‘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. 

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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.)

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

Catch you later!

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New Kickstarter Goes Live Tomorrow!

Posted on September 23, 2024 by E. R. Paskey

Excited to announce that my new Kickstarter for a Special Edition release of The Other Side of the Horizon goes live at 9AM EST tomorrow morning!

I am so pumped about this!

If you’re new to Kickstarter, it’s basically a way to pre-order really cool things. It’s easy to sign up–you can create an account with your Facebook or Google account. Then you can follow projects and pledge to them.

Over the past several years, I have gotten a ton of super cool books on Kickstarter. Special Editions, early releases, exclusive releases, etc. It’s a lot of fun to be part of helping somebody create an amazing project.

The Other Side of the Horizon Special Edition features a gorgeous new cover, a lovely cog edge design, and beautiful new interior formatting. (And an amazing new alternate design on the hardback case laminate!)

Regular paperback and hardcover editions will be available, but this Special Edition will NEVER be available at retailers.

Follow this link to be notified when The Other Side of the Horizon Special Edition goes live tomorrow!

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The Other Side of the Horizon: Chapters 1-4

Posted on September 20, 2024 by E. R. Paskey

Welcome to The Other Side of the Horizon! I’m posting these first four chapters as a preview. The Kickstarter campaign for a brand-new Special Edition trade paperback and hardback launches on Tuesday, September 24th!

Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1

The hospital was crowded and noisy. Sobs and moans from the injured combined with the wails of families mourning lost loved ones to create a din loud enough to make a deaf man’s head hurt. The survivors of Port Ruby were packed into the hospital like tinned fish.

Eight year-old Dale Mortensen huddled in a blanket on a narrow cot on the far side of the room, nursing a broken arm in a cast. He sported a large scrape on one cheek— where his face had slammed into the trunk of the tree he’d been clinging to for dear life—and his brown hair flopped limply into his hazel eyes. He had not spoken a word to anyone in five days. Not even ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, which would surely have disappointed his mother.

Had she been alive to be disappointed, that is.

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