I write to capture the world around me — to hold it a little longer than it lasts. Feet in sandy soil. Woods wet and green and earthy-smelling after a rainstorm. Afternoon gold catching the heads of wild grass. Tea-shop chatter. A blaze of dying sun splattered across the water of a still lake.

When I started writing my high fantasy fiction, I wanted it to feel grounded as anything else my pen had tried.

I wanted to infuse my stories of imaginary with the real.

THE CERISTEN SERIES

… Weaving love of real places and real people
into stories of the everyman

… the beautiful

The Ceristen Series took shape nine years ago, born in the paracosm of two girls who were really into Lord of the Rings and the rural northwoods.