Welcome to the official website of JW Troemner.

Author of The Dealmaker’s Gambit, the Urban Dragon Series, and Tatter and Shine

  • On the Map

    On the Map

    I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.

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  • Almost time for PopCon!

    You can find me at @popcon in booth D1, just inside the main gates. See you there!

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  • Happy Eclipse from Swallowed Sun Books

    Today is the day of a total eclipse over, among other places, Indianapolis.

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  • A curious case of Deja Vu

    Multiple people have mentioned seeing Dealmaker’s Gambit online– but if they did, it wasn’t from me. So how did they come across it?

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  • Just in time for Indiana Comic Con!

    My awaited shipment of books arrived– just in time for Indiana Comic Con!

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  • Dress Code: An Urban Dragon short

    The way the Urban Dragon series was formatted required a lot of hard choices about what moments I showed and what would be lost in between. This is one of those little moments that I never got the chance to sneak in there, between Arkay and Meph sometime during the two-year timeskip before Crusader Non…

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  • Dealmaker’s Gambit: The Peppercorn Saga

    There was a subplot in the Dealmaker’s Gambit that had to be cut because I just couldn’t get it to gel the way I wanted it to. The TL;DR was that Irora had Zag make a number of talismans into peppercorns and plant them in high-end restaurants, resulting in a number of wealthy civilians (and…

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  • Playlist – the Dealmaker’s Gambit

    I don’t often write while listening to music, but I do use music to get me in the right headspace to start writing. A few highlights: Child of Ashes by Madds Buckley The vocal quality of this piece is what I have in mind when I think of Zag’s voice, and the lyrics put me…

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  • Out sick

    Out sick

    Hey all, Less exciting post this week, because I’m out with Covid. Remember: mask up if you’re feeling under the weather, and don’t forget to keep up to date with your vaccines!

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  • Wibbly Wobbly: an Urban Dragon Short

    Meeting your past self is weird. Like, really weird.

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  • On Names: Imaginary Worlds

    So what exactly lured me down this rabbit hole of names and their political implications?

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