An old stone castle in Ireland

Fantasy for grown-ups

They started as bedtime stories.

I made these up for my kids at bedtime. They grew into three fantasy series, all outlined, none of them for kids. I can only write one at a time, so you get to pick which one I finish first.

See the three worlds The vote opens November 13

Photograph by the author

Three worlds

Pick the one you'd read first

Each one is outlined, five books or more. The one with the most readers behind it is the one I finish first.

A snowy mountain in mist above dark pines, in black and white

Epic fantasy

The Faceless Guard Saga

They leave their names at the door and put on silver masks. Every deed they do is cut into the silver.

A gate across an open field

LitRPG

Luck & Ruin

Magic runs on luck. The worse your day goes, the faster it comes back.

A sea stack against an orange sunset

Sea-monster fantasy

Beasts of Brine and Bone

Magic once hung like fog over every sea. Now it only comes out at night, and so do the things that feed on it.

All three photographs taken by the author.

Founding Readers

Get in before the first page

There's nothing for sale here. The books aren't written yet. What I'm building is a small group of readers who get to shape them.

  • A vote on which series I write first
  • Early chapters, before anyone else
  • A say in names, scenes and the occasional argument
  • Your name in the acknowledgments of the first book

Free. One or two emails a month. Leave anytime.

A cardboard box of well-worn Redwall paperbacks
The box I found in my garage. Every one of these kept me up past bedtime.

About

Why write three fantasy series at once?

In elementary school I wrote a fantasy story for a writing competition. It got picked, and I was invited to join a young authors group. I've been chasing that feeling ever since.

My dad read us The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Narnia. Redwall I found on my own, and it kept me up way too late, reading in bed. Then came the after-school anime, Robotech from a library in Hawaii, and every fantasy shelf I could reach.

Then college burned me out on reading, and I put fantasy down for over ten years. A couple of years ago I picked it back up, and now I'm making up for lost time with a vengeance.

Somewhere in there I started telling my kids bedtime stories, and the stories kept growing. Now there are three of them. I want to turn them into books my kids can enjoy when they're grown, and that you can enjoy now.

Jason CascoFort Worth, Texas