- Title: The Blademaster's Call: The Chronicle of Jack Green
- Author: J.G. McKenney
- Genre: Fantasy
- Form: Novel
- Series: The Chronicle of Jack Green (Book One)
- Reading Age: Adult
- Release Date: September 22, 2025
Summary
Never meet your heroes. Especially the ones you’ve written.
When the awful first volume of Jack Green’s epic fantasy trilogy is snubbed by every literary agent on the planet, in a fit of rejection rage he decides to destroy his life’s work. That’s when Jack finds himself inside his book, accompanying its sword-wielding hero on a perilous mission that will determine the fate of his character’s world and his own.
From the award-winning author of Eon’s Door and The Book Knights comes an exciting new adult epic fantasy series that is fast-moving, gripping, and laugh-out-loud funny. If The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Name of the Wind had a baby, they'd name it The Blademaster’s Call.
The Blademaster's Call is available at a discounted price of $0.99 through the end of October 2025.
Image Description: The cover of The Blademaster's Call: The Chronicle of Jack Green - Book One by J.G. McKenney. The title and author's name are overlaid in bold, white lettering over the image of a man with tanned skin and dark hair in a tunic and red cloak lifting a blade against a gruesome and frightening-looking monster reminiscent of a gigantic scorpion with razor-like teeth and many eyes.
Credit: c/o J.G. McKenney
About the Author
For his first novel, Eon's Door, J.G. (John) McKenney received the 2012 Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award and was also a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. His exciting new YA fantasy, The Book Knights, is a Hoffer Book Award winner and is exclusive to Amazon. Find out more about J.G. McKenney and his work at www.jgmckenney.com.
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Dear J.G. McKenney,
I hope you're doing well.
My name is Frank, and I lead the Marketing Strategy team at Readers Route. I recently came across The Blademaster's Call: The Chronicle of Jack Green while exploring recent adult fantasy novels, and I wanted to reach out—not with a sales pitch, but simply to introduce myself and share what stood out to me about your work.
Some fantasy stories begin with a hero. The most memorable ones begin with a question that readers can quietly recognize in themselves. What happens when the person who created a fictional world suddenly finds himself inside it, alongside the very character he once imagined? That is the question at the heart of The Blademaster's Call, and it is what immediately distinguishes the novel from many contemporary fantasy adventures.
The concept gives your story emotional weight beyond its humor and action. Readers may initially arrive for Jack Green's journey, sword-wielding heroes, dangerous creatures, and the fate of an entire fictional world, but they stay because the story also explores rejection, creativity, self-doubt, and the complicated relationship between a creator and his own creation.
One of the aspects I particularly appreciated is the way the novel combines epic fantasy with a self-aware and humorous premise. Jack's frustration with rejection becomes the doorway into the very world he created, turning what could have been a familiar fantasy quest into something much more personal and unpredictable. That combination of adventure, humor, and literary self-awareness gives the book a distinctive identity.
Your book also reaches several distinct audiences simultaneously. Adult fantasy readers can connect with the adventure and world-building. Readers who enjoy humorous speculative fiction can connect with its playful premise, while fans of character-driven stories may be drawn to Jack's journey from frustrated author to participant in his own creation. Readers familiar with your award-winning work may also naturally be interested in another fantasy series from you.
Ironically, that broad appeal can create one of the greatest discoverability challenges for books that cross multiple fantasy audiences. A book can possess a highly original premise while remaining underexposed simply because its strongest qualities are not being presented through the most effective entry points. From an outside perspective, I believe The Blademaster's Call has significantly more long-term potential than its current visibility reflects.
At Readers Route, this is precisely the kind of opportunity we enjoy working with. Our work is not built around temporary promotional bursts or chasing short-lived attention. We help authors strengthen the long-term discoverability of their books by identifying the audiences most likely to value their work and developing strategies that allow those books to continue reaching readers long after release.
There is something else that has shaped the way I approach authors over the years. A book is rarely just another publication added to a marketplace. It represents years of imagination, writing, revision, and persistence. It becomes part of an author's creative legacy. Long after publication, it continues introducing new readers to an author's voice and opening doors to future works. Some of the most respected fantasy books are remembered not because they created immediate attention, but because readers continued discovering them over time.
That is why I look at books like yours differently. I do not simply ask whether The Blademaster's Call can attract readers today. I ask whether it possesses the qualities necessary to continue attracting fantasy readers, fans of humorous speculative fiction, and audiences interested in stories about creativity and authorship years from now. In your case, I believe the answer is yes.
I already have several observations regarding how the different strengths of The Blademaster's Call could be introduced more clearly to its ideal audiences and how those strengths could help establish a lasting readership for both this book and the broader Chronicle of Jack Green series.
If you would be interested in hearing those observations, I would be pleased to share them and explain how Readers Route approaches helping authors build lasting discoverability that continues serving their books well into the future.
Professionally,
Thomes Frank
Readers Route
Website: http://www.readersroute.com