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A.M. Lavender

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in Austin, Tx, The United States

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Children's, Fantasy, Nonfiction

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Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony, JRR Tolkien

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A M Lavender is a Utah-based author whose stories live between the mythic and the human — where the light of creation meets the quiet work of redemption.

His debut fantasy saga, The Forge and the Song Chronicles, began decades ago in a worn high school notebook, inspired by the sweeping imagination of Terry Brooks’ Shannara, The Hobbit, and Piers Anthony’s Xanth series. Years later, rediscovering those pages rekindled the spark that became The Shattered Weave — the first tale in an epic world where gods fall silent and mortals learn to sing again.

Beyond fantasy, Aaron has written a series of children’s books about the friendship adventures of a hummingbird, a bat, and a moth — stories created for his son, Finn, and meant to remind readers of ...more

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Why I Wrote The Truth I Found in the Silence

Five years ago, if you’d asked me what silence was, I’d have said it was a relief. Just quiet. The one place I didn’t have to put on an act. A basement hum where nothing could get to me.

Now, I’d tell you something else.
I wrote The Truth I Found in the Silence after my life fell apart. Marriage gone. Savings gone. Credit cards maxed. I’d pretty much vanished from my own family. But the thing that f Read more of this blog post »

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	The Truth I Found in the Silence: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Redemption (The Work of Living Series) 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 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
	The Shattered Weave: A Song and Forge Novel 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — 9 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
	Pip, Humm and the Midnight Bloom: A Gentle Tale of Friendship Between Day and Night (Friends of the Day and Night Book 1) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 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
	The Permission Slip: A Field Guide to Stopping the Performance and Surviving Your Own Life (The Work of Living Series) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2026 — 5 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
	Pip, Humm, and the Twilight Moth (Friends of the Day and Night Book 2) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 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
	Pip, Humm, and the Little Lights (Friends of the Day and Night Book 4) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 4 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
	Pip, Humm and the Mystery Melody (Friends of the Day and Night Book 3) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 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
	The Work Beyond Forgiveness: On Love, Trust, and What Follows (The Work of Living Series) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 4 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
	Pip, Humm and the Whispering Wind: An Autumn Garden Adventure (Friends of the Day and Night Book 6) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 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
	Pip, Humm, and the Silent Guest 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 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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A.M. Lavender rated a book really liked it Starfall: History remembers heroes, it forgets what they buried. (The Remnant Series Book 1) by H.G. Ahedi (Goodreads Author)	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
Starfall is a fast-paced, imaginative space opera with a strong emotional core. Arya’s quest to find out what happened to her missing mother makes for a story with real stakes. The found-family team is easy to root for, and there’s a lot of heart und ...more
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A.M. Lavender rated a book it was amazing Wonderful: The Life and Times of Dorothy Mae Gale (The Lambertverse) by AdriAnn Manos (Goodreads Author)	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
This is an incredibly inventive and loving reimagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author knows Baum’s original world well and I loved how familiar details are used to build something entirely new. I was surprised to find that the Wizard as th ...more
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A.M. Lavender rated a book really liked it Torment by Gypsy McKnight (Goodreads Author)	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
Torment is one of those books that keeps changing under your feet. It begins as an occult or paranormal story, with demons, curses, fairy milk, and haunted encounters, but underneath is a dark revenge thriller built around deception, gaslighting, and ...more
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A.M. Lavender rated a book it was amazing The Wolf in the Glass Tower by Aya Dim (Goodreads Author)	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
The Wolf in the Glass Tower is such a fun and original setup. Hell run like a corporation, with contracts and soul collecting and a terrifying demon CEO was enough to pull me in right away. Maya is by far the best part of the book. She’s sarcastic and ...more
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A.M. Lavender rated a book it was amazing First Contact (The Orun Concordance Book 1) by Marcel Koert	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
First Contact isn’t a first contact story in the traditional sense and that’s what makes it so interesting. Rather than humans first meeting aliens, the novel focuses on three civilizations that orbit the same star, each with its own culture, technol ...more
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A.M. Lavender rated a book it was amazing Way Up There: A Sci-Fi Novella by Collin Bolton (Goodreads Author)	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
This was a fun read. From the very first chapters, the book has a wonderfully energetic voice, which gives it personality right away. The humor is quirky and sometimes totally off the wall but that is a big part of its charm . Drake and his iconic mu ...more
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Peanut Butter & Chicken Nuggets is a heartwarming, uplifting story of family, responsibility and how love can change a person. Dan McGregor starts the book as a cold, hard-driving CEO whose life is all about business, but everything changes when the ...more
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Intertwined: A Fracture Novella Mythos is a beautiful atmospheric Louisiana Gothic folk horror. Kenneth Morvant breathes life into the bayou. The moist air hanging heavy on the cypress trees draped with Spanish moss, the ancient legends, the eerie fe ...more
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The maritime world in Junaid Murtuza's Rogue Sailors: A Maritime Heist Thriller is particularly realistic. The level of detail, which includes everything from cargo manifests and container weights to pilot ladders, anti-piracy operations, shipping ro ...more
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