the townsfolk to rancid ghouls craving human flesh.The town's only hope? Two farmers-turned-soldiers. Decker and Holst, back from fi...

  • Drinking and Conjuring Don't Mix

    “Hold my ancient tome and watch this…”Only Perry would bind a familiar spirit into a chalkboard. And only Perry would try to impress a friend by conjuring a spirit of deception while drunk. Now that spirit runs loose in the Count’s keep, and ...

  • Surviving Telepathy

    If their minds don't kill me...

    The perfect grad night kiss with the girl of my dreams. Then her ex- had to go and clock me. With the whole graduating class watching...

    I woke up in the hospital a week later -- reading the...

  • Not Wisely but Too Well

    If their minds don’t kill me...The perfect grad night kiss with the girl of my dreams. Then her ex- had to go and clock me. With the whole graduating class watching...I woke up in the hospital a week later -- reading the thoughts of everyone arou...

  • Uncle Stone Teeth and Other Macabre Poems

    From the devious mind of Stefon Mears comes a short collection of twisted tales told through poetry. From set forms such as sestina and ottava rima to free verse, Stefon spins stories of witchcraft, zombies, horror-movie slashers, and the titular fol...

  • But Hold Me Fast and Fear Me Not

    What price true love?

    Janet inherits her uncle’s home in a small town, including land, a river, and an otherworldly lover. Now Janet must overcome supernatural forces to rescue her man or lose him forever.

    Magician’s Choice aut...

  • Sudden Death

    They framed him ... to save him?

    Ramirez came home from work to a beer, a sit-com, and the messy corpse of his neighbor. Dead in his shower. Killed by a distinctive kitchen knife.

    With the evidence mounting against him, Ramirez flees...

  • Betting on a Legend

    When you bet on a legend, even winning carries a steep cost.

    On the strength of a brief glance, a timberman bets that he saw the local legendary monster. But the bets spiral out of control, and now he must lead three friends to find proof o...



  • Not That Kind of Wizard

    2027. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.Donal Cuthbert, master wizard in training at the finest thaumaturgic university in California. Edik Barshai, small-time wizard and helioship captain, running charter flights on the moon.Enter Nichola...

  • Hunt for a New Life

    A day's ride, to leave fate behind. Johann, the second son of the count, sees only a bleak future for himself. Failure as a wizard leaves him suited only for the king's wars or, worse, the priesthood.On his ride he spots the legendary golden rabbit. ...

  • Sleight of Mind

    2026. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.Kennedy Spaceport on the moon. Humanity's first settlement off Earth. Where a handful of powerful families live above the law.Journeyman wizard Donal Cuthbert runs through that spaceport. Pursued by ...

  • Immoral Telepathy

    Rick Blackhall survived developing telepathy. But will he survive meeting other telepaths?

    Rick's off at Berkeley for his first semester of college, with his best friend and high school crush hundreds of miles away. Huge classes, dorm life, an...

  • Confronting Legends

    From the mind of Stefon Mears comes a collection of fantasy short stories about legendary creatures, mighty wizards, failed apprentices, fell gods, and determined warriors. Includes "Drinking and Conjuring Don't Mix," "Hunt for a New Life," "Betting ...

  • Bind by the River

    Exhausted, starving, and out of magic: a terrible way to meet your assassin.Terlik meets the warrior woman beside a river. Him: an exhausted apprentice wizard on a mission for his master. Her: a dishonored warrior-turned-assassin, hunting for Terlik....

  • When We Come to It

    Ten years of hopeless war. Ten years, fighting for a mad king. Filya wants nothing more than desertion and escape. Unfortunately, he travels with honorable Sir Pyotr.On a scouting mission, Sir Pyotr battles a magical bridge guardian. Filya sees his c...

  • Dead Dog by My Side

    Summoning the dead can ruin more than your life. Harrison enjoys a picnic lunch with the love of his life until she asks the wrong question. Now Harrison must confess that the dead leave their graves for him. Can their relationship survive the truth...

  • Between Dawn and Dusk

    Twenty-two brief stories that you’ll read in a flash, but remember for ages. From fantastical tales of demons, zombies and doppelgangers to serious and silly looks at loss, relationships and personal struggle. Included in this collection: Fantastic...

  • Twice Against the Dragon

    Ten years ago, fledgling wizard Larek failed to slay the dragon Blackflame. Maybe worse, he failed to die heroically.

    Ten years, mocked and reviled as Larek the Burned, surviving as a near hermit.

    Now scouts spot Blackflame in Aeralf...



