S.J. Parker
@sui-denas.com
Epic Fantasy Author - The Chronicles of Sui-Denas. https://sui-denas.com books available on Amazon for Kindle and Paperback.
Friday....long week in the day job. But a weekend of worldbuilding is ahead, always a fun job, fleshing out structures of places, new characters, plot lines, rivalries and all the fun stuff, before forcing myself back to another round of edits :-) Have a good weekend all!
September 18, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Friday....long week in the day job. But a weekend of worldbuilding is ahead, always a fun job, fleshing out structures of places, new characters, plot lines, rivalries and all the fun stuff, before forcing myself back to another round of edits :-) Have a good weekend all!
"Twelve years she kept that fire lit. Never missed a night."
Then the Duchy closed the station, and Vedra's sister walked south with "a letter of thanks from a clerk who couldn't spell her name."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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Then the Duchy closed the station, and Vedra's sister walked south with "a letter of thanks from a clerk who couldn't spell her name."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
September 16, 2026 at 6:56 AM
"Twelve years she kept that fire lit. Never missed a night."
Then the Duchy closed the station, and Vedra's sister walked south with "a letter of thanks from a clerk who couldn't spell her name."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
sui-denas.com
💙📚 #BookSky
Then the Duchy closed the station, and Vedra's sister walked south with "a letter of thanks from a clerk who couldn't spell her name."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
sui-denas.com
💙📚 #BookSky
"Nils mapped the world the way other people breathed. Constantly, without deciding to."
A clan mark on the western trail, old but maintained. He copies it down, because he copies everything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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A clan mark on the western trail, old but maintained. He copies it down, because he copies everything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
September 14, 2026 at 6:55 AM
"Nils mapped the world the way other people breathed. Constantly, without deciding to."
A clan mark on the western trail, old but maintained. He copies it down, because he copies everything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
A clan mark on the western trail, old but maintained. He copies it down, because he copies everything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
"The trees are listening," Tonia said.
An hour watching the treeline before anyone speaks to her. Then the line that makes the whole exchange: "Vedra didn't argue."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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An hour watching the treeline before anyone speaks to her. Then the line that makes the whole exchange: "Vedra didn't argue."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
September 11, 2026 at 6:55 AM
"The trees are listening," Tonia said.
An hour watching the treeline before anyone speaks to her. Then the line that makes the whole exchange: "Vedra didn't argue."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
An hour watching the treeline before anyone speaks to her. Then the line that makes the whole exchange: "Vedra didn't argue."
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
"Plans don't survive the North."
Dawn at the city gate, and Cel is the one who stays. He doesn't say be careful. They've both been soldiers too long for that to mean anything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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Dawn at the city gate, and Cel is the one who stays. He doesn't say be careful. They've both been soldiers too long for that to mean anything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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September 7, 2026 at 6:56 AM
"Plans don't survive the North."
Dawn at the city gate, and Cel is the one who stays. He doesn't say be careful. They've both been soldiers too long for that to mean anything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
sui-denas.com
💙📚 #BookSky
Dawn at the city gate, and Cel is the one who stays. He doesn't say be careful. They've both been soldiers too long for that to mean anything.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
sui-denas.com
💙📚 #BookSky
"Or he'll learn. Same thing, at that age."
Hugo gets eleven words while the patrol is being chosen, and you know exactly what kind of soldier he is.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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Hugo gets eleven words while the patrol is being chosen, and you know exactly what kind of soldier he is.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
September 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM
"Or he'll learn. Same thing, at that age."
Hugo gets eleven words while the patrol is being chosen, and you know exactly what kind of soldier he is.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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Hugo gets eleven words while the patrol is being chosen, and you know exactly what kind of soldier he is.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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💙📚 #BookSky
"The North has been silent for too long, and silence has a habit of meaning something."
Liam Adair does not go north. He is the man who decides somebody has to.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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Liam Adair does not go north. He is the man who decides somebody has to.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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September 2, 2026 at 6:56 AM
"The North has been silent for too long, and silence has a habit of meaning something."
Liam Adair does not go north. He is the man who decides somebody has to.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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Liam Adair does not go north. He is the man who decides somebody has to.
Footprints in the North. Start here.
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Finished the novella? Here is what you are standing at the start of.
They got the warning south. The War in the North is what happens when it arrives, while the Duchy is still arguing about whether it is real.
Book One.
