Epic Fantasy Books by Alikai Bronach

I invented skyearls when I started writing Tiger Eyes and Dragon Teeth as a teenager (1998). The above image is a Photoshopped version of a DALLE AI-generated image. It did a pretty good job. I also like to use Neural.love for AI image generation.  Here's the text I just input on Neural.love to try to generate an image: A skyearl is a dragon with feathers and fur. It is like a colourful hybrid between a griffin and a pegasus. It has four lion-like paws, purple and blue fur, a horse-like head with sharp golden teeth. It's feathered wings spread wide as it spurts out clouds in its wake to help it take flight.  Here's the best image it generated: It's not quite right so I did some basic/quick fixing in Photoshop to create this (after about an hour of stuffing around): Still, the best skyearl I have is the one made by the human artist, Adele Sessler, for me for the cover art of Strike of the Skyearls : And here are some excerpts from my novel describing the skyearls and wha...

In Book 2 of my fantasy series, The Psion Saga,  Strike of the Skyearls, is the following synopsis of Book 1. Readers can pick up Strike of the Skyearls without reading Talon's adventures in Book 1 if they wish. SOTS is actually a very exciting and epic novel, with a realm-wide war in Tanza. If this is more your style, you might want to skip the coming-of-age tale in Tiger Eyes and Dragon Teeth , which sets the scene for Talon and Sarlice's adventures in the wider world. Synopsis Strike of the Skyearls follows the first book in The Psion Saga, Tiger Eyes and Dragon Teeth . Talon, an nineteen-year-old man from the Kriite tribe of Jaria, met his new Rada-kin, an icetiger. He was able to take animal form for the first time. Meeting Rekala also awakened an ancient psionic power within Talon’s blood. These rare abilities enabled him to overcome the magic of enemy Zeikas. Sent by Jaria to seek out allies for their beleaguered village, Talon was accompanied by Sarlice, a warrior fr...

 Here's the cover I've designed for Book 3 of The Psion Saga, Claws that Cut Both Ways! Let me know what you think in the comments. It's version 10 and I'm no perfectionist! :D The book description (back cover blurb) for the fantasy novel is: Bal Harar finally found a way to lure Taeon to Reltland—by capturing Sarlice. It won’t be long before the Zeika leader can wield the powers of a master psion, however, to use them fully he must force Taeon to reveal what he can do. The Arcane Arena is the perfect place. Sarlice is a worthy opponent to the fighters of Feladaire, where she makes her own plan of escape. She knows Taeon will not stay away like she told him to but perhaps, together, they can find a way out of this nest of demons. Taeon hates the Zeikas now more than ever, but when he finds his own brother among them he has to make a choice. Use him to get more information on his enemies, set him aside or convince him there is a better way of life.  With AI imagery by DA...

As a massive fan of fantasy I have watched every show and movie I could get my hands on over the past twenty years, although I'm not too keen on animated shows. Here are ten movies or TV shows will awesome, epic battle scenes: Game of Thrones The Long Night (2019) The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) The Great Wall (2016) The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) The Mummy Returns (2001) The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002) Noah (2014) Gods of Egypt (2016) The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003) In my books I generally avoid the stereotypical open battle field with two armies rushing headlong to fight. I don't find it believeable and, especially in fantasy, I like to think about the logic and feeling of the characters. Why are they doing this? Would running 200 yards across a battle field not exhaust them before they'd even had a chance to raise their sword to the en...

This is the cover art on Spotify for The Neptune Project, a trance album I recently discovered. I thought it was pretty cool, and I love the music. https://open.spotify.com/album/0LP5tez5dDA26TEnQ7QGlk I listen to a lot of music, especially uplifting trance, chill, epic trance, epic soundtracks and other instrumentals. Spotify claims I'm in the top 1% of listeners by volume, and I actually couldn't afford to have my account for half the year, so imagine what it's going to be in the next 12 months.  If you look up Alikai Bronach on Spotify you'll see some of my playlists I specifically use for writing. There's one called Alikai Bronach's Deadly Dark Writing Music , for example. 

 So, I've gone out on a limb here and done an amateur recording of chapter 1 of my book myself. It's not good enough to publish as an audiobook, but maybe someone will find it interesting on Youtube and decide to buy the ebook or print edition. This is a pretty basic video.  https://youtu.be/gdMAFP1KD1U

I took a break from writing in Oct and Nov 2023 to build Regents Keep in Conan Exiles creative mode. This keep is a location in my upcoming Book 4 of The Psion Saga, The Circlet of Sight. I made a short video about it. I love all the different blocks I can choose in this game as well as copious crafting stations and decorations to help make the world come to life. Best of all, I can have big cats following me around, which is certainly relevant as the main character in my books has an icetiger as his bondmate. https://youtu.be/SAAcXKVTHj0  

If your writing is top quality and your world is unique and interesting you may be able to attract the attention of a publisher or agent. If you have a social media following your chances are even higher. If you prefer to be independent it is very easy to self-publish. You can use a service like PublishMyBook.online or go direct to vendors like Amazon and IngramSpark. Traditional publishing As someone who has never been traditionally published, I am not an expert on this space. However, I do have friends who are both authors and small indie publishers. Their journey is very similar to the self-published author journey. A manuscript must be edited, typeset, converted to ebook. A cover must be designed and a marketing plan must be create and enacted.  The cost involved in bringing any product to market properly is thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars. If you want to sit back, relax and write, the traditional publishing route may be better for you. You will not have to typ...

 I'm going to release a 3rd edition of Tiger Eyes and Dragon Teeth , including a new map along with a few other minor tweaks. I made this map in Illustrator. I don't use this program very often so it's a bit of a strain for the novice graphic designer in me. Should be clearer and easier to read. There's also a much more detailed version, which I might upload if the books become a bit more popular. At the moment I think I'm probably the only one who'd care about the detailed version! TIGER EYES AND DRAGON TEETH is out now!

 Hello everybody!  Strike of the Skyearls - Book 2 of The Psion Saga is out now! Sarlice and I came to Tanza to escape from the Zeikas. We were not prepared for a realm on the brink of war. Where should our loyalties lie—to our home tribes, to Tanza or to all Kriites? The Zeikas have their fire magic, dragons and other demons, but they lack the strong bonds formed by Kriites. They cannot transform or communicate using the waves like we can. They don’t have skyearls or other kindred fighting alongside them. The Kriites will not give up Tanza without a fight. Now that I have a skyearl of my own, the very skies have opened to me. I was slow to come into my powers in Jaria, but here everything moves too fast. They have a new title for me in Tanza: Master Psion Taeon. I hope I am worthy of it. Here are the links to read for free on Kindle Unlimited (or you can buy print and ebook editions): AUSTRALIA  |  USA  | UK