Dale Denton
Author of the Denae Dassow modern fantasy series and other stories
Dale Denton
Author of the Denae Dassow modern fantasy series and other stories
A Little Bit of Everything
Stories and remembrances telling so much. From the fantastic to the everyday. From laugh-out-loud to darkness. From ghosts to show-n-tell. From fantasy to prosaic.
What happens at night in the empty parking lot?
What is the call to celebrate?
What is it about the ancient ruins that calls?
And what is it that’s best served warm?
These and more stories can be found on the pages within.
Releasing March 31st, 2026
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 thing going for her 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 practit
Denae's free from the entity's grasp, but the nightmares continue. The main good thing going for her 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?
Guardian Spirits of the Forest
Guardian Spirits of the Forest
Denae Dassow — Book 3
Anticipated Availability — June 2026
With the battles now behind her, Denae tries to find some sense of a new normalcy. However, when a woman comes in seeking ways to see through spells of cleansing, like those used by her family after the last battle, her problems start again, or did they just never end?
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Denae Dassow — Book 3
Anticipated Availability — June 2026
With the battles now behind her, Denae tries to find some sense of a new normalcy. However, when a woman comes in seeking ways to see through spells of cleansing, like those used by her family after the last battle, her problems start again, or did they just never end?
Add to that Jim’s persistent requests for her to help him restart the guardian animals on his family’s land, the discovery of a consort on otherwise dead lands, and meeting a deputy sheriff who has no spark, but is an accomplished practitioner of magic, it’s hard for her to focus on running the family library, especially when her trauma from the last battle makes it hard for her to concentrate on anything at all.
Working on It
Guardian Spirits of the Forest
Denae Dassow — Book 4
Anticipated Availability — TBD
The Road to Baemardis
The Road to Baemardis
The Road to Baemardis
Worlds of Mundi — Book 1
Anticipated Availability — November2026
When Kevin and Ellie are attacked on their way home from The University of Texas, and again at their Uncle John's estate, he sends them to another world that resembles the Texas Hill Country they left — minus the buildings, people, and lakes — with the parting instructio
Worlds of Mundi — Book 1
Anticipated Availability — November2026
When Kevin and Ellie are attacked on their way home from The University of Texas, and again at their Uncle John's estate, he sends them to another world that resembles the Texas Hill Country they left — minus the buildings, people, and lakes — with the parting instructions, "Go west to Baemardis."
They do find people and buildings, but it's like Columbus never discovered the New World. The Vikings might have, but then again, maybe not. Still, there is a kingdom here, and they are in charge..
Amid the Portals
The Road to Baemardis
The Road to Baemardis
Worlds of Mundi — Book 2
Anticipated Availability — December 2027
Kevin and Ellie search for the home world of primitive hominins called Sobecks, who have appeared in Baemardis in droves, attacking their villages and killing their people. Instead, they discover an ancient portal of unknown origin that opens into another world inhabited
Worlds of Mundi — Book 2
Anticipated Availability — December 2027
Kevin and Ellie search for the home world of primitive hominins called Sobecks, who have appeared in Baemardis in droves, attacking their villages and killing their people. Instead, they discover an ancient portal of unknown origin that opens into another world inhabited by different peoples.
What do you do when you find such a portal, and it isn’t one of yours? What about when you find a bunch of them?
Short Stories
A Little Bit of Everything
Stories and remembrances telling so much. From the fantastic to the everyday. From laugh-out-loud to darkness. From ghosts to show-n-tell. From fantasy to prosaic.
What happens at night in the empty parking lot?
What is the call to celebrate?
What is it about the ancient ruins that calls?
And what is it that’s best served warm?
These and more
Stories and remembrances telling so much. From the fantastic to the everyday. From laugh-out-loud to darkness. From ghosts to show-n-tell. From fantasy to prosaic.
What happens at night in the empty parking lot?
What is the call to celebrate?
What is it about the ancient ruins that calls?
And what is it that’s best served warm?
These and more stories can be found on the pages within.
Releasing March 31st, 2026
Legends of Cotton and Courage: The Spirit of Hunt County, TX
Legends of Cotton and Courage: The Spirit of Hunt County, TX - I have two stories in this anthology of stories inspired by the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum in Greenville, TX.
The Sky We Touch
I have several short stories and flash fiction, plus one poem, in this anthology.
The Hills We Climb
I have one short story in this anthology.
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
continues with
and will continue farther along
with the third in the series
Guardian Spirits 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 collections of short stories,
The Hills We Climb, The Sky We Touch, and Legends of Cotton and Courage.
Dale has served as an Army officer, an electrical engineer, and a software engineer, and lives in North Central Texas with his family and dog.