Urban fantasy

Um, and they had a falling out, so I wanted to see what the falling out was about, and I wrote that backstory.

And then I still had a ways to go, so I added, um, essentially newspaper clippings of, um, the world because I thought with it being a, uh, a urban fantasy type world- You would, you would enjoy that and this is one of those weird moments of, like, serendipity where when I was in grad school, I wrote a, a s- sort of urban fantasy novel, um, that was essentially like what, what would Tolkien's world look like in the modern day kind of thing.

That was the premise of that story.

But in that-

Um, l- like I said, I, I do wanna r- m- my ...

The idea behind this is people who are here watching, listening to the interview for Jeremiah, Cast a Deadly Spell, now they're made aware of Steve's book and vice versa.

You know, people who are here for the, for that sort of fantasy now are aware that of the novelization, the urban fantasy Cast a Deadly Spell.

That said-

Exactly.

Next up we have Urban Fantasy.

Which maybe seems a little odd, but like it is, there's some games that I think really kind of fit that mold.

The ones that I had in mind are like all from Atlas, actually, and maybe others.

Not enough, yeah.

Like, there are more, I think, coming out, especially because of Atlus' influence, especially.

And there's, I think, a growing appreciation for, like, anime and manga that have more of the urban fantasy elements, like Chainsaw Man and, like, Tokyo Ghoul, like, all

those things.

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Our first story, Klytics.

Urban Fantasy is paying about $400,000 a month, and that's down about 22%.

According to the K-Lytics Urban Fantasy Market Seminar, September 2026, Alex Newton marked the 10th year of this research with a 110-page report and a 1-hour and 14-minute seminar.

I'm going to circle back to that one.

Like Urban Fantasy?

Yes.

Okay.

And also the, the tension between characters is similar.

So I, and it's difficult to, because I'm going into like a dark urban fantasy and, everyone who reads that genre reads really broad.

So when you go to look at particular books and you think, oh, this kind of sounds like the book that I'm going to release.

Let me see the also bought... it's no help it's no help because because and the the only good thing that i can say is um the also bought for all of the books i've picked are the same they're like but but they also but they're also very broad and there's just like because i'm doing a romance arc as well It's just that people who like reading romance and fantasy will read all of these books.

That's similar.

So because it's quite a broad genre where there's a lot of people doing a lot of stuff and there is a lot of crossover.

There's a lot of high fantasy stuff that crosses over into urban fantasy, paranormal fantasy.

And I specifically am not a high fantasy person.

Hey, Cobalt, thank you so much.

"How do y'all rank Shadowrun among urban fantasy settings? Also if you had lizard kobolds as PCs, could you be a servant of the Big D? Aw." [laughs] Bless his heart.

You could help, uh, you know, with a BBS posting.

[laughs] I'm sure that's delegated.

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On urban fantasy settings, I think to like World of Darkness.

Uh, uh, would, would you, would you say that Shadowrun is like...

And this is the one series that did make it onto my list.

Urban Fantasy.

It's Rivers of London by Ben Aronovich.

So there are 15 books in this series.

And then there's also a short story collection and they have a bunch of graphic novels as well.

I love this series.

It is a police procedural urban fantasy.

So it follows a young policeman named Peter Grant who... um set in london obviously and when he comes out of the academy he gets effectively poached by this one guy who has like no staff and he's like what is going on here turns out he's a wizard