The First Empire is my third series. I’ve also written 11 other books (8 as part of 2 different series and 3 standalone novels). This page will give you a brief overview of the books as well as links to learn more.

The Riyria Revelations 

They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly.
There’s no ancient evil to defeat or orphan destined for greatness, just two guys in the wrong place at the wrong time. Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, are enterprising thieves who end up running for their lives when they’re framed for the death of the king. Trapped in a conspiracy that goes beyond the overthrow of a tiny kingdom, their only hope is unraveling an ancient mystery before it’s too late. NOTE: The Riyria Revlation contains six full-length novels but are sold as a trilogy the individual books include: The Crown Conspiracy, Avempartha, Nyphron Rising, The Emerald Storm, Wintertide, and Percepliquis.

The Riyria Chronicles

Two men who hate each other. One impossible Mission. A legend in the making.
Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach.The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm’s most prized possessions. But it isn’t gold or jewels that the old wizard is after, and if he can just keep them from killing each other, they just might do it.

NOTE: These series may be read in either chronological order (starting with The Crown Tower) or the preferred order of publication (starting with Theft of Swords).

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Standalone Novels

Hollow World 

The FUTURE IS COMING…FOR SOME SOONER THAN OTHERS Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he’s willing to take an insane gamble. He’s built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. Ellis could find more than a cure for his disease; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began — but only if he can survive the Hollow World.  Welcome to the future and a new science fiction thriller from the bestselling author of the Riyria Revelations and the Riyria Chronicles. Sullivan’s novels have been translated into fifteen foreign languages, and have been selected for more than ninety-five best of the year or most anticipated lists, including those compiled by Library Journal, Barnes & Noble.com, and Goodreads. • Barnes and Noble’s Top Fantasy and Science Fiction Picks for April 2014 • Ranting Dragon’s Fantasy and Science-Fiction Novels Worth Reading in April 2014 • Audible’s Spring Preview 2014: The Best New Sci-Fi & Fantasy • The Founding Field’s Top 25 Books of 2013 • The AudioBookaneers’s Picks of the week for April 9th, 2014 • The Book Probe’s 2014 Most Anticipating Sci-Fi Novels • The Bibliosanctum’s Top 10 Reads of 2013 • Fantasy Review Barn’s Barney Award for outstanding reads of 2013  • Ranting Dragon’s 30 Most Anticipated Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels for 2014

 

Antithesis (Release date to be determined)

Have you ever wondered how the world will end? No? Well don’t sweat it. Most people don’t, and the few that do expect the cause will be a dramatic change in climate, a pandemic, or mostly likely war. That’s what we’ve all been taught to believe, and we’re comfortable with rational explanations. But people aren’t always so quick to accept the facts provided by so-called experts. There used to be a time when we believed in myth and magic. Our minds were open to the idea of things that couldn’t be seen…the fantastical. I had been like you until I met Winston Stewart; the day I learned to believe that there are other forces at work—not the least of which is fate. Fate is an amazing thing. It put Gandhi in South Africa, Nelson at Gibraltar, and Winston Stewart on that train in Alexandria Virginia. You say you don’t know who Winston Stewart is? Don’t worry…you will.

A Burden to the Earth (Release to be determined)

Can a broken man cast off years of tradition to take a last chance to really live?
He learned values from Gunsmoke, ethics from Father Knows Best, and his place in the world from Ozzie & Harriet, but his life turned out much different than any of them. A child of the fifties, Elliot Myers believed his parents, his teachers, his priest, and television when they promised him the American dream. Now at forty, and still living with his mother, he knows they all lied. Embittered by being left behind as the world moved ahead, Elliot finds one last chance to free himself of forty years of waiting and makes his first, and final, grasp at life. Set in the early 1990’s A Burden to the Earth explores regret over lost innocence, nostalgia for the past, and the cost of dwelling on both.