The Fiction

I also write fiction. As J.S. Warden.

On the rest of this site, I build budget templates and zodiac art. Under the pen name J.S. Warden, I write fiction.

It started because I missed playing tabletop RPGs with my friends. It's grown into a couple of projects I'm proud of.

Overlayed Echoes book cover — Book One by J.S. Warden

Overlayed Echoes

The first book of a five-book series.

A group of friends has been playing tabletop RPGs together for a long time. When mandatory neural chips become the new normal, they see a chance to bring the experience of dice-and-paper roleplaying to life — not just imagined, but real. Something goes wrong.

It's a story about friendship and what happens when the games you love stop being games.

Read it on Amazon →

Ebonspire Chronicles by J.S. Warden

Ebonspire Chronicles

A dark fantasy detective noir series.

Ebonspire Chronicles is a different project entirely — different world, different tone, different everything. No connection to Overlayed Echoes.

Book 1 is about 95% finished. I'm currently formatting the manuscript and adding first-person notes from the protagonist — case observations and his state of mind at the end of each chapter — as a way of pulling the reader deeper into the way he thinks.

Release coming soon. I'll update this page when it's available.

A short note on the pen name

Why J.S. Warden? It sounded like a writer's name, and I didn't want my real name on the cover of the first thing I'd ever put out into the world. By now it's the name on the work, so it stays.