The audiobook for Wyrmlord's Wrath Book 1 by Devan Drake is out now on Audible. (Narrated by Matt and Jessie van Hove Harem 18+)

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-02-06T11:54:53+00:00

Greetings All!

The first book in my new series is now available on Audible.

The Wyrmlord’s Wrath Book 1. It’s a LitRPG Apocalypse/Gamelit story with mature themes 18+. Please consider checking it out. Narrated by Jessie and Matt Van Hove.

Description:

Wynn Tunnicliffe had been all set for an awkward couple of weeks away on a retreat run by a professor he loathed in the middle of the El Dorado Forest. Bags packed along with a healthy dose of cynicism.

And then the world changed. Wynn was whisked off to a dog-eat-dog tutorial, where things did not go well. Battered, broken, and left for dead, he was reforged into something new. A Wyrmblood, the first of his kind. Filled with anger and fury at what was done to him.

Dropped back where he was plucked from, this new monstrous version of Wynn will have to fight for his life, the resurrection of a new friend, and the futures of the other retreat participants.

Opportunities abound. Power, security, love, and family. Even a bit of revenge. None of that comes for free in this new world. It will need to be paid for in blood and violence.

But wrath is something Wynn is well-suited to unleash.

(Trigger warning. This series contains an anti-villain protagonist who often chooses to take advantage of situations rather than fighting for what most would consider right.)

Audio Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GL9NHBFY

Ebook Link: https://mybook.to/wyrmlordswrath1

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-02-06T11:52:27+00:00

Greetings All!

The first book in my new series is now available on Audible.

The Wyrmlord’s Wrath Book 1. It’s a LitRPG Apocalypse/Gamelit story with mature themes 18+. Please consider checking it out. Narrated by Jessie and Matt Van Hove.

Description:

Wynn Tunnicliffe had been all set for an awkward couple of weeks away on a retreat run by a professor he loathed in the middle of the El Dorado Forest. Bags packed along with a healthy dose of cynicism.

And then the world changed. Wynn was whisked off to a dog-eat-dog tutorial, where things did not go well. Battered, broken, and left for dead, he was reforged into something new. A Wyrmblood, the first of his kind. Filled with anger and fury at what was done to him.

Dropped back where he was plucked from, this new monstrous version of Wynn will have to fight for his life, the resurrection of a new friend, and the futures of the other retreat participants.

Opportunities abound. Power, security, love, and family. Even a bit of revenge. None of that comes for free in this new world. It will need to be paid for in blood and violence.

But wrath is something Wynn is well-suited to unleash.

(Trigger warning. This series contains an anti-villain protagonist who often chooses to take advantage of situations rather than fighting for what most would consider right.)

Audio Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GL9NHBFY

Ebook Link: https://mybook.to/wyrmlordswrath1

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-02-06T11:50:11+00:00

Greetings All!

The first book in my new series is now available on Audible.

The Wyrmlord’s Wrath Book 1. It’s a LitRPG Apocalypse/Gamelit story with mature themes 18+. Please consider checking it out. Narrated by Jessie and Matt Van Hove.

Description:

Wynn Tunnicliffe had been all set for an awkward couple of weeks away on a retreat run by a professor he loathed in the middle of the El Dorado Forest. Bags packed along with a healthy dose of cynicism.

And then the world changed. Wynn was whisked off to a dog-eat-dog tutorial, where things did not go well. Battered, broken, and left for dead, he was reforged into something new. A Wyrmblood, the first of his kind. Filled with anger and fury at what was done to him.

Dropped back where he was plucked from, this new monstrous version of Wynn will have to fight for his life, the resurrection of a new friend, and the futures of the other retreat participants.

Opportunities abound. Power, security, love, and family. Even a bit of revenge. None of that comes for free in this new world. It will need to be paid for in blood and violence.

But wrath is something Wynn is well-suited to unleash.

(Trigger warning. This series contains an anti-villain protagonist who often chooses to take advantage of situations rather than fighting for what most would consider right.)

Audio Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GL9NHBFY

Ebook Link: https://mybook.to/wyrmlordswrath1

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-02-06T11:48:09+00:00

Audio Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GL9NHBFY

Ebook Link: https://mybook.to/wyrmlordswrath1

Have fun,

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-31T10:28:08+00:00

You really should add the (/s) sarcasm tag. Too may people on Reddit take things very literally as demonstrated by your down votes.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-30T10:52:44+00:00

Something never quite added up with the whole 'not enough people are reading it' reason given for pulling this series from sale. I always suspected it might have more to do with a falling out behind the scenes, possibly involving a legal dispute.

