The Official D.P. Prior site

All news about the Shader series can now be found at the official D.P. Prior site. Click on the link below to see everything about Shader, the Nameless Dwarf, and The Memoirs of Harry Chesterton.

Official D.P. Prior site

The Archon's Assassin

Here's the finished cover:

Great new review of Best Laid Plans

Journal of Always has given Best Laid Plans 5 stars. It's a really in depth review. You can read it here:

Journal of Always

The Archon's Assassin

Here's the modified cover art for book 4, The Archon's Assassin. Book 3 should be out by June and book 4 will follow soon after.

The Archon's Assassin progress

Here's the artwork for the cover of Shader 4, The Archon's Assassin (due out this summer).

Cadman's Gambit is accepted by Five Star Books

Five Star Books

This is what the site says:

This is the place to find excellent fiction written by Indie authors.     Our goal is to have a place for you (the reader) to find excellent new authors, and not have to wade through 1-3 star books to find them. How do we pick the novels featured on 5-Star Books? First, the book must have predominantly 5-Star reviews on Amazon.com. After that qualification, we look at the cover design, the number of reviews, what readers are saying in those reviews, when the book was published, and other subjective factors.    You will see some extraordinary reads that are so outstanding that they are listed in more than one genre. We have done this to maximize that novel's exposure to new readers.   As a firm principle, we do not receive compensation from any author or publisher to list their book. This ensures that the novels on 5-Star Books are indeed worthy to be here.

Borrow Shader on Kindle Select

The Resurrection of Deacon Shader is available to borrow through the KindleSelect lending library. If you are an Amazon Prime customer you can borrow the book for free. This is the forerunner of the Shader series, an epic fantasy written in the old style. The Resurrection of Deacon Shader has seven reviews on Amazon.

Click here to borrow:

Shader news

I've made good progress on The Unweaving. Once my latest editing commission has been completed I'll be dedicating a few hours each day to getting book 3 finished. That will complete the first Shader trilogy. I'll then be free to resume work on book 4, The Archon's Assassin, which is already in fairly good shape.

I also have a Shader novella to finish off in the next few months -- The Seventh Horse.

The second book of The Chronicles of the Nameless Dwarf is also well underway. The Axe of the Dwarf Lords should appear before The Unweaving, probably at some point in January, once the cover art is finished.

Book 1, The Ant-Man of Malfen is currently only $0.99 in the US and Free in the UK.

Cadman's Gambit is today's KND sponsor!

For the period of the promotion the price has been dropped to $0.99!



KND link

Cadman's Gambit now only $0.99

In preparation for Christmas, and a KND promotion on 21st December, Cadman's Gambit (ebook) has been reduced to $0.99.

Best Laid Plans (book 2) is $2.99.

Cadman's Gambit Kindle giveaway

I have ten copies of Cadman's Gambit (Shader book 1) Kindle version to give away to Kindle users in the US.

The first ten people to leave a comment here (and provide me with an email address, which can be sent to derekprior [at] yahoo.co.uk) will receive the Kindle version as a gift.

"If you liked Abercrombie's trilogy I think you'll like this." - R. Nicholson 

"This is the best full-length self-published fantasy I've yet to read." - Rex Jameson 

"This author has mad talent and will grip each new reader and take them on a journey into the unknown Abyss, leaving you hungry for more. I can't wait to read the next one." - Readers Favorite.


"Shader is an absolute triumph of fantasy." - Journal of Always.

Best Laid Plans is FREE on Kindle

Shader book 2, Best Laid Plans is now FREE for Kindle in both the US and the UK:

Amazon link for Best Laid Plans

Start reading Best Laid Plans now! $3.99 from Amazon

Best Laid Plans is now out on Amazon

Best Laid Plans on Amazon

Best Laid Plans release date: October 15th

Book 2 of the Shader series, Best Laid Plans, is scheduled for release on Kindle on 15th October. The Kindle version will be closely followed by the paperback and epub versions.

Sales links will be posted here, but in the meantime please subscribe to the blog to keep updated.

The Unweaving cover is ready.

Here's the cover for  Shader book 3, The Unweaving:

Incredible review from Journal of Always

Cadman's Gambit has received a thorough and extremely insightful review by Robert J. Duperre of Journal of Always:

JOA review of Cadman's Gambit

"Cadman’s Gambit: Shader Book I by D.P. Prior, [is] a novel that now holds a place in my heart as the most perfect introductory novel to a series I’ve ever read, surpassing the previous champion, The Gunslinger." (Journal of Always)

New 5 star review for Cadman's Gambit

There's a great new 5 star review for Cadman's Gambit on Amazon today. It was compared with Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy.


5 star review for Cadman's Gambit

Lots of Shader art now on Facebook

Shader art on Facebook

I've posted artwork by Mike Nash and Anton Kokarev on my Facebook page (Fantasy Worlds of D.P. Prior). There are also maps by Theo Prior.

Here it comes!

The cover's finished and there's only a few short weeks until Shader book 2 is released.