Creative Fantasy

Jason Sterling had a simple life by all accounts. He had worked the same job his entire adult life, he had never married, and he had no children. He was used to doing things on his own. His comfortable life was shaken to the core the day he learned of his fathers death. It was a mysterious meeting that set life-altering events in motion, and the allure of a new life was too great to walk away from. When an electromagnetic pulse brings the modern world to its knees, Jason's choice proves to be the right one.

There's more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic. From the writing of strong, action-packed scenes to the creation of dynamic, multi-dimensional characters, fantasy author Deborah Chester guides novices and intermediate writers through a step-by-step process of story construction. Whether offering tips on how to test a plot premise or survive what she calls the dark dismal middle, Chester shares the techniques she uses in writing her own novels. 

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Three weeks into a new reign, Captain Rowan believes the fortress has remained unchanged. The banners have shifted, the crown has passed to a new king, and the familiar routines of guard duty continue. Yet beneath that ordinary surface, the kingdom is...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For twenty-two years, Karumi Antha has lived a quiet life in Verlena, working his family’s fields beneath the strange golden light that has always filled the Senvara Valley. He has accepted the life given to him, even as recurring dreams, an ancient...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Ashford, William Crowe has spent his life tending goats beneath a sky turned gray since the ancient War of the Gods. He knows every stone in the pasture, every change in the weather, and every strange vibration beneath his feet. But William has never...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When Kael, a young soldier of Asterion, witnesses a series of seemingly unrelated incidents along a troubled border, he expects another routine investigation. Instead, he uncovers signs of something far older and more dangerous than the conflict between...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a kingdom where the dead can be reduced to numbers and forgotten, Lord Bernhard of the West carries something the Crown cannot easily destroy: their names. Years after famine and brutal levies devastated the western provinces, Bernhard begins...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Bernhard of the Western Reach comes to Aelefort carrying a ledger of names and a petition born from desperation. His people are suffering under a crown levy that the capital has reduced to numbers, reports, and administrative language, while the dead...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Four years after the events that changed his life, Karumi has learned that carrying a Mark is not the same as understanding it. When he and Ravan leave Verlena, they travel into a wider world still unsettled by the failed ritual, the silence of the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ten years ago, Arden of Aelefort was exiled for refusing an order that would have turned surrender into slaughter. The men he spared were condemned as enemies, his name was erased from the kingdom’s records, and he disappeared into a quieter life with...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The world has forgotten its song. Eight days after his village is destroyed, seventeen year old Tsuga finds himself with nothing left but the ashes of his home and a single keepsake from his mother. When a mysterious traveler named Kensin arrives with...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. William Voss has crossed deserts, survived pursuit, and learned that the sky beasts he once thought belonged to legend may hold the key to breaking a system built on control. In the Copper Desert, William and his companions uncover evidence of a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The war has finally reached the field beyond the fortress. Arden rode west believing he was leading an army toward a battle that might decide the kingdom's future. Instead, he finds a countryside already hollowed out by war, villages emptied, soldiers...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When an aging king lies dying, Captain Rowan is entrusted with a final duty that will test the meaning of loyalty itself. King Thaurel knows the crown will soon pass to his son Thorian, a man shaped by old wounds and convinced that strength can protect...

Ruby Martin expects to spend her days repairing robots while avoiding the dangerous peacekeeping forces that roam the corridors of the generation ship the Creative Fire. The social structure of the ship is rigidly divided, with Ruby and her friends on the bottom. Then a ship-wide accident gives Ruby a chance to fight for the freedom she craves.

In this lush and lyrical fantasy, Ryan Graudin transports readers to the hidden magical pockets of early 1900s Paris, a place of enchanted salons, fortune tellers who can change your stars, and doorways that can take you to the most unexpected places—and introduces readers to the delightful...

The guardian of the underworld has been awoken. And he’s coming after someone very important. But not if Liv can do something about it. Meanwhile Kayla Sinclair is tracking down the Mortal Seven, preparing to kill them. Talon Sinclair is growing stronger. And Liv has no idea either are alive. Meanwhile the House of Fourteen struggles to maintain power.

The Book of Wonder is one of the most important books in the lineage of fantasy fiction. It introduced themes that Lord Dunsany worked with for the rest of his career, which created tropes that you'll recognise as if you've read and loved this book many times before.

A collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the facts right Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army...

Post-apocalyptic fiction by Sean Liscom. Jason Sterling had a simple life by all accounts. He had worked the same job his entire adult life, he had never married and he had no children. He was used to doing things on his own. His comfortable life was shaken to the core the day he learned of his fathers death. It was a mysterious meeting that set life altering events in motion and the allure of a new life was too great to walk away from. When an electromagnetic pulse brings the modern world to its knees, Jason's choice proves to be the right one.