What Beyond the Lost and Arcane have in common
Beyond the Lost and Arcane Elemental Academy are two different series in separate genres. But they’re so similar, they drive home my theme-based style.
I’ll let the normie authors do normie things, like sticking to a single genre per pen name, and telling “safe fiction.” Congrats to those authors, because they’re just like every other author out there.
I don’t got time for them, and one look at Beyond the Lost and Arcane Elemental Academy, despite the genre differences, they’d attract the same theme-based reader, regardless if the same pen name’s slapped on the cover. Both tell anarcho-libertarian-driven tales, even if they discuss different aspects of the growing philosophy.
- Beyond the Lost focuses on revisionism
- Arcane’s all about what a society free from government would look like
But don’t worry; I’m not the utopian type. Quinn Cozens, my unapologetic libertarian protagonist who’s a spitting image of me’s a self-righteous prick half the time. That also means I can be a self-righteous prick.
Aurora Village, Arcane’s main setting, doesn’t boast a perfect society and I drive that fact home throughout the series, like when a Wendigo swoops into the area, and not a single defense firm catches it.
That’s because anarcho-capitalism’s not perfect. You can’t achieve perfectionism, regardless of what the propagandists lead you to believe, and that’s the point.
Arcane and Beyond the Lost scream libertarianism
Would non-libertarians enjoy these books? Probably. So long as my themes don’t piss them off. So, if they’re not the sensitive types who’d ace a book on Goodreads because one sentence hurt their feelings, then they might be good enough to fit the target market.
Yeah, Beyond the Lost’s got heated debates, and it’ll slow down the plot for the wrong readers. But the right and open-minded readers? Oh, they’ll love it when Quinn debates other characters on war, property rights, and theocracy.
Let me ask you this: Do you roll your eyes and think the author’s preaching to the choir when things get political? If so, then you need to find another author to follow.
As for Arcane, do deep, philosophical discussions about how society’s run in one area compared to how it’s run nationwide slow the story down for ya? It will for strictly genre fiction readers.
If that’s you, then get the F off my site, because you need to find your next mindless form of entertainment on KDP. I heard that’s where the bread and circuses authors hang out.
Want something different?
If you’ve made it this far, I’m gonna assume two things. Either:
- You’re interested in my work and looking for a place to sample it, or
- You’re scrolling to the comments section, looking to leave an a**hole take because you have nothing better to do with your life.
So guess what? I’m gonna give the lovers something different, and invite them to check out the first three chapters of Book I in Arcane Elemental Academy, The Arcane Prophecy.
It’ll probably give you Harry Potter vibes, complete with an author who ain’t scared to let their worldview known to the public even if it risks backlash.
And if you’re here for dystopian fiction, check out Beyond the Lost Horizon, Book I of the trilogy. And at 37,000 words, it won’t keep you up all night reading.
If you clicked through to both and found them appetizing, then congratulations: You’re my kind of reader.
