THE FIRST AND FINAL FRONTIER

Hello there!

It has definitely been a bit. For those of you wondering to where I disappeared, it was to do some serious writing (while not pausing my family and work life). The first of the year I finished a sci-fi Christmas novella (yeah, that’s not a typo, just ambitious and, um, unique project), titled Asunder. It’s part of a collection called The Wonders Within The Starlit Inn. It’s due out this September! Lord willing I’ll be talking more about that very soon (and check out its super cool cover below).

BUT and it is a big one, because the other writing project I worked on was the final book in the Quest of Fire series. Book 7 (title coming soon) was a challenge. It is enormous and fraught and sweeping and took more rewrites than any book I’ve written since The Gathering Dark.  At the same time, it is poignant and filled with some beautiful moments of the series and brings everything to an ending that I’ve dreamed about since before The Gathering Dark was published. Even more so than Resurgence of Dawn, the Lord brought me through the writing process and my publisher was immensely gracious as I whizzed past my manuscript deadline. Even with the added time, again, it was a miracle the story came together and was poured out like it was. Soli Deo gloria!

What does this all mean for those of you who have been on the Quest of Fire with me? We’ll, it means December 16, 2025 you’ll get to hold in your hands the culmination of twenty years of dreaming, drafting, and seeking the Lord’s will and wisdom. I first started Quest of Fire in a high school creative writing class. It was supposed to be a fairy tale short story and became a Lord of the Rings-esque high fantasy novella length story (that my teacher graciously accepted and didn’t skewer me over). Since then, the story grew and developed and deepened beyond anything I had ever hoped. It has maps and music and artwork and lore, so much lore. I’ve met characters and seen places and events that make every writing trip to the Lowlands a treasure. I cannot begin to tell you how I feel about this, one because we haven’t yet reached that official finish line, and two because I’m feeling so many disparate things it’s hard to sort it all out. It’s like when I finished Silent Stars only an order of magnitude more potent. I’ve been writing Quest of Fire in some way for most of my life. And now, the finish is visible ahead. 

In coming days, I hope to give you more sneak peeks into some of the important places and people you’ll meet in the book. As well as get back to sharing exclusive insights into places and cultures within the other six books.

As a quick plug, it’s a great time to catch up on or start Quest of Fire. In celebration of its birthday, Expanse Books has a sale on the first six books (and all of my sci-fi/fantasy books) from today through July 4th! They’ll each be only 99 cents apiece which is a crazy good deal. If you start now, it should give plenty of time to read everything that came before at an enjoyable pace and get really ensconced in the Lowlands in advance of Book 7’s release.

If you’d like to take advantage of the sale, you can jump straight to my books or check out the other great stories by other Scrivenings/Expanse authors.

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Thank you for checking in with me and for being patient through all of my radio silence. I’m looking forward to getting to share more of the Quest of Fire journey with you, so check back soon and may the Lord bless and be with you always.