  • With a Broken Sword

    One knight stands between invaders and conquest.

    His secret mission ended in an ambush. Now Ser Colin awakens on a battlefield under the bodies of his friends, the last knight still alive. And the invaders have seized the town of Three Brid...

  • Targeting Telepathy

    Telepathy can’t stop a bullet.

    Nineteen and home from college, Rick Blackhall starts a great summer vacation. His first real chance to enjoy full mastery of his telepathic powers.

    Only one problem " someone starts killing telepaths.

    A...

  • Caught Between Monsters

    Monsters hide among the suburbs. Roland McReedy knows because he works for one, under duress. "The Rajah." Roland and his partner Nelson hunt down occult oddities under threat of death for themselves, and worse for their families. Roland and Nelso...

  • Fade to Gold

    Aliens have landed in midtown Manhattan. They claim to seek out planets on the verge of deep space travel and prepare them to join the galactic community.

    For Charlie Evans " the star blogger known as Evansessence " the alien arrival me...

  • Devil's Shoestring

    Conjure man Heath Cyr plies his spells and charms in the streets of Portland, Oregon. A modern-day nexus for wizards, witches, and stranger things.

    Heath's landlord -- one of those stranger things -- pressures Heath to brave stiff competitio...

  • The Patron Saint of Necromancers

    Conjure man Heath Cyr plies his gris-gris in the streets of Portland, Oregon, a modern-day nexus for wizards, witches, and stranger things.

    The Black Book of Saint Cyprian has escaped the Vatican. The true grimoire of the patron saint of ne...

  • Lunar Alchemy

    2026. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.

    Earth's moon, the first place humans settled away from Earth. Where a handful of great families live above the law.

    Edik Barshai, small time wizard and helioship charter pilot on the ...

  • On the Edge of Faerie

    Carteho, a small town along the coast of Northern California. A town not on any map, even in this age of satellites and GPS.

    Janet's beloved mysterious uncle died suddenly. Now she owns a house in this 'Caterho.' Of course she drags her bes...

  • Stealing from Pirates

    Two alien empires control known space. Caught between them, the human race clings to a handful of planets. On the fringes of all three, Captain Dara “Dare” Ross makes her living.

    Her “easy job” starts with a shootout in the streets....

  • The House on Cedar Street

    In the tiny California town of Briar, on Cedar Street, a house with an evil reputation awaits its next victims. Neighbors speak of it in hushed tones. Teens dare each other to approach it, swear something stalks the halls.

    Something that ha...



  • Half a Wizard

    Half warrior, half wizard, all adventure.

    In a world where elves build on the bones of lost civilizations, Cavan Oltblood carves out a path to adventure. Not quite a warrior and not quite a wizard, this king's bastard rides with Ehren the sm...

  • The Price of Demons

    My demons will come for you.

    Portland, Oregon: a modern melting pot of wizards, witches and stranger things. Where conjure man Heath Cyr solves problems with a quick mind and a backpack full of magic.

    Heath won't kill. Not for all of...

  • Zombie Powder

    My demons will come for you.

    Portland, Oregon: a modern melting pot of wizards, witches and stranger things. Where conjure man Heath Cyr solves problems with a quick mind and a backpack full of magic.

    Heath won't kill. Not for all of h...

  • The Final Survey of Andrei Kreutzmann

    On a deep space prospecting trip, Andrei Kreutzmann finds a planet valuable enough to set him up for life. Buy a new ship. Maybe even win back his lost love.Unfortunately, the imperial military recalls him to active duty. His old captain, now a marsh...

  • Only Sheepdog on the Moon

    Ganymede: a half-terraformed, isolated human outpost. Low population, all pioneering spacers with a frontier attitude. Where retired Captain Cole Douglas runs a bar in an old shuttlecraft. Far from help, if that orange flash in the s...

  • The Fennigsan's Challenge

    Lloxup awakens amid mud and driving rain. Robbed and left for dead. Yet another failure, in the life of a noble's fourth son.But that stone shaped like a giant wing. The first sign of the Fennigsan, the legendary Dark Lady of the Woods. Her power cou...

  • The Face of Trouble

    A new face. A new body. A new time. But before the traveler can learn his mission in this time and place, an assassin shoots at him.Only a crucial mission would draw an opposition agent.He'll change the future. If he survives.The Face of Trouble, a t...

  • The Undomesticated Strain

    Jerry takes three scientists camping at Crater Lake, Oregon. Not his idea, but they pay, and he needs money for his son's twelfth birthday. Why would they pack a tranq rifle and all that expensive equipment? What could scientists hunt aroun...

