Kickstarter is Doing Fantastic!

Posted on March 5, 2025 by E. R. Paskey

I am so excited! God is so good! My Kickstarter campaign for A Tale of Star-Crossed Hearts funded in 16 minutes yesterday!!! 16 minutes! I’ve never had a campaign fund that fast before.

Thank you to all of you who have supported the campaign so far! I am so thrilled to be able to share this book with you.

In addition, we’ve unlocked the first Stretch Goal! Two gorgeous black and white illustrations will now be included in every edition of the book!

This artist is amazing. You should have seen the stick figure sketch I sent him as the basis for the illustration on the left. LOL. It is very obvious I am an artist with words, not with drawing things.

There are more cool Stretch Goals to come, depending on how high this goes. I’m hoping we can get to the next few of them.

A Tale of Star-Crossed Heart‘s campaign will run until 10 PM March 20th. So there’s plenty of time to check it out if you’re interested.

Catch you later!

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‘A Tale of Star-Crossed Hearts’ Chapters 1 & 2

Posted on March 3, 2025 by E. R. Paskey

Welcome to my brand-new novel, A Tale of Star-Crossed Hearts! I’m posting these first two chapters as a sneak peek.

If you like them and want more, I’m launching a Kickstarter campaign tomorrow at 9AM EST (Tuesday, March 4th, 2025) for a super early access to a brand-new Special Edition hardback and trade paperback. (Ebooks, and regular paperbacks and hardbacks will also be available, along with a bunch of other cool things.)

Hope you enjoy this sneak peek!

Continue reading →

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‘A Tale of Star-Crossed Hearts’ Kickstarter launches Tomorrow!

Posted on March 3, 2025 by E. R. Paskey

Starting at 9AM EST, you’ll be able to get super early copies of A Tale of Star-Crossed Hearts, the prequel to The Other Side of the Horizon. I am so excited about this book!

A number of you have asked me over the years to write Raphael and Elena’s love story. It took me a decade to be able to get to it, but it’s finally here. I hope you thoroughly enjoy this novel!

Here’s the banner for the campaign, as well as AToSCH’s blurb. Enjoy!

A lemon meringue pie brings them together…resistance to change may tear them apart.

A textile merchant’s son, Raphael Franco Avarez boasts the reputation of charming every woman he meets. Until the day he meets a beautiful redheaded foreigner who not only seems impervious to him, but promptly vanishes. Fascinated, Raphael launches a city-wide search for her.

A professor’s daughter, Elena Mountebank enjoys traveling the world with her father and exploring new places and cultures. Settled temporarily in the city of Yves in Selendria, she spends her free time hunting down exotic ingredients to bake new delicacies. She never expected a handsome, too-charming stranger to waltz into her life like an errant breeze off the Wild Sea.

Raphael vows to overcome his reputation and win Elena’s heart, but a shadow threatens to mar their impending happiness. Amid the shadows of his past and rising tension about the new machinery sweeping the continent, Raphael and Elena must determine where their course truly lies—and how much they dare risk for love.

Welcome to A Tale of Star-Crossed Hearts, a swoony YA romantasy with a dash of steampunk.

Read the first two chapters here.

Click here to follow the campaign and be notified the moment it goes live tomorrow!

I am so excited about this book!

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It’s Been a While…

Posted on March 2, 2025 by E. R. Paskey

You know that feeling when you’re juggling eight different balls at the same time and you drop two and one of them rolls into a dark corner and the other just…disappears?

Yeah, that’s been me with posting regular blog updates the last few months.

General life craziness, holiday craziness, had a couple of bugs run through the entire family…it all culminated in me forgetting to post over here.

The Kickstarter campaign for The Other Side of the Horizon funded and did really well. I am so thankful to all of you who backed the campaign. It’s also completely fulfilled, at this point, so I hope you’ve enjoyed all your beautiful books!

That said, I’ve managed to stay on top of my newsletter, so if you want to get actual regular updates, you can join my mailing list here. LOL. (Seriously, though, better communication is one of my 2025 goals.)

Anyway, I know life has been crazy for everybody, and not just me.

In the midst of the crazy, though, I have been writing. And I have a major announcement:

The big project I’ve been working on is the prequel to The Other Side of the Horizon! It’s called A Tale of Star-Crossed Hearts.

Continue reading →

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3 Days Left On Kickstarter & Special Flash Goal!!!

Posted on October 7, 2024 by E. R. Paskey

We funded on our fourth day, and now there are only three days left in this campaign!!!

Now we have a special flash goal!

If we hit 30 backers by Thursday, we will unlock character art for Elena, Raphael’s lost love. (Digital and physical stickers.)

Also, we’re really close to unlocking our second regular stretch goal—if we do that, everyone will get a brand-new short story featuring a key section of The Other Side of the Horizon from Naya Azlynn’s point of view.

Thank you all so much for your support! If you’re excited, please share with your friends!

If you like steampunk adventure, feel free to check out the Kickstarter for a Special Edition release of The Other Side of the Horizon.

Have a great day!

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My New Kickstarter is Live!!!

Posted on September 25, 2024 by E. R. Paskey

…and over halfway funded already! Praise the Lord!

I am really excited about this, and so grateful to everybody who’s backed the campaign so far. (Meant to post yesterday, but it was a pretty crazy busy day at our house.)