Orlando Sanchez is a martial artist, father and novelist. On this blog he discusses writing, being a martial artist and the adventures of parenting. The underlying philosophy of this blog is being a warrior creative, welcome.
Dead bodies are a problem. Dead mages are an invitation…to war.
When dead mages appear in the city streets, Ronin must track down the killer. Disavowed from Division 13 and hunted by Tigris, Ronin faces overwhelming odds as the body count keeps rising.
Now, Ronin must stop these attacks before the factions in the city declare an all-out war, upsetting the delicate balance that keeps the supernatural community from oblivion. Who or what is the Magekiller? Will Ronin find out in time to prevent disaster?
Join Ronin on his next mission as the he hunts down a merciless killer bent on destroying it all!
Grey and Koda have a lead on the supplier of Redrum X—a new strain of the deadly drug that creates UV resistant vampires. Preventing the streets of New York City from being flooded with the mindless creatures was only the first step. Each night as darkness falls, body counts rise. Someone or something has made nights in the city…fatal. Grey must find who or what is doing the killing and stop them. He only has one clue. Rumors of a Mr. Dark are being whispered in the streets.
Is this Mr. Dark responsible for the deaths? Now together with Koda, Grey will enter a world no Night Warden has encountered. A world of darkness no one has escaped.
Can a dark mage wielding a darker blade bring light to save others?
There was only one
rule: no children and no innocents. It was his code and it was unbreakable.
The contract was simple. Locate the target and erase
everyone on site. When master assassin, Estefan Huracan Karib, is tasked with
taking out the Cartel’s homicidal drug dealer, Viktor Marks, he knew the job
wouldn’t cost him sleep. He never counted on her being there. Hidden in a closet,
the young girl with the dead eyes stared up at him as he finished terminating
everyone in the Upper Westside apartment.
Now he had to make a choice: break his rule or save the girl.
When he refuses to fulfill the contract, Huracan becomes the next target and
goes from assassin to guardian for a girl who will transform his life.
Will Huracan save her or will the Cartel find and eliminate
them both? Find out in the first adventure of The Assassins Apprentice-The
Birth of Death!
Hell hath no fury…like an angry god of the underworld.
Persephone
is missing. When Hades uses every resource at his disposal and fails to locate
his wife, he takes drastic measures. He hires the Montague & Strong
Detective Agency to locate her, bring her back to him, and most importantly,
find out who dared to kidnap his wife.
Now Monty
& Strong must uncover a plot to overthrow Hades and steal the underworld,
return Persephone to her husband unharmed, and prevent a god from unleashing
his wrath and starting a celestial battle royale.
It’s not the
end of the world…but it’s going to be close.
Sometimes magic doesn’t get the point across. Sometimes the point of a blade is required.
After unleashing the power of the neutralizer, Tristan finds himself without the ability to cast magic. Assured this is a temporary condition, Tristan and Simon decide it’s the perfect opportunity to take some much needed time off.
That is until a group of dark mages enters the city looking for Master Yat. Now the Montague & Strong Detective Agency must face and eliminate the threat. There’s only one problem. William Montague—Tristan’s lost brother is leading the mages.
Without magic, Tristan must face mages intent on killing his friend and teacher, find a way to restore his powers, and stop his brother from bringing a greater darkness to the city, dooming them all.
Sometimes the best answer isn’t a spell. Some situations can only be resolved with bullets and blades.
Join Montague & Strong in a thrilling adventure as they face off against dark mages, undead creatures, and a brother intent on a fatal family reunion!
The Montague & Strong Detective Novels Box Set collects three supernatural-and-thrill-packed full-length novels of this Amazon bestselling urban fantasy series in one place for one great price.You get:
Silver Clouds Dirty Sky(Book 4)
Homecoming(Book 5)
Dragons & Demigods (Book 6) Over 500 pages of Supernatural Suspense and Action!
Someone thought they were easy targets…someone made a mistake.
Meet the Blackjacks, a renegade mercenary group led by Jacques ‘Jack’ Noire. When they take a job to deliver state-of-the-art terraforming components to one of the outer stations, they realize the simple delivery mission isn’t so simple. The components are really a weapon and someone wants them dead.
Now, with bounties on their heads, and Conglom Industrial hunting them, Jack and his crew must pilot his sentient ship, the Warlock, through some of the most dangerous parts of space. Outgunned and outnumbered, Jack has one secret weapon his enemies didn’t count on-magic.
Jump onboard the Warlock and into a deep space adventure with the Blackjacks, as they face off against overwhelming odds and discover that when it looks too good to be true…it usually is!
My new short story set in the Montague & Strong world is now available! This is the story of how they met and how Simon became immortal. Get your copy HERE.
Here is a brief description:
A Dangerous Client. An Impossible Case. An Offer He Should’ve Refused.
Children have gone missing in NYC.
Detective Simon Strong takes on what he thinks is a routine case-get proof of a spouse’s infidelity. When he digs deeper, he stumbles onto the trail of the missing children, but what he discovers shatters his concepts of reality.
Tristan Montague is a mage on the run. Hiding from his sect and banned from the magical societies, he follows a trail of missing children to NYC. Now, together with Simon, they must prevent more abductions and stop those responsible for the disappearances.
They will face an enemy unlike any other-hungry for power and willing to destroy anyone who gets in their way. Will they locate the missing children? Will they reveal the power behind the abductions and stop them?
2:45 am Tuesday and I’m wide awake. A storm is heading my way promising 18 inches of snow. Everyone in the house is sleeping and my brain is on overdrive, no I haven’t had any coffee…yet. I think the few brain cells I have left would melt if I did.
My current book Tombyards & Butterflies is doing fantastic in its first week of release, but that’s not what’s keeping me up. The second book is nagging the hell out of me. If you are creative you know exactly what I’m talking about. The idea that wont be quiet. The plot point that just wont stop. The character that whispers into your ears when you are driving, showering, doing the dishes or any other activity where a pen and paper( or phone) is out of reach, forcing you to stop and hurriedly get that idea down. And you do, because like a wisp of smoke, if you dont it vanishes and taunts you, remaining just at the fringe of conscious thought.
So I’m up and I haven’t blogged in a while because this latest book has demanded I write-hard and fast. It pushes me to write to the exclusion of everything else and so the blog, like a secret mistress, gets my visits in the dead of night when I can’t sleep. But the story,implacable, unrelenting, is there looking over my shoulder, pacing and tapping it’s foot. It gives me the stink eye and then floods my brain with ideas as if to say,”try writing that post now.”
I manage because I enjoy my blog and writing. My brain is always writing, always dealing with the alchemy of words, spoken and written. A part of me seriously believes that all creatives are slightly mad and unhinged-it’s what drives us and fuels our creative expressions. I can only speak to my experience. Writing a book is mad work. You sit down and have a conversation with the voices-in your head. You weave a story around that conversation and then invite others to jump into a world with you. Sure… totally sane.
Taking a blank page, canvas, or pick your medium, and transforming it into a book, a painting, a piece of music, a piece of you, is the ultimate form of creation. To bring forth something from nothing is the both the most empowering and frightening thing you can do and you must do it. To refuse the impulse is an act of abnegation and the fastest way to insanity.
In an effort to stave off my impending madness I am going to go wrestle with a story that just wont quit. I’ll see you on the other side.