  • Crawlspace

    Catastrophic power failure. The worst thing that can happen to a warship in battle. Four hundred lives, on the shoulders of tech first-class Johnny Rossi. He needs to find and fix the power loss before everyone dies. In the dark, but...

  • Half a Pound of Magic

    Xorek: legendary warrior, demon-binding warlock, and wielder of the fell sword Shadowcarver. Xorek: praying in the temple of Suuni the Passionate when a pack of killers finds him. And getting past those killers means facing their mas...



  • Three Fae Monte

    2027. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.

    Donal Cuthbert, master wizard in training at the finest thaumaturgic university in California. Edik Barshai, small-time wizard and helioship captain, running charter flights on the moon.

  • Face Your Fears!

    Dusk. When darkness rises and daylight safety ebbs away. Even here, in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, where streets border forestland. Harold fears the night. Legacy of a fright at Crater Lake. But a success seminar sends Harold outside the...

  • Stone Dead

    Stone and Karlsson. Partners in crime, who only rob the Mob. Their last job went wrong. Eyeball-witness wrong. They argue over fault in the back of a bar. Smith and Wesson on the table between them. Only one of them would live to see...

  • Forty Years Among the Elves

    A roadside rest stop - crossroads of the modern world. Where the barriers between worlds run thin. Where travelers may wander into Faerie. Lex Frisk, fleeing from heartbreak. On the road for thirty hours. Lex needs to stretch his legs. Fin...

  • Refracted to the Stars

    The Stellar Order. Rumors say they communicate with real aliens. Rumors say they knew the truth. Hiram longs for the truth. Hiram would die for the truth. And before the night ends, he will."Refracted to the Stars",...

  • Skydiving to the Gods

    A beautiful sunrise over the ocean west of Hawaii. Perfect morning for a skydive. Even better opportunity for murder. Eric Jarlsson plummets toward his death. His parachute sabotaged. Two thousand feet above an unforgiving sea. He co...

  • Broken

    Darien, a man on the verge of collapse. Not eating. Not sleeping. Not since his wife died. Not since the night of their last fight. Darien visits a psychic. A specialist in hauntings. His last hope. Darien will do anything to contact...

  • A Goblin Peace

    Clans killing clans. The bane of goblinkind. Elves, dwarves, humans, orcs - they all laugh at goblins. Slaughter goblins. Enslave goblins. Grik imagines a different future. A future where even elves fear goblins. But first Grik must...

  • The Patreon Collection

    A dozen paths to adventure. Each a short story to thrill and amaze.

    Every month Stefon Mears' Patreon supporters enjoy two new short stories. Stories never published anywhere before. Tales of adventure from deep space, across time, or from d...

  • The Patreon Collection, Volume 1

    A dozen paths to adventure. Each a short story to thrill and amaze.Every month Stefon Mears' Patreon supporters enjoy two new short stories. Stories never published anywhere before. Tales of adventure from deep space, across time, or from distant lan...



  • War and Marketing

    In the skies above, earth's superheroes battle alien invaders to a standstill. But in Portland, Oregon, a new hero arises. No code name. No cape. No mask. Derek Bergstrom's only power: to find whatever he seeks. But can Derek find a...

  • The Ice Dagger

    The Ice Dagger, a mighty mountain on the border of two lands. Where miners unearth gemstones buzzing with magic forgotten even by the elves of the southern deserts.

    Cavan Oltblood, half wizard, half warrior, bastard son of a king. Even three...

  • No Money in Heroism

    Chuck Halloran can fly, and pull weapons out of his imagination. Like his father.

    Chuck longs to fight crime as a superhero. Unlike his father.

    Can Chuck take his place as a hero, when every superhero he meets treats him like a villa...

  • Not Quite Bulletproof

    Power City: superhero capital of the West Coast. Where capes battle in the skies above the trees and rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

    Jason Collier. A good man on the brink of starvation. Desperate. He hides in an alley. Heart pounding. R...

  • A Son's Duty

    October, 1989. Santa Cruz, California. A town full of students, so Steve, a local mechanic, seeks solace at Harvey's. A bar students wouldn't touch. But even Harvey's overflows with World Series talk. How the A's will turn their 2-0 lead in...

  • Whistling the Water

    Iema, goddess of the sea, gives the Nar? people everything. Life. Food. Even the secret of whistling the water. But now the Awnu arrive on their skyboats. Bringing secrets that may render the old ways obsolete. Mahru, a boy on the cusp of m...

