Lindsay McCafferty's Blog

After starting strong, I struggled through a couple of chapters. I wrote one, and then I had to come back and edit so it had more substance. But I’m getting through it a little bit at a time.

I'm back, working on book 4 of Sparks Shall Rise. This tells the story of Omen, the seer wolf leader mentioned in Visions and Illusions. It also begins to tell the story of the unnamed sorcerer from Reawakened Flames.

It has been nice to step back into an established world. This book will be darker than the previous three and will contain a romance subplot, as well as a battle scene.

Despite wanting to write the book for two years, progress has been a bit messy, and I'm trying to figure out pacing issues. But once I have the first draft done, I'm hoping it will be easier to figure out what changes need to be made.

I am not the best writer in the world nor do I pretend to be. I never set out on this journey for my books to compete with the great literary geniuses and wordsmiths. I hope that when you read my books, you see a passion for storytelling.

I have always loved stories. Movies, television shows, internet shows, books, short stories, poetry, fan fiction, comics, even music, and games. Whatever medium that has interesting characters and storylines. This spans across fiction and nonfiction. The sto...

This was a quick check to make sure that the game of checkers was around in medieval times. The game seems to be of European origin, possibly invented during the Middle Ages. It seems to have also originated from an Egyptian game called alquerque.

This is one of my favorite quotes from A Dark Horizon. I was trying to figure out what my dragon riders were like and build their own identity. And I wanted to include some danger and a hint of things to come in the series.

I came up with the idea of “A Dark Horizon” in 2023 shortly after watching season one of House of the Dragon. I had been thinking about how there were things I would have done differently in regards to the dragons. Then, after rewatching The Hobbit movies (And no, I don’t agree that they’re terrible. I love them as much as the LOTR movies.), I suddenly wondered if there were any books about dwarf dragon riders. My search didn’t turn up anything.

The concept began with thinking about how dwar...

A Dark Horizon is the longest book I have written so far, but I didn’t add as many words to the first draft as A Stormy Path. I always tend to underwrite the first draft and add thousands of words afterward. For comparison, the first draft for Dark Horizon was 29,135 words and 36 chapters.

A Dark Horizon is the first book in an epic fantasy series about my own version of dragon riders. I used dwarves instead of humans, and filled it with other creatures like goblins and trolls.

But the main focus is the dragons, of which there are plenty of scenes with.

I intend the series to be full of action, adventure, fun, and not to always take itself too seriously.

The book is available at most major retailers.

This is the full cover for Axes and Wings: A Dark Horizon. Design by MiblArt.

A Dark Horizon has been released. I worked hard to get this out before the end of the year, no matter the delays, website glitches, two times being sick, and deciding to do an author rebrand weeks before publication day. I wrote this to be a more classic epic fantasy that has plenty of action, adventure, a bit of clean romance, battles, and, of course, dragons.

Cover by MiblArt and Interior Formatting by Atticus