I'm T.L. West, an epic fantasy author with a lifelong obsession with lost histories and fractured myths. My debut novel, The Sea Queen's Shadow, is a story of a lost queen, a secret war, and magic forged in shadow and sea.
This week marks a milestone birthday for me. To celebrate, and as a huge thank you to my first followers, I'm sharing one of my story's "ghosts" - a deleted scene that reveals a pivotal moment from Catriona's childhood and her first lesson in trust.
Spiresong is more than just a setting; it’s a character in its own right. It’s a frosted tomb built from a promise, a two-hundred-year vigil given architectural form... It is a monument to a lost legacy, a beautiful cage of memory and grief.
For a writer, sharing your work feels like putting a message in a bottle and tossing it into an endless ocean. A few weeks ago, I tossed that first bottle. This week, after learning more about the currents of the online fiction world, I decided to send a small fleet.