Travis Bagwell & Michael Chatfield, CATHARSIS & THE TWO WEEK CURSE

LitRPG creators Travis Bagwell and Michael Chatfield visit the store for their books Awaken Online, Book 1: Catharsis and The Ten Realms, Book 1: The Two Week Curse, the first installments in their hit litRPG series now published by Aethon Press.

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About Awaken Online, Book 1: Catharsis

Loner. Outcast. Villain.

Jason logs into Awaken Online fed-up with reality. He's in desperate need of an escape, and this game is his ticket to finally feeling the type of power and freedom that are so sorely lacking in his real life.

Awaken Online is a brand new virtual reality game that just hit the market, promising an unprecedented level of immersion. Yet Jason quickly finds himself pushed down a path he didn't expect. In this game, he isn't the hero. There are no damsels to save. There are no bad guys to vanquish.

In fact, he might just be the villain.

The first book in the hit LitRPG Fantasy series with hundreds of thousands of copies sold and now spanning 14 novels. Grab your copy of Awaken Online now and get ready to sink into some good old fashioned undead mayhem.

About the Series: A staple of the LitRPG genre and one of the most popular VRMMO LitRPGs ever written, with hundreds of thousands of copies sold. Follow the story of a young man -- a loner and outcast -- pushed to his limit... only to rise in AO as a force to be reckoned with. As a villain that can control the undead. Lots of skeletons. Lots of undead crafting. Lots of carnage.

About The Ten Realms, Book 1: The Two Week Curse

“Once this crazy ride starts, you’ll never want to get off.” —Matt Dinniman, author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Fortune favors the strong. Two veterans are about to show a magical world what modern military discipline can do in this action-fantasy adventure from international bestselling author Michael Chatfield.

Erik West served as a combat medic alongside his marine buddy Jimmy 'Rugrat' Rodriguez.

After being marked with the two week curse, they have just 14 days until they're teleported from their lives. No one else that has been 'cursed' has ever returned. All of them have started seeing stat screens and being able to do things that should only be possible in games.

When the curse teleports them to the first realm they're going to have to learn and quickly. Strength is security here and they'll have to use all of their newfound skills and abilities combined with all their training and knowledge to forge their own path.

The Two Week Curse is the first book in the addictive million-copy bestselling Ten Realms series, where tactical military science fiction combat meets high-stakes LitRPG progression fantasy.

Travis Bagwell is the author of the bestselling Awaken Online series, a dark fantasy/sci-fi saga that has sold millions of copies worldwide. A former tax and business planning attorney, Travis traded clients for the keyboard to pursue his passion for storytelling. His work blends immersive virtual reality worlds with complex moral questions, creating narratives that challenge readers while keeping them turning pages late into the night.

Michael Chatfield is a Canadian Army veteran and international bestselling author who writes the kind of books he always wanted to read, character-driven, gritty, tactical, and grounded in reality. With millions of books and audiobooks sold, and tens of thousands of reviews his work spans LitRPG, military sci-fi, fantasy, and post-apocalyptic survival.