S.E. Ney's Blog
October 17, 2025
Book 12 out soon
Memories of Mithgryr (book 12) is presently out with the final editors. I plan to have this one out in time for Christmas. We're back with the Dragons of Mithgryr, but thousands of years before we first met them (book 4). Living inside their nice, warm, well-lit (by bioluminescent fungi) cave, the dragons are getting low on fire rock. Their leader, Larthyn, won't allow them to go to the big bowl in the mountain to fetch more, even though the bowl is full of seams begging to be harvested, and on top of that, there's something wrong with the ground. It keeps... moving. Something isn't right!
January 18, 2023
Book 8 started
This one takes us back to Oestragar, but then goes off at a tangent as an Eternal we've had problems with before causes trouble that sticks Alex within a training she cannot escape. Since this is a series of short stories, all self-contained but doubling as teasers for the following books, I have to come up with not just a simple story that effectively and convincingly moves THIS plot along, but one that can sustain an entire novel later. I also don't want to repeat myself, and I'm trying to dodge the Marvel trap of 'same story but the villain is even bigger and stronger than the last one'.
Book 8 (title presently unknown) has also taken a darker turn. We saw that start in Powershift, but my brain seems to be determined to continue down this route for the time being. We'll see if I can wrench it free and get back to characters having adventures but also having fun. That won't be for a while, though.
January 8, 2023
Powershift
Book 7, Powershift, is now out on Amazon. It's a bit darker than my usual fare, but there's still plenty of laughs, adventure, a tiny bit of romance and the usual 'what the heck is going on?' which is resolved in the end (I can't stand those authors who drag it out across book after book to garner sales!). It was a hard write, but worth it in the end.
June 22, 2022
Book 7 in the works
I'm just about to start chapter 7 of book 7, presently called Powershift. This is a much darker story that my usual fare and may not appeal to my readers as much but, looking at the world around me, it felt like it needed to be written.
December 11, 2021
Book 5 out and working on 6
Siphian SyzygySiphian Syzygy was released November 6th and is doing well. Book 6, Rise of the Deyarim, is being written now and I've just started chapter 4. No idea how big it will be as that rather depends on the characters! I suspect somewhere around the size of book 4, The Dragons of Mithgryr.
Books 1-3 (Entrapment in Oestragar, The Anquerian Alternative and Ystrian Dreams) are 1 story split across three novels. Dragons of Mithgryr, Siphian Syzygy and the one I'm working on can be read independently of those first 3, but the last chapter will be a little confusing. However, the main story wraps before that as the last chapter merely links it back to the original books and characters and sets the scene for the next book (or has so far!). That means you could read these ones without knowing the original story if you want to just dive in and have some fun. If you're an arachnophobe you might want to skip Siphian Syzygy!
Books 1-3 (Entrapment in Oestragar, The Anquerian Alternative and Ystrian Dreams) are 1 story split across three novels. Dragons of Mithgryr, Siphian Syzygy and the one I'm working on can be read independently of those first 3, but the last chapter will be a little confusing. However, the main story wraps before that as the last chapter merely links it back to the original books and characters and sets the scene for the next book (or has so far!). That means you could read these ones without knowing the original story if you want to just dive in and have some fun. If you're an arachnophobe you might want to skip Siphian Syzygy!
October 6, 2020
Book 4 on its way
Now the initial trilogy of Oslac's Odyssey is completed, I've moved to the other side of the curtain. So far, we've been very much behind it, seeing the machinery that runs everything; now we get to step onto the stage and see what the characters' lives are like when they're playing their parts.
In book 4, now one-third of the way through writing, we enter the world of the Dragons of Mithgryr. We were introduced to them in book 2, and some of the characters from that story make a return (leader of the Crada dragons, Gorthan, his partner Herutha and his sometimes oppositional second, Brathyr) but they are joined by a raft of others: there's Darthyn, the curious adventurer from Crada who offers to risk life and limb to carry the humans to the new continent; Susan, leader of the human colony who looks for ways to help both humans and dragons to a better future; the dying dragons of Selesis who hide secrets and whose king, Warzak, is under the thumb of the head of security, Mazik; Padzak, the tutor at Selesis who demanded truth and had to escape or risk death, and Eyowenwi, the heir to Selesis who wonders if there will be a colony left to rule.
It's over forty years later, humans and dragons are collaborating to explore the planet but some dragons don't approve of the idea of humans spreading across Mithgryr and want to see them gone, permanently.
If you've not read the first trilogy, Oslac's Odyssey, now's the time to get stuck in, because there are many adventures ahead. This is just the beginning.
Book one of Oslac's Odyssey, Entrapment in Oestragar, can be found here (for US readers):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VSC94W5 and here for the UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VSC94W5
Read the reviews and decide for yourself.
In book 4, now one-third of the way through writing, we enter the world of the Dragons of Mithgryr. We were introduced to them in book 2, and some of the characters from that story make a return (leader of the Crada dragons, Gorthan, his partner Herutha and his sometimes oppositional second, Brathyr) but they are joined by a raft of others: there's Darthyn, the curious adventurer from Crada who offers to risk life and limb to carry the humans to the new continent; Susan, leader of the human colony who looks for ways to help both humans and dragons to a better future; the dying dragons of Selesis who hide secrets and whose king, Warzak, is under the thumb of the head of security, Mazik; Padzak, the tutor at Selesis who demanded truth and had to escape or risk death, and Eyowenwi, the heir to Selesis who wonders if there will be a colony left to rule.
It's over forty years later, humans and dragons are collaborating to explore the planet but some dragons don't approve of the idea of humans spreading across Mithgryr and want to see them gone, permanently.
If you've not read the first trilogy, Oslac's Odyssey, now's the time to get stuck in, because there are many adventures ahead. This is just the beginning.
Book one of Oslac's Odyssey, Entrapment in Oestragar, can be found here (for US readers):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VSC94W5 and here for the UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VSC94W5
Read the reviews and decide for yourself.
