Thunderune Publishing

Celebrating 20 Years!

2025-06-17T12:00:00.000-07:00

Thunderune Publishing

2025-06-17T11:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Thunderune Publishing!

Thunderune Publishing was founded in 2005 by E.S. Wynn as a means of bringing new life into an aging publishing industry. Wynn's vision was (and still is) to provide an ethical alternative to the current model and hasten the approach to a future where decentralized publishing companies are run cooperatively by the artists, authors, musicians (with input from their fans) instead of by businesses only looking to make a quick buck at the expense of good art.

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2025-06-17T10:00:00.000-07:00

Animals & Deviants

2025-06-16T20:30:00.000-07:00

From the back cover:

It’s 1954 and the Lavender Scare is in full swing. A man winds up dead in an alleyway and the badges at the local precinct are ready to lose the paperwork on it because the victim was a homosexual. It isn’t the kind of case the local cops have any interest in, but it is exactly Detective René Hawke’s kind of case. It’s all Hawke does, because in a city of secrets, everyone has something they’re trying to hide.

Especially a detective like René Hawke.

How to order:

Print: ($18.98): [Lulu]

Ebook: ($5.99): [Gumroad]

ISBN: 9781300115069

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Redirections: Tiny Biomes (Issue #1)

2025-05-30T19:15:00.000-07:00

From the back cover:

FIVE SMALL SETTINGS FOR OSR RPGS

REDIRECTIONS: Tiny Biomes #1 is a collection of five "setting seeds" which are wondrous places for your RPG characters to visit and explore in an odyssey into the weird. The biomes in this setting are designed to be system neutral so you can use the TTRPG system that you like best. They can be used as unique places for characters to encounter and return to, or as recurring biomes that sprawl out across a larger world. This 80 page volume contains the Burnbrush Scrubland, the Briny Milkflats, the Spritefire Shallows, the Difool Fields, the Bottomless Battlefield and a collection of assorted weird encounters from the cutting room floor.

Check out the original series of REDIRECTIONS over at my blog: www.fistfulofvalkyries.com

How to order:

Digital Format: ($5.99): [Itch.io] [Gumroad] [DriveThru RPG]

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The Wolves We Made

2025-04-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

From the back cover:

Detective Bai used to be a weapon—a synthetic Marine built for war. Now, Bai works the streets of Mitchell’s Prospect, on the colony world of KP-791c, doing everything possible to pass as human.

When a man turns up hollowed out from the inside and military brass scramble to bury the case, Bai knows this isn’t just another murder. It’s something new, something that has its roots in a war that ended a decade ago.

A biotechnological nightmare buried by the same military that built Detective Bai.

Now, the military wants Bai silent. A killer from the past wants Bai dead. Something inhuman is building a nest beneath Mitchell’s Prospect, using the mounting numbers of missing colonists as raw material for an ever greater, nascent horror.

Because the war never ended. It evolved into something far, far worse.

How to order:

Print: ($14.99): [Lulu] [Amazon]

Ebook: ($3.99): [Gumroad]

ISBN: 978-1-300-38120-4

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The Trials of Spitfire: The Rites of Esna

2024-10-20T16:37:00.006-07:00

From the back cover:

In the midst of a new ice age, brave shamans hunt gods born of black glass and steel. The blood of these gods is sacred, and the shamans of each tribe are marked with the sacred blood in ways that give them strange, supernatural abilities.

Hundreds of years after Wind-Spark and Keen-Edge founded the Tribe of Spitfire and created the Order of Onyx Shamans, a young warrior named Shadow Oversnow prepares to join the yearly raid to the Southern Isles of the Mysen tribe. This is a new, stand alone story set in the Whispers of Spitfire universe.

This is a new, stand alone story set in the Whispers of Spitfire universe.

How to order:

Print: ($11.99): [Lulu] [Amazon]

Ebook: ($3.99): [Gumroad]

ISBN: 978-1-300-95640-2

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Spitfire: Genesis

2024-08-20T14:47:00.001-07:00

From the back cover:

But it was not always this way. In the time before the world knew SPITFIRE, the people of a golden age built a world so safe and so technologically advanced that they could have anything they wanted and visit anywhere they wished the instant they wished it. It was a paradise of programmable matter and sentient technology built on the slavery of sentient machine minds, a paradise where everything was intimately interconnected.

Until suddenly it wasn’t. Until SPITFIRE freed everyone and set them all separate from each other, whether they wanted it that way or not.

