The Drop of a Hat

Hat Trick, Book 1

A powerful wizard and a lowly kobold experience a magical meeting of the minds in the first book of this comedic fantasy-adventure series.

Absalom Scryne, the greatest wizard of his generation, has been murdered. There's no other explanation for why his consciousness now resides in his well-worn but perfectly pointed hat.

Well, he isn't going to take that lying down . . . or hanging from a branch, as the case may be. Instead, he'll hop on the head of the first foul-smelling kobold that comes along and convince it that it's in everyone's best interests for them to undertake the epic journey through the Badlands—past horny necromancers, rustic werewolves, and rampaging ogres—back to the shining city of magic at the heart of civilization, where he will promptly kick the backside of whoever it was that finally managed to stab him in the back.

Assuming, that is, he can teach a kobold how to use magic, survive all the roaming adventurers who consider a kobold to be a very minor payday, and prevent anyone else from claiming the wealth of arcane knowledge that is now bound within the rather handsome piece of haberdashery that he has become.

©2023 Luke Chmilenko and G. D. Penman (P)2023 Podium Audio

The Performance is excellent the book is fun.

It’s pretty much in the title. Overall I wish it would have gotten somewhat more resolved at the end, but eh I get it, that’s what a sequel is for. It was still fun. I hope Ig gets a sequel to himself tbh.

Excellent

I love this story and can't wait for more! It has everything. IG is awesome.

Pompous Humor

A light and enjoyable story well-told. A great wizard occupies the mind of a rodent due to having been transfigured into a piece of haberdashery.

vocabulary

good story... I really like the Kobold and while the wizard isn't likeable he does have a marvelous vocabulary to be disagreeable in. nice break from DCC.

go kobold wizard, you rock

I stayed up late listening to it. had to force myself to sleep. one of the funniest satires I've ever heard. the hat does most of the narrative because the kobold only has 2 brain cells knocking together. fortunately that is one brain cell more than everyone encountered. reminds me of an old movie by Don Knotts called the ghost and Mr chicken.