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Spiritual Warfare
Where Shadows Dwell follows a pregnant demon hunter and her pastor husband as they are pulled into a global spiritual crisis. Lisa’s pregnancy gives the story emotional urgency beyond the battle between good and evil. Why was that element important to you?
It helps humanize Lisa and Jason. They struggle with everyday problems and yet are drawn into another world that lives alongside us every day.
What fascinates you most about spiritual warfare fiction?
The thing that fascinates me most about spiritual warfare is that it is real. It is happening all around us, only we can’t see it. Sometimes it is felt by us, just on the fringes of our reality. We get a taste of it when we are tempted to do things, think about things that we wonder: where did that thought come from?
If readers only take one idea or feeling away from Where Shadows Dwell, what do you hope it is?
That there is a spiritual war going on, and you need to choose a side.
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What begins with campground humor, church friendships, and Jason’s private gambling spiral expands into a faith-charged supernatural thriller of angelic warfare, political tension, and desperate sacrifice. The novel has a pulpy and intense momentum that is not shy about angels, scripture, miracles, or spiritual hierarchy, and that confidence gives the story its particular voltage. The final stretch turns into an apocalyptic battle of exhausted believers trying to save the world with whatever tools are in reach.
This book is best suited for readers of supernatural thrillers, faith-based apocalyptic fiction, spiritual warfare fantasy, and biblical adventure suspense. Readers who enjoy the high-stakes religious conspiracy and end-times urgency of Frank Peretti or the Left Behind series will recognize the territory, though this story leans more into demon-hunting adventure and team-driven supernatural action. Where Shadows Dwell is a fervent and fast-moving novel that is highly entertaining.
NOTE: This is the third stand-alone book in the Shadow Series. There are also three Shadow Series Prequels. “They Don’t Cast Shadows, More Than Just Shadows, and Terror in the Shadows.
True Epic Fantasy Readers
Cold Sanctuary centers on a pair on the run after they are accused of a crime they did not commit, as they separate: one joins forces with a highwayman, and the other seeks refuge among pacifist monks. What is the most rewarding aspect of writing a series?
Well, the Jake and Emilya threads are only two of ten, so Cold Sanctuary far from focuses on just those two characters. That said, Jake and Emilya are definitely the two most-loved characters amongst readers – but the storylines of the other eight characters are every bit as important, and I know that a number of readers are already excited as they are seeing signs of storylines converging – which a handful do before the end of this series. However, it is in the sequel to The Nessemiah that many threads will converge!
As to the most rewarding aspect of writing a series, it has to be the reward for patience and discipline. You have to get the pace right from beginning to end. Never rush. Slowly build the story, build your characters, build the authenticity of their world and their homes, and above all, make people love your cast, hate them, and even weep for them. If you do this, readers will genuinely miss your characters and pine for them when the book or series is finished. Other authors have certainly done that to me, and people have told me that The Nessemiah books have had the same effect on them, too.
I must also mention that written praise is rewarding, as well. It is a wonderful moment when all of your hard work is endorsed by the comments that you receive, especially when from true epic fantasy readers. There is no feeling to match someone praising the depth of your characters or the authenticity of your world-building; or, indeed, referring to you as “a master storyteller” as Literary Titan has here – and as have a number of others, too, for which I am deeply honoured.
Jake and Emilya spend much of the novel apart, moving through very different environments. Why was it important to separate them physically in this installment?
If you put yourself into the position of the hunted, it just makes sense to split them up. The move has the effect of drawing away Prince Magnus from Emilya and Elyse – and I must confess, it gave me the opportunity to have some fun with the roguish Harry Black and his two sidekicks, Swede and Turnip! Of course, what starts off as high jinks soon becomes much more serious.
And then on the other hand, the Emilya side of the story significantly brings on her relationship with her surrogate mother, Elyse, and that still remains the favourite relationship that I have built in The Nessemiah. It also presented the opportunity to put them both into the apparently peaceful setting at Kifsel Place Monastery – but with a permanent undertone of something being not quite right about it – culminating in the shocking ending to Cold Sanctuary, which I know has deeply affected a number of readers!
The looming presence of Nessemi creates a sense of inevitability. Did you think of it as a war, a prophecy, or something more existential?
I agree that Nessemi creates a sense of inevitability; that was always its intention, and that is why it is deliberately brought out into the open (for the reader) around three-quarters of the way through Book One (The Strains of Malice). Interestingly, there is an element of prophecy about Nessemi that comes later in the series – as in it was foretold – but there is certainly no element of war! And clearly, a two-mile-wide asteroid on an unavoidable collision course with Planet Thera is indeed rather existential!
