New to Arcane Elemental Academy and unsure where to start? I’ll keep it easy on you. This Master Post is your easy-access roadmap. Arcane Elemental Academy is complex as hell. You have a plethora of interesting characters, multiple settings, and a series that picks and chooses which genre tropes to follow. Because it’s so dense, I…
YA fantasy follows specific genre formulas and tropes. But in typical TC Marti fashion, I’ve bucked a few of them because I felt like it. The Arcane Prophecy might be Harry Potter-like, and trust me, the franchise inspired this work. But it’s not sanitized fiction you often see in mainstream publishing circles these days. No, this work’s…
So many authors thirst for success that they’ll “sell out” to make it. As for my YA fantasy? It’s confirmation that the Old Martyr’s “selling in.” Why’d I roll with the name TC Marti? Two reasons. One, I first went with TC Martikainen, but it would’ve been too hard to remember. So, I tried other…
The Arcane Prophecy finally has its cover, and it exemplifies YA fantasy with the good old libertarian twist my readers expect. If you want tropey YA academy fantasy, you’re not getting it in this book, so you can clear out now. I didn’t write The Arcane Prophecy to impress mindless readers who want an escape from…