J.E. Brand: What's Next and Book Recs


The Starving Author

J.E. Brand

She is a mermaid, but approach her with caution, her mind swims at depths most would drown in.

―J. Iron Word

What's Next

If you've been following my newsletter, you may remember me promising certain stories. First, a novella about Albert Thys, which which will take place from the end of WWI until he reunites with Hattie. Second, a short story or novella about Norah Jane Vaughn and Athanasios Kokkinos after WWII. And don't worry! Those will still happen, but my mind has been been lost in a fictional world under the sea.

I'm not sure the order they'll be published, but the next novel I write will actually be a sapphic fantasy! I've been obsessed with mermaids since before I could remember, and I've been wanting to write about one since forever. I decided I wanted to pair her up with a pirate - because of course! - but I still couldn't imagine this pirate. He was just a vague blob. Cut to my sister saying, "What if the pirate was a woman?" And boom! I had my protagonist and the love interest, and then everything else fell into place. That's all I'll say for now, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words right? What about five?

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Curse of Infiniti

Can she collect enough fragments of her past before the nightmarish figure from her dreams catches up with her?

As she wakes up in a bedroom she doesn’t recognize, Ellayne becomes increasingly aware of one thing: she has no memories—no identity—no name.

Dark figures not only haunt her nightmares, but also stalk her in reality. Ellayne finds herself on the run, chased by a hooded archer with deadly aim.

When the source of her memory loss is uncovered, Ellayne and the companions she’s made along the way must find a way to reverse the damage done to her by magic before she loses her memories again.

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Before Root and Ruin

The grove was hungry.

Aisling felt it in the soles of her bare feet — a slow pulse rising through damp earth and tangled root, a heartbeat not her own. She had served the Bloodroot Grove since girlhood, the way her mother had before her, and her mother before that. She knew what the land wanted. She knew what it had already taken. And when the grove whispered completion and showed her a grey-eyed stranger at its border, she knew something old and terrible was about to be asked of her.

Cael of Ashvale was meant to be his father’s weapon — a hostage in name, a spy in fact, sent north under a peace-truce to find how the sacred forest his clan had warred against for three generations could finally be broken. He was not meant to fall in love with its keeper. He was not meant to hear the earth speak his name. He was not meant to choose her people over his own.

Their love is forbidden in every language they share. Their clans will never forgive it. The grove does not care. It has waited longer than memory for blood freely given — a union to satisfy a hunger older than the first oath ever sworn. What Aisling and Cael offer will end a war. What it costs will bind every descendant who follows them to a grove that will never stop asking, an oath they never chose, and a love that rooted itself into the bones of the world.

This is the story that started the Bloodroot legend.
The land remembers. The oaths endure.

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