The Fractured Arcana
1) Hello! Let’s begin with the introductions. What is your name? You can use your pen name if you have one.
Steven J. Morris
2) What are some of your pet peeves?
Stories in which a conflict could be solved immediately if two reasonable characters had a thirty-second conversation. People certainly avoid difficult conversations in real life, but I need to understand why. I’m also bothered when a fantasy world introduces rules only to discard them whenever the plot needs an easy escape.
3) If you knew you’d die tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?
With my wife and daughters. There would probably be good food, a great deal of talking, some laughter, and no attempt to accomplish anything impressive. I suspect the things that feel urgent now would become very unimportant very quickly.
4) What kind of world ruler would you be?
A reluctant one who immediately began designing systems that would make the position unnecessary. Anyone eager to rule the world should probably be disqualified.
5) What are you passionate about these days?
Storytelling, particularly the changing ways authors can find and connect with readers. Writing the book is still the heart of the work, but publishing now involves audio, video, newsletters, direct sales, social media, advertising, and technologies that did not exist when I first dreamed of becoming an author. It can be exhausting, but it is also fascinating.
6) What do you do to unwind and relax?
I exercise, ride my bike, lift weights, spend time with my family, read, and watch movies or television. Little construction projects are often (but not always) relaxing: building a shelf, adding wall moulding, fixing a garbage disposal. I also work on creative projects that are technically related to writing but feel different enough to give another part of my brain a turn.
7) Which of your novels can you imagine being made into a movie?
All authors probably imagine their books on a screen, but The Guardian of the Palace is especially cinematic. It combines modern Manhattan, hidden magic, interdimensional threats, dwarven technology, monsters, and a former soldier forced into a conflict much larger than she understands. I can easily picture its action sequences, particularly the moment the ordinary world begins to break open around the characters.
8) What is the genre(s) that you write about?
Epic Fantasy and Urban Fantasy
9) What tropes are found in your books?
Found family, monster-as-hero, reverse portal fantasy/alien invasion, humor in high stakes, heroine who starts with nothing (no magic/no powers), morally gray politics, ancient elf x human slow-burn (really low on romance), dragons, prophecy, shared-universe worldbuilding
10) What is the quick pitch for one of your books?
Two series, one shattered universe: an ancient war that forged magic, and the modern invasion that it made possible.
11) Can you tell me more about that story?
Mother of Trees
Thaumatropic Roots Book 1
Part of the Fractured Arcana Universe
A dying goddess. A fractured prophecy. A magicless elf who shouldn't exist.
Elliah has spent her entire life being told what she is—bereft, wrong, a mistake the world would prefer to correct. Drifting from town to town with a mother who won't explain why they keep running, she has no magic, no place, and no future. Then a single misstep draws the attention of those who've been looking for her, and everything her mother was hiding comes apart.
She isn't ready for what she learns. But ready was never an option.
Mother of Trees is the thrilling first book in the Thaumatropic Roots epic fantasy series. Enter a world of dangerous magic, ancient powers, and one impossible girl who refuses to stay down.Buy Mother of Trees today.
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Magic is as natural as breathing in Elliah's world — except to her. Born without a single spark in a war that runs on it, she has nothing but her will and her refusal to accept the limits everyone else has already decided for her. This is what happens when the world writes you out of the story, and you refuse to leave.
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The Guardian of the Palace
The Guardian League Book 1
Part of the Fractured Arcana Universe
Magic isn’t real. Red Hernandez is very sure of that.
She wants a quiet life after Special Forces—just a steady security job at a half-finished Manhattan skyscraper.
But then a sister tower implodes in a way physics can’t explain.Witnesses report creatures in the smoke.And something hunts her in the tunnels beneath.
Red wants answers. What she gets instead is an elf with a sword, a troll with a wry sense of humor, and a dwarf who believes every battle requires an audience. They insist an ancient enemy has crossed into our world—and Red becomes an accidental gatekeeper simply because she’s standing on the fault line when it cracks open.
As a hidden war erupts in the shadows of New York City, Red must decide: run from the past that nearly destroyed her… or fight for a world she’s only just beginning to believe in.
A veteran with nothing left to lose.A threat born of magic and shadow.A team she never saw coming.
The Guardian of the Palace launches the action-packed Guardian League series—perfect for fans of urban fantasy, modern-world magic, found family, and heroines who refuse to back down.
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Earth, through its technological advances, supports nearly eight billion souls; from a cosmic perspective, that makes it ripe for the picking. 'Red' Hernandez, trying to put a questionable military life behind her, finds herself caught in the middle of stopping an apocalyptic invasion of Earth. But to do that, she has to figure out who the good guys are, and how she can combat forces in which she does not believe.
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12) Can you tell me about yourself?
Steven J. Morris writes fantasy where magic runs deep and the consequences run deeper. By day he's an engineer and father of three in Austin, Texas. He's the author of eight novels across two completed series — the epic Thaumatropic Roots and the urban Guardian League — both set in the shared Fractured Arcana universe. Find him at sjmorriswrites.com.
13) Do you have a website? If so, what is it?
14) Where else can we find and follow you?
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