...

The epiphany that strikes like lightning

leads my hand to the page.


The images flow into words

and the story pours onto the page.


A new world forms in my hands

and I will share it with you.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Some back copy ideas:

After the crash of the Lexicon research vessel on the world of MVX-5 in the Chordas System, named Eydan by the indigenous people, humans have been stranded for nearly twenty years.  They found themselves alien visitors on a fertile world with a race and culture they cannot quite understand.  

Lawrence Banister and Joe Ryan must immerse themselves in Eyan culture and travel across a continent to build an observatory and communications station which will allow the stranded colony to contact their own people off-world.  They must convince the nobility of Soza Province to sign a land deal, but this is the same province which took in refugees displaced when humans crashed into their world.  It will be hard to sell a deal to superstitious locals who resent humans for bringing disease and death, still vivid in personal memory.

Lawrence and Joe are joined by Suvira, an Eyan noble woman shamed for her hatred of humans.  She must work with Lawrence and Joe to regain her title, or become a social pariah.  She is horrified to find they hold each other’s lives in their hands.

Across open roads, steel rails and into jagged ancient mountains, their journey will span a continent and unfold intrigue.  They will tumble with steel workers in Frey, spin on the dance floor in the capital of Nodae Eya and skulk through the hidden corridors of Soza Castle.  They will risk life and breath to speak to the stars.

Friday, April 18, 2014

New Map


Here is the new version of the Soza Castle map.  What do you think of the hive-like design?

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Graduation is in three weeks and I am working on my public contact information.


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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Creating Worlds

My advanced creative writing class this semester is on creating worlds, and it is an incredible experience.  It is the largest workshop group I have worked with in person, and everyone has different ideas and stories.  The suggestions so far are positive and inspiring.  Thanks to the Creating Worlds team at UAS Juneau.


Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Some thoughts on Walden

We were asked today in a class on Literature and the Environment how is Walden environmental?  How do we reconcile seeming contradictions in the text?  I take the work of Walden by Henry David Thoreau as a thought experiment in the midst of a changing world.

Walden reads very much like the Utopian ramblings of a discontented gentleman educated in the Western European tradition, upset by the industrialized world's effect on the common man, but so indoctrinated in Society that it is difficult to pull oneself out of it in order to see more clearly.  Thoreau expresses the colonial quandary that Nature is appealing and necessary, but so is order and society.  His attempts to reconcile these concepts within himself mirror those of modern environmentalists.  "The Universe is wider than our views of it," he wrote.  Thoreau wanted to wake up his neighbors and make them aware that they are building fences that hold them in place.  He wanted Man to be aware of the choices being made.  We have to ask ourselves where we want to be... in society, on Earth and in the Universe.

http://www.amazon.com/Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/1619493918/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360119911&sr=1-1&keywords=walden

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Friends in the Arts

I bought some great playing cards from this group on Etsy an not they want to make t-shirts with some of their original designs.  Let's see if we can help them reach their goal.
If they get $4500 by Friday Feb 1, 10:05pm EST, then supporters will get t-shirts.
$25 or more gets 1 tee, $65 gets 3 tees, and $100 gets 5 tees of your choice.

Check it out!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78897526/alien-ink-fashion-line
 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/AlienInkCards

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

January book update

I am still working on final edits for Welcome to the Weird (Aurora Bay book 1).  There are some details that I want to work in to the first book that will lead into the main storyline of the second book, but it is taking some serious thinking and rewriting to keep the flow of the story.  Feel free to visit my facebook pages!
 
http://www.facebook.com/author.terye.stephens
http://www.facebook.com/MyUtopianImpulses

Thursday, January 10, 2013

On Schedule!

Book One of the Aurora Bay series should be available on Amazon Kindle by the end of February.  There has been a title change: Welcome to the Weird.  I am setting up my author page on Facebook, so feel free to drop in and take a look!  Thanks for the support and encouragement.

Terye Stephens
http://www.facebook.com/author.terye.stephens

Monday, August 13, 2012

I am starting to put some of my work out there, and we will see what comes of it.  The writing community at critters.org has been helpful and supportive, and many thanks to all the exceptional people who I have been working with there.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

People's Choice Award

I am so excited I want to dance!  I created a Utopian concept for my final project in English Literature: Modern Utopian Lit, and my story won a People's Choice Award for Best Form from the class.  It will be in an anthology of Utopian papers this fall.
 
I have a new Facebook community page I have created for Utopian thoughts and interests.  Feel free to take a look and post anything relevant (and in good taste.)

Brightest Blessing, Everyone!

http://www.facebook.com/MyUtopianImpulses