The last of the rhynselks fell to his skill. Their blood oozed from their bodies and into a shallow lake of crimson. An excellent harvest. A macabre sight.
He turned away from the scene, tryi...
2025-09-25 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Kelstor, withdraw and prepare Scorching Lance!” Cass shouted over the battlefield. “Pellen, hold your spell until the last moment. Everyone else, keep the queen busy!”
She could have...
2025-09-23 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHer command echoed in her ears as she fought the rhynselks already inside the walls. She’d done it.
It hadn’t been an accident. It hadn’t been a mistake.
She’d meant to override...
2025-09-18 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHis master’s Command hit him like a physical force. Like a slap to his face. Like something had slipped into his skin and squeezed his soul.
At his side, Tiador snorted. “As if yelling it...
2025-09-16 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCass leapt in front of another rhynselk, a Tempest Blade flying from its end. The blade crashed into the beast’s side, slicing through the hide and electrocuting the muscle. Salos launched out fr...
2025-09-11 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKohen grit his teeth as he watched the wall fall and the queen charge in. His hands twitched at his sides, eager to draw his lightning blade. Eager to rip blood from the beast’s veins and twist i...
2025-09-09 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe rhynselk queen broke through the walls with a rush of ice and a burst of physical might. The defenders scattered into new defensive positions before her.
Alyx’s hand on her sword tighte...
2025-09-04 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFour more waves. That was how many it took before there was no room for the frightened beasts to run away.
By the fifth wave, they were packed so tightly that the boom of thunder erupting in ...
2025-09-02 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCass had never felt more at ease than she did on Kelstor’s back thousands of feet in the air. The wind whipped around her, tugging at her robes worn over her armor and pulling her braid in a danc...
2025-08-28 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“How did you end up cooking?” Alyx asked as she stirred her bowl of stew.
Night had well and truly fallen over the camp. Cass sat beside a smaller private campfire at the edge of the cara...
2025-08-26 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCass continued helping with cooking as dark fell over camp and the other travelers trickled into the camp’s center, all lurking a respectful distance in wait for dinner. The rolling night air car...
2025-08-21 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSalos stalked out to the outskirts of camp. He climbed up the wagon walls, slinking along their length, watching the darkening horizon.
Cass didn’t understand, and she wasn’t listening. I...
2025-08-19 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThey made camp as dusk fell, the sky a gorgeous shade of orange along the horizon, with wisps of pink and crimson clouds. Already, the silver moon was visible in the darkening sky, with the ghosts ...
2025-08-14 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx did not stare as Velillia disappeared behind her. She did not watch as the walls shrunk from the impossibly tall barriers between the vulnerable lower district and the wild continent to a thin...
2025-08-12 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCass and company met at the city gates. That company had greatly increased while Cass hadn’t been looking. Alyx, Kelstor, Telis, and Marco stood at the edge of a collection of wagons.
Telis...
2025-08-07 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSalos watched Cass sleep restlessly. She tossed and turned on her guest room bed in the Delim manor, limbs tangled in her blankets, pillows scattered to the wind. This wasn’t unusual, exactly. Sh...
2025-08-05 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass’s next stop was the temple. It floated over the river on the wide spire, its towering glass walls shimmering in the afternoon sun.
Alyx was waiting for her outside with Kelstor. The cr...
2025-07-31 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“A book from the last age,” the woman, Lady Tamara Daith, muttered, flipping through the pages with a delicate hand. Daith was a bird of a woman, with a narrow build and a sharp nose, her eyes ...
2025-07-29 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe reception hall of the Academy of Arcane Arts was deserted when Cass and Salos visited it the next day. A single, very bored-looking receptionist sat behind the reception counter, his head resti...
2025-07-24 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostCass leaned back in her chair, closing her eyes, as Alyx continued speaking with the smiths. The swordswoman explained the other equipment she wanted for herself, Marco, and Kelstor, the smiths jot...
2025-07-22 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTabith started sketching designs on the paper before her.
Cass couldn’t read any of the words the smith added to the margins of her plans, but she imagined it was notes on sizing or materia...
2025-07-17 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re closed until next—Oh. It’s you,” Xri Relven said as Cass, Alyx, and company stepped into the Relven shop. It looked just like they’d left it the other day, weapons on display on ...
2025-07-15 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThaycer returned, pushing a cart into the room, upon which rested three objects, all of them glowing softly in Cass’s Mana Sight.
“These each hold ties to the Custodia,” he said with an...
2025-07-10 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! We're back! The first chapter of Stormborn Sorceress book 4: The City on the Edge of the World just dropped! Thank you all for joining me and Cass on this journey.
Wi...
2025-07-08 22:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grand Duchess was no less intimidating in the private of her audience hall than she had been before her people. Her obsidian eyes looked down on Cass as if dissecting a strange puzzle. She sat ...
2025-07-08 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI’d like to talk about Kohen and Ahryn today.
I went back and forth on whether Alyx should have one or two brothers. I had initially penciled in two more because the ‘female lead’ with...
2025-07-04 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostVery early in the creation of Stormborn Sorceress, I knew I wanted Cass to have companions. Side characters are almost always my favorite characters in other stories, and I knew there was ...
2025-06-27 22:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostToday I’d like to talk about the system of Stormborn Sorceress, its inspiration, and some of the earlier iterations.
The system is inspired by other systems of the genre, particularly the s...
2025-06-19 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, today I wanted to talk about my writing process so you have a better idea what I’m up to all the time.
Each book starts with a first draft. I’m a Discovery Writer, which me...
2025-06-12 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
We’ve made it to the end of book 3! Can you believe it? I can’t. Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me and for all your support along the way.
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