Eye of Everfell is special to me. It is the first novel I attempted to write, an ordeal that nearly killed me. Or, at the least, drained me like a vampire does its thrall. It has been revised innumerable times and took so much effort that I took a break and wrote two other novels before coming back to finally complete it.

It was a beast.

And I’ll always love it for that. I cut my teeth on an epic fantasy, a bold endeavor I wasn’t ready for but nonetheless wrestled with until completion. I’...