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Brace yourselves, the greywastes are coming.

October 31st 2014.

Fallocaust Book 4 A God Among Insects Volume 2 is coming! It'll be released July 27th 2018.


Here you go, guys! It's on it's way. This should give me enough time to read through it (again) and make sure everything is syncing up nicely. Damn, every series book just gets more complicated with these interweaving storylines and so many POV characters, but it's almost done and it'll be well worth it once it's all finished. This book is bigger than volume 1 too, and jesus fuck, so much happens! So prepare yourself, it's going to be a ride!


Pre-order here


Synopsis (DON'T READ UNLESS YOU'RE CAUGHT UP!!!!!):


There is no denying it now, something is happening to Elish. Jade doesn’t know what is going on with his husband, he only knows Elish is hiding something from him – and that the new king’s mind is slipping.
Too bad there’s nothing Jade can do about it, considering they’re both prisoners of an insane clone named Malachy. Not only prisoners, but the two of them, along with Reno, Caligula, and Ceph, are now forced to play the insane man’s game. It is a game that could leave the mortals dead, and the immortals trapped for god knows how long.


Which would be just fine with Jack, Kessler, and Nero, who have their own plans back in Skyfall.


Meanwhile, unaware of the chaos his family is in, King Silas is still running around the greywastes and the plaguelands with Sky. He is loving spending time with the man he’d obsessed over for so long, but the O.L.S isn’t perfect – far from it, actually. Sky is showing weird behaviour, and every once in a while, none other than Perish appears warning Silas that Sky is up to something.
But Sky says it’s just a glitch, and that Silas should ignore Perish. Sky wouldn’t lie to him… right?


And miles away from the greywastes, Reaver has found himself inside of a mysterious tower surrounded by an abandoned city. The owner of this skyscraper is an old man named Bastian, who claims to be the person who’d created born immortals. Naturally, Reaver doesn’t care, but Bastian has a secret that will have Reaver and Killian stopping at nothing to return to Skyfall – along with two nightcrawlers just as desperate to find the city.

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There you guys go. I hope you all love this one as much as I loved writing it (well, most of the time). And the cover too, I had fun with it... creepy fucking proxy eye.

Hey everyone!

As you obviously already know, today is release day! Fallocaust Book 4 'A God Among Insects' Volume 2 is out and about and hopefully playing nicely with the other books.

So, that means there's only volume 3 left, my first three volume book (and universe willing, the LAST!). I'm thinking that this one won't take as long to get out, but these books love surprising me so I won't make any promises. It's shorter though, so I'm not figuring so.

I hope everyone enjoys. SO MUCH happens in this damn book! A few characters I absolutely love are introduced, and let's just say a lot of shit is about to go down. That book nearly killed me during that 6 day marathon (like other 6 day marathons I've had in the past. Heh) but I'm proud of it and happy with how it turned out.

I also finally put up the Garden of Spiders and A God Among Insects Vol. 1 magnets up on the FalloShop too on my website: http://www.quilcarter.com/the-falloshop/ and also reduced all the prices on almost everything as well.

And also, if you haven't yet, support my ass on Patreon! You can get really cool shit like a hand drawn, inked, and coloured drawing from me of whatever character or thing you want, and custom 'thank you' cards, magnets, signed bookmarks, and there's book raffles every month (sometimes I get busy and forget a month but that just means I do two). And the longer you're a patreon and the higher your tier, the more raffle entries you get: https://www.patreon.com/quilcarter

Well, I think that's it. I hope you all enjoy the book, and of course, be mindful of spoilers when posting something here or on the FalloCult. I'm taking today off but tomorrow is back to the grindstone so I can get Volume 3 all pretty and released.

Okay, guys, the moment we've all been waiting for! A God Among Insects Volume 3 is going to be released October 5th.

Usually, I put the blurb in here but since I know not everyone is done AGAI 1 and 2 I'm going to hold off, but it is available on the book's amazon page. It has a lot of spoilery information in it, and I don't want anyone not caught up to be tempted to read it lol.

So, this will spell the end of a very big journey for me. This massive, awesome book took a year from start to finish, and gave me more grey hairs than all of the other ones. It ended up being huge, even by my standards (760,000 god damn words), and there's so much going on inside of it it's crazy.

And, jesus, volume 3 is indeed something. Buckle up, buttercups, this end volume isn't going to let you rest, it's going to shove you right into the action without warning and it's going to ravage you like Nero ravages twinks (I mean... Twinkies, I swear I mean Twinkies). I love how this book turned out, I love how volume 3 turned out, and I'm really looking forward to hearing everyone's reactions.

I still can't believe it's finally done!!

Okay, so here is the pre-order page for amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H4ZQZBJ and like I said, you'll be able to find the blurb in there as well. It won't be long now, the end (of book 4 at least) is coming.