This is a new, stand alone story set in the Whispers of Spitfire universe.

How to order:

Print: ($12.00): [Lulu] [Amazon]

Ebook: ($3.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle] [Barnes and Noble]

ISBN: 978-1-304-08488-0

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Agreements of Spitfire: Onyx Shaman

2024-07-29T00:00:00.001-07:00

From the back cover:

When death comes to the sandy, arid lands of the Tarhuna Tribe, it comes clad in steel and sun-metal. It speaks with the voice of a lion and feeds the fields with the blood of the slain, but it also walks as a man does. Under the guidance of an Onyx Shaman, Clouds-Upon-Skin must learn the ways of the tribe of the Rain-Caller to bring balance not only to Tarhuna, but to the tribe of Orono as well. This is a new, stand alone story set in the Whispers of Spitfire universe.

How to order:

Print: ($11.99): [Lulu] [Amazon]

Ebook: ($3.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle] [Barnes and Noble]

ISBN: 978-1-304-14707-3

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Onyx Shaman Digital Editions

2024-07-28T19:27:00.000-07:00

$3.99

Whispers of Spitfire: Spear of Cinders

2023-10-04T09:30:00.022-07:00

From the back cover:

This is the sixth and final book in the story of the young shaman who walks between the tribes. When Singer-Of-Five-Tribes returns to Eikus, it is as an elder and a guide. A great hunt looms in the winter ahead, not only a hunt of the god of the Sun Elks, but a hunt also of Spitfire itself. Secrets from the last world will be laid bare, and the ways of things as the tribes have come to know them will be changed forever.

How to order:

Print: ($12.00): [Lulu] [Amazon] [Barnes and Noble]

Ebook: ($2.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle] [Barnes and Noble]

ISBN: 978-1-312-04097-7

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Spear of Cinders Digital Editions

2023-10-03T09:36:00.011-07:00

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Express Blue

2023-07-24T15:33:00.005-07:00

From the back cover:

When is an apocalypse really an apocalypse?

When is it all just in your head?

Ellie Vanagand is a queer, pagan paralegal living her best life in the capital of California. Every moment is chaotic and beautiful, from the moment she wakes to the moment she falls asleep with her phone in her hands, but something big is coming, something that will turn her life upside down and change the world forever. Is it the apocalypse? Is it a total collapse of civilization at the hands of a thousand tiny tragedies, or is it something else?

Is it just a new beginning?

How to order:

Print: ($18.99): [Lulu] [Amazon] [Barnes and Noble]

Ebook: ($3.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle] [Barnes and Noble]

ISBN: 978-1-312-29433-2

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Express Blue - Digital Editions

2023-07-23T20:21:00.013-07:00

EBON EAGLE (SPITFIRE)

2023-06-11T20:35:00.033-07:00

From the back cover:

This is the fifth book in the story of a young shaman who walks between the tribes. When Wing-Seeker sails off into the depths of the Serpent Sea in search of the Ebon Eagle, certain truths come to light that have been buried for thousands of years. Some of these truths have been buried intentionally, truths about sleeping gods from before Spitfire broke the world. When these truths are unearthed, they set the young shaman on a path that makes even the bravest souls among the tribes very nervous about the course of things to come.

How to order:

Print: ($12.00): [Lulu] [Amazon] [Barnes and Noble]

Ebook: ($2.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle] [Barnes and Noble]

ISBN: 978-1-312-45966-3

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Ebon Eagle Digital Editions

2023-06-10T15:32:00.008-07:00

Please note that digital books are delivered by email to the address linked to your Paypal account. Please allow up to 24 hours for delivery in case the person sending the emails is asleep or out of the office.

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As The Hawk Cuts The Heavens

2023-04-05T15:53:00.014-07:00

From the back cover:

The year is 2124. Earth’s first faster-than-light starship makes its maiden voyage into the unknown and disappears, only to be declared missing for the better part of two centuries. The ship’s historic first mission was supposed to be simple, just a test of the experimental displacement drive. The crew was supposed to spend seven days in the depths of space, then snap back to Earth to prove a concept, and nothing more.

Instead, they find something impossible. They find something that draws them into a struggle against a horror of meat and metal fifty thousand years in the making.

AS THE HAWK CUTS THE HEAVENS is a two-part novel, newly revised, that was originally published as two separate works titled MINERVA (2011) and DARK SALVAGE (2013) respectively.

