Frequently Asked Questions

When is book 2 coming?

It’s already finished! Editing is complete. I’m waiting to hear back from my cover artist, who is currently wrapping up a lengthy vacation. In the meantime, I’m randomly picking a chapter and sprucing it up each day. You can almost always find something to improve! Once I can slap a cover on it, the Advance Reader Copies need to get shipped out to my Patrons. Once they’ve read it, they’ll send me anything they found wrong with the book. Once I have all of the post-ARC edits made, I’ll get this thing out. I hope to have it on-hand and ready to distribute/sign on December 7th at the Barnes & Noble in the Forum. Book signing dates can be found at the top of the page.

The ending of the book felt abrupt… what’s up with that?

I wasn’t really given a choice. The book was actually twice as long, and was meant to be consumed in one piece. The problem is I’m a no-name author at this stage in my career, and my publisher didn’t want to spend the money to print a giant book to an audience of an unknown size. If it’s ever up to me, I’ll definitely print an edition where both books are mashed together into the single tome they were meant to be read from!

There’s some info in the book that never really matters. why?

It’ll all matter in book 2. Because, again, book 2 is just the second half of my original manuscript. I’ll never write exposition just for the sake of it. It’ll either matter later, or serve as solid world-building, which a lot of my readers love (and they’re vocal about it).

how long does it take mages to fill their magic reserve after completely expending it?

You have a completely empty magic reserve. It slowly starts to fill back up. But magic stimulates and grows itself, so the more you have at the moment the faster it replenishes. So someone with small magic reserves like Gill would refill completely within about 45 minutes. Someone on the opposite end of the spectrum like Atlas would take closer to a few hours. But because of the way magic stimulates itself, if Atlas casts one spell, he'd be back to full within 10 minutes or so. If Gill did the same, it'd take him closer to 30 minutes because he'd be nearly emptying himself. Does this make sense? I smell toast.

do you keep track of your characters’ magic reserves? How?

I do for Gill. The other characters haven’t really used all of their magic up, so there hasn’t been a need (at this point in the series). I know what each spell costs Gill, as well as the duration spells like Fortify, Heatshield, and Jetstream. Gill has a mana gauge that I manage as I write, and I do keep regeneration in mind as well.

do I need to be familiar with any of your other works to read this?

No! My first series, Gilded Wrath, hasn’t been put to print yet, and this is only my second series. I chose to lead my career off with this series because a fortune teller at a renaissance fair told me to (seriously). Once this series is finished, I’ll publish Gilded Wrath where a lot of the lore for my greater mythos originates. But that’s not to say that there isn’t supplemental material for my stories. I’ll be publishing collections of short stories in the future, some of which feature characters from my novels (like this one). Keep an eye out for it!

Where can I read your other works?

Officially? Nowhere. But I’ll be publishing everything for as long as I can until I can’t afford it anymore. I just have faith that when people start getting engrossed in my worlds, they’ll want to see more and more of it. You can always find that content here on the website. I’ll be updating every time a new book is set to launch.