M. Todd Gallowglas
M Todd Gallowglas is a professional storyteller (like on a stage with a show in front of real people) and the bestselling author of the Tears of Rage, Halloween Jack, and Dead Weight series.
As a child, Todd wished he was a left-handed red head, because he thought they were the most unique people in the world. Being a brown-haired righty, life forced him to blaze his own trail to being unique by making up stories.
He wrote his first fantasy story in the third grade. Ever since, he’s loved tales that take the reader away to mystical worlds. High school was a quiet place to crank out his stories…while he should have been paying attention in class. Todd received a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Several teachers at SFSU tried to steer Todd away from writing that nasty “genre” stuff. However, Todd’s brain is just hard-wired for telling tales of the magical and fantastic, and their efforts to turn him from what he loved came to nothing.
After graduating, Todd returned to his career as professional storyteller. Embracing the changes sweeping through the publishing industry, Todd used his storytelling show to launch his self-published writing career.
He currently lives with his wife, three children, more pets than they need, and enough imaginary friends to provide playmates for several kindergarten classes. He is currently corrupting his children with a rich education of geek culture. Still, as busy as he is, Todd manages to squeeze in time for some old-school table top gaming and airsoft battles on the weekends (because it’s not as messy as paintball). Shiny!
To find out more about M Todd Gallowglas, his books, and read some of his rants, head over to his official website: www.mtoddgallowglas.com
As a child, Todd wished he was a left-handed red head, because he thought they were the most unique people in the world. Being a brown-haired righty, life forced him to blaze his own trail to being unique by making up stories.
He wrote his first fantasy story in the third grade. Ever since, he’s loved tales that take the reader away to mystical worlds. High school was a quiet place to crank out his stories…while he should have been paying attention in class. Todd received a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Several teachers at SFSU tried to steer Todd away from writing that nasty “genre” stuff. However, Todd’s brain is just hard-wired for telling tales of the magical and fantastic, and their efforts to turn him from what he loved came to nothing.
After graduating, Todd returned to his career as professional storyteller. Embracing the changes sweeping through the publishing industry, Todd used his storytelling show to launch his self-published writing career.
He currently lives with his wife, three children, more pets than they need, and enough imaginary friends to provide playmates for several kindergarten classes. He is currently corrupting his children with a rich education of geek culture. Still, as busy as he is, Todd manages to squeeze in time for some old-school table top gaming and airsoft battles on the weekends (because it’s not as messy as paintball). Shiny!
To find out more about M Todd Gallowglas, his books, and read some of his rants, head over to his official website: www.mtoddgallowglas.com
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First Chosen
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Epic Fantasy
Revenge is the best revenge. The gods thought to use Julianna as a pawn. She decided she'd rather play the queen. On her twenty-first birthday, Julianna, frees an ancient god from his thousand-year prison. In his "gratitude," the god names her his high priest and commands Julianna to lead his people to greatness once again. Unfortunately, it is a crime for her to worship one of the five ancient gods, a crime punishable by execution and the destruction of her soul. Fans of George RR Martin's A GAME OF THRONES and Steven Erikson's THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN will find themselves right at home with the TEARS OF RAGE sequence.
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Halloween Jack and the Devil's Gate
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Steampunk
Where's your lantern? The Devil's Gate, the looming barrier that keeps the demons and nightmares at bay every night of the year except for Halloween, comes crashing down. An army of steam-powered automatons, led by the Devil himself, finally gets the better of Jack of the Lantern, the man who tricked the Devil and gave us the jack o' lantern for protection on the darkest night of the year. With their steam-powered soldiers, the demons no longer fear Jack of the Lantern as they pour out in to the world to get into whatever mischief they desire. Even though his parents raised him with stories and old traditions if Ireland, John O'Brien never truly believed, especially not old Jack of the Lantern. One Halloween night, John learns the truth when the demons come for him, leading an army of steam-powered soldiers. With the help of his cousins, Moira O'Neil, heiress to the special ritual that keeps the Devil's Gate closed, and Daniel McRory the inventor, John must take up the mantle of Jack of the Lantern and create a new legend great enough, terrible enough, to scare the Dark Lord and his dark legions back into their dark realm. He must become Halloween Jack. The Halloween Jack books are part swashbuckling adventure, part steampunk fantasy, that twist and turn the traditions of old tales and legends upside down and inside out. If you enjoy a rollicking tale with clever and cunning heroes, Halloween Jack and his friends are heroes for you!
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DEAD WEIGHT: The Tombs
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Urban Fantasy
The Faerie was is over. We aren't sure if we won or not. In this first installment of the serialized novel: DEAD WEIGHT, Boy Scout wants nothing more than to numb his mind and escape from the horrors that plague him from his time serving in the Faerie War. The conflict is not truly over, and he cannot hide forever. Forces from both worlds, Earth and Faerie, seek to use him again. Will he dance the same old dance from the strings tied to him, or will he cut those strings and write a new story?
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The Dragon Bone Flute
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Fantasy
Elzibeth just wanted to be left alone to play her grandfather's flute, but others in her village seem to think she needs a lesson in bringing her down from her soaring dreams and stand firmly on the ground like everyone else. Three brothers take it upon themselves to teach Elzibeth how dangerous dreams and fancies can be. Three brothers challenge her to seek out the dragon's cave, even though the last man who went there never returned. While no one in Elzibeth's village has seen any sign of a dragon in decades upon decades, yet they still have the good sense not to wander too close to the dragon's cave for fear of stirring up old trouble. Elzibeth must accept this task or risk losing her music forever. This one challenge sparks of events that change Elzibeth's life forever. She learns that fancy and wonder can be both wonderful and terrifying, and that the magic of dragons is more than skin deep...