Oh, and I think this is the most adorably creepy cover I've ever released. Look at that little voodoo guy all covered in proxy worms and blood, he's precious.

It's released! Volume 3 is out and available. It's done, finally done, 100% god damn well DONE! And I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. I thought I would be dreading book 5 (and in many ways I am) but as the storyline goes, I'm eager to jump into it since I have some pretty neat plans.

For now though, I am working on The Gods' Games book 2, and taking a much needed and well deserved Fallocaust break.

I hope everyone enjoys this insane latest instalment. Feel free to post all comments on it on my timeline or on the FalloCult facebook group, but please mark it with a big ass SPOILER warning and also which chapter you're on as well.

Now, I'm off to go get cake to celebrate and also some chinese food, and we're going to have a bit of a celebration. Over a year was spent writing and editing this book. I got more than a few grey hairs and probably ruined my health on the way, but it was worth it.

So, time for cake now lol.

Now here are some useful links:

Book 4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H4ZQZBJ

The FalloCult facebook group, for even more discussions: https://www.facebook.com/groups/62013...

Fallocaust Discord: https://discord.gg/eXeYPY2

And my Patreon, if you want to support me and keep me from having to eat cat food: https://www.patreon.com/quilcarter

Hey everyone!

The physical book of A God Among Insects Volume 3 is now available on Amazon! It looks amazing, and as usual, I have Christina to thank for formatting the outside of it, making it look all pretty, and creating the back cover as well which turned out awesome. The inside of it was formatted by Jon, that has been his job since book 2 and I'm very thankful he does it because I ripped out my hair doing it for Fallocaust and Breaking Jade.

This damn physical book took longer than expected too, but Amazon is to blame for that. As any other author who uses createspace knows, Amazon decided to absorb createspace like the giant gelatinous creature it is, which changed a lot of things when it comes to creating the physical books. One of the most annoying, is that it now sends it super ass slow! So I literally had to wait two weeks for the damn book to arrive.
And also lovely... is that instead of having a nice single page at the very back that says 'Proof' when ordering a proof, as you can see, to prevent people (like me) from ordering a bunch of these so I can send them off to some of my betas, they slap 'NOT FOR RESALE' right on the cover, the spine, and back cover.
But it's here and looks beautiful (besides the watermark), and I can finally fulfill my dream of seeing all three of these books stacked together.
And oh god its something... I can't believe I wrote all of that, but those grey hairs and mental breakdowns were worth it lol.

Right now, I'm currently working on The Gods' Games Book 2 BUT because I've been wanting badly to get it out for a year now, I'm also back to work on Fallocaust Short Stories. I just finished the Leo and Greyson one I stopped halfway through last year, so I officially have 4 of them done, and my main goal was to have 10 short stories in total before I publish. This will be the first of a few short story books, and this one is going to be called Fallocaust Short Stories: Nothing Bad Happens I Promise. It's going to be full of funny, cute, happy stories featuring all your favourite characters, and like the title suggests, nothing bad will happen. It'll be a good read for when you just read something heartbreaking or traumatizing and need an injection of humour and cuteness. So though TGG 2 is well on its way, if you're going to get technical, the short stories will be my next release.

So, that's what I've been up to when it comes to the books. I've been enjoying writing about my elves in The Gods' Games, but it has also been nice being back in the Fallocaust, and also great being able to give some of the secondary characters their moments in the spotlight.

I hope everyone is having a good November. I'm going to be celebrating a birthday next week, so ice cream, chinese food, and Fallout 76 is currently in my future.

THE FALLOCAUST SERIES BOOK 5 VOLUME 1
THE VOICE OF RAGE AND RUIN

Cover reveal time! (Bigger versions can be found on my website and FB) And new title reveal time too as a small bonus. Instead of Fathers of the Fallocaust which will be shifted over to the eventual Silas Series, the title is now The Voice of Rage and Ruin. I got the idea from one of my favourite songs 'Bad Moon Rising' that has the lyrics 'I hear the voice of rage and ruin' and after some debating and discussing with my friends, I decided that indeed it did fit.

Also, no release date yet since this bloody cover took me like two weeks to do. So many worms! It's coming soon though! Yep, that's right, it's happening! We're almost there!

And yes a few things in this cover might not make much sense but don't worry it will eventually lol. Also shout out to Tangerine the stuffed cat being a photo of my actual stuffed cat Tangerine!

Enjoy guys!!

Also as I always want to slip in as the other mentions get pushed down the post history. I am VERY much more active on the FalloCult FB group, so that is a much better way of seeing up to date stuff and discussions and me and all that fun stuff: https://www.facebook.com/groups/62013...

Quil Carter