Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea: Chapter I

Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea cover image: a wide, still river with forested mountain peaks rising on either side, underneath a clouded sky.
In which the story begins.

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Listen. Let me tell you a story.

I will tell you of my journey, from the ocean at the end of the world to the mountain of iron, beneath which slept a horror of ages long past.

I will tell you of the daughter of the stargazer, who found me on the northern wastes at the end of my long winter.

I will tell you of the woman who dared to defy the seven gods of the citadel.

And I will tell you of the barefoot prophet, for the man who now sits on the throne of Phyreios is not the same as the one who walked among its people in the days before the cataclysm.

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Welcome!

My name is Madeline and I write fantasy.

I’ve been hooked on the genre since I was a very small child, when my dad read The Hobbit to my sister and me as a bedtime story. I grew up reading voraciously, got two English degrees (one with an emphasis in medieval literature and the other with a focus on education), married a history teacher, and finally, after many false starts, started to seriously write.

I’m working on my first book, but in the meantime, I have some things that will be published here for you to read. I’m starting off with two projects: a module for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game system and a Conan the Barbarian-style serial novella. The intro to the module and the first chapter of the story will be posted shortly, and then released chapter by chapter in the coming weeks.

When I’m not reading and/or writing, I have been known to bike, knit and crochet, watch terrible movies, and play video games. I am also an avid player of tabletop role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Genesys, Edge of the Empire, Call of Cthulhu, and World of Darkness.

I’m happy to have you here reading, and hope you stick around!