Of course, by the end of Book Two, the general public of Thera are not yet aware of their approaching doom – that comes towards the end of Book Three – at which point, every human story that readers are invested in takes a completely different turn, as people react in very different ways; all culminating in a spectacular end to Book Four and the perfect conclusion towards everything that I have been slowly building towards. But who will live and who will die?
Finally, for those who haven’t worked it out yet, Nessemi is an anagram of Nemesis – the Greek goddess of divine retribution!
As the series progresses, do you find the world surprising you, or is the long arc already mapped in detail?
There are a few occasional surprises, where storylines take you down routes you weren’t expecting. And that is always a joy. But overall, I mapped everything out right at the beginning when I started writing this series six years ago!
I actually share how I went about this process in the companion book to the series, which was released last month – called Decoding the Hidden World of Thera. The book obviously reveals all of the series’ secrets as well – this after a Goodreads reader spotted that Thera was an anagram of Earth and the supercontinent Epanaga was an anagram of Pangaea! But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Every placename and coastline is a mirror of somewhere on Earth, whilst numerous characters are based on famous historical people – all revealed in Decoding the Hidden World of Thera!
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Is anywhere on Thera safe from Nessemi? Or the hell that lies beyond?
“I’m afraid there are good and bad everywhere, Emilya. It’s a fact of life that wherever you look, there are strains of malice.”
Emilya and Jake have separated to increase their chances of avoiding capture and execution for a crime they have not committed. While Jake and infamous highwayman, Harry Black, lead Prince Magnus a merry dance across Glennad, Emilya has landed in even greater peril at Kifsel Place Monastery, where amongst the peace-loving monks, there are others with sinister motives.
Meanwhile, unaware that their governments are preparing for deadly Nessemi, matters deteriorate for our other northern islanders at the hands of murderous smugglers, scorned exes, and ruthless Abolitionists. Four hundred leagues south, the Theran Empire is also preparing for Nessemi – by rolling out diversions on a massive and brutal scale. As well as the demographic cleansing that is Expurgatio, Emperor Calidius is also driving the deaths of thousands in Liatia’s fighting pits – where former Demonacian general, Draxaelen, battles to stay alive. But little does Drax know that time is running out for his revenge; in fact, time is running out for everyone.
Cold Sanctuary
Jake and Emilya are on the run, accused of a crime they did not commit. To stay ahead of Prince Magnus, Jake joins forces with the highwayman Harry Black and flees across Glennad. Emilya, meanwhile, seeks refuge at Kifsel Place Monastery among pacifist monks. Yet even there, danger waits. At the same time, the Theran Empire prepares for Nessemi, a conflict that now feels unavoidable. Emperor Calidius continues to preside over death in the Liatia fighting pits, where Draxaelon, the former Demonacian general, has been cast into peril. With threats closing in from every direction and Nessemi looming over all, survival is far from certain.
Cold Sanctuary, by Andrew Beardmore, is the second book in the Nessemiah series. It occupies a compelling space between fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction, with echoes of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Frank Herbert’s Dune. The result is ambitious, layered, and expansive.
Readers can grasp the broad shape of the story without having read the first installment, but beginning with book one is strongly recommended. This is a sweeping epic filled with multiple central characters, intricate political currents, and a vast supporting cast. Context matters. Names, loyalties, histories, and conflicts carry weight, and the experience is richer when entered from the beginning.
Beardmore excels at weaving numerous plot threads into a cohesive and absorbing narrative. The world he has created is immersive and impressive in nearly every respect. Many writers build elaborate settings; fewer make those settings feel as though they are recording real events rather than inventing them. Beardmore achieves that rare effect. His characters are richly drawn, their choices shaped by complicated motives, shifting loyalties, and moments of genuine surprise. One of the novel’s greatest pleasures is its unpredictability. The reader is rarely allowed to settle too comfortably, and that uncertainty gives the story much of its force.
The danger is palpable. The shadow of Nessemi is pervasive. The themes feel broad, resonant, and timeless. It is easy to be drawn into this world, and easier still to trust that the story is in the hands of a master storyteller. The only difficult part is waiting for the next chapter in a series that grows grander, stranger, and more elaborate with each return.
