Debut speculative fiction author, dedicated to the point of obsession and always hungry to learn. I’ve completed my first manuscript through multiple revision passes, have Book Two outlined and underway, and Book Three in the planning stage. I’m looking for a mentor who can help me sharpen the work, identify the strongest next steps, and navigate the road to publication.

Attached is a short blurb for The Grey Chronicles: Book One.

Lukas Gearson has never belonged.

Abandoned on a storm-soaked night and raised within the quiet walls of a modern-day monastery, he’s spent his life trying to feel ordinary. His shifting eyes. The flashes of memories that aren’t his. The sense of something watching from the edges of his thoughts. He’s learned to hide all of it.

Until the day he discovers a note he was never supposed to see.
A warning. A label: Grey.
And someone is coming to evaluate him.

When Lukas searches for answers, he uncovers whispers of a force older than memory: the Shadow—blamed for fractured timelines, erased identities, and impossible destruction. The more he learns, the more unsettling it becomes. The Shadow isn’t just tied to Lukas—it's tied to what he is.

And others already know.

The monastery he trusted is no longer safe. Hidden factions begin to move. Some watch him with hope. Some with fear. And some with the quiet precision of people who remove threats before they have the chance to grow.

If Lukas can’t understand what he is, the Shadow will take him. Or the people hunting it will.

As his world cracks open, Lukas must confront the truth he fears most:

The darkness is not only following him.
It is waking inside him.

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