Category: Connected Worlds (Aescalon)

Bubbles of Creation, the third book of Connected Realms, will be released May 7, 2025 Available on Amazon for pre-order Kindle link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NW9LFF The paperback has been finalized and will be available but for some reason it doesn’t show until the book goes ‘live’ Paperback link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4PNL2PP (It will be available on all the Books2Read…

The release date for Bubbles of Creation has been set to May 7, 2025 Expect a cover announcement soon. It will be the third and final novel in the Connected Realms series, featuring Alexan as main character. I do have ideas for two additional novels in the same setting, likely using Alexan and Petra’s children…

Chapter One The tower shivered beneath our feet, swaying half a pace to and fro, as the ground underneath bucked and shook.  Fixtures and furniture creaked; most of my major equipment was stable, but lighter items such as tools rattled in their holders.  “Husband, did’s’t thee feel that?” Petra asked. “I would have had to…

A: I am Alexan, Jarl of Ygg in Treemount, on Migurd. P: And I am Petra, Frue of Ygg 2.Tell us where and when were you born. A: I was ‘born’ in the Empire of Humanity as a splinter of an ultsi. I became an independent entity when he made a mistake that ended up…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086D3XGR7 Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/meg8Qg “Somehow, I thought there would be more for a god to do.” “Why husband, you always seem busy enough,” Petra replied. “Those are my own projects, and I know I spend more time than you would prefer on them.  But I presumed the position of being a god came…

This is Petra, as we first meet her in Fountains of Aescalon. By the time of Monad Trap, she’s a different entity, and in Bubbles Of Creation, much more evolved. Who are you? I am Petra. Tell us where and when were you born? I wasn’t born. I am the product of a myth that…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5H3Z4Q Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bwWMgY My brother been right; the antigravity stopped working as soon as I was through.  The pallet collapsed heavily onto the two axles I’d just installed. The surface I was on was hard rock.  Despite the fact that all I could see or perceive of this place was flat or…

(This will be the third Connected Worlds novel, after Fountains of Aescalon and The Monad Trap) **************************** My burden wasn’t heavy for augmented muscles, just a little awkward.  Even without matris, the hardest part of bringing her down would have been getting her through the roof hatch.  Spak doesn’t affect mass, it simply becomes a…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086D3XGR7 Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/meg8Qg Afterwards, I felt her revert to her more accustomed shape as we lay entwined together, enjoying the feeling of simply touching and being touched as we enjoyed each other’s company.  “Hast thou an entertainment planned for Queen Veronia’s salon?” she asked. “I hadn’t planned on one.  You had told…

The Connected Worlds Series (Fountains of Aescalon, The Monad Trap, and the upcoming Bubbles of Creation) are an homage to Zelazny’s Amber, Moorcock’s Tanelorn, and others, what’s generally called portal fantasy. A network of gates links the Connected Worlds via Aescalon, a central cavern that connects them all – 165 worlds that anyone can see,…