  • Closing the Zoo

    Jimmy "Snake" Silver - shredding guitarist of the Zoo, and the last torchbearer of a dying sound. Still living on the proceeds of his big hit single. Jimmy's bandmates - late for rehearsal. Again. And they arrive bearing bad tid...

  • Hunting Monsters

    Selwyn Robertson hunts ghosts for a cable television show.Tonight his team chases a rumor into the Missouri backwoods. The rumor of a vampire.And none of their high-tech toys will save them.Hunting Monsters, an intense dark urban fantasy novel of vam...

  • Shocking Elation

    Cleon Johnson, hottest full-spectrum artist around. He crafts scenes using sensations for every sensory input. Even emotional responses.But his implant jolts him awake with vicious hate mail. Overnight, the whole world turned against Cleon.Now Cleon...

  • How Many Angels

    Theodore Smith likes people to call him Dore. A strong but simple man, with simple pleasures. Snoopy comics. Bits of licorice dipped in chocolate.But the simplest man can foil the cleverest crime.And all because of Dore’s favorite candy.“How Many...

  • Lucky Day

    Pain.Pain revived Carl. Roused him out of the blackness…Carl: a college student, hitchhiking home for break. Along the Oregon coast. Now he wakes up in darkness. Suspended by his wrists.Carl faces the toughest night of his life. Possibly the last....

  • The Right Kind of Stake

    Selwyn Robertson hunts ghosts for a living.

    Tonight his team chases the rumor of a vampire.

    Unfortunately for them, they find one.

    The Right Kind of Stake, a dark fantasy novel of pain, loss and redemption, that will remind yo...

  • The Angle Between Worlds

    Daniel, a stuntman, hanging above a four-story drop. Loves his job. Loves pretending to work in many different worlds.Hates that sometimes he wanders into actual other worlds.Daniel, hanging above a four-story drop.And his only way down " through a...

  • The Great Orc Cook-Off

    South of the Dragon Spike Mountains. East of the Dwarfmarches. Here, clans of orcs rule the grasslands. And the Broken Tooth Clan stands mighty enough to make even the cursed elves hide in their Wailing Forest.Gorek. Fierce warrior of the Broken Toot...

  • Wandslinger

    A ruined castle in the distance. Too small for a king or duke. Probably home to a baron or count. Before the Uprising. No nobles anymore. The emerald isle in the hands of clans, raiding each other's cattle. The wizards, all gone. The...

  • The Patreon Collection: Volume 2

    A dozen worlds, captured in page-turning stories.

    Every month Stefon Mears' Patreon supporters enjoy two new short stories. Stories never published anywhere before. Tales of adventure from deep space, across time, or from distant lands of ma...

  • This Man Who Called Me Brother

    The third largest sugar cane plantation in 19th century Brazil. Yerodin runs the kitchen for the Almeida family. A respected man, for a slave. A comfortable life, for an old man.Now a young man stands before Yerodin. Strong. His machete dripping bloo...

  • Too Cold for Black Widows

    Portland, Oregon. A beautiful city, with a dark underside. Few suspect what monsters lie waiting in its shadows. Or its light rail tunnels…Derrick, in his best blue suit. Still clutching a dozen roses. Nursing a freshly shattered heart.Derek, ridin...

  • Big Kahuna Plays for His Soul

    Akela "Big Kahuna" Kapule: not just a hustler, a pool wizard. Literally. He divines the future with cubes of blue chalk. He weaves spells with a cue in his hand.Big Kahuna protects pool halls around Portland, Oregon. Tonight that drags him to a dive ...

  • Spell Burnt and Sleepless

    Hardened warriors melt out of the forest of evergreens. Wolves on the hunt. Surrounding Venya on the lonely dirt road. Ready to kill to claim what she carries.Venya: not just any courier. A clever warrior herself, and skilled in Arts no one ever taug...

  • The Incident on Gamma Seven

    A universe where humans struggle to hold the few planets they call their own. Trapped between galaxy-spanning empires. The Kwa-Rekk Federation on one side, peopled by the lizardlike Sarkaanan. On the other, the Ik-Choka Empire, peopled by a race of g...

  • Godforsaken

    The house looked as dead as its lawn.A lost place. An abandoned place. A godforsaken place. Just the place a broken man like Andre needs for the ritual. Just the place that could turn his life around."Godforsaken" - rough, e...

