This month, I'm doing something a little different: I'm previewing the first couple chapters of The Wrack, my upcoming standalone novel. (Though it's still part of the Aetherverse, my whole Cosmere style multiverse my various series will fit into.) This is not the final draft, so there might be significant changes to it later on, and (even though I doublechecked) some typos probably slipped through too. The Wrack is tonally vastly different than Mage Errant, and features...
2020-02-18 05:14:02 +0000 UTC
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Got another Ephesia story for you! This story takes place around sixty years before Mage Errant, and two years after Fool’s Silver. It runs a bit over 5500 words.
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Archmage Gantzen Friss, protector of the Garnet Citadel and Alikean border lord, appeared to be deciding whether to be infuriated, enraged, or wrathful. Not that he was probably thinking about it in such clear terms, but his servants had long since identified, labeled, cat...
2020-01-15 17:29:10 +0000 UTC
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This story takes place approximately sixty years before the events of Mage Errant. And fool’s silver is a real substance, though it’s not called fool’s silver in our world. Let's see who can guess what it is first!
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Ephesia of Skoura, Librarian Errant of Skyhold, hated auctions. No, she despised them.
She despised the constant jockeying for position.
She despised having to mingle with the ostentatiously wealthy...
2019-09-06 12:33:51 +0000 UTC
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The following story takes place during the events of A Traitor in Skyhold, Book 3 of Mage Errant. It is, in fact, a chapter I removed from A Traitor in Skyhold. While it's a lot of fun, and met with positive response from my beta readers, it didn't move the plot forwards, and messed with the book's momentum a bit. It does, however, stand up pretty well on its own as a story.
Alustin swirled the wine in his gaudy, semi-precious jewel studded goblet, took ...
2019-08-17 00:24:05 +0000 UTC
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