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They got the warning south. The War in the North is what happens when it arrives, while the Duchy is still arguing about whether it is real.
Book One.
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August 31, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Finished the novella? Here is what you are standing at the start of.
They got the warning south. The War in the North is what happens when it arrives, while the Duchy is still arguing about whether it is real.
Book One.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
They got the warning south. The War in the North is what happens when it arrives, while the Duchy is still arguing about whether it is real.
Book One.
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A burned farmstead, and a gatepost worth stopping for.
Three sets of marks, cut into the same post. Clan script. Duchy writing. Goblin runes.
They torched the farm, then sat down together in the ashes. Not a raid. A council fire.
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Three sets of marks, cut into the same post. Clan script. Duchy writing. Goblin runes.
They torched the farm, then sat down together in the ashes. Not a raid. A council fire.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
August 27, 2026 at 6:55 AM
A burned farmstead, and a gatepost worth stopping for.
Three sets of marks, cut into the same post. Clan script. Duchy writing. Goblin runes.
They torched the farm, then sat down together in the ashes. Not a raid. A council fire.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
Three sets of marks, cut into the same post. Clan script. Duchy writing. Goblin runes.
They torched the farm, then sat down together in the ashes. Not a raid. A council fire.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
Eight people go north.
It is not really about the army they find. It is about a patrol sharing bread and arguing about who hums when they are nervous.
Seven shadows where there had been eight.
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It is not really about the army they find. It is about a patrol sharing bread and arguing about who hums when they are nervous.
Seven shadows where there had been eight.
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August 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Eight people go north.
It is not really about the army they find. It is about a patrol sharing bread and arguing about who hums when they are nervous.
Seven shadows where there had been eight.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
It is not really about the army they find. It is about a patrol sharing bread and arguing about who hums when they are nervous.
Seven shadows where there had been eight.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
The antagonist of these books is not a dark lord. He is a reasonable man with a ledger.
It was a reasonable argument. That was what made it dangerous.
The opening scene of Footprints in the North.
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It was a reasonable argument. That was what made it dangerous.
The opening scene of Footprints in the North.
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August 20, 2026 at 6:55 AM
The antagonist of these books is not a dark lord. He is a reasonable man with a ledger.
It was a reasonable argument. That was what made it dangerous.
The opening scene of Footprints in the North.
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It was a reasonable argument. That was what made it dangerous.
The opening scene of Footprints in the North.
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Start here: Footprints in the North.
Eight people ride north to find out why the beacon towers have gone dark.
Somewhere in it, a promise gets made that Book One spends its entire length keeping.
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Eight people ride north to find out why the beacon towers have gone dark.
Somewhere in it, a promise gets made that Book One spends its entire length keeping.
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August 17, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Start here: Footprints in the North.
Eight people ride north to find out why the beacon towers have gone dark.
Somewhere in it, a promise gets made that Book One spends its entire length keeping.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
Eight people ride north to find out why the beacon towers have gone dark.
Somewhere in it, a promise gets made that Book One spends its entire length keeping.
sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
Four books now, and the same question every time: where do I start?
The War in the North. Book one. That's the whole answer.
Footprints is what you go back for afterwards, when you want more of the world.
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The War in the North. Book one. That's the whole answer.
Footprints is what you go back for afterwards, when you want more of the world.
sui-denas.com
💙📚 #BookSky
August 10, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Four books now, and the same question every time: where do I start?
The War in the North. Book one. That's the whole answer.
Footprints is what you go back for afterwards, when you want more of the world.
sui-denas.com
💙📚 #BookSky
The War in the North. Book one. That's the whole answer.
Footprints is what you go back for afterwards, when you want more of the world.
sui-denas.com
💙📚 #BookSky
Roads run both ways. And whatever is waiting on the other side of this one has been watching it climb, all season, from below.
What the Mountain Kept — out now.
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What the Mountain Kept — out now.
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August 1, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Roads run both ways. And whatever is waiting on the other side of this one has been watching it climb, all season, from below.
What the Mountain Kept — out now.
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What the Mountain Kept — out now.
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Readers keep reaching for the same names. 🏔️
"If you like John Gwynne you'll like this." "Great for fans of LOTR or Game of Thrones."
Their words, not ours — go and read them yourself.
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"If you like John Gwynne you'll like this." "Great for fans of LOTR or Game of Thrones."
Their words, not ours — go and read them yourself.
