Indie SFF writer self-publishing under the name Rory Surtain.
I'm a person, not a publishing house or an AI. I imagine and explore. I listen to my muse. I write, edit, and publish my novels wherever allowed and for prices anyone can afford. I invest in others as well as myself.
With PAV's help, I've learned to create audiobooks for these novels—mostly paranormal fantasy. My stories are often dark, gritty, and filled with surprises. The rational and irrational often vie for attention. People have layers. Stories have layers too. You don't see them all in the first chapter or even the first read through. As an indie author, every sale, every comment, every rating means something to me.
I've grown to value sincerity. Your kind participation, your support and candid reviews are always appreciated.
SAINTSVILLE, the full-cast audiobook production: Human actors. Human voices. In a world that's anything but...
A summoned warrior and a grief-stricken witch collide in a city under siege.
In Saintsville, the city the rest of the world calls New Orleans, death has arrived with a name, sparking a war among those that don’t officially exist. When a parish witch summons a warrior’s soul across the Veil to settle an old debt, everyone gets more than they bargained for: a displaced warrior with no memory of who he was, and a soul that runs darker than any witch’s curse.
Taking the dead man’s name, Ciro Case navigates a world where witches wield life-changing power, Lycans guard the magical district known as the Haint, Gray Houses prey on the mundane, and vampires broker deals between all sides, while Infernal assassins hunt its protectors one by one. Twill Parker, the Saintsville coven’s Keeper for the deadly month of October, has lost everything but not the war. Stripped of her team, she must rely on a knight she doesn’t trust, can’t fully explain, and can’t afford to turn away.
Two fractured souls. One city running out of nights.
For fans of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files where supernatural and criminal politics share the same bloody streets; Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim where a displaced soul hides an Infernal past; and Kim Harrison’s The Hollows where witches, demons, and vampires fight for dominance, and a heroine whose personal history is its own kind of battlefield.