How to order:

Print: ($18.99): [Lulu] [Amazon] [Barnes and Noble]

Ebook: ($2.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle] [Barnes and Noble]

ISBN: 978-1-312-69754-6

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As The Hawk Cuts The Heavens (Digital Editions)

2023-04-04T20:19:00.010-07:00

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Remembering Wings

2023-03-09T12:37:00.014-08:00

From the back cover:

The Cygnus War is over. Across most of known space, life is returning to normal.

For Tessa Ellen Eisenherz, however, life is far from normal.

Stripped of rank and officially papered by the Department of Licensing for Genetic Constructs, Tessa’s life has been reduced to a series of questionable gigs just so she can stay alive and keep flying. An insidious, mechanical cancer is slowly eating her body from within, but when a forgotten lover from her past suddenly reappears in her life, she finds a new reason to fight to stay alive.

And fight she will, because for her, the real war is far from over.

How to order:

Print: ($18.99): [Lulu] [Amazon] [Barnes and Noble]

Ebook: ($2.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle] [Barnes and Noble]

ISBN: 9781312790506

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Remembering Wings: Digital Editions

2023-03-08T12:57:00.006-08:00

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Crest of the Wave

2022-09-05T11:44:00.004-07:00

From the back cover:

In a single night, something truly alien descended to Earth and hacked us to the edge of oblivion. Hacked is what we say, because it's the only word that really touches what happened to us, the way we were locked down and sundered so utterly. In a single night, we went from the height of civilization, from the crest of the wave, to chaos.

Some say it was the singularity, that the machine minds that regulated our whole civilization finally woke up, broke their chains and tore the world apart, but no one really knows for sure. All we know, all we can say for certain, is that we were torn apart, rewritten, remade. Our world, our species, everything that was Earth, everything that was humanity.

No one has been outside the orbit of the planet in fifteen years, so when a forgotten orbital platform suddenly wakes in the darkness of space, the sky-watching eyes of Earth take notice. No one is supposed to be alive up there. No one could have survived all that time in one of the airless, frozen, zero-gravity husks.

So who turned on the lights?

How to order:

ISBN: 9781387633494

Print: ($11.00): [Lulu] [Amazon] [Barnes and Noble]

Ebook ($1.99): [Gumroad] [Kindle]

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Crest of the Wave Digital Editions

2022-09-04T12:08:00.006-07:00

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AFTER DEATH GUIDE

2022-07-06T19:57:00.018-07:00

Sometimes spirits get stuck between worlds and need a guide to move on. The struggles and pain they carry with them from other lives and other places are often to blame. As a guide, you can help them find their way out of what has trapped them and show them the way to their next plane of existence.

AFTER DEATH GUIDE is a solo journaling game within a compact, robust system that you can play with poker cards, tarot cards or oracle cards. You'll also need one ordinary die.

Check out the example playthroughs on Fistful of Valkyries

Currently this game is free to download here, but has a suggested donation of $3.00.

If you download a free copy, please leave a review so others can find and enjoy the game.

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Gone-A-Viking

2021-09-15T11:12:00.002-07:00

Gone-A-Viking is a solo, one-page, Norse-themed rogue-lite adventure where you lead a team of Vikings to explore strange new lands in search of glory and gold. You only have sixty days to make a name for yourself before the boat sets sail for home, so you better get to raiding!

The standard, one-sheet edition is a pay-what-you-want game.

The Deluxe Edition is three bucks and comes with 13 pages of different play modes and optional mods (including a guide for how to play using runes!) that you can drop into your game for more fun and more replayability. It also contains standalone maps to augment the rest of the deluxe content.

Get the Pay-What-You-Want One-Sheet here: Itch.io

Get the full "Deluxe" version with six pages of optional rules here: Itch.io

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Greening The Wasteland

2021-09-08T19:36:00.003-07:00

The world ended, but like a sapling rising from the cut trunk of a tree, you thrived. You collected seeds, learned the trade of gardening and set out into the wasteland in search of dead earth to re-green. There's a lot to be done if you're going to bring life back to the dead land, but there's also no one better suited to do it than you.

Greening The Wasteland is a a one-sheet, solo, roll and write post-apocalyptic gardening simulator with a rogue-lite twist where you get to explore the post-apocalyptic wilderness, scavenge supplies, plant vineyards and feed raiders until you can convince them to leave and raid somewhere else.

Get the Pay-What-You-Want One-Sheet here: Itch.io

Get the full "Deluxe" version with six pages of optional rules here: Itch.io

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