by Willamette Sutta | Jan 12, 2026 | Author Note
The new year is a time for reflection as well as resolution. As I think on the obstacles to my writing career, I have to go back to the beginning. An Inauspicious Start I walked into the narrow New York City apartment, still in a daze from the long plane ride. My...
by Willamette Sutta | Oct 5, 2025 | Author Note, Book Excerpt, Books Info
You know the drill: a prequel short story always precedes the launch of the next book in the Far Stone Cycle. Well, it’s here! Sense Shattered, Riven Origins Book 3, tells the story of how Oyan, the Stone of Wisdom, was splintered into 27 pieces. But this one...
by Willamette Sutta | Sep 6, 2025 | Author Note
Where did you get the writing from? This question came from a friend, after learning that all my brothers and I studied science or engineering in college. I had never thought about my literary legacy before. What’s more remarkable is that I’m not the only one of my...
by Willamette Sutta | Aug 12, 2025 | Author Note
For over two weeks in July, we traveled by car to a writer’s conference in Michigan, a two-star swimming championships in Wisconsin, and then back to Michigan for a family vacation. It was the longest I’ve been away from home since college. The many wonderful...
by Willamette Sutta | Jul 9, 2025 | Author Note
I recently received updates from two authors on the same day. One breathes the exhausted fumes of disillusionment after a long career of solid sales. The other exudes the enthusiasm of unanticipated action as he publishes his first book. In them, I see bookends of the...
by Willamette Sutta | May 29, 2025 | Author Note, Books Info
When the ideas of the Far Stone Cycle first came to me over twenty years ago, they were just glimpses of a narrative that captivated me and wouldn’t leave me alone. In all my musings to write it down, I did not consider fantasy tropes, because I’d never heard of them...