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Once We Were Like Wolves
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Epic Fantasy
In this second volume of TEARS OF RAGE, Juliana continues to learn what it means to be the high priest of Grandfather Shadow, ancient god of vengeance, storms, secrets. While fleeing from followers of of the god of death and Inquisitors of the Kingdom of the Sun, Julianna has her first encounter with the Morigahnti, the warrior priest who follow Grandfather Shadow. On a night when zealots of All Father Sun, Old Uncle Night, and Grandfather Shadow clash, Julianna must learn who she can trust and that leaders must make hard choices and sacrifice the innocent. 
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Arms of the Storm
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Epic Fantasy
In FIRST CHOSEN, Julianna freed the ancient god Grandfather Shadow, and he marked her as his high priest, forcing her to choose between her birthrights. In ONCE WE WERE LIKE WOLVES, Julianna encountered a group of Grandfather Shadow’s followers for the first time, forcing her to embrace the mantle of being the Lord Morigahn. In this third volume of TEARS OF RAGE, Julianna, while surrounded by allies and enemies, must decide what kind of leader she will be and who can she truly trust. For, everyone around her, both her followers and agents of the Kingdom of the Sun, seems to have a secret agenda. In Koma City, estranged brothers, Xander Rosha and Damian Adryck, find themselves entangled in the dangerous web of politics of the Kingdom of the Sun. As murder, blackmail, and betrayal are standard tools in a day at court, can they brothers navigate that deadly landscape long enough to determine who is pulling the strings that make them dance? As always, the gods watch, plot, and scheme for power. 
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Judge of Dooms
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Epic Fantasy
In FIRST CHOSEN, Julianna freed the ancient god Grandfather Shadow, and he marked her as his high priest, forcing her to choose between her birthrights. In ONCE WE WERE LIKE WOLVES, Julianna encountered a group of Grandfather Shadow’s followers for the first time, forcing her to embrace the mantle of being the Lord Morigahn. In ARMS OF THE STORM, Julianna and her Morigahnti learn that the heirs to the Koma throne live, yet their lives are in danger. If either of the brothers die, dreams of freedom from the Kingdom of the Sun will die with them. While, Julianna and her Morigahnti race to find the heirs to the Komati throne, Xander Rosha and Damian Adryck seek to discover why some of the most powerful men in the Kingdom of the Sun show such interest in them. If Julianna, Xander, and Damian can survive a clash between the Brotherhood of the Night, Daemyns, Draqons, and traitorous Morigahnti, they may just find the answers they are looking for, for good or for ill. As always, the gods watch, plot, and scheme for power. 
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Halloween Jack and the Curse of Frost
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Steampunk
Seven years after defeating the Devil, his minions, and their steam-powered automatons, the Devil strikes. The darkest and vilest creature in all creation seeks to open the Devil's Gate once and for all, allowing for all the legions of the dark realm free to roam any night of the year they wish. What is the Curse of Frost? What does it have to do with the family line of Jack of the Lantern? Halloween Jack and his cousins must learn what this means in order to stop the Devil before the sun sets on Christmas Eve, or mankind may lose just enough hope to give the Dark One enough power to escape his Dark Realm forever. The Halloween Jack books are part swashbuckling adventure, part steampunk fantasy... with more than a dash of Irish Mythology mixed in, just to make things interesting. If you enjoy stories with clever and cunning heroes, Halloween Jack is a hero for you! 
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DEAD WEIGHT: Paladin
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Urban Fantasy
This is the second installment of the serialized novel DEAD WEIGHT, set within the world of THE FAERIE WAR. Cendrine South is on the run. Oberon, the King of Faerie, has tasked his agents with capturing the half-faerie renegade. For what purpose, Cendrine does not know...she only knows she doesn't want to find out. She knows that powers that be from both Earth and Faerie have secret agendas, and all of this has something to do with the battered journal she's inherited. The first section of the journal recounts the tale of a young man taken to Faerie as a young man and set to serve as a Paladin, champion of the Seelie court. What secrets will his story reveal, and does he play a part in the Faerie War? More importantly, does his story hold any secrets that can keep hostilities from breaking out once again, for if Earth and Faerie return to war, at least one world is unlikely to survive. Remember: Not all faerie tales have happy endings. 
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DEAD WEIGHT: Search and Destroy
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Urban Fantasy
What would make you go to war? This is the third installment of the serialized novel DEAD WEIGHT, set within the world of THE FAERIE WAR. Violet has a dream. More than anything else, she wants to be a bard. On her sixteenth birthday, she decides to force her dreams to become real by looking into a certain keyhole painting on a certain tour, a painting known to touch mortals with faerie magic. Her choice opens up entirely new worlds to Violet, worlds she's not certain she's ready for. And what of Boy Scout’s journal? We have already followed the tale of Roland the Bold. What other secrets do its pages contained? The journal’s next section follows Lies, a war correspondent attached to a platoon of U.S. Marines as they patrol through Faerie. Will his chapter reveal as many secrets as Roland’s? Remember: Not all Faerie Tales have happy endings. 
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