Dale Denton

Dale Denton Dale Denton Dale Denton

Author of the Denae Dassow modern fantasy series and other stories

Dale Denton

Dale Denton Dale Denton Dale Denton

Author of the Denae Dassow modern fantasy series and other stories

The Denae Dassow Series

Named after the mother of Perseus, the similarities end there. Her cousins fear her, afraid of her anger from years past that could harm or kill them. Her hair and eyes are an unnatural earthy yellow. Calling her irises dark citrine is generous and doesn’t make it easier for people to look into them.

Her rather extended family are all practitioners of magic. Many miles of the forested lands of northern Wisconsin are their abode. With the family’s use of magic, they don’t fit well in the mundane world of the late 1970s. Denae hasn’t even bothered with town for years, except as necessity dictates. The forest is her home.

To Rule As In Days Of Olde

When she survives a bear attack at age 16, the nightmares start. After Denae saves the life of a mundane girl she barely knows from town, she may finally have a friend in town. And when she notices something strange about her little brother’s new girlfriend, her entire family could be in jeopardy. 

Queen Nymph of the Forest


Denae's free from the entity's grasp, but the nightmares continue. The main good part now is that her hair’s finally grown back enough for a pixie cut. 


She jumps at the chance to camp with friends in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, but instead of finding ways to skinny-dip in the Great Lakes, she finds another family of practitioners of magic camping there. Plus, she becomes embroiled in a battle between guardian animals in the forests, not to mention an unplanned meeting with the spirit woman who rules over those forest guardians.


Denae finds similar guardians in her family’s forests, which she’d never noticed before, and these now submit to her. With her new forest powers, she hears the quietness that cries out for new guardian animals. how can she fill the emptiness…create new guardians to fill the voids? And with those who hunt guardian animals and those who rule over them, how can she continue to live while she creates the new guardians? 

Upcoming Books in the Denae Dassow Series

Hunter and Hunted [working title]

Denae Dassow — Book 3

  Anticipated Availability — Aug 2025





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Cover Coming


Denae Dassow — Book 4

  Anticipated Availability — TBD





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The Lords of Mundi Series

The Covali family discovered a way to travel between different versions of Earth and have done this for centuries. So have a few other families, and some have allied with the Covalis. Others have not

Upcoming Books in the Lords of Mundi

The Road to Baemardis

Amid the Portals [working title]

Amid the Portals [working title]

[Working Title & Cover]


Worlds of Mundi — Book 1

Anticipated Availability — Dec 2025

    

When people with strange weapons attack Kevin and Ellie while on their way home from University of Texas, and then again at their Uncle's estate, he sends them to another world that looks a lot like the Texas Hill Country where they left from, minus the buildings, people, and lake. The parting instructions are, "Go west to Baemardis."


They do find people and buildings, but it's like Columbus had never discovered the New World. The Vikings, maybe, but then again, maybe not. But, there is a kingdom here,and they are in charge.

Amid the Portals [working title]

Amid the Portals [working title]

Amid the Portals [working title]

[Working Title & Cover]


Worlds of Mundi — Book 2

Anticipated Availability — TBD
 

When trying to find the home world of the primitive hominins who have been attacking Baemardis after flooding into their world, they find an ancient portal of unknown origin that opens into some intermediary world and six other portals.


What do you do when you find such a portal, and it isn't one of yours? What about when you find a lot of them?




Short Stories

The Sky We Touch

The Sky We Touch - I have several short stories and flash fiction, plus one poem, in this anthology.

The Hills We Climb

The Hills We Climb - I have one short story in this anthology.

Stories and Other Collections, Vol 1

Stories and Other Collections, Vol 1

Anticipated Availability — July 2025


A collection of Dale Denton's short stories from 100-word flash fiction to much larger stories that run the gamut of the imagination. 

About Dale Denton

  

Dale writes mainly in the fantasy and science fiction genres, though ventures beyond those from time to time. He is the author of the Denae Dassow modern fantasy series that starts with 

To Rule As In Days Of Olde, 

and continues with

Queen Nymph of the Forest 


And the Lords of Mundi science fiction/multiverse series that starts with

The Road to Baemardis.


He also has short stories and poetry published in the anthologies, 

The Hills We Climb and The Sky We Touch.  


Dale lives in North Central Texas with his family and dog.

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