First ARC review

May 18, 2021Posted inReviews
smellslikereaderspirit 𝓐𝓰𝓾𝓼✨≀ Bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CO9O9CfrRwN   "Thank you K Dezendorf for giving me the arc of your new book!⠀ ⠀ I had to think a while before rating this book because honestly, I loved it. Loved the structure of the world, the secrecy and mystery.⠀ ⠀ I…

Chapter 2

March 11, 2021Posted inThe Wayfinder's Apprentice
     The alarm was going off, but it wasn’t where it was supposed to be. About fifteen minutes prior, Rose had rolled over and slapped the snooze button, not ready to wake up and face the day. It went off again, and when she…

Chapter 1

March 11, 2021Posted inThe Wayfinder's Apprentice
     Rose had never believed being in a gang of half-elves would lead to so much trouble. Of course, most seventeen-going-on-eighteen year old girls would never believe such a thing was possible in the first place. At the time, Rose had considered herself lucky.…

Art practice

February 17, 2021Posted inUncategorized
I've been practicing digital art recently and thought I'd share. My most recent endeavor is learning to draw specific eye shapes. Most elves in the Umbra have vertical, almond shaped pupils. It's not as noticeable in the low light, but shine a beam of light…

Official

December 19, 2020Posted inShort Stories
It just came out. I hadn’t planned for it. Hell, every part of me said it was probably a bad idea. But I didn’t care. All my reservations. All my fears. All my insecurities that sometimes I think you don’t even know exist. None of…

Mr. Linden’s Library

December 19, 2020Posted inShort Stories
Elizabeth Liddel was a girl of fifteen who loved to read.  Almost anywhere she went people would see her short, dirty blonde hair poking out of an open book as her wide hazel eyes tore furiously across the pages.  Many people thought her strange.  She…

The Morning

December 19, 2020Posted inShort Stories
June was in a musical mood that day. The steady rain was using the gymnasium’s roof as its instrument, and it pit-pattered and cling-clanged a song to help to fill the silence while we waited for the circle to fill. Even after five meetings, we…

And so it begins!

November 3, 2020Posted inThe Wayfinder's Apprentice
Rose knows the magical world of Umbra exists. She’s seen it. She’s lived it. Now she wants to return to it. Trapped on Earth, with only her trickster guardian and a displaced gang of elven siblings for company, Rose longs to return to the world…