This April, you can join inexperienced caver Emily Golus for an underground adventure you’ll never forget!

How many of these 5 Les Misérables Easter Eggs did you notice?

Crack the Stone won First Place in the Kudos Award’s Fiction category.

“Emily Golus cleverly reimagines Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables into Crack the Stone’s high fantasy world of goblins, elves, and humans.” —Lorehaven Magazine, 2024

I was delighted to do an interview with fellow fantasy writer Adare Elyse, where I talk about what inspired Escape to Vindor and the personal reasons that spur me on to write.

If you’re near Upstate South Carolina, you can catch me at four awesome local events.

Crack the Stone, my retelling of Les Misérables set in Vindor, officially releases today. Hooray!

Celebrate the release of Crack the Stone with a virtual launch party (Sept 23) and an in-person party at Greenville’s Coffee Underground (Sept 30).

Ebook and paperback preorders are available for my Les Misérables retelling, Crack the Stone, and I’m sending these gifts as thanks!

Here it is—the bold and beautiful new cover for Crack the Stone!

One more day and I’ll finally be able to reveal Crack the Stone’s beautiful new cover. Check back tomorrow!

Introducing A Classic Retold: 9 authors, 9 fantasy retellings of classic literature. (And I’m one of those nine!)

The new Vindor novel will be Crack the Stone, a fantasy retelling of Victor Hugo’s beloved Les Misérables.

Here’s the Big Announcement, friends: you can return to the World of Vindor on September 15 with an ALL-NEW NOVEL!

In a recent guest post, I waxed eloquent (ahem, fangirled) about some of the most beautiful fantasy I’ve ever read. Bonus: they’re all clean books, too.

I worked hard on this odd fairy chapter in Escape to Vindor, but in the end had to cut it. I’m releasing it here for readers to enjoy for the first time.

New projects, updates on books, and why the blog is so quiet

MAP MAP MAP MAP!!!

Can you tell I’m excited? It’s taken a while to create, but the official map of Vindor is now completed.

The Vindor sequel will be released this coming Monday! For those of you who would like a sneak peak, here’s the opening to Mists of Paracosmia.

Return to the land of Vindor and explore new nations, meet new allies, and face new perils in the sequel to Escape to Vindor.