Who is Sam?

Sam Sykes is the author of Tome of the Undergates, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage.  Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature.

At 25, Sykes is one of the younger authors to have arrived on the stage of literary fantasy.  Tome of the Undergates will be his first book, published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Holland and Canada.  He currently resides in the United States and is probably watching you read this right now.

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The Tome Beckons

Adventurer.

The name never uttered without scorn, they are long loathed for their knowledge of nothing beyond violence and greed and their utter disregard for human life, least of all their own.

And Lenk, a young man with a sword in his hand and a voice in his head, counts them as his closest company.

Charged with retrieving the Tome of the Undergates, a written key to a world long forgotten by mankind and home to creatures determined to return, Lenk is sent after ancient evangelical demons, psychotic warrior women and abominations lost to myth.  Against them, he has but two weapons: a piece of steel and five companions as eager to kill each other as they are to help him.

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D-D-DragonCon!

Admittedly, I could have told you this earlier, but I will be gone all weekend because I am at DRAGONCON 2010! It’s a star-studded event attended by a bunch of cool authors, both Pyr and otherwise, and I WILL BE DOING SOME PANELS RIGHT THEN AND THERE. …why am I not telling you what panels I will be doing? Because nobody actually told me!  It’s as big a surprise to me as it is to you, much like a handsome stranger crawling through your window at night.  But in that case which you might call the police, this surprise encounter…

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Sep 1 2010 05:29 PM

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