A Note from Lily

Across the Mana Sea is available now on Amazon!

I’ve been writing and editing Across the Mana Sea for the past year, though the very first iteration began when I was only ten years old. Titled “The Fairy Land Cronicles” in ballpoint pen on a blue, wide-ruled notebook, it followed a very different Attel (then named Attillia) on her journeys with dragons.

Now, it still follows Attel, though she’s a mythical being known as a faenriin, a seemingly immortal species that bonds with familiars to help their magic. Except Attel still hasn’t found her familiar after nearly 70 years.

So, half to escape a society where perfection is the rule and half to chase her and her deceased friend’s dream, she crosses the Great Mana Sea in search of her familiar. Across the sea, in the Land of Dragons, Attel finds far more than she bargained for: love, death, and maybe even home.

With themes of consent, power imbalances, grief, mourning, and what “sanctuary” and “home” mean—and cost—it’s an unsurprisingly more adult novel than my 10-year-old self would have written. While Across the Mana Sea is obviously fantasy, I truly put a part of myself in all my writing; if you decide to check it out, I hope you feel that and, in turn, feel something from it.

I’d love to hear what you think of Attel and Neveirys’ first story. Feel free to get in touch through any of these methods or leave a review!

Happy reading!