Fourteen Stones
Pre-orders for Fourteen Stones by Kris Faatz are currently open over on our Pledgeme Campaign. I’m so excited to be able to publish this book - it really is so original and interesting, and unlike anything else I have read. I am absolutely certain you are going to love it.
Kris describes it as “fantasy for people who don’t like fantasy”, but let me tell you, it’s pretty great if you do too! It’s a really interesting story that deals with the problems it poses in unconventional ways. The characters are extremely real - proper adults with adult relationships and priorities.
As with all Raven books, we aim to make it an object beautiful enough to do justice to the story it contains. Will Thompson has designed us some gorgeous maps, and a wonderful cover! Look!
Fourteen Stones
Fourteen Stones is a richly layered, character-driven fantasy. The tribal people called the Pala Vaia, “First and Lost Ones,” have lived in Lassar since ancient times and coexisted with the Lasska people, but they have always been wanderers, seemingly out of place wherever they are. Now Lassar’s fanatical new ruler, Impera Shurik, wants to destroy the tribes.
Sixteen-year-old Khari is a Vaia Lamp-Carrier. Her dreams provide guidance for her tribe, if she can interpret the messages they send. Now she must use all her skill, and trust instincts she has only begun to have, in order to save her people from extermination. Her dreams lead her and a small group of Vaia out of their native country and into neighboring Namora, where they must find allies, in particular a Namoran priest with an extraordinary mental gift of his own. The Vaia’s search for a safe homeland will change the lives of all the people it touches, as well as the futures of two nations.
Kris Faatz
Kris Faatz (rhymes with skates) is a pianist, writer, and teacher. Her short fiction has appeared in journals including Los Angeles Review, Typehouse Magazine, and Streetlight Magazine, and most recently received NELLE journal’s 2022 Three Sisters Award. Her first novel, To Love A Stranger (Blue Moon Publishers, 2017), was a finalist for the Schaffner Press Music in Literature Award.
Kris teaches classes on creative writing, music, and both together. When she’s not at work, she loves gardening, cooking, and hiking and exploring the outdoors. She lives in Maryland with her husband, jazz saxophonist and composer Paul Faatz, and feline contingent Alafair, Templeton, and Fergus.
Pledgeme
Why Pledgeme? We get asked this a lot, and the answer is simple. The Patchwork Raven is a Kiwi publishing house, and, despite our international community, at the end of the day, we do things the kiwi way most of the time - small, local, and personal. Pledgeme matches us in those criteria. I’ve worked with them a number of times on a number of projects, and it’s nice to know that if things go wrong, you’re gong to be able to reach an actual human person who will care about trying to fix it. The more well known crowdfunding platforms absolutely do NOT have that. Pledgeme are a NZ based company, they’re committed, they care about the smaller campaigns like ours. I have never had anything but awesome interactions with them.
Just remember when you’re pledging that our prices are in NZ dollars, so if you are elsewhere, keep that in mind! The exchange rate is probably in your favour.
