The audiobook is finally here!

Heart of the Mountain

That’s it, the series is done. This is the last thing we’ve been waiting for. Hell yeah! 😀

I got the edits back for American Paladin. Working on those now. Due this month.

Then I’ve got the MHI Memoirs collab with Les Johnson waiting for me. Hoping to be done with that by the end of the year.

Then it’s back to regular MHI for #9, MH Trespass, followed by Academy of Outcasts 3.
Jason Cordova is working on the sequel to Fever and Steve Diamond is working on the sequel to Servants of War.

Academy of Outcasts is in stores tomorrow, and available in eBook, Kindle Unlimited, and audio.

All Oz Carnavon ever wanted was to become a master mage.

Except, to do so requires the natural gifts or wealth necessary to secure an appointment to one of the prestigious magical academies in the Core City at the center of the seven realms. Oz had neither.

He was born without magical talent, serving in the elemental plane of fire, a nightmarish hellscape of treacherous lava and vicious monsters, where life is cheap, and escape is rare. But Carnavons never give up.

When Oz fakes his death to get out of his family’s contract and crosses the Nexus gate to sneak into the Core, everything seems to be going according to plan… Until he gets blamed for an assassination attempt on the fire realm’s ambassador.

Now, Oz must become a fugitive in a vast magical city, while trying to earn a place among the magical academies which have nothing but disdain for his kind. And the clock is ticking, because in one week, the most dangerous wizard in the realm of fire is coming to track him down and drag him back to hell.

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This was a really fun story to write. It’s my first foray in the Progression Fantasy genre, and it came out really well. In fact I was enjoying myself so much that I went ahead and wrote the second book as soon as I finished the first one. I almost never do that.

The American Paladin Kickstarter launches Tuesday (Sept 9, 2025) at 9:00 AM Mountain. EDIT : WE ARE LIVE NOW!

American Paladin is my new series that I’m kickstarting with Ark Press. Set in the modern west, it’s the story of a lone vigilante that takes care of problems, both the regular kind and the supernatural. This one, we play get to play Cowboys vs. Aztecs. 🙂

There’s a ton of details in the video. There’s my novel, there’s a corresponding graphic novel with incredible art by Alex Wisner and a script by me, super special limited editions (I’m shooting the title page and sending you the brass!), and the audiobook is narrated by the legendary Nick Searcy.

Here’s the KS page – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/886820401/larry-correia-american-paladin-series-launch-from-ark-press?term=american%20paladin&total_hits=1&category_id=47

I am super excited for this one. Please tell your friends and jump in early, because Kickstarters are all about momentum and velocity. The more people who back, the earlier, the more attention and promotion the project gets.

EDIT: We funded in the first FORTY FIVE SECONDS.
We broke 50k in the first hour.
You guys are amazing. I love my fans.
Please keep it up, tell your friends, and let’s keep this momentum going!

EDIT: We are approaching the one week mark and are at $203,500 at the time I’m typing this. Our next stretch goal is challenge coins at $250k. We’ve got three weeks left, so keep on spreading the word. You guys rock.

I told you guys I get to reveal two things today. 🙂

First up, a sample of some of Alex Wisner’s artwork for the upcoming American Paladin graphic novel.

I wrote it, Alex drew it, and his art style is awesome. I can’t wait for you guys to see the whole thing.

This will be part of the September Kickstarter, along with the novel.

And I just got the cover for the graphic novel! 🙂
Mike Spears is a drifter with a gun, a grim code, and a habit of following blood trails no one else will touch. Across the forgotten towns and backroads of the American West, storms roll in from places no map can find—“Sometimes Places,” where the boundary between worlds wears thin. When those borders weaken, monsters get through.

Spears makes sure they don’t make it back.
Now a girl has gone missing, a lost waif most would write off as expendable. But for Spears, she is someone’s daughter, and he isn’t writing anything off. The trail leads to a dying town, a masked killer, and a door that shouldn’t exist—one that opens into a twisted empire of blood, sacrifice, and ancient, hungry gods.

And the second new thing I get to reveal today, Ark Press has signed the incredibly talented Nick Searcy to narrate the audiobook for American Paladin.  

I am really looking forward to this. Nick brings gravitas, humor, and humanity to every role he plays. This is going to be awesome.

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