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Release Day: Exile of the Pan Arcanum

We are excited for the release of His Last Name by D. Lambert!

Before E’rth, there was Epriot Prime.

After a 40-year campaign of genocide, humanity teeters at the brink of extinction, only to find that their homeworld is ground zero for a five-sided interdimensional conflict that will leave no race unscathed.

Aided by her alien co-pilot and a sarcastic AI, fabled mech pilot Cadian Galas races to find her daughter and notify Epriot High Command of the emerging threat.

D’avry, a mage from future E’rth, has followed a thread through the eons to this time-place to find the source of his world’s woes: an alien super-entity known as the Gefkarri Pentarch. But how will D’avry get back to E’rth when he and the Epriot remnant are discovered to be the tool the Gefkarri needs to unite the races of Epriot Prime?

You can order this book  in all formats directly from our 4HP Website and receive 10% OFF using coupon code 4HP10!

Exile of the Pan Arcanum (Incursion Chronicles #2)
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Release Day: His Last Name

We are excited for the release of His Last Name by D. Lambert!

The wizard works alone. She was his one exception.

Before Master Kitable appeared in Galanth at the age of thirteen, he’d been a complete unknown. Even twenty years later, he is still only “Master Kitable,” a man without a last name, a wizard without history. He operated in the shadows for the Prince of Galanth when the borders were drawn, then helped the legendary King Tohmas take over Espar. Now, he enforces their tentative unity by policing wizard magic across the kingdom.

His offer to take Shimmer Weaver on as an apprentice after the war was unprecedented. She doesn’t fit in the new structure of government; she’s a dancer, an apothecary, and a free spirit at odds with their regimented world. But she’s also brilliant, and after two years, Kitable has to accept that her apprenticeship is ending. There’s only one more mission: a run-of-the-mill investigation of some minor magical issues in an unremarkable corner of Espar. Only this time, the enemy is Kitable’s past hunting him down, seeking to destroy everything he has built, including that which he values most: Shimmer’s loyalty.

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His Last Name (Tales of Espar #1)
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Release Day: Implications & Regrets

We are excited for the release of Implications & Regrets by A. K. Ramirez!

Distance makes the heart grow fonder—especially when your admirer is a serial killer.

Detective Marissa Ambrose survived three days of torture by a serial killer, but two years later, her integrity and sanity are being called into question while her personal life is breaking apart at the seams.

After a phone call from her deceased partner’s wife, Marissa finds herself trying to unravel the cold case he left behind. Meanwhile, the serial killer she could never catch is getting ever closer…

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Implications & Regrets (Marissa Ambrose Witness Series #3)

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Release Day: The Knight, the Gnome, and the Fox

We are excited for the release of The Knight, the Gnome, and the Fox by D. A. Spruzen!

After fighting evil throughout the ages, the goddess must face Loki once more…

Norse goddess Lin continues to relate her hair-raising memoirs to her ghost-writer Mary, including sojourns in medieval Iceland and present-day Denmark. As always, she leaves her mark wherever she goes. Another unwelcome survivor of Ragnarok turns up, leading the family to lock horns with Loki once more. Who will prevail?

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The Knight, the Gnome, and the Fox (Sleuthing with Mortals #3)
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Be Accountable to Yourself

We often say that writing is a lonely business, and media likes to show the image of the author hidden away in a secluded cabin or locked inside an apartment manically typing away without any interruption from the outside world–and sometimes that is true. But other times, writers feel the need to connect with others who understand their struggle. That’s why having a writing community is so important. 

Just like setting goals, having a community of writers can support accountability, much like having a gym buddy makes it harder to skip leg day. If you’re looking to share space with likeminded people, to have a ready sounding board for writing-related questions, or even just to vent about those times when writing is hard, the Author’s Accountability server might be the place you seek. Designed by writers for writers, this Discord server has resources like guided writing sessions, but more importantly, it’s a space to connect with others and simply talk about writing, whatever that means to you. 

Check out the Accountability Author’s Discord Server now for a free Guest account. Guests can see all posts and listen to all voice channels, but they cannot participate. If you like what you see and hear, you can upgrade to a paid membership (only $14.99/month) and join the conversation. See below for a full list of benefits for Members!