The Chronicles of Sui-Denas → sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
July 30, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Readers keep reaching for the same names. 🏔️
"If you like John Gwynne you'll like this." "Great for fans of LOTR or Game of Thrones."
Their words, not ours — go and read them yourself.
The Chronicles of Sui-Denas → sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
"If you like John Gwynne you'll like this." "Great for fans of LOTR or Game of Thrones."
Their words, not ours — go and read them yourself.
The Chronicles of Sui-Denas → sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
"So you tell me what's up there that's bad enough to put the thing everything runs from on the run."
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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July 29, 2026 at 6:55 AM
"So you tell me what's up there that's bad enough to put the thing everything runs from on the run."
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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Today's words..... "Timeline" and "You've broken it again Steve..." it's so easy to forget the bigger picture when you're in the zone throwing down words on the page!
July 28, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Today's words..... "Timeline" and "You've broken it again Steve..." it's so easy to forget the bigger picture when you're in the zone throwing down words on the page!
Off the edge of the maps. 🏔️ In The Far Watch, the land does what the maps say — for a morning. Then it stops. Because the maps stop. The Chronicles of Sui-Denas, out now. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RJMV4W 💙📚 #BookSky
July 28, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Off the edge of the maps. 🏔️ In The Far Watch, the land does what the maps say — for a morning. Then it stops. Because the maps stop. The Chronicles of Sui-Denas, out now. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RJMV4W 💙📚 #BookSky
Few beers in the pub...oh lets crack on with a few scenes, get some prose laid down, a few edits, tomorrow Steve can sort it...committed five scenes and 20 edits to the DB....good luck tomorrow Steve! :-D
July 26, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Few beers in the pub...oh lets crack on with a few scenes, get some prose laid down, a few edits, tomorrow Steve can sort it...committed five scenes and 20 edits to the DB....good luck tomorrow Steve! :-D
The lad tells the story of the stone four times tonight. The shovel rings a little louder each time he gets to the good part.
Nobody stops him.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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Nobody stops him.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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July 26, 2026 at 6:55 AM
The lad tells the story of the stone four times tonight. The shovel rings a little louder each time he gets to the good part.
Nobody stops him.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
sui-denas.com/book/what-the-mountain-kept
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Nobody stops him.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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The Duchy of Valbena — the realm's northern shield. 🏔️ The last duchy before the mountains, where the maps run out and the watch begins. Everything south of it sleeps easier because Valbena does not. The world of the Chronicles of Sui-Denas → sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
July 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
The Duchy of Valbena — the realm's northern shield. 🏔️ The last duchy before the mountains, where the maps run out and the watch begins. Everything south of it sleeps easier because Valbena does not. The world of the Chronicles of Sui-Denas → sui-denas.com 💙📚 #BookSky
He did not say the name. He did not need to. 🏔️ "Last time we ranged out this far, it was to carry a boy home." Hugo has served long enough to know what the north costs. The Far Watch, Book Two, out now → amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RJMV4W 💙📚 #BookSky
July 23, 2026 at 6:55 AM
He did not say the name. He did not need to. 🏔️ "Last time we ranged out this far, it was to carry a boy home." Hugo has served long enough to know what the north costs. The Far Watch, Book Two, out now → amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RJMV4W 💙📚 #BookSky
A slide is not a wall you take down.
Seventy years reading stone. One season to open the pass.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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Seventy years reading stone. One season to open the pass.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
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💙📚 #BookSky
July 22, 2026 at 6:56 AM
A slide is not a wall you take down.
Seventy years reading stone. One season to open the pass.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
sui-denas.com/book/what-the-mountain-kept
💙📚 #BookSky
Seventy years reading stone. One season to open the pass.
What the Mountain Kept — 1 August. Pre-order now.
sui-denas.com/book/what-the-mountain-kept
💙📚 #BookSky
Six ride north. 🏔️ Garn reads the ground at a canter; Vedra takes the high lines and says less; Tonia watches a country by its exits; Hugo rides at the back and watches them all. The scouts of The Far Watch, Book Two. Out now → amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RJMV4W 💙📚 #BookSky
July 21, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Six ride north. 🏔️ Garn reads the ground at a canter; Vedra takes the high lines and says less; Tonia watches a country by its exits; Hugo rides at the back and watches them all. The scouts of The Far Watch, Book Two. Out now → amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4RJMV4W 💙📚 #BookSky