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Hi there! My name is Byron Leavitt. I'm a creator who writes books, makes board games, and cultivates wonder. Speaking of which, my newest novel, The Fish in Jonah's Puddle, is now available at your favorite bookseller!
I previously served as the lead writer for Diemension Games, a board game company with offices in the US and China. While there, I wrote all the story content for the hit board games Deep Madness and Twisted Fables, plus the tie-in books Deep Madness: Shattered Seas and The Art of Deep Madness. I also wrote or co-wrote all eight storybooks for the survival-horror board game Dawn of Madness, which One Stop Co-Op Shop called "the best narrative I've read." (I also edited everything in all those games.)
Beyond Diemension and Fish, I also wrote the autobiographical Of Hope and Cancer and am currently working on many other projects, including the dark fantasy epic Alayaka and the wondrous science fiction odyssey Below the Iridescent Sea.
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The Fish in Jonah's Puddle is now available at your favorite bookseller!
The demon ate their parents.
They intend to get them back.
Jonah Hutchins didn’t think twice about finding a salmon in a puddle in his backyard. He already had a dapper troll lurking in his basement and a snarky harpy roosting in the trees out front, after all. He didn’t even flinch when the fish named Stuart announced that several nearby puddles were portals to other dimensions.
But a demon also lurked in Stuart’s puddle—and it swallowed Jonah’s parents whole.
Jonah and his sister Debbie refuse to let the demon make them orphans. So they gather Jonah’s strange friends and plunge through the puddles into the worlds beyond on a wild rescue mission.
They discover wondrous places like a cardboard kingdom where spilled water could end everything and a crumbling world full of ghosts and mouths. They meet weird new allies, including a massive plastic dragon and an octopus-headed prophetess. But the demon is still hungry, and it won’t stop until it devours them all.
This book combines the awestruck adventure of Impossible Creatures with the dark, hungry dread of Coraline. It is a celebration of the imagination’s power and a whirlwind ride you won’t soon forget.
Welcome to The Fish in Jonah’s Puddle. Are you ready?
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The Fish in Jonah's Puddle (To Say Nothing of the Demon) is now available in print and eBook formats, and I will shortly release it as an audiobook with an original musical score. Click Learn More to discover more about the book and find links to many of the locations it's available.
Minds. Seas. Dimensions.
All will Shatter Like Glass.
His muscles elastic and his mind fragmented, Connor Durham awakens on an unknown beach. In the distance before him is a black tower whose peak rises to meet the clouds. In the water behind him are beings who used to be human, their bodies warping and twisting into horrific new configurations. With nowhere else to turn, Connor runs for the tower.
In the Kadath deep-sea mining facility, Lucas Kane feels haunted. He dreams of lives he never lived and hears whispers from people who don’t exist. During his days, four grey figures vibrate in and out of focus behind him, their words mostly unintelligible mutters. But there’s something else, too, which he sees while both awake and asleep: a sphere, massive, metallic, and beautiful, which awaits him outside Kadath’s walls at the bottom of the ocean.
Separated by dimensions, these two men – and their unfolding stories – are intrinsically linked. As they descend deeper into the dark terrors of the unknown, they will draw inextricably closer together until, at last, both men find themselves trapped in the very depths of otherworldly madness.
Welcome to Shattered Seas.
GET YOUR COPY OF SHATTERED SEAS.
Deep Madness: Shattered Seas is now available in print and eBook formats, as well as a full-cast audio production.
Get your copy today on Amazon, or buy the audio drama at Soundbooth Theaters.
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Where is God when we suffer?
How do we reconcile a God of love with cancer? Is it possible to cling to hope when all we see is despair? How can anyone possibly turn our most evil circumstances to good?
In early 2014, Byron Leavitt learned he had stage four Hodgkin's lymphoma. Doctors gave him only a 50/50 chance of beating it. Teetering on the brink between life and death, he found himself propelled into the fight for his life.
As he entered the fray, Byron determined to shine a light into the cloying, malignant dark. So he started writing. He wrote of his miraculous victories, devastating defeats, grueling treatments, and inner warfare. But perhaps most of all, he chronicled a growing realization.
It is so easy in the valley of death to despair. To be devoured by the night and the crippling terror. To ask yourself, "Where is God? Has he left me?" But what if, in the depths of utter darkness, we can somehow reach heights otherwise unattainable? What if, as we plummet into the clawing abyss, we find Someone who was waiting to catch us all along?
This is a book about life, death, love, loss, and wonder. It is about eternity crashing into infirmity. It is a glimpse into lives wrought Of Hope and Cancer.
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Of Hope and Cancer is now available in paperback and eBook formats.
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