Pages: 555 | ASIN : B0F1Z4N1J7
Geographical Quirks
The Strains of Malice follows a 15-year-old girl baker’s daughter in Ghantiss, who is pursued by authorities after rescuing an ill-fated dog from a bloodsport ring. Where did the idea for this novel come from?
Emilya (the baker’s daughter) is just one of many character threads, which cover royalty, miners, druids, astronomers, gladiators, naval captains – and a baker’s daughter! I wanted to start the story with Emilya so that it begins grounded in ordinary folk – but who soon have the misfortune to cross paths with the entitled elite.
As for the idea for the novel, I sat down in December 2019 and designed my world first. Next came an outline of what was originally intended to be a five-book series, with a catastrophic event right at the end. Alongside this, I began creating the characters, and that was when Emilya and her pathway through the book was established. I even created timelines for my main ten POV characters, all mapped together a bit like a Gantt chart!
I then started designing the secrets of the world of Thera – and which will be revealed in a book called Decoding the Hidden World of Thera, which I plan to release at around the same time that Books Three and Four in The Nessemiah series are released. Only two other people know about these secrets, and they are bursting with impatience for the cat to be let out of the bag!
Finally, just to clarify, The Nessemiah is now a four-book series that only covers what was originally intended to occur in Books One and Two of the five-book series I planned back in 2019! The final three volumes of that story will now form the sequel series to The Nessemiah!
As the opening book of a series, what did you most want readers to understand about this world in the first installment?
It was important that the world of Thera itself should be slowly revealed in Book One, along with the pending catastrophe that ultimately ends the series. Thera is a world of some ancient mystery and interesting geographical quirks that I loved creating and slowly begin to reveal in Book One. Indeed, one reviewer who was being very generous about the depth of my human characters declared that Thera itself is almost a character in its own right. That said, there is nothing fantastical about Thera. There are no dragons, elves, magical powers or thousand-year-old prophecies waiting to be revealed/fulfilled. It is a hard, gritty world, for which the publisher uses the strapline, “Poldark meets Gladiator…on another world.” That is very apt.
The strapline refers to the temperate polar islands which resemble British regency times, and the brutal Theran Empire further south, which is a throwback to Ancient Rome. These are two cultures which are destined to collide, but which are currently kept apart by one of my favourite geographical quirks!
It is also worth adding that many reviewers have picked up on the depth and quality of my world-building, given the book is front-loaded with detailed maps, layouts of monasteries, explanations of geographical features, temperature charts, the daily and monthly cycles, and even Thera’s solar system. This is all important information that is going to come significantly into play as the four-book story unfolds.
Where did you get the inspiration for Prince Magnus’s traits and dialogue?
Every book needs at least one villain. Mine has several – hence The Strains of Malice. But Magnus does seem to be everyone’s favourite. I guess he must be a little bit of every nasty villain I’ve ever read about myself, from several thousand novels. Of course, his traits and dialogue have been dictated by his privileged upbringing: entitled, never been disciplined, and can do whatsoever he pleases with whomsoever he pleases. And, of course, he does!
I can tell you that he was an absolute joy to write! I suppose if I were to be pushed on an inspiration, it would have to be A Song of Ice and Fire. There have been review comparisons to Prince Joffrey, but as one wise reviewer pointed out recently, Joffrey was still boy, albeit an incredibly cruel one; Prince Magnus is very much a man – and far darker than Joffrey. Maybe there’s a bit of Cersei in him as well, if that makes sense? But not Jaime Lannister; there is absolutely no good in my Prince Magnus!
As for the dialogue, I guess he is very British. But again, he isn’t cliché’d. As one reviewer recently said, “He does not monologue. He does not twirl his cape. He is simply a man who has never once in his life been told that his desires have consequences.”
I suppose that if there is one character from literature for whom there is perhaps a fair likeness to Prince Magnus, it would be a certain character from my childhood called Count Grendel of Gracht – and you would have to go all the way back to 1978 to find out who he is! I hated him, back in the day, and I think he must have hidden in my subconscious for over forty years before covertly embedding himself into The Strains of Malice!
Can you give readers a glimpse inside Book 2 of The Nessemiah?
Book Two of The Nessemiah, Cold Sanctuary, is essentially a continuation of the various plights of all of the POV characters introduced in Book One, but with the threat of Nessemi becoming ever-more real as their storylines progress and The Event draws nearer. I also significantly ramp up events in the supercontinent of Epanaga, with brutal gladiatorial fighting pits taking centre stage alongside Emperor Calidius’ Expurgatio – a cruel and callous purge of various demographics of Theran society in preparation for the arrival of Nessemi.
