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Descendant Publishing is a provider of epic fiction/fantasy stories, educational literacy tools, and

09/01/2026

✨📣It's time to let the cat out of the bag! We have a new author! 📣✨

Help us welcome Lauren H. Brandenburg to our EPIC lineup of authors!

Lauren H. Brandenburg drinks hot cocoa every single morning and unashamedly has an alarm clock with bunny ears. She’s a multi-award-winning author, including an American Christian Fiction Writers’ Carol Award winner, two-time Realm Award and Selah Award finalist, as well as a finalist for the People’s Book Prize in the UK. Lauren writes to give young readers and grown-ups epic stories and cozy tales of fantastically lovely places to dwell full of truth, hope, and wonder. But most importantly, she’s a devoted wife and mother. She currently lives with her husband, Jamie, in Franklin, Tennessee.

We will be working with Lauren over the next several years to refresh and republish her beloved Books of the Gardener Series under our middle grade imprint Paths to Portals Books! We are so excited for this EPIC journey!

Welcome Lauren below by leaving some garden themed emojis!

08/29/2026

Ope looks like we've been keeping a secret again. 🤭 Stick around to find out...

08/28/2026

In Project Hail Mary, Ryland Grace doesn’t see himself as a hero. When faced with the ultimate call to sacrifice, his first instinct isn’t courage—it’s fear.

Can this make him a little more relatable?

We love stories about heroes who run toward danger, sacrifice everything, and somehow find the courage to do what needs to be done. But sometimes that can leave us wondering: What do they have that I don’t?

Grace’s story offers a different answer.

Maybe bravery isn’t something certain people are born with. Maybe it’s something we choose.

And when we start looking at courage that way, it begins to sound a lot like something Jesus taught us about sacrificial love.

Our latest blog explores “The Bravery Gene: Courage and Sacrificial Love in Heroes and in Us.”

Read it now at descendantpublishing.com.

Who is someone in your life you want to “be brave for”?

08/01/2026

📣RELEASE DAY📣

Happy release day to Logan vs the Pouty Paw Paw and Author Allen Brokken! We are so excited to have the next installment of Logan's Search for the Fruits of the Spirit ready for readers to enjoy. Get your copy today! Available on Amazon.com!

Logan's pouting so hard his Pa thinks he might trip over his lower lip.

Shoveling coal as a furnace feeder at the foundry is hot, sweaty work, but Logan is determine to pay off his debt for a broken spyglass—even if he has to do it with a pout on his face.

But when a Pouty Paw Paw tree begins growing in the soot of the foundry's smokestack, the whole town of Blooming Glen catches a bad case of the "pouts."

When Gran's legendary joyful jam is stolen and replaced with a gloomy "darkness jam," Logan realized someone is behind the spreading gloom—and they're not finished yet.

With his mischievous pet raccoon Rascal by his side, Logan sets out to uncover the truth before the pouts swallow the town for good. To save Blooming Glen, he'll have to discover that the fruit of joy is stronger than even the poutiest plot.

07/24/2026

✨What is it about stories that keeps drawing us back?✨

Why do we find ourselves longing to walk through a wardrobe, sail to another shore, or step into a world we've never seen?

In author Chris Warzawski's latest blog, he explores why we create fictional worlds, why we love exploring them, and why that longing for "another world" may reveal something profound about who we are and what we were made for.

If you've ever loved The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, or any story that left you with a sense of wonder long after you turned the last page, we invite you to check it out.

And we'd love to hear from you:
What fictional world has stayed with you the longest?

🔗 Read the full article at descendantpublishing.com

07/07/2026

✨ The Moongate is Open! ✨

Emmett and the Epic Word Searches by Vanessa E. Howard releases TODAY!

What if finding the definition of a word meant stepping through a magical portal?

Emmett Tate is having the worst birthday ever. He bombs an important reading test, gets bullied at school, and the only person who shows up to his party is his strange elderly neighbor, who gives him a plain wooden box.

Worst gift ever… right?
Until the box reveals a portal.

The portal leads Emmett into the Land of Ela, a fantastical world where words come to life and every definition is an adventure. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town and teams up with the school bully, danger begins to spread… both at home and in Ela.

06/26/2026

📣🚂 AVAILABLE NOW 🚂📣

Thalia in Exile by Allen Brokken and Thalia Schertzer is now available! Get your copy today!!

Thalia never expected to be taken. But the Darkness has plans of its own.

When the dreaded Steele Brothers and their Giant allies raid her home at midnight, Thalia and her friends are forced on a harrowing journey to the mysterious academy at Emohnomed. Like the young men of Judah chosen for the king of Babylon’s service, they are dragged toward a land of shadowed luxury to learn the language and literature of a culture that serves the Darkness.

Thalia finds brief respite aboard a luxurious train. But when Headmistress Imogen adds a “gift from the bishop” to the students’ punch, Thalia’s keen senses catch the putrescent smell of a counterfeit light. Clinging to the Good Book she smuggled into her bag, she refuses the smoke-laced food that turns friends into unthinking foes. In a world of beautiful lies, Thalia must stand firm against false accusations and prove that the only true strength comes from the Light that cannot be tainted.

Because this isn’t just about escaping her captors. It’s about saving the people who no longer know they need to be saved.

06/24/2026

📣 Iffy is on the loose! Time to catch your copy now! 📣

Available on Amazon now!

Kristine has a bad feeling about her new house.

Her parents say it’s her imagination.
But this time, they’re wrong.

Three tiny goblins are trying to blow up the house with pinecones and acorns. It’s not going well. Meanwhile, a dark spirit named Mr. Mischief is feeding on her fears to grow stronger.

Good thing Kristine has Iffy, her imaginary friend with an appetite for shady monsters.

Together, they must stop the goblins and make sure Mr. Mischief ends up right where he belongs, inside Iffy’s belly.

Because if they don’t, Kristine may lose more than her home.

06/23/2026

‼️📣 20% off all books during this event ONLY 📣‼️

Come see Descendant Publishing, Paths to Portals Books and our EPIC lineup of authors at this absolutely necessary and not-at-all excessively named author meet-and-greet celebration event.

We are celebrating some amazing releases:
Surviving the Midnight Hurl at Camp Whurl by JJ Johnson (Released June 2nd)
Iffy Eats Monsters for Breakfast by Bryan Timothy Mitchell (Releasing TOMORROW)
Thalia in Exile by Allen Brokken and Thalia Schertzer (Releasing June 26th at Realm Makers)
Emmett and the Epic Word Searches by Vanessa E. Howard (Releasing July 7th)

Come say hi to our authors - get 20% off all books for this half hour only - grab a goody bag of candy - one person will win a free paperback of their choice!

FRIDAY JUNE 26 11-11:30am
Descendant Publishing Booth 1002

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