Preteen Kateb longs for adventure, or as much of one as a world that is only two-hundred miles across can offer. Luckily for him he runs into a girl named Ryn, and wouldn’t you know it, she is being chased by demons. Now he must either risk everything to aide his new friend or remain in his repressive little world. Choices.
The fairy queen shields her face from the wind. Above their ledge is a peak, a marker of both land and memory. In younger days she would visit the tribes of men who wandered down into the pass to graze their livestock. That time has passed like the summer heat at the roof of the world.
“At least as Sofie I had attendants,” she says.
Back before Covid I used to do readings at local bookstores, and such and…
Actually, let me correct that. I used to think about doing readings. What I have actually done, and still do are readings on my youtube channel.
Most of them are older novels, but ones that tell an important story. Such as the George Macdonald’s Phantastes series, where we explore this and some of the other works that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien.
Some of them are in period kit. Something that you might not be aware of is that The Evercharm Series is set in 1815. It’s kind of a neat way of bringing you into the world that surrounds Christaan De Rein, Higgins, and our other wonderful (and cantankerous) characters.
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In the future the elite live in towering skyscrapers, literal monoliths to the analogy of the gap between the rich and poor of Robin Murarka’s furitistic Rone Isa. Despite this though, the education system is such that engineers can wax poetic with a fervor that gives this old reader hope for our literary future. That is one of the contrasts of Rone Isa, a story that follows the budding new artificial life of Enoya, as she learns about the world of man, guided and as much hindered by Dargaud and his indulgences.
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The snow fell thick in the dale that night. Covering trees, roofs, and thresholds alike, laying the fields down for winter’s rest. It was a not a night for old men to be traveling.
Aeros is the Wayfarer, of that much he is certain. The rest of his life? Well, that is slipping away. He doesn’t know when the forgetting began, but the Shadow – a doppelganger only he can see – does. Only by following its nebulous compulsion to move on, can his memory supposedly be restored. What follows is an immersive literary fantasy that will eat all your time. So, send all complaints from your boss to author Zachary Kekac.
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