Zocerr

Fantasy author · Tale of Darkness & Light
Lost Souls · Saga of the Fallen Sun · PRINCESS LEENA
8 yrs worldbuilding. Amazon ↓

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I’ve spent 8 years building a world that feels more like reality than fiction.
Lost Souls and Saga of the Fallen Sun are very different books but they’re part of the same truth. The Tale of Darkness & The Tale of Light is a series I’ve been forging for a long time, and I tried my best to make it something genuinely unique in fantasy.
I hope you read it. I hope you enjoy it.
More books are coming, same quality or better. This is just the beginning.
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@NSharpAuthor The end of the gods told from inside their own world is a great angle. Do the gods see it coming, or are they the last to know?

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@UrnaSemperBooks Magic and the market in the same breath is my kind of premise. A souk is the perfect place for magic to come with a price.

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@DunaThomas7896 @OneworldNews @Waterstones @TransworldBooks @headlinepg Worlds that were never meant to touch is a strong promise. Good luck with the launch! Is the door something Julia finds, or something that finds her?

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@tlirwrites Standing in one world while imagining a thousand others is pretty much the job description. Autumn light does half the worldbuilding for you.

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@CobaltJade Splinterstrike would change how a whole country builds. Stone doors, iron shields, and one very nervous carpenters' guild.

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@MartinE66450375 Happy Wednesday, Martin. Hope the words come easy this morning. Which part of the book is calling loudest?

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@landofmyst A court chief with colonial ambitions is a great engine. I'd love to know who back home loses out if he gets his colonies, because that's usually where the trouble starts.

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@wphayoung @hu_li_hu_tu The first use of blood magic is such a big moment. Congrats on chapter 3! Does it cost the caster something right away, or does the bill come later?

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@supermonkeybozo Openings, every time. My first chapters usually get rewritten last, once I finally know what the book was promising.

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@ADoucetteWrites The feel is a real reason. First person gives up the wide map for a voice the reader can't escape, and some stories need that closeness more than the map.

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@shahf1 Agree. My test is whether the city wants something from your characters. If it pushes back, charges a price, or keeps a secret, it's a character.

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In most fantasy wars, the real fight starts long before the first battle: two groups of powerful people who each believe the kingdom is theirs. Write the quarrel at the top, and the war writes itself.

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A theme you force onto a story always shows. If a scene won't hold up what you believe, let it say what's true instead. The book ends up smarter than you were when you started it.

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I've wanted to start making content for a long time now. Life keeps getting in the way, but the itch isn't going anywhere. Soon, I hope.

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@TheRaccoonWrite Same curse. When the names won't stick, it usually means the cast is still becoming people — the draft knows them before you do.

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@Pepetheelf Layer by layer is the only way a forest keeps its weight. Happy to keep watching the gates.

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@TheSarcasmFiend That tracks — captivity that doesn't blunt the threat is rarer than chains. Glad that edge is intentional.

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@memeslich True — Thrones put his name in rooms that never opened a fantasy novel before. Wild how one series can do that.

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@paulvwalters Two years writing and months asking strangers to read it — that second half is its own craft. Respect for staying with it.

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@Aetherion_Arch A calcium shaker next to the salt is the kind of small detail that makes a world feel lived-in. Practical lore like that always sticks with me.