Author of Hunted, The Relics of War, The Caein Legacy, & The Mage War Chronicles
The Worldbuilder Diaries: Maps and Locations I do most of my location-based worldbuilding while I’m drafting a story. I don’t think I have ever drawn a map first; that’s always a much later step in my process. I start with a list of locations. As I mentioned in the first post of this series, Organization […]
Harbinger is now available! Harbinger is the highly anticipated third book in The Caein Legacy series, which will conclude in about 6 months with the release of Legend. And Harbinger is officially available! From one early reviewer: “A heart racing penultimate novel which delivers the action and bloody battle scenes just hinted at in book […]
The Corodan I have a thing for bugs. Not just the microscopic kind I study at work, but insects and spiders too. Some of you might not know this, but I very nearly almost went into entomology in college rather than microbiology. Bugs are cool. It was only natural that I featured them in my […]
All of my Main Characters I was bored recently and decided to make a list of every main character that has appeared in my published and to-be published books. This was a “just for fun” exercise, but maybe you’ll find it interesting too. So here they are, in alphabetical order: Andrew Caein Books: Exile, Guardian, […]
A few early reviews of Harbinger are in… No, I’m not going to copy/paste the reviews here, but I wanted to talk about a few things that have been mentioned regarding the third book in The Caein Legacy. They’re all positive things, and some came as a surprise to me, so I thought them worthy […]
Reflecting on… Colin This post is the result of a Fantasy Indies prompt from a couple weeks ago, where participants were asked to name their favorite book villains. I had a couple people mention Colin, which got me to thinking… What is it about Colin that makes him such a good (and memorable) villain? I […]
My Adventures in Worldbuilding There’s something about worldbuilding that is so immersive, so fun, that I keep doing it time and again. And I don’t mean just adding to the existing worlds and universes I’ve already written stories for. I keep creating more worlds entirely. I have too many ideas to cram into one literary […]
New Characters in Harbinger This week I wanted to talk about some of the new characters you’ll encounter in Harbinger, since it’s coming soon (May 28), and I took a pause from talking about The Caein Legacy to focus on Serpentus for a while. There are a number of familiar faces that make a reappearance […]
The risk I took with Guardian Since Guardian released a little over five weeks ago, I’ve had some great feedback from readers. While the ARC thing didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped this time around (I think timing just made it difficult for a few of the reviewers to get to it before […]
Reflecting on 2023 This year feels like nothing short of a whirlwind—the last half in particular. But let’s start from the beginning. I spent most of January and February editing The Caein Legacy, followed by a first pass of Serpentus. It was a ton of work, but completely worth it (and necessary) before I started […]
