Welcome to the official website of JW Troemner.

Author of The Dealmaker’s Gambit, the Urban Dragon Series, and Tatter and Shine

  • On the Map

    On the Map

    I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.

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  • A walk in the woods

    A walk in the woods

    A few months back, I went to a convention that had a fairly unusual layout compared to the rest of my experiences. Instead of me sitting alone at my little table hawking books to passersby, the author’s alley was like a little bookstore featuring all of the guest authors, with volunteers there to tell anyone

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  • Monsters and Metaphor, Part 2

    To recap the previous post: There are a lot of horror stories that like to use monsters as a metaphor for people with mental illnesses. I prefer to think of the monsters as the mental illnesses themselves, whereas the people dealing with them are more the Buffy-esque badasses who deal with them. An unrelated conversation

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  • Cover Reveal: Tatter and Shine

    It’s almost the end of the month, which means it’s almost time for another new release. This month’s feature is Tatter and Shine, the story of a sorcerer who’s sold his soul and the new apprentice who’s out to make his life hell. Tatter and Shine hits the shelves on April 30th, and it’s  available

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  • Something old and something new

    You might have seen an old short story of mine floating around the internet. I’ve cleaned it up, made it a little more pretty, and released it on major publishers. It’s my little way of saying that my hiatus is over. I’ll be releasing several stories over the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled. This

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  • And to all a good night

    It’s Christmas Eve, and to those who celebrate it, Merry Christmas. To those who don’t, have a happy holiday. May there be more good times than bad for you in this season.   Whether you count it as good (yay, another book!) or bad (aw, the last one?), today marks the release of the final

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  • Blog hop and more

    ‘Tis the time of penultimates. Today marks the second-to-last stop on our several-month blog tour. So come check out my interview at Lisa Haselton’s Reviews and Interviews for a bit of fun and a chance to win. Saturday also marked the release of Remnants and Revenants, the second-to-last book of the Urban Dragon series. I

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  • Crusader Non Grata

    It’s the beginning of the end, and the story of the Urban Dragon is starting to draw to a close. That’s right: Crusader Non Grata marks the last arc of the series. When we last saw our heroes, Arkay finally accepted her place as leader of the Hoarde, with all the restrictions and responsibilities that

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  • I’ve been a bit absent lately, but it’s Wednesday, so how better to jump back into the swing of things than with a blog hop? This week I’m being hosted by Long and Short Reviews, where I was asked to talk about what scares me as a writer. It’s one hell of a question, and

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  • It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for this week’s stop of our blog hop. This week, I was invited to come on Kissing Bandits and talk about one of the issues that I researched when I was writing my series, so we’ll be spending this week talking about homelessness in America.

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  • Now Available: Aglaeca

    Has it been two weeks since Forest of the Damned? It feels like a lifetime. But here we are, and it’s time for the next chapter in Arkay’s story: Aglaeca. For those who need a refresher: To save Rosario, Arkay has volunteered herself to be the official defender of the Hoarde, an underground confederacy of

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