First Mage On The Moon

 First Mage On The Moon is coming!

The cover for my next novel First Mage On The Moon has been revealed on reactormag.com and now you all get to see what I've been working on for the last while.

Mages? Building magical rockets to reach space? What fun! If you, as an all-round awesome person would like to pre-order it before Launch Day on April 14th 2026, you can do so at the landing page Here.

Ella Pickering has been stuck in a never-ending cycle of debt and pain. Formerly a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the great war between the Unity and the Ranneas Empire, she must now use a rickety old wheelchair after a devastating skyship crash. To pay off crushing medical debt, Ella works gruelling shifts making magical weapons for the research and design workshop, thinking of better days.

A late night double shift means Ella witnesses an arcane experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. The device morphs into a crude rocket blasting straight for the moon, ultimately falling into the spell-ravaged No Man’s Land between the feuding nations. But that accident inspires hope: if they could make a device to reach the moon – the home of the gods – then perhaps they could go there and directly ask the gods to intervene and stop the war.

Imbued with new dreams and knowledge, the two begin crafting a device to take them to the moon. But as more people become involved in their blasphemous plot, will they be able to keep it under wraps? Or will discovery of their heresy lead them to the gallows?

Cover art is by Joerg Asselborn; Design by Alice Coleman - thanks to you both!