A.J. Calvin

Author of The Relics of War, The Caein Legacy, & Wraith and the Revolution

The Caein Legacy: Magic, Magi, and The Oracle

The Caein Legacy: Magic, Magi, and The Oracle What’s a fantasy book without magic of some form? The Caein Legacy is no exception, but the way I built the magic system for this series (and the related series The Mage War Chronicles) is different than what I’ve done in the past. Rather than have a […]

The Caein Legacy’s Long History

The Caein Legacy’s Long History On May 24, 2019, I started writing something “new.” It was a story that had been brewing in my head for years, one that I’d started and stopped countless times, often with different characters featured as the main, but nothing felt right. Not until that date, anyway. There were several […]

The Caein Legacy: Cover Artwork

The Caein Legacy: Cover Artwork Note: If you’re having difficulty viewing images, please click on the blog title at the top of your email to view it in a web browser. There is a recent issue preventing some mobile users to view imbedded images from my posts. Back in January, I mentioned that I’d come […]

FantasyIndiesSpooktober2021

My #FantasyIndiesSpooktober Responses For those who follow me on Twitter, you probably noticed I was participating in a fun Q&A during the month of October. I also posted my daily responses to my Facebook reader group. For those who don’t follow me on social media, I compiled all of the responses here for your reading […]

The Science in my Fantasy Writing

The Science in my Fantasy Writing As some of you may have seen, I was invited to do an interview with Boomers on Books for their YouTube channel last weekend. I was approached for the interview last Friday, and we had everything set and scheduled to go live the next day. It did not give […]

The Caein Legacy, Character Profile: Alexander

The Caein Legacy, Character Profile: Alexander At the beginning of February, I launched a poll on Facebook to help me determine which character profile to release next from my latest series, The Caein Legacy. The results came back with an overwhelming majority (75%) voting for Alexander (vs. 25% for Colin). Alexander is the primary supporting […]

Reflecting on 2020

Reflecting on 2020 On this, the final day of the year 2020, I suspect many people are reflecting upon the past twelve months, just as I am. I will concede that this year has had its trials—more so than most others I’ve experienced—but there have been some good things to come of this year as […]

Giving Thanks in 2020

Giving Thanks in 2020 It has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a post, but I decided to take a bit of time off after the book launch of Hunted in October to work on some other projects. The three months leading up to the launch were incredibly busy for me, in […]

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