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Jeff Minerd

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Jeff Minerd’s first YA fantasy novel, The Sailweaver’s Son, was published by Silver Leaf Books in 2016. SFF World called it “a sweet coming-of-age tale in an enthralling world, mixing epic fantasy with a dash of steampunk that includes sailing airships, exploding gas-bubbles, and floating islands!" It was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Awards and has more than 100 reviews on Amazon.

His next book, The Wizard’s Daughter, will be released on September 10, 2018. Minerd has published short fiction in literary journals including The North American Review. One of his stories won the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Competition.

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Jeff Minerd I’m working on book two of my series, titled The Wizard’s Daughter. The story takes the characters from my first book on a new adventure. You’ll get t…moreI’m working on book two of my series, titled The Wizard’s Daughter. The story takes the characters from my first book on a new adventure. You’ll get to know them better and see more of the world of Etherium. Like all the books in my planned series, this will be a stand-alone story. You won’t have to have read The Sailweaver’s Son to enjoy The Wizard’s Daughter. But it wouldn’t hurt.(less)

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Jeff Minerd The Sailweaver's Son started with a dream. I dreamt that my son Noah and I were writing a story together. We were taking turns at writing it, and the …moreThe Sailweaver's Son started with a dream. I dreamt that my son Noah and I were writing a story together. We were taking turns at writing it, and the writing wasn’t going well. We were struggling. The story wasn’t coming together. (I think this may have partly been an anxiety dream about my relationship with my son.) Anyway, when I woke up I couldn’t remember the story we had tried to write, but one vivid image stayed in my head—three kids sailing a sailboat through the sky.

The image persisted, and lying there in bed I started to think about the kind of fantasy world in which you could sail a boat through the sky. Soon, the world of Etherium came to me, and then the story. It was as if it downloaded itself into my head that night. Not all the details but the broad strokes—the characters, the creatures, the main plot points, key scenes. I never had an experience like that before. A short time later, I sat down and wrote the first scene, and the book progressed from there.
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	The Sailweaver's Son (Sky Riders of Etherium #1) 4.28 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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