The plan is to share a “cozy portal fantasy” with you all that uses a simple magic system and tugs on your heart strings (I’m talking about my character Henry here!) but the truth is, I don’t have it all done yet; the outline, yes, but the actual pages, no. So, you’ll have to bear with me as I navigate being a fantasy fiction writer and share each piece of this story as it is born.

So, what’s it about?

I’m currently calling this story “Project Walden” because I don’t have a better working title for it as a whole, so there’s that. It’s the story of an older female main character named Eryn who is just a loveable loser and fails at her dream job. Her professional failure brings her to Walden where she stumbles upon a bookstore that she later finds to be somewhat magical.

Throughout the journey Eryn will drift between the real world and liminal space via a handwritten tome she gets from the bookshop and eventually Eryn will discover that the world she keeps visiting is falling apart and that she has to figure out how to keep this magical space alive.

I hope that readers that find this story enjoy the color theory and symbolism baked into the characters as well as some of the historical touchpoints I’ve used as inspiration to help set the time and place of this cozy tale.

How to read it!

I plan to share it here, in a serialized format. If I can pull it off, I would also love to develop some character artwork to accompany each piece of the story I publish.

And so, that’s it for now! Let’s see where this goes!

— Rainey Daze (writer!)