Blood Ties: Book 1 of the Blood War Chronicles

Quincy J. Allen, A Nationally Best-Selling Author, is a cross-genre writer with numerous short story publications in multiple anthologies, collections, and magazines. His first short story collection Out Through the Attic, came out in 2014 from 7DS Books. He made his first short story pro-sale in 2014 with Jimmy Krinklepot and the White Rebels of Hayberry, included in WordFire's A Fantastic Holiday Season: The Gift of Stories and his most recent short story sale, Sons of the Father, appears in Larry Correia's Monster Hunter: Files from Baen, published in October of 2017. Chemical Burn, his first novel and the first volume of the sci-fi detective noir series Endgame, was a finalist in RMFW's Colorado Gold Contest in 2011. His latest installment of the Blood War Chronicles, Blood Curse, is book 2 in an epic fantasy series starting in the Old West and featuring a clockwork gunslinger. His first media tie-in novel, Shadow of Ruin, set in the Aradio brothers' Colt the Outlander universe, is expected out in 2018. He is the publisher and editor of Penny Dread Tales, a short story collection in its fifth volume that has become a labor of love. He also runs RuneWright, LLC, a small marketing and book design business out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and hopes to one day be a writer in Baen's stable of fantastic authors.