I haven’t written about one of my novellas in a bit. In fact, it was way back in February that I wrote the blog post about Child of the Sage, when I offered that one for free (HEY-if you downloaded it, read it – I could use some more reviews!). And since I am at a loss on blog topics but wanted to write a blog post today, here is the creation process behind the next novella in the series, Keeper of Stories.
I had come up with Mopsa when I wrote the ending to The Keeper of the Key, as she was one of the children born to Manda. She was the only common-born of the children too, taking after her grandfather. Like many of the other novellas in my series, her story came to me as a voice in my head, quietly outlining some of the plot and telling me all about the person Mopsa was to become. I loved the idea that someone non-magical could be powerful, even in a world where magic is what brings people their power.
Her name comes from Mopsus, was a seer in Greek mythology and son of Manto, the daughter of Tiresias. Since I had used the legend of Tiresias to create the line of Key Keepers starting with Tiresan and then Manda (play on Manto), I decided to use Mopsus as a name. But since I wanted the next Key Keeper to be female, Mopsa was born. And since she hated her name, she became Sa.
Sa is probably the character in any story most like me. She wants to be noticed for who she is and what she can do. She’s a lady of the realm and a child of Delphian, but she also holds her own in tragedy and becomes a Keeper of Stories as well as the Keeper of the Key later in her life.
She also happens to be the cousin to the Portal Seeker.
But you have to read her story to find out how that happens. While it’s encouraged that you read the first three novels in the series, all of my books ARE also easily read as standalones.
Most of the characters from The Keeper of the Key, Last of His Kind, Portal Seeker and even Child of the Sage make an appearance in this story at some point or another, since this is set in the realm of Delphian and Delos and Helios. There are some other characters that are new. Their names follow the same naming conventions as names already used in the Delphian and Delos settings that I had already established using Greek mythology. The common born in the story have more common names, such as Roscoe and Joseph, Simeon and Andrew. Others were names in honor of people in my family or for friends, such as Tonya and Florian.
The novella also happens to be the absolute of one of my beta readers, who loved this story out of all 16 current works in the series.
Keeper of Stories is available in Kindle format and on Kindle Unlimited. If you want to read it in paperback, it’s in my first anthology of Portals novellas. Click here to see that.
While it is recommended to read this AFTER the first three in the series, I’ve been told by friends who read this one first that the small spoilers in the plot only made them want to read the others afterwards.
So try it out, if this blog post interests you. While it is a fantasy adventure, don’t let that throw you off. there are life lessons mixed in with the good versus evil. There’s real life conflict and observations. And it’s a good quick read, or so I have been told.
Stay magical, dear friends!
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K. S. Wood Writes 
Thanks for the back story, it really helps the characters draw me in 💞
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