Running a Kickstarter whilst writing a book means keeping two very different parts of your brain active. One part is in Aestraea. One part is writing emails. Both matter. #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity

Languages evolve in Aestraea through migration, conquest, and necessity. Pyraeic survives the way Latin survives: present in things that outlasted the circumstances of their creation. What words exist tells you what mattered. #WorldBuilding

Asrin has run The Dragon's Lair longer than anyone can say for certain. In an ensemble like A World Reborn, he’s an anchor: a place to be seen, validated, and reminded you're not alone. 🌌☕

Sept 1 Kickstarter relaunch! Hit "Notify Me" (bit.ly/4wgbF0N) or grab a FREE download at cnmackey.com!

World-building is infrastructure for me. A World Reborn follows an ensemble of people navigating Aestraea and the encroaching Void.

Relaunching Sept 1 with a scaled $1500 goal. Please hit "Notify Me" to help me hit the 100+ follower mark: bit.ly/4wgbF0N

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Druth Cael was the first land in Aestraea. Fifteen hundred years of history, all of it sitting just under the surface. New post up now. #EpicFantasy #TheHearthlightCycle #AWorldReborn
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What does ordinary life look like in Aestraea? What people eat, how they mark time, what they argue about with neighbours. A world that only exists at the plot level is a set, not a place. #WorldBuilding #EpicFantasy

Geography in Aestraea is consequence, not backdrop. The wars of Druth Cael changed coastlines. Rivers on the oldest maps no longer exist. A world that does not know where it has been cannot know where it is going. #WorldBuilding

Before Aestraea, there was Druth Cael. The characters know partial versions of that history, filtered through whoever wrote the records they could access. That gap is where the story lives. #WorldBuilding

Pixies in Aestraea are not what you expect. Their origins are tied to the Dragonkin in a way most people in the world do not know. The thread connects things across thousands of years. #WorldBuilding #EpicFantasy

Aestraea has three ages, and the current one has no name yet because people living through it do not know what it will be called. That detail is the entire tension of the book. #WorldBuilding #EpicFantasy

The Dragonkin of Aestraea come from Thal'Pyrae, a place that now exists only in memory and language. Pyraeic tells you everything about where power moved and who carried it. #WorldBuilding #EpicFantasy

New on the Map's Edge Substack: Welcome to Aestraea, the epic fantasy world at the heart of The Hearthlight Cycle. Named by starlight. Built on cycles. The Tavern is at the edge of the map for a reason. mapsedgemedia.substack.com/publish/post...

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It is here. A World Reborn is live on Kickstarter. The door is open. open.substack.com/pub/mapsedge...

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The darkness in Aestraea is real. So is the hope. On writing both, and what the stars actually mean. #AWorldReborn #Fantasy #Kickstarter

Here's this week's excerpt from my first Book in my Hearthlight Cycle series. This is from Chapter 8: Contracts and Appointments. #fantasy #fictionwriter #Aestraea #epicfantasy

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Breakfast recipe for your weekend. Make your rice in advance so you don’t have to do it first thing, before your kavren (coffee) hits your brain.

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I’m at 53,089 words in my first novel. My goal is 80-120k. Join me on Substack for this adventure!!