The Nine Lands are a world I began writing in early in my career, partly as a challenge to myself, to create a setting where there were many different — and truly different — cultures. As an anthropologist and folklorist, I enjoy reading fantasies where the settings are both vivid and varied, so I began making a world like that for myself.

I’ve written a number of short stories set in different parts of the Nine Lands. So far, seven have gotten published or won awards.

 

• The Nine Lands
  An ebook collection containing the existing Nine Lands stories.

 

• “Kingspeaker”
  She has not spoken with her own voice in nearly seven years.
• “Lost Soul”
  What is it about the busker that catches his eye?
• “Execution Morning”
  Sometimes there are no good choices.
• “Sing for Me”
  A peasant girl from an insignificant village has a priceless gift.
• “White Shadow”
  The fire of your heart. The rhythm of your breath.
• “The Legend of Anahata”
  He keeps seeing her, again and again.
• “Calling Into Silence”
  The daughter of their greatest shaman is a failure.