  • The Most Important Sound in Space

    The first manned mission to Mars. Paving the way for settlers. Every crewman the best of the best. But a long flight, where grudges and tempers have their chance to flare.Blaine, outside of the ship. Spacewalking to repair the refrigeration unit. A s...

  • The Sphinx Principle

    2027. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.Donal Cuthbert, master wizard in training. Survivor of duels, betrayals, corporate plots and worse. Now he faces his greatest challenge yet.The Fae Courts of Winter and Summer, united to name Donal t...

  • Spirit Trap

    Heath Cyr, conjure man. A top talent among those who sell spells in that magical melting pot -- Portland, Oregon.

    Heath, up too early to meet a client. Up far too early to deal with rival conjure man DeAndre McDaniels in a public place like ...

  • Urban Western

    Enjoy the urban fantasy stories of the Uncollected Anthology: Urban Western now collected in this bundle. Ride along with an elf cowboy, investigate a disappearance in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming, stalk the Badlands with an alpha wolf, head out o...

  • The Quality of Darkness

    A six-story office building in downtown Portland, Oregon. A great place to work. A terrible place to be alone. At night. When the lights go out.A worse place to be when a scream breaks the silence.“The Quality of Darkness” " a dark fantasy tale...

  • Portal-Land, Oregon

    Portland, Oregon. A city named for its portals, not its ports. Portals to other cities, other countries, other worlds…Scott, a man new to Portland. Playing basketball at a park near the river, when he hears a cry for help.Answering that cry will tu...

  • Drip, Drip, Drip

    A six-story office building in downtown Portland, Oregon. A great place to work. A terrible place to be alone. At night. When the lights go out.A worse place to be when a scream breaks the silence.“Drip, Drip, Drip” " a dark fantasy tale featur...

  • Devil's Night

    Devil's Night, the night before Halloween. A night when Bishop York and his best friend, Anselmo, tell scary stories.

    Bishop and Anselmo plan big things for their senior year Devil's Night. First, the big high school Halloween dance with the...

  • The Hitchhiking Countess

    The fantasy world came to us.America struggles to adjust to new populations: elves, orcs, dwarves... Worst of all, the Goblin Invasion in the Mojave Desert.Vic Shatterspear makes his way in this new world as best he can. An orc with a whole lot of at...

  • The Language of Cats

    The Crossroads Hotel. A place between worlds. A place of magic and mystery.Brice McCleary, fighting a hellish rainstorm from the driver's seat of an old car. Trapped somewhere between Bakersfield and Flagstaff. Hungry. Tired. Stressed near the brink....

  • Spells of Undeath

    Deep in the heart of a cursed land...Northwest of the town of Drien lies a place avoided by orc, elf and human alike. A stretch of forgotten land, twisted by necromancy. Where grasses, plants, animals … even the very air proves hostile to life.Cava...

  • Dragon's Blood

    Conjure man Heath Cyr surveilles a busy street in Portland, Oregon. He interprets the warnings he hears as birds sing, insects buzz, and traffic bustles.Across the street, a sports bar. A strange choice. Why would local wizards call him here to meet?...

  • A Last Meal for the Holly King

    The cabin. Deep in the Oregon woods. Solidly built. Over fifty years old. Maybe a thousand feet from the Willamette river. A beautiful bargain, way underpriced.Stupid purchase for Jess and Steve. Two crazy kids, just out of college and into marriage....

  • Quest for Beer

    Velec, a charming adventurer, skilled in the ways of shadow and dagger.Velec and his friends, dusty and hungry, roll into the Sunken Treasure tavern in the port town of Qa-rey. Just the kind of place that overflows with quests and treasure maps, myst...

  • Paradox. Lost.

    Cedric. A brilliant scientist. Five doctorates, and one accomplishment too many.A field of tall, yellow wild grass. Even cleaner air than Cedric remembers from the Swiss Alps. Giant trees, each wider than his house. Cedric, not sure where he finds hi...

  • Here Be Aliens

    They come from distant stars and worlds beyond our own. Strange, dangerous, fascinating - dare you face the aliens? Dare you learn their secrets?Here Be Aliens!Table of Contents1. Fade to Gold by Stefon Mears2. Scifi Motherlode by Robert Jeschonek3. ...

  • Here I Will Dance

    Born in a flash, before the thunder rolls. Born on a branch of redwood. So high. So far from sweet, sweet underbrush.Born a mere spark. Weak and flickering. The Enemy falling all around me. Falling from the sky...So begins the tale of a wildfire. Bor...

