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The Map That Started It All

People always ask writers where a book comes from, and we almost never tell the truth, because the truth is usually smaller and stranger than anyone expects. So here is mine.



The Waking Lands began with a map that would not hold still.



I was going through a box of my grandmother's things — the kind of box everyone seems to inherit eventually, full of buttons and postcards and the odd door key that n

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Published on August 07, 2026 00:32 • Tags: debut, fantasy, literary-fantasy, the-waking-lands, writing
Average rating: 4.45 · 11 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors
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