The audiobook for Tales of the Mongoose Vol 1: Pursuit Without Asking is now available on Audible!
Erin Michele Gabbard has done a wonderful job bringing these fun and exciting tales to life in her reading.
Please check it out!
Also, Kat and Mangos’s latest adventure, The Grain Merchant of Alomar, is out now in our spring issue!
Amazon is currently liquidating it’s remaining stock of Tales of the Mongoose and Meerkat Volume I: Pursuit Without Asking.
Right now, it’s going for as low as $5.75!
We’ve also been spending the last couple of months working with Erin Michele Gabbard to bring these exciting adventures to life in an all-new audiobook edition of Pursuit Without Asking. She has done an excellent job on these stories and we can’t wait to share it with everyone!
Don’t forget, the next installment of the adventures of Mongoose and Meerkat, The Grain Merchant of Alomar, is appearing in the Spring issue out in three weeks!
We’ll have some more exciting Jim Breyfogle news soon! We’ve just signed Jim for another book deal, and we plan on having something out later this summer or early fall! Stay tuned!
The Spring issue of the magazine has Kat and Mangos embarking on their 8th adventure overall and the 3rd in what will be the second “volume” of Tales of the Mongoose and Meerkat.
In The Grain Merchant of Alomar, our pair of swords for hire are beginning to settle in. They’ve reached the city of Alomar, a cosmopolitan metropolis where anything (and anyone) can be bought and sold, and coin is king.
They’ve finally managed to save up some money (or Kat has, anyway–Mangos has squandered a lot of his on good food and drink and a replacement for the sword he lost back in Sword of the Mongoose) and are hoping that they’ve established a bit of a reputation as mercenary adventurers. Unfortunately, Alomar is a big city, and the Mongoose and Meerkat are still small time.
While they’re trying to get gigs lined up, they’re squatting in an unused wing of a manor owned by a wealthy merchant… who hires them without even knowing they’re living under his roof!
This will be the first time a Mongoose and Meerkat story will appear in Cirsova magazine with illustration [by the talented DarkFilly, who illustrated Volume 1].
Also, it’s still in production, but we’ve commissioned an audiobook edition of Pursuit Without Asking, which should be available by mid-spring. It’s read by Erin Michele Gabbard, who is not only a fantastic reader, she sounds just like we imagined Kat to sound like! More news on that soon, but in the meantime, please back the pre-order for our 5th Anniversary Issue!
One of the things we did with our Mongoose and Meerkat project with Jim Breyfogle was create D&D stats for a few of the stories so they could be run for B/X.
Something I’d love to do for a future Kickstarter would be include some minis for Mangos and Kat. The idea had me playing around with HeroForge, which is a site that allows you to create custom one-off minis for tabletop.
The only problem is that HeroForge DOES NOT allow commercial licensing, so even if I made some awesome minis using their tools, we wouldn’t be able to offer them as part of a Kickstarter or anything else.
That didn’t stop me from coming up with these as sort of a ‘proof of concept’ based on Dark Filly’s designs. If we’re able to, in the future, we’ll have Filly do some model art and get a 3D modeler to make us some 3D models for real minis. In the meantime, I thought these were kinda cool.
Already read Tales volume 1? The adventure continues in The Golden Pearl, in the Spring issue of Cirsova, out now!
Hunt of the Mine Worm will be out in December in our winter issue.
The Pulp Archivist has a great review up of both Mongoose and Meerkat and the new translation of the Slayers light novels.
Breyfogle has a knack for the exotic. Jungle ruin, tropical islands, mountainous canyons, magic-ravage battlefield–each new tale thrusts Mangos and Kat into a new setting with strange people and stranger challenges.
Breyfogle has mastered small-scope fantasy, keeping the constant string of odd jobs fresh. Where some authors lean too heavily on the sword and sorcery standby of hacking through evil cultists, Mongoose and Meerkat find themselves more as hired muscle for many mercantile schemes. This thrusts them into different intrigues than just secret societies, and it also requires a bit more thought in solving mysteries and getting paid than just swinging a sword. Yet there is action to spare, as varied as the settings: mountaintop chases on crumbling paths, swims through piranha-filled waters, and the inevitable crossing of blades. The perils are all immediate and local, but brief glimpses of wider events can be seen.
Tales of the Mongoose and Meerkat Vol 1: Pursuit Without Asking is available now on Amazon!
The first collection of Jim Breyfogle’s Mongoose and Meerkat is out now on Amazon!
Be sure to check out Cirsova’s break-out fantasy duo in this fully-illustrated collection!
[Also, if you backed the Kickstarter and have already read it, you can leave us a review!]
I can now confirm that Cirsova Publishing has acquired the rights to the entire remaining Mongoose & Meerkat series!
We will begin serializing it one story per issue, beginning with Hunt of the Mine Worm in the winter issue out this December, until all 18 stories in the cycle have run.
If you JUST got into Jim Breyfogle’s Mongoose & Meerkat via our kickstarter for Pursuit Without Asking and want to keep on top of things, the next story in the sequence, The Golden Pearl, was the cover story of our spring issue.
Read The Golden Pearl in the Spring Issue!
Missed the Kickstarter? Tales of the Mongoose and Meerkat is on Amazon!
Did you miss the Kickstarter? Wishing you got your hands on one of those books that people are showing off all over social media?
Well, you will still have a chance to get your hands on a copy!
The eBook and retail paperback edition are available for pre-order now and will be out August 3rd.
We’ve got one week left on the Mongoose and Meerkat Kickstarter.
We hit our stretch goal to create OSR content, which will be included in the appendix of the Hardcover along with some early concept artwork from DarkFilly. Jim has reviewed and approved the bonus materials, so we’ll be doing the layout for the dust-jacket very soon.
Test drawing of Kat scaling a wall
Also, I want to point out we still have 6 originals of the interior artwork available. We’d really like to be able to move these for a few reasons:
-DarkFilly did an amazing job; we agreed to a split on the art we sell, so the more of this we sell, the fatter a check we can send her for the work she’s done.
-If we sell all of the artwork, we’ll be in an excellent financial position to be able to start making offers on 2021 content.
-The artwork is really cool, and you can brag to your friends about owning a one-of-a-kind piece of Mongoose and Meerkat artwork.
Brandy & Dye
