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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  • November 9, 2016

      I spent today looking around at the beautiful city I live in and wondering how things got this way. I look around at the amazing and diverse people who make this city what it is, and my heart breaks for them. How many of their rights are at risk? Their safety? Their lives? And

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  • No matter who you are, if you’re living in the USA (or in any of the many many countries that’s going to be heavily affected by the USA’s policies), this election cycle has been a long and very trying one, but it’s almost over. Whether you did your voting early, you’re standing in line, or

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  • It’s time for another stop on our blog hop, but this is a particularly special one for me. The first stop is a fun one: A breakdown of my top ten favorite authors on Laurie’s Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews, which was great for really getting me thinking about the books I read and why.  I’d

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  • Invisible monsters

    Invisible monsters

    People are afraid of mental illness. They see the mentally ill in every deranged killer on the screen, every act of violence on the news they can’t explain, every action whose logic is not immediately apparent. When we make no effort to understand mental illness, all people who are mentally ill are unknowns. And we

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  • It’s time for the next chapter of Urban Dragon: Forest of the Damned. When we last left Arkay, she teamed up with the ex-monster hunter Mephistopheles to rescue Rosario from the clutches of the Order. But Rosario isn’t out of danger yet. When modern medicine fails her, Arkay makes a dangerous gamble. There’s a monster

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  • It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: another stop on the blog tour. This week’s was one of my favorites to do. The questions were a lot of fun to answer, and I got the chance to share pictures and part of my writing playlist. So if you head over to BooksChatter, you’ll have

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  • News: Book 5 Preorder

    Due to a technical flub* on my part, Forest of the Damned will not be available for preorder on Amazon.com. (*That technical flub being that I accidentally released right at the beginning of August while I was trying to set things up. Amazon, it seems, does not forgive flubs lightly.) I’ll be making it available

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  • This blog hop is an especially exciting one for me. Partly because Nikolina at Book Lover Promo has been phenomenal and engaging throughout the blog hop. Partly also because she gave me an opportunity to share an alternate beginning to Shadow and Steel. As much as I enjoyed writing this version, I wound up scrapping

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  •   First up, the first official paperback collection of Urban Dragon is available starting today. You can find it on Amazon, or you can order it through your favorite local bookstore. Volume 1 contains the first three books in the series: Mark of the Dragon, Shadow and Steel, and Dance with the Devil. But that’s

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  • It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: another stop on our blog hop! This week I’m doing a guest post with author Jacey Holbrand, where I’ll be talking about what fuels me to keep writing– or rather, about my awkward inability to stop.

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