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WorldWind
236 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 17, 2026
About the author
Brett Schneider
1 bookI’m a Peabody Award and eight-time Emmy-winning television producer, best known for my years working on Jeopardy!, before turning my attention toward fiction and cinematic storytelling.
Originally from Massachusetts and now based in València, Spain, I’m also the co-creator of https://voyagersescape.com/originals, where travel, storytelling, and visual narrative intersect. My work explores identity, displacement, survival, obsession, and the uneasy line between wonder and fear.
My debut novel, WorldWind, is a cinematic YA fantasy adventure inspired by the ocean, kitesurfing culture, mythology, war, and the strange feeling that reality may be thinner than we think.
When I’m not writing, I’m usually overthinking sunsets, or trying to convince people that the green flash is real.
Originally from Massachusetts and now based in València, Spain, I’m also the co-creator of https://voyagersescape.com/originals, where travel, storytelling, and visual narrative intersect. My work explores identity, displacement, survival, obsession, and the uneasy line between wonder and fear.
My debut novel, WorldWind, is a cinematic YA fantasy adventure inspired by the ocean, kitesurfing culture, mythology, war, and the strange feeling that reality may be thinner than we think.
When I’m not writing, I’m usually overthinking sunsets, or trying to convince people that the green flash is real.
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May 19, 2026
I may be slightly biased because the author is the love of my life, but unfortunately for everyone else, he also happens to be annoyingly talented.
Living with Brett means enduring long walks where he suddenly stops to explain cloud formations, sunsets, the history of some obscure war, or why the green flash is “totally real and scientifically possible.” Somewhere between all that and his dramatic sighing over coffee, he apparently wrote an entire cinematic fantasy novel.
WORLDWIND feels big in the way old adventure stories used to feel big. Dangerous oceans, grief, mystery, momentum, strange mythology, and an emotional core that sneaks up on you while you’re busy imagining this thing as a movie.
Also, yes, he is very dreamy. Suspiciously dreamy for a man this emotionally invested in wind patterns.
But what surprised me most is how emotionally honest the book is underneath the spectacle. Z feels real. Her grief feels real. The relationship with her father hit me especially hard because I know how much of Brett’s own heart lives inside those pages.
Anyway, I’m proud of him. Even if I now have to spend the rest of my life hearing the phrase: “Technically, it’s not a flash. It’s an atmospheric phenomenon.”
Read the book. Support dreamy men with emotional damage and outrageous imaginations. Great job B!!!
Living with Brett means enduring long walks where he suddenly stops to explain cloud formations, sunsets, the history of some obscure war, or why the green flash is “totally real and scientifically possible.” Somewhere between all that and his dramatic sighing over coffee, he apparently wrote an entire cinematic fantasy novel.
WORLDWIND feels big in the way old adventure stories used to feel big. Dangerous oceans, grief, mystery, momentum, strange mythology, and an emotional core that sneaks up on you while you’re busy imagining this thing as a movie.
Also, yes, he is very dreamy. Suspiciously dreamy for a man this emotionally invested in wind patterns.
But what surprised me most is how emotionally honest the book is underneath the spectacle. Z feels real. Her grief feels real. The relationship with her father hit me especially hard because I know how much of Brett’s own heart lives inside those pages.
Anyway, I’m proud of him. Even if I now have to spend the rest of my life hearing the phrase: “Technically, it’s not a flash. It’s an atmospheric phenomenon.”
Read the book. Support dreamy men with emotional damage and outrageous imaginations. Great job B!!!
Review of advance copy
As the author, I know reviewing your own work is a little strange, but after years of living with WORLDWIND, rewriting it, doubting it, and fighting to finish it, I wanted to share a few thoughts personally.
At its core, this story was never just about fantasy or worldbuilding. It was about grief, identity, belonging, and the feeling of being pulled between worlds emotionally, culturally, and literally. Z’s voice came from a very real place, and I wanted her to feel sharp, funny, angry, vulnerable, and human before she ever became “heroic.”
The kitesurfing, the green flash mythology, the ocean imagery, and the emotional connection between Z and her father are the heart of the story for me. Everything else grew outward from there.
WORLDWIND became much larger and stranger than I originally intended, but I always tried to keep the emotional core grounded in loss, survival, and the search for connection.
If you take the journey with Z, I sincerely hope some part of it stays with you after the final page.
Thanks for reading.
Brett Schneider
At its core, this story was never just about fantasy or worldbuilding. It was about grief, identity, belonging, and the feeling of being pulled between worlds emotionally, culturally, and literally. Z’s voice came from a very real place, and I wanted her to feel sharp, funny, angry, vulnerable, and human before she ever became “heroic.”
The kitesurfing, the green flash mythology, the ocean imagery, and the emotional connection between Z and her father are the heart of the story for me. Everything else grew outward from there.
WORLDWIND became much larger and stranger than I originally intended, but I always tried to keep the emotional core grounded in loss, survival, and the search for connection.
If you take the journey with Z, I sincerely hope some part of it stays with you after the final page.
Thanks for reading.
Brett Schneider
May 18, 2026
As the author, I know reviewing your own work is a little strange, but after years of living with WORLDWIND, rewriting it, doubting it, and fighting to finish it, I wanted to share a few thoughts personally.
At its core, this story was never just about fantasy or worldbuilding. It was about grief, identity, belonging, and the feeling of being pulled between worlds emotionally, culturally, and literally. Z’s voice came from a very real place, and I wanted her to feel sharp, funny, angry, vulnerable, and human before she ever became “heroic.”
The kitesurfing, the green flash mythology, the ocean imagery, and the emotional connection between Z and her father are the heart of the story for me. Everything else grew outward from there.
WORLDWIND became much larger and stranger than I originally intended, but I always tried to keep the emotional core grounded in loss, survival, and the search for connection.
If you take the journey with Z, I sincerely hope some part of it stays with you after the final page.
Thanks for reading.
Brett Schneider
At its core, this story was never just about fantasy or worldbuilding. It was about grief, identity, belonging, and the feeling of being pulled between worlds emotionally, culturally, and literally. Z’s voice came from a very real place, and I wanted her to feel sharp, funny, angry, vulnerable, and human before she ever became “heroic.”
The kitesurfing, the green flash mythology, the ocean imagery, and the emotional connection between Z and her father are the heart of the story for me. Everything else grew outward from there.
WORLDWIND became much larger and stranger than I originally intended, but I always tried to keep the emotional core grounded in loss, survival, and the search for connection.
If you take the journey with Z, I sincerely hope some part of it stays with you after the final page.
Thanks for reading.
Brett Schneider
May 30, 2026
The world of Worldwind introduces us into a fantasy unlike others I’ve read before giving it a fresh lens to read through. Love the witty banter written throughout and reading through Zs perspective along with all the other characters. The war itself is full of action and love how they utilize the main characters love for kite surfing into the war. I would have loved to learn more about the war itself and more details about the Paskari and Vin Paskari so I hope there are sequels and perhaps prequels to this!
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