Pretty much every reviewer has stated that Cold Sanctuary is better, deeper and darker than The Strains of Malice, and reviews so far have been out of this world – with most reviewers desperate for Books Three and Four. Happily, they will both be released shortly.
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Is anywhere on Thera safe from Nessemi? Or the hell that lies beyond?
“I’m afraid there are good and bad everywhere, Emilya. It’s a fact of life that wherever you look, there are strains of malice.”
Fifteen-year-old baker’s daughter, Emilya Luca, is in serious trouble with the Glennadian Crown. Her crime: to prevent a small dog from being torn apart by hounds belonging to the callous Prince Magnus. Having been rescued by former naval captain, Jake Oscom, the unlikely pair become fugitives, hunted across Glennad – initially for cruel sport but latterly after Oscom is framed for a heinous crime committed by Magnus himself.
Elsewhere, in a world with unusual geographical quirks and subtle energy lines, hardships endure for a close-knit community of miners and unimaginable foul play befalls a Glennadian princess – but these trials pale into insignificance compared to what northern astronomers have just discovered. Four hundred leagues south, in the ancient city of Thera, the cruel eyes of Calidius Antoninus Dominius have seen the same thing – but to him it merely expedites his imperial ambitions and presents a justified opportunity to brutally murder thousands of his subjects.
The Strains of Malice: Book One of The Nessemiah
The Strains of Malice, the first novel in Andrew Beardmore’s Nessemiah series, offers assured, character-led storytelling in a vividly imagined setting. Clear maps and a welcoming introduction make the world easy to step into from the outset.
Set in a pre-industrial society with strong late–eighteenth-century European echoes, the story centers on fifteen-year-old Emilya, a baker’s daughter in the port city of Ghantiss. Her compassion is not performative. It’s defiant. When she pulls a dog from Prince Magnus’s brutal bloodsport ring, she challenges the one person no one is meant to challenge. Magnus responds with predictable entitlement and very real menace. Protected by royal privilege, he decides she will pay.
Former naval captain Jake disrupts Magnus’s retaliation long enough to give Emilya a chance to run. The escape becomes a life. It also becomes a binding. Later, Elyse, a perceptive healer with sharp instincts, joins them on the road. The trio turns fugitive. Necessity hardens into trust. Trust turns into affection, earned in breathless flight and in the quiet gaps between threats.
A strong supporting cast adds weight and texture. Freya, Emilya’s childhood friend, carries her own scars from Magnus’s cruelty. Magnus’s sister offers a gentler counterpoint and a tragic lens on a fractured royal household. And Magnus himself? Chilling. A narcissist with a talent for performance and a taste for control. His depravity feels calculated rather than chaotic, which makes him far more unsettling.
The novel grips from its opening pages. Emilya is immediately sympathetic and never simplistic. Magnus’s amused coldness lands like a warning bell. Action scenes arrive with momentum and stay readable. Tension builds cleanly. Sensory detail does a lot of heavy lifting, keeping each sequence sharp and immediate.
Graphic violence and mature themes appear with intent. They underline abuses of power. They raise the stakes. They also shape the book’s central idea, the “strains” of malice that seep into institutions, families, and ordinary lives. The intensity will not suit every reader, yet the darkness is consistently counterbalanced. Loyalty surfaces. Love persists. Compassion refuses to be extinguished.
The Strains of Malice stands out for immersive worldbuilding, well-timed twists, and a cast that is vivid and easy to root for. The opening volume introduces its setting with care, blending the fantastical with the uncomfortably familiar and grounding imaginative elements in a plausible social reality. The historical texture adds depth and authenticity. As a series opener, it’s gripping and confident. Epic-fantasy scope meets the brisk punch of pulp adventure. Beardmore’s novel is best suited to readers who want their fantasy darker, sharper, and unafraid to look directly at cruelty, without losing sight of warmth.
Pages: 548 | ASIN : B0DYZ5T653
Immersion and Enthusiasm
Lucas Cabral and the Secret of the Amazon follows a group of guardians who must scramble to protect three newborn warriors while themselves being hunted by the Lord of Darkness. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
This story was born from a moment of inspiration during a trip, while listening to the song “I Save the World Today” by the Eurythmics. The narrative is structured into five fundamental parts and explores the eternal struggle between Good and Evil. It begins with an epic battle between a thousand Templar knights and a creature determined to destroy humanity. A surviving Master Templar prophesies the birth of three Warriors with special gifts who, together, will be the only hope for victory. For a millennium, while the Enemy’s servants have relentlessly searched for these children, a secret Brotherhood has been formed to protect them. Each Warrior of Light is assigned a Guardian who is prepared to give their life for them if necessary.