Tired of writing in isolation? Need others to keep you on track or give feedback on that scene you just wrote? Join a community of writers just like you and stay accountable to yourself. 

Become a Member for full access to the following:

Curated resources

  • Links to vetted resources to help in all stages of your writing journey
  • Muse-created videos and group streams covering weekly topics
  • A detailed reading list to build your skills
  • Timely articles and useful blogs

Interactive Chat and Voice Channels

Post questions and comments to fellow authors. Get feedback from Muses and other industry professionals. Meet cool people. Make some writer friends who understand!

Chat Channels

  • Information: Announcements, Welcome and Rules, and FAQs
  • General: Member News and Events, Writing, Work in Progress, Writing is Hard, Open Mic, Ideas and Feedback, and Resources
  • Muses Q&A: Book Design, Editorial, and Marketing

Voice Channels

  • Lounge, Office Hours, Small Conference Room, Pantser Room, Plotter Room, Genre Rooms
  • Event Channels: Open Mic/Webinars, The Spring Room, and The Writing Room 

Weekly Guided Sprinting and Writing Sessions

A Muse will help you stay accountable every day!

  • Daily Timed Sprint Sessions (All times listed are EST)
  • Daily Writing Hours (to hunker down and WRITE with fellow authors)
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The Author’s Accountability Planner 2025

In 2025, the Author’s Accountability Planner is getting an upgrade!

Meeting your writing goals can feel like an uphill climb.  Often, we rely on friends, workshops, critique partners, and mentors to keep us moving. But when they ask, “How’s the book coming?” do you find yourself thinking, “I should have written more!” 

This planner was written for authors by authors. We’re here to help, encourage, and keep you on task as we scale that narrative mountain together.

Yes, it’s a planner, but not just any planner.

The detailed pages of the Author’s Accountability Planner were designed for fiction and nonfiction authors of all levels to outline an entire year of writing. It contains inspiration, scalable graphs, and valuable checkpoints. There are introspective questions about your personal method and places to stop and take a break when you need one. We’ve designed a tool to spark creative energy and manifest productivity, 

What can you accomplish with the Author’s Accountability Planner?

– A Full Year of Writing

– Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Planning

– Tracking Your Word Count and other Milestones

– Adapting Goal Setting Tools

– Completing Unique Writing Prompts

– Achieving Narrative Objectives

– Discovering Inspiration Through Thought Activities

– Joining an Interactive Community

– Turning Your Passion into Progress

Think of us as your muses, guiding you from that spark of inspiration to a complete manuscript. You have a story to tell, and the world deserves to hear it.

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The Author’s Accountability Planner 2025
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From the Author’s Desk: Worldbuilding 101: Get an Education

It may seem like education is something you only need to think about if you’re writing a dark academy romance or a story set at a conventional school, but the concept of knowledge acquisition is much more than a setting. Knowing how education works in your world forms a solid backdrop to conversations that rub up against the edges of character background (“So, where did you go to school?” your main character asks the love interest. “I didn’t,” she snaps. “Not all of us hit the lottery by being born.”)

Consider the following questions for the world of your story: 