  • Where Credit's Due

    When a god backs your credit card, the rewards are out of this world...Phil Jeffries, a musician with a very special credit card. Mercury Federal Credit Union. Excellent terms. Low interest. Bonus points for paying the balance every month.Phil Jeffri...

  • Tax Dodge Sanctuary

    Blake loves fantasy novels. So much he even started a religion -- the First Church of Tolkien.He started the church as a lark. A tax dodge. But tonight an elf pounds on his door, begging for sanctuary.Elves, politics, danger ... Blake faces a hell of...

  • And Terror Gave Him Wings

    Today master wizard Darreon tests two of his apprentices. Tahaz. Simi. Both about to become full wizards.But not poor Garran. Passed over again. While his fellows face their tests, he must hunt for reagents.But today Garran will face a trial far more...

  • Demon in the Microwave

    Summoning a demon should require blood. Fire. Drama.Instead, the book Theo found made it sound simple. So he added drama of his own, as any good actor would. And it works!Of course, now Theo has a demon to deal with...Demon in the Microwave, a fun fa...

  • Double Backed Magic

    2028. Six decades after magic overthrew technology.Donal Cuthbert, journeyman wizard approaching mastery. The first human ambassador to both Fae Courts: Winter and Summer.Donal's day begins with politics. Before it ends, he'll face assassins, Fae bar...

  • The Castle Between Madness and Magic

    Ian Carter, a young man stalked through the streets of Sunnyvale, California.Stalked ... by a castle.Today the castle forces the issue. Today Ian must go inside.His sanity may not survive.The Castle Between Madness and Magic -- a contemporary fantasy...

  • Father Death

    The man they call Father Death kneels in prayer at the foot of a statue of Saint George.No longer a priest, but still a shepherd. He hunts the two-legged wolves who stalk the city. Those who prey and kill with impunity.But now someone holds a gun on ...

  • Sects and the City

    The world didn't end, so I had to open the bar...In Portland, Oregon, a city known for weirdness, the weirdest of the weird drink at Zoth. Where occult symbols and horror movie posters cover the walls. Where patrons play at occultism. Where live-acti...

  • Conjure Man

    Heath Cyr works the magic of root and herb. Every major spirit in Portland, Oregon knows him by name.Heath makes his way deep into Forest Park tonight. To meet a client at a rare true crossroads.Heath plans to save his client's life. But to do so he ...

  • Night of the Hogtied Alien

    Some cats judge their owners. Mine grades me.Tonight, I find out the truth. Why he jumps at shadows. Why he spontaneously tears off around the apartment.And the truth, well. No way I could guess this one...Night of the Hogtied Alien – a fun, r...

  • Pact Breaker

    An elaborate private party, for the rich and beautiful. Names known throughout Portland, Oregon and beyond. Every one of them owes their wealth to a demonic pact. Their fortunes built on the suffering of innocents. Tonight, one man invades ...

  • Twisted Timelines

    Ten thrilling tales of desperate characters traveling and twisting time, stalling it, shifting it, and even shredding it.Will any timelines survive?Inside you'll find...The Face of Trouble -- body-hopping time travelers battle for the futureThe Side-...

  • Wish Fright

    The first snowflake of winter. Whoever catches it can wish for anything and get it. This past winter, Simon caught that snowflake … and choked. Couldn't wish. Hid the flake away in a freezer. Today, he makes his wish. Wish Frigh...

  • Prince of a Thousand Worlds

    Volner, a happy student nearing the end of college. Tonight he dreams a medieval battle scene. Arrows flying. Cascading clashes of steel. Screams of men and horses. The smell of mud and blood and worse.A golden knight atop a giant golden unicorn. The...

  • Questing Down the Street

    Blake Alston sees animal-headed gods everywhere.The man with the elephant's tail and alligator's head -- wearing a suit and waiting for the light to change. The woman with the cat's head -- in line ahead of him at Starbucks. The high school cheerlead...

  • Here Be More Magic

    In a Paris riddled by old, new, and wild magic, a rule-breaking ex-pat guards magical artifacts from newly rampant jewel thieves. But when uniquely disruptive magic thwarts his latest job, he must track the unusual sorcery to its source... On a moon ...

  • The Occasional Cabin

    The wrong birds woke me.So begins the tale of a New York grant writer who awakens in a cabin. Surrounded by trees and mountains, not Manhattan.This marks the third time...The Occasional Cabin - a twisted science fiction short story. Fans of Twilight ...

