Hello, I’m Alexa, I write stuff. And you can read it for free!
What I write: fantasy novels featuring women middle-aged and up, lots of bickering, sarcasm, puns and banter.
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Webnovels
The Madwoman’s Apprentice
“On the one hand, there was this shabby weirdo with a drinking problem, on the other a group of bearded buggers with homicidal tendencies, and on a possible third hand some mad wizard she had never seen. Iwy wished she was home tending to the family fields. Wheat didn’t give you this kind of trouble.”
After setting a barn and a farmhand on fire, Iwy Evenwood has two choices: hope for the witch hunters’ mercy or get out of town and accept an apprenticeship with a mage. While Iwy hopes to get rid of her new powers as fast as possible, her new master Triand tries to find her next drink, her next flirt, and a way to destroy an ancient magical artefact in order to thwart a powerful wizard’s plans of world domination.
Chased by everything from the witch hunters guild to mystical wizard orders to masked sorcerers, Iwy and Triand embark on a journey to find a mystical crucible that might just be their only hope. There are prophecies, wizard schools, a very small necromancer, more or less epic battles … and an apprentice who just wants to save the world and be home in time to milk the cows.
QUICK GLANCE
AGE CATEGORY: 16+ish. The intended audience is women in their thirties and up. But if you have the reading capabilities of a thirtysomething mildly soused on white wine, go for it.
GENRE: comic fantasy
WORD COUNT: 150k
Read for free at Royal Road before it gets edited and published!
This book is for you if …
… you like DnD campaigns that have gone a bit awry and where the gamemaster is grinning all the time.
… you’re not a spring chicken yourself and would like to see women over twenty having adventures. (Main characters are 42 and 23 respectively.)
… you like sarcasm, puns and banter but can do without romance.
… you like comic fantasy that has all the tropes you love … or does it?
What to expect:
- Steam/spice level: cup of tea you forgot in the kitchen; some adult themes but nothing explicit
- LGBTQ+
- not a YA novel, contains adult themes, main characters may bicker like teens at times but are adults
- content warnