Books - J.T. Ziegler Poet & Fantasy Author

Books in Progress

Sci-fi and fantasy stories about magic & adventure, belonging & redemption.

A sneak peek into what’s in the pipeline.

There are two books I plan to traditionally publish and get into your hands one day! (Let’s face it, there will be more, but these two are the ones I’ve currently got cookin’.)

The Collective

Young adult sci-fi fantasy

This dystopian fantasy features found family, shadow monsters, wormholes, sentient AI, and sibling relationships in a post-apocalyptic world. Check out the blurb !

On a crumbling Earth swarming with shadowy predators that can phase through walls—and dimensions—like ghosts, wilderness scout Connor is determined to get his dying brother to the safety of the survivor’s colony, The Collective. But when a raider ambushes the brothers, attempting to steal the piece of tech Connor was planning to exchange for safe passage to the colony, the starving brothers flee into the wilderness.

Allying with fellow survivors to escape Ryker’s warpath, Connor unearths the tech’s staggering secret: its encrypted data can be the seed to rebuild civilization—or the scythe to destroy it all.

Torn between abandoning the dangerous tech and decoding its data to create a safer Earth, Connor must decide if it’s worth risking the safety of his dying brother to save a dying world.

This book is complete and waiting to fall into the hands of the right agent!

Project Lightkeeper

Young adult fantasy

An oceancore fantasy set in an alternative Golden Age of Piracy starring nature magic, an ancient tentacled sea monster, pirates, merrows, and a twist on the search for buried treasure.

This story combines the hauntingly beautiful atmosphere of A Study in Drowning, Fable’s emotional writing style, and the swashbuckling adventures like in All the Stars and Teeth.

This book-in-progress doesn’t yet have a title or a blurb because it needs a major rewrite. This means the story will likely shift around, but once its a bit more finalized, I’ll place the title and blurb here!

While you’re waiting, you might want to check out this song that captures this story’s moody, melancholic vibes. Or you can read comparable titles that I LOVED, including To Kill a Kingdom, Curious Tides, and Three Dark Crowns.

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