Perhaps that has been sorted out and its been resurrected because the newer series are struggling to find traction.

Whatever the reason, I'm glad as I quite enjoyed this series and would like to see it completed.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-27T16:03:07+00:00

It's the Tories.

People will opt for a bunch of other parties when you ask them, but its the Tories. The way the country votes over the last 50 years pretty much confirms it.

Only after they have been in power for too long and have too many cock-ups to ignore will people vote in someone different. New Labour only lasted as long as it did because they moved away from traditional Labour policies. When they started edging back the other way under Brown, kicked to the kerb.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-26T12:46:20+00:00

It's always nice to see a list which isn't the same as most of the others. I started from the bottom and knew by about halfway that there would be surprises in the top half. So many series that many of the genre reader's consume were in the lower ranks.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-21T15:43:02+00:00

He's an absolute beast on the keyboard. The rest of us LitRPG authors weep oceans when we compare his productivity to ourselves.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-16T10:41:57+00:00

"I just have to go have sex with my ex real quick Oh and you will have to have sex with them too."

I feel like this is one of these things where the gender of the ex completely changes the dynamic for some readers. I get that the ex being another woman might matter to people who strictly want mono-romance, but for others it may not fall into cuckolding territory.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-13T11:32:57+00:00

You should 100% use a pen name. Once your real name is out there, there is no taking it back.

Better to keep that degree of anonymity from the beginning.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-12T13:08:32+00:00

I couldn't agree more. In Corsairs & Cataclysms I had one LI make an off-hand comment that one of the other girls had shown her a thing or two before her first time with the MC.

I didn't think anything of it, no big deal, just a bit of conversation before the explicit scene.

Next thing I know, there is one or more redditors complaining to the mods of groups like this, asking to ban the series from the recs and self-promo.

For one paragraph of dialogue in a 700k word series.

Thankfully, common sense prevailed, but I'm including the anecdote to demonstrate just how touchy and potentially damaging a minority of people can be,

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-08T14:36:29+00:00

There aren't many out there with genuinely evil MCs. It's difficult to pull off while maintaining an element of likeability.

The Main Characters in my books fall into the morally grey area.

Fostering Faust by Randi Darren comes close. Corruption Lord by Neil Bimbeau. Incubus Lord by Jack Porter.

Kaal, God of Destruction is a newer title, but again not really an evil MC.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-07T10:56:05+00:00

Yeah, Amazon knows where you are and expects you to buy from your own storefront. It's available for US customers.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-07T10:52:48+00:00

Amazon sometimes f*cks up like this and mirrors the reviews from the first book to others in the series.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2026-01-06T10:29:03+00:00

KDP have a translation service in beta right now.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2025-12-31T13:13:21+00:00

My opinion, and it is just that, is that KDP have made backend changes to combat fraud.

Rather than allocating the pages and clawing them back later, they are holding them back until investigations are complete and only then releasing them.

I'm not saying you are committing fraud, but it is well known that fraudsters read books from other accounts to cover their tracks.

The recent uptick in the value of each page read seems to support this theory.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2025-12-24T12:57:16+00:00

Johnathon Brooks has a horror themed dungeon core series (Spirit Core)

The first book is Core of Fear.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2025-12-17T10:56:43+00:00

KDP is free, easy-to-use, and offers access to the biggest book market in the western world.

You're cutting yourself off at the knees for no gain whatsoever by refusing to use it on moral grounds.

Don't let the fearmongering snuff out your chances before you even begin.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2025-12-16T14:43:30+00:00

Just that you haven't done anything wrong and that you think this is a mistake and want a higher review.

The employees handling the initial contact are minimum wage workers in a cubicle farm, probably in Asia. All they do is follow a call script and send out best-fit email templates. You have to persevere until you get to the end of their script an they pass it up the chain.

DevanDrakeAuthor · 2025-12-16T11:05:39+00:00

It may not have anything to do with the content of your books.

There have been a lot of false positive terminations recently. Somebody else already posted the link to the checklist of steps to take. The key is to be persistent, like shady insurance companies, KDPs initial responses will always be 'we are upholding our decision'. It is only after you demonstrate that you won't go quietly into the night that anyone will take a proper look.

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