Audiobook: Red Rope of Fate pre-order

The first audiobook in the Elves of Lessa series is available to pre-order on Audible and it will officially release this Friday (January 23rd)!

The narrators for this new version* are Marissa Parness and Max Newland. Marissa voices all the scenes that are from Tari's POV and Max voices the scenes from Arion's POV and the Trio of Daftness' POV (there aren't very many of them but Max did a great job!).

Because each book in this series is a standalone the audio team and I decided to a different set of narrators for each book. I know this isn't a common choice for a series but it allowed us to pick people that really match the voices of the main leads!

Click here to pre-order Red Rope of Fate on Audible

Note that I am planning to eventually write a fourth book to close out this series but with my writing hiatus for health reasons I don't know when I will get to writing that book.

*If you've been a Champion for a long time then you might remember that Red Rope of Fate had a different audiobook several years ago. That audiobook was made as part of a contract deal with an audiobook publisher but the contract ended a couple of years ago which allowed me to hire my own narrators to bring the book to life. If you own this old version of the audiobook on Audible you should reach out to customer service and confirm what will happen to it if you purchase the new version (I've tried asking Audible and I get a slightly different answer each time.)

Get Ready for Red Rope of Fate:

I posted this mini-checklist on social media, but I wanted to share it on the blog as well! If you are wondering how to prepare for the new Red Rope of Fate audiobook here are some suggestions!

1. Read all three books in the Elves of Lessa series! (Or skip this step if you want the audiobooks to be a new experience.)

2. Use the instructions in the Translator Tea blog post to make yourself the perfect audiobook companion beverage.

3. Get your body relaxed and ready to read by following along with the Evening Star stretches video on my YouTube channel (this is from the 2023 Sheacon event).

4. Cuddle a cat (ideally a fluffy white one) in honor of Sius.

If you want to know ASAP when a new audiobook is out you can also join my newsletter and signup for the audiobook bonus notifications. My team sends a bonus email to that group as soon as Audible notifies us a new audiobook is live for purchase.

Evening Star Stretches & Aldelbert's Glory Stretches

Sheacon was a fan led online event which was hosted on a special discord server. The last Sheacon event was in 2024 and due to my health issues I will not be participating in future events. But you can still enjoy a lot of the awesome activities and games from past Sheacons. (Use this Sheacon blog tag to find everything!)

Evening Star Stretches

I recently realized I never made a dedicated blog post to celebrate the Evening Star Stretches from Sheacon 2023! These were designed to mimic the types of stretches Tari and the other Evening Stars from the Elves of Lessa series would need to do to keep their bodies flexible and strong enough to handle their intense training.

This stretch routine was created and led by Sheacon planner Louberry, and in addition to doing the routine as a "live" class during Sheacon she also recorded a session for us to post on Youtube so anyone not on Discord could still participate.

Click here to watch the routine hosted on Youtube! Thanks again Louberry!

Aldelbert's Glory Stretches

And back for Sheacon 2022 we had a stretch routine based on Aldelbert's Glory Stretches.

Aldelbert is a character from my Snow White retelling, and he’s rather famous among Timeless Fairy Tale Champions for his hybrid yoga/verbal affirmation exercises. I was surprised at the number of people who wanted access to Aldelbert's full stretch routine (which is not something I had created as part of writing the book) but the 2023 Sheacon planners rose to the challenge!

We don't have a recording of the 2023 stretches but we do have coloring book pages featuring a few of Aldelbert's Glory Stretches as show by Angelique, Princess Snow White, and the Seven Warriors!

These fantastic illustrations are done by Caitlin, you can see her art here on her Instagram page!

Below is the compilation page showing all 9 poses, and my team recently uploaded all the individual pages to the coloring page as well. Click here to see all of them!

Now you, too, can join Aldelbert in his quest to intensify personal glory!

Click Here for the PDF!

Audiobook Update

The audio team is hard at work on the Elves of Lessa series and we are finally ready to share an update!

The first big update is that each book in The Elves of Lessa series is going to have it's own set of narrators which will allow us to highlight the different personalities of the main leads for each story.

And yes, they will have dual narration mean there will be a female narrator for the female POV scenes and a male narrator for the male POV scenes. For reference, this is how the Magiford books and the Snow Queen series are narrated.

As long as our current progress continues the first book in the series, Red Rope of Fate, will release the first week of January. I'm hoping to work with Audible to assign a pre-order but we aren't at that point yet.

The other two books in the series will be coming in February and March of 2026 but don't worry, there is still progress being made on them and we are planning that both of those books will have pre-orders as well.

Part of the need to push these audiobooks to 2026 is because me and my team have some fun gifts planned for December (including free ebooks!) so there will be plenty to look forward to before the end of the year.

Reminder that you can always check the Audiobook page on my website for the most up to date list of available audiobooks (my team updates this as soon as we know a book is released on Audible).