My Collaboration with Brandon Sanderson, Songs of the Dead - Coming 6/16/26

A few years in the making, my collaboration with #1 New York Times Bestselling writer Brandon Sanderson finally has a release date--June 16, 2026.

We sold the first trilogy, entitled The Strata Wars, to Simon & Schuster/Saga, and couldn't be happier, having landed with some amazing folks who really believe in this story. What's more, we have offers from some foreign publishers that I'll be able to announce soon.

Here's the summary for book one, entitled Songs of the Dead:

When Jack Solomon, a struggling musician who works in London’s West End, is killed, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history.

Jack also soon discovers that many of those who reside in the stratums of London’s past have grown angry with the present world, and that their anger is being channeled by a powerful society of light-and-music-based magic wielders who can cross the realms between life and death, between the present and the past. A past where the dead are sowing revolution against the living, and all of history is at stake.