  • My Dead Father's Signal

    Pluto, a happening place for news. Corporate infighting. Political strife. Fighting among the miners. And Ymirite, the discovery that would revolutionize space travel. Jason Neuhaus. Top reporter for Solar News Network, the galaxy's news source....

  • Staring Down the Barrel of a Wand

    Jake had the wand. I had a grin.The grin was fake. The wand was all too real...Carlo Genovese, an honest private detective in love with the wrong woman. To help her, he'll brave magic and criminals, lies and betrayal, demons and necromancy.Staring Do...

  • Spell Slingers

    A dozen wild tales of wizards! Some light and rollicking, some tense and thrilling, some twisted and mysterious. But all of them set in fantastical worlds filled with magic and wonder.Turn the pages and follow where only wizards dare to tread.Inside ...

  • Between the Cracks

    Missing, presumed dead...With those three words, the government proclaimed the death of Charles Warren. The end of an irrepressible adventurer. Namesake and huge influence to his beloved nephew, Charlie.Only nineteen years old, Charlie finds himself ...

  • Ghost Dancing

    Facing the Grave. Ghost hunt and contest show rolled into one. A million dollars to the one who survives thirty days in a haunted mansion while the cameras roll. Crazy challenges. Wild special effects.A new thrill, for a lifelong adrenaline junkie.Bu...

  • Scrape Me

    In a dark near future, where social media ran wild, cooler heads created the Janitors. Amazing technicians, battling disinformation, revenge porn, and worse.Axton -- awkward among coworkers but the best of the Janitors. Good enough to cover the entir...

  • Not a Magic Thief

    Deveran's dreams of magical power and fame, crushed by a misunderstanding. Now, thanks to a special amulet, he works as a magic recovery specialist.He seeks out haunted places, and sucks away their magic. For everyone's safety, of course.Today, thoug...

  • Dangerous Space

    Five tales of exciting space adventure! Hard-pressed heroes facing long odds. Exotic aliens -- some of them desperate allies, others sinister foes. And more, much more.Turn the pages and join these adventures! • The Final Survey of Andrei Kreutz...

  • The Secret of Catnip

    The day Midnight died, he almost didn't notice.The sunbeam had been just that good.So begins the tale of Midnight, a well-loved cat. His quest to say goodbye to his favorite two-legs demands love, will, and a certain extra ingredient...The Secret of ...

  • I Bleed Music

    Sinclair bleeds music. Better known as Sin Man, he leads his band Backmasking with killer vocals, devastating charisma, and top-notch songwriting.Today, Backmasking starts to tour Denmark. Not the country. The town in Oregon. A point of contention, m...

  • Power Statistics

    Friends call Liam the liar. Not because he lies, but because he devotes his life to statistics.Today, Liam receives an inheritance beyond his wildest dreams. Not just money. Power. And more. If he makes the right choices.But -- statistically speaking...

  • Fight Now, Paint Later

    Beyond the dreams of most lies the deeper dreaming. The true Dream World. A place of deep mystery and great beauty, where dream sorcerers work their real magic.Darien, master painter and dream sorcerer. In the deeper dreaming, he finds just the scene...

  • The Dragon's Gold

    Qorunn, a world of magic and adventure. Known on Earth only through The Torn Kingdoms, campaign setting for a popular roleplaying game.Once, Keifer McShane loved that setting. Now, as Duke Aefric Brightstaff, he commands its magic and calls it home.T...

  • Into the Torn Kingdoms

    Jumpstart Duchy - 1

    Keifer McShane, a widower at only twenty-five. His beloved wife, killed by a freak accident. His only solace, gaming in his favorite setting: The Torn Kingdoms.Today Keifer backs a Jumpstart crowdfunding campaign for the new edition of that setting.B...

  • Before I Go A-Wassailing

    In Tudor England, Stephen Dudley wants to celebrate the feast of Saint Stephen with his classmates at Exeter.But diversions -- especially those involving food and other people -- require money. And the new beadle bleeds the students dry with nitpicki...

  • The Deadly Feast

    Keifer McShane once knew the kingdom of Armyr only through The Torn Kingdoms. Beloved setting for his favorite roleplaying game.Now known as Aefric Brightstaff, he rules a duchy and commands mighty magic. But in many ways, he remains a stranger to hi...

  • The Gift Castle

    Earth knows the world of Qorunn only as The Torn Kingdoms, setting for a popular roleplaying game. Former Oregonian Keifer McShane now calls it home.Known there as Duke Aefric Brightstaff, his magic saved the kingdom of Armyr and the duchy of Merrek ...

