Coming Summer 2024: the American edition of Fourteen Stones !

Fourteen Stones, first released in 2022 by The Patchwork Raven (Wellington, New Zealand), is coming soon in a new incarnation! A literary fantasy about a group of refugees, their search for home, and how their journey reshapes lives and changes the politics and futures of two nations, Fourteen Stones has been praised for its lyrical writing, rich storyline, and deeply human characters, as well as for its unique style and compassionate outlook. Readers have called it “exactly what our society needs right now.”

The American edition will be released in June 2024 by Highlander Press in Baltimore, Maryland. It’ll soon be available on Amazon and at bookstores near you. Stay tuned for more info as we head toward launch!

Praise for the novel:

“Fourteen Stones. This book. My words can’t do it justice. It creates a whole world and brings you right into it, following along with the different characters, getting to know and love them…you find yourself cheering them on and hoping for their success. It is beautifully written and allows your imagination to see everything the author has so carefully constructed…I was truly blown away.” – Jennifer Geissler, artist

“Beautifully written, imaginative, original.” – Diane Dorman, author

Try a sample here!

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Other News:

My novel-in-progress Line Magic was shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project 2023 Literary Awards!

New short stories just released! Check out Tree of Glass at Atticus Review, and As I Loved You, winner of Black Fox Literary Magazine‘s July 2023 “Fox Tales” competition.

Would you like help with your writing project from a prizewinning author and experienced teacher? Visit my Manuscript Consulting page for details.

About Me:

Kris Faatz (rhymes with skates) is a fiction writer and musician. Her first novel, To Love A Stranger, was a finalist for the 2016 Schaffner Press Music in Literature Award and was released May 2017 by Blue Moon Publishers (Toronto, ON). Her second novel, literary fantasy Fourteen Stones, was released in 2022 by The Patchwork Raven (Wellington, NZ), with an American edition forthcoming in 2024 from Highlander Press (Baltimore, Maryland).

Kris’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Los Angeles Review, The Baltimore Review, Kenyon Review Online, Streetlight Magazine, Potomac Review, and Reed, and has received recognition in competitions run by Philadelphia Stories, Uncharted Magazine, Dzanc Books, and others. Most recently, she received NELLE‘s 2022 Three Sisters Award. She has been a contributor at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. In 2018, she served as a preliminary-round judge for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. She currently teaches creative writing with the Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore County Public Library system, and Baltimore Bridges, and is a regular presenter at the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference, run by Maryland’s Eastern Shore Writers Association. She is also a performing pianist.

As a no-holds-barred reader, Kris has special devotion to Barbara Kingsolver, Terry Pratchett, Richard Adams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Christopher Moore, and Neil Gaiman. She loves hiking and exploring the outdoors, especially if it involves lakes, oceans or streams. She lives in Maryland with her husband, jazz saxophonist and composer Paul Faatz, and feline contingent Alafair, Templeton, and Fergus.

 

BOOKS:

Fourteen Stones is available in paperback and e-book formats from The Patchwork Raven. Help us get the word out: connect with me and leave a review on Goodreads!

To Love A Stranger is available in paperback and e-book formats on Amazon.