  • What does it mean to be educated in your world? What would an educated person know about that an uneducated one would not?
  • Are there public schools?  Is school compulsory? Does everyone have to go to school? Are there private schools (religious schools)? How does a person learn things in your world? Are they trained at home by family? Who can go to school? Who cannot? Is it reserved for certain classes/people/families/locations?
  • How is the education system organized? How many levels of schooling are there? Who oversees this system? Is it specific to parts of the world or standardized everywhere (Common Core?)?
  • Are there lifelong scholars? How does the rest of society view them? What do they study for a lifetime? Do they write down their findings or lecture to crowds? Or do they hoard their knowledge?
  • Are there trade schools, or do people learn from an individual tradesperson? What are considered desirable trades? Why? What are undesirable trades?
  • How are educators viewed by the general public? Is teaching an honorable profession? Are educators paid well? What is required for one to become a teacher? Are there schools that train educators? Or is just having knowledge/skills enough? Can anyone become a teacher?
  • What do students learn in school—skills or facts or both? How are they assessed (OWLs, SATs, Divergence testing, trial by fire)?
  • Does graduation have any significance? How do people view this milestone? When does it happen (elementary school, middle school, high school, college, post-grad)?
  • Do inhabitants need official paperwork to prove their education, or do others trust their word? How is the paperwork stored or shared if it is required? Do people forge these?
  • Where is the knowledge in your world kept? Are libraries a thing? Is knowledge hoarded or shared with the people? How is information stored–books, data drives, communal memories?
  • Are there major schools that everyone knows about? Are there secret schools that only certain people know about? Why? What are they?
  • What does an average school day look like in your world? Break this down by age if that’s how your world works. Do people stay at home and attend school during the day or do they go away to school for months at a time (or both, depending on economic situation)?
  • What are the requirements to get into certain schools? How are students assessed and on what grounds? What is a “good” school?
  •  How do people view the educated? How do they view the uneducated?
  •  How much does the average person know about the educational system in your world?

And some bonus questions to think about:

  • How much of our familiar systems of education are featured in your world? Why did you choose to keep these elements in your story?
  • What style of knowledge keeping did you incorporate into your story? Is information kept in books or on computers or in someone’s memory? How does this affect your storyline?
  • How relevant to your own educational experience are the details in your world? Does the education of your characters reflect the one you received? Why or why not?
  • Is your story following a popular trope (academy, magic school, etc.)? How much of the real-world is folded into your version of this common story? What aspects of the school experience have you altered and why?
  • How important is the idea of education in your story? How important is the idea of education to you?

Even if your story doesn’t focus on education or take place at a school, knowing how this fundamental experience works in your world will lend depth to your conversations and context to your conflicts. 

More in The General Worldbuilding Guide, available wherever books are sold!

The General Worldbuilding Guide (The World Building Guide Book 1)
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Release Day: Extinction Event

We are excited for the release of Extinction Event by Maria DeVivo!

Griffin’s luck may have finally run out—for good.

After escaping their imprisonment on Plum Island, Griffin and Jarrod return to the mainland only to find that a second outbreak of the virus is ravaging the entire country. Only this time, help isn’t on the way.

Their only chance of survival is to get back to Dr. Oswald’s lab in Florida, where a unique Altered child could hold the key to a cure. Except, even if Griffin can find his way home, it may be too late to save mankind from its extinction event.

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Extinction Event (The Altered Experience #3)
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Release Day: Plague Within

We are excited for the release of Plague Within by Maria DeVivo!

In a post-outbreak society, Griffin may have more enemies than friends.

Two years after the closing of the Altered Re-Assimilation Centers across the United States, Griffin King is trying to rejoin a vengeful society still nursing its wounds. Even though he has been ostensibly cured, no one is eager to trust an infected-turned-altered.

While various forces align against the Altered, a new breed called the Ferals look to bring about a second wave of the virus via a black market drug known as The Black Death. Compelled to continue the work left behind by his former caretaker, Dr. Holston, Griffin must decide who he can trust. But in a fractured landscape on the verge of war, how can Griffin be sure who is friend and who is enemy?

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Plague Within (The Altered Experience #2)
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Release Day: The Altered

We are excited for the release of The Altered by Maria DeVivo!

When the outbreak ends, Griffin must atone for what he’s done in the name of hunger.

Griffin King is an ordinary high school senior dealing with typical teenage issues: a bratty little sister, overbearing parents, an obnoxious best friend, and the unrequited love of his long-time crush. But when a virus chews through a large portion of the population, Griffin soon finds himself on the wrong side of a horror story. After being attacked by an infected, he loses his identity—his only desire is to consume human flesh.

After months of the infected roaming the broken landscape of the city, a cure is found and a mass injection of antiserum is administered to the horde. Griffin finds himself one of the Altered, a small group of “ex-infecteds” who have been cured, but irreparably changed. Now he must learn how to restart his life in an angry post-apocalyptic society where race, gender, and religion don’t matter anymore. Welcome to the new world. A world where people like him—people altered like him—are the minority.

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The Altered (The Altered Experience #1)