  • The King's Test

    Duke Aefric Brightstaff. Once an adventurer of great repute. Now the powerful Duke of Deepwater, in the kingdom of Armyr, on the world of Qorunn.Success brings him a second title he must claim -- Baron of Netar.But why this title? Why this land? The ...

  • Triumph in the Torn Kingdoms

    Jumpstart Duchy - 2

    The Torn Kingdoms. Once only a beloved game setting for Keifer McShane. Now his home, with all its magic, monsters, and politics.Here they call him Aefric Brightstaff. Mighty wizard. Duke of Deepwater. Baron of Netar. Respected peer of the realm, in ...

  • The Ogre of Threepeaks

    Qorunn, a world full of magic, monsters, and politics. A world Deirdre Ol'Miri calls home.Irreverent Deirdre Ol'Miri. Knight with a wild side. A dweomerblade, who calls her magic through her combat training.Known widely as the Slayer of the Ogre of T...

  • Running for Health

    Running around a high school track. A common form of exercise, even in rainy Portland, Oregon. An easy choice, for a man growing too sedentary behind his computer.Running at dusk seems the obvious choice. After work, but before evening activities.But...

  • The Broken Wand

    The Broken Wand. A forgotten tavern for forgotten people -- failed apprentice wizards.Karzax, a failed wizard who hunts wizard lawbreakers.No one at the Broken Wand welcomes Karzax. They call him traitor to wizardkind.But tonight's hunt leads him to ...

  • The Coffee Curse

    Magic hides everywhere in this world. Sometimes even right next door.Consider Reuben. Just taking a shower when magic comes calling. Magic in the form of a talking cat.A cat with a problem only Reuben can solve.The Coffee Curse a fairy tale problem w...

  • Save Whiskers!

    A Presidential catnapping!The President's cat -- snatched right out of the White House. Suspects all around. Advisers fret over national security. The President frets about poor Whiskers.Hank Sauer. Once a brilliant field agent. Now retired and playi...

  • The Trials of Rebirth

    A modern man, taking a mythic journey.Utiseta. A way to connect with the truth behind our world. To align the nine parts of the soul, and open up the way to magic.Erik Nilsson climbs to a low mountain peak for his utiseta. He calls on Freyja, goddess...

  • The Captain's Cat

    Carbine, the captain's cat. A magnificent white tomcat. Defeater of the Tabby of Beta Seven. Yanked cruelly out of sleep by an invasion of flashing noise monsters. Carbine vows to end them.The Quick Sail, a merchant ship at high space. Hit and boarde...

  • The Hireling

    Rumors abound about the Purple Gryphon. Some call the owner a witch. Others claim it sees a murder a week. Frequented by merchants, travelers, nobles, even adventurers.Local boy Zian Sonnalsson dreams of working there. Mucking stables. Waiting tables...

  • Villainous Aspirations

    Tough to grow up the child of two superheroes. Tougher still to do it half-broke.His parents save the world on a nightly basis. But they eat breakfast at a tiny table, surrounded by chipped counters and faded paint. His college plans look like pipe d...

  • Young Monster Hunters in Love

    Rod and Brenda. A seemingly normal couple, living in a seemingly normal neighborhood on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.But Rod and Brenda hunt monsters. Fight to keep Portland safe from creatures that haunt the night. Like the vampire that just mo...

  • The Mosh Pit from Hell

    Many worlds. Many timelines. One force binds them all together. One force keeps them all moving.Rock and Roll.Leon, a world-hopping musician, awakens backstage before a gig. No idea where or when. Worst of all, no idea why. Why this place? Why this g...

  • Blue Collar Necromancy

  • The Night of Absinthe and Regret

  • Flinging the Door Open

  • The Treasure of Gold Mountain

  • Duel or Die

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    Jealousy and magic, a deadly combinationCharles, a Witch with an attitude. Driving through a storm to gather material for a new wand.But his Saturn sedan dies in the middle of nowhere. Hours from a tow truck.Worse, the reason his Saturn conks out&hel...

  • Longhairs and Short Tales

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    Longhairs and Short Tales, an irresistible collection of short stories featuring cats.Mythical cats and magical cats. Larcenous cats and inspiring cats. Sweet cats and wisecracking cats. Some talk, some keep their own counsel, and some might even wor...

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Stefon Mears has published 141 books.

Stefon Mears does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Treasure of Gold Mountain, was published in June 2024.

The first book by Stefon Mears, Magician's Choice, was published in June 2013.

Yes. Stefon Mears has 1 series.
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