What is it that draws you to action and adventure tales?
I love writing stories filled with action, mystery, and adventure because I know how effectively they engage young readers – a mission I consider deeply important. When a theme is truly exciting, readers become so enthralled that they cannot put the book down, remaining captivated from the first to the very last page. Creating that sense of immersion and enthusiasm is exactly what draws me to this genre!
What were some themes that were important for you to explore in this book?
Beyond the classic battle between Good and Evil, I wanted to explore fundamental values such as solidarity, companionship, and loyalty. Environmentalism and ecology are also central themes; I wanted to raise awareness about the risks the Amazon rainforest faces due to unbridled ambition, greed, and the short-sightedness of those who put our entire planet in danger.
Can you give us a glimpse inside the next installment in this series? Where will it take readers?
The next book will be Fernão Dias and the Mystery of the Black Stones. It features the third Warrior of Light, born in Angola, who possesses very different gifts from those of Sofia Gama and Lucas Cabral. It is an incredibly emotional and thrilling book that continues this global mission to protect the Light.
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Moral Danger
The Founding Scroll follows a ledger-trained merchant’s daughter who accidentally touches a run-shifting guild scroll labeled Vow of Accord / Twelfth Hand, leaving her Oathbound and forging the beginnings of the Vowforged. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
The inspiration came from a blend of gaming, anime, and real-life responsibility. I’ve spent years playing games like New World, World of Warcraft, and Elder Scrolls Online, and I’ve always loved how life-skills, crafting, and non-combat systems give players identity and purpose beyond fighting. Those systems feel lived-in, and they make the world believable. I wanted that same feeling in The Founding Scroll.
Anime such as Shield Hero also influenced the story, especially the idea of power that isn’t glamorous or chosen, but forced upon someone who never asked for it. Seren doesn’t begin as a warrior or a savior; she’s trained to track, record, and survive through systems. When she touches the scroll, the power she gains isn’t freedom; it’s obligation. That idea mirrors real life far more than traditional hero narratives.
Seren doesn’t just gain power; she gains public responsibility. How did you approach writing leadership as something morally dangerous as well as necessary?
Leadership in this story is shaped by my own experiences with responsibility, particularly decisions made through co-parenting, where the right choice isn’t always the one that benefits you personally. Sometimes leadership means choosing stability, protection, or fairness for others, even when the outcome costs you something. That tension is at the heart of Seren’s growth.
I wanted leadership to feel exposed and irreversible. Once Seren becomes visible, every decision she makes carries public consequences. There’s no version of leadership where she can please everyone or walk away unscathed. That moral danger, knowing that even the best choice will still hurt someone, is what makes leadership necessary, but never comfortable. Power in this world isn’t about dominance; it’s about carrying the weight of impact.
What role does the in-world codex play for you as a storyteller?
The codex is the structural backbone of the world. As a storyteller, it allows me to build a setting that feels governed rather than improvised. It defines how oaths function, how systems interact, and why consequences exist. Instead of magic being vague or reactive, it operates through rules that characters must learn, challenge, and sometimes exploit.
Beyond the page, the codex represents a larger creative vision. It’s designed to support expansion into multiple formats, whether that’s tabletop storytelling, interactive experiences, or visual adaptations, without losing internal consistency. I’ve always felt that many fantasy worlds are missing connective tissue between mechanics and meaning. The codex lets me fill those gaps, creating systems that feel discoverable, intentional, and alive.
Where does the story go in the next book, and where do you see it going in the future?
The first book is designed to complete a full rise-and-trial arc. Seren’s journey establishes her as a leader whose influence comes not from force, but from trust, trade, and the systems she helps shape. By the end of the story, she earns legitimacy, but that legitimacy comes with a visible cost. The world begins to recognize that her voice doesn’t just affect people; it affects how power itself moves.
The next book expands the scope of the story while deepening its relationships. As Seren’s influence grows, so does the complexity of leadership, particularly around partnership and responsibility. The world is structured so that growth feels earned, layered, and discoverable, where progress comes from systems, cooperation, and long-term choices rather than brute force. This is also where familiars take on a more prominent role. They aren’t pets or accessories; familiars aren’t pets in this world, they’re reflections of trust, role, and responsibility. They reinforce identity and function, shaping how individuals and groups operate together rather than acting as isolated sources of power.
Looking further ahead, the series explores legacy. It asks what happens when systems, oaths, institutions, and alliances become larger than the people who created them. As influence scales, those systems begin to strain, and Seren must confront whether they can evolve without losing the values they were built on. The familiars, like the people bound to them, become part of that question: what is chosen, what is inherited, and what endures.
Each book builds outward from personal survival, to shared leadership, to long-term consequence, while leaving room for future stories that explore different perspectives within the same world. At its core, the series isn’t just about gaining power, but about deciding what kind of world that power ultimately sustains.
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Seren has spent her life balancing ledgers, not shaping history. But when she accidentally binds herself to an ancient guild oath—the Vow of Accord—her quiet world is pulled into a system far older and more dangerous than she imagined.
In a realm where contracts shape reality and trust is a form of power, Seren must navigate guild politics, rival merchants, and unseen forces that seek to control what she represents. Leadership is earned, not claimed. Every promise carries weight. And every decision leaves a mark.
The Founding Scroll is a system-driven fantasy about leadership, responsibility, and the cost of building something others depend on. Blending immersive worldbuilding with moral tension, it offers a fresh take on power—one forged through cooperation rather than conquest.
⭐ Perfect for readers who enjoy:
Guild-focused fantasy
Strategic worldbuilding
Moral leadership dilemmas
Progression with real consequences
Significant Purpose
The Legends of Astorynia: War of Wars Ending follows a young elf hunter who gets pulled out of his quiet life in Edengrove and dropped into the middle of a world-ending war. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
I actually began writing my book on a whim. What inspired me to write fantasy was everything fantasy, I guess (LOTR, Elder Scrolls, Dragonlance Chronicles, D&D, etc., etc.). I’m a huge, huge fan of the genre.
What made me want to write an actual full-length book would have to be The Hobbit by Tolkien. It was the first novel I had ever read from cover to cover, and I fell in love instantly. It wasn’t even so much the story itself, but how it was written, that I loved so much. I must have read it a dozen times by now. I sometimes still crack it open randomly and read passages or excerpts just to appreciate how well-crafted it truly is.
I started my story much like Tolkien started The Hobbit. I just wrote the first sentence off the top of my head without any plan or idea of what it would become, and then just rolled with it.
I began writing my book when I was 24, though I treated it more like a hobby than anything serious. I would write a paragraph or two here and there, sometimes several months apart. And on very rare occasions, an entire page! This went on for about 12 years, resulting in a mere 6 chapters.
A few years back, when I was between jobs, I decided to finally finish my book with the free time I had available. I would start at 6 am and grind away at the thing until midnight. I did this for 14 days straight. The result was a novel (War of Wars Ending) and 6 prequel novellas—approx. 140K words total (5 days on the novel and 9 on the prequels). I didn’t even mean to write any more than the main novel, but once I got started, I just couldn’t stop until the entire thing was out of my system.
It was a lot of fun to write!
Keagle begins as a quiet hunter and ends as a central figure in a world-altering conflict. What defines his growth?
Determination, courage, and persistence.
The story emphasizes loyalty across races and backgrounds. Why was chosen family such a central theme?
I just like the idea that no matter who you are, or where you’re from, there is a significant purpose for you somewhere in the world, even if you’re completely oblivious to it.
What lessons or values do you hope younger readers especially take away?
That anyone from anywhere can make a difference that truly matters. It’s not about where you’re from but how far you’re willing to go that defines you.
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When a young Elf named Keagle meets a wise wandering wizard called Mannus, his small-time adventures become a grand one in this thrilling and epic action-adventure fantasy of one world uniting against an ancient evil.
In the world of Astorynia (Astor-eenie-uh) as war is ever wavering on the horizon, a group of companions, led by Mannus, travel the lands to bring together and unite the armies of Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, Gruflyn, and Man against the ever-growing evil that is spreading. They strive to bring the People’s Army together one last time to put an end to this menace.
The vile creatures of the southernmost mountains of Shadowrock are led by a wicked sorceress known as Veldora. She leads this evil army of Vurkyn into battle against all the peoples of all the lands of Astorynia, to try and take the world for reasons all her own.
She must be stopped at all costs, and the company of companions are the ones to get the job done. With the help of a guardian dragon, they go to war to destroy this evil once and for all.
This is the story of the final war to end all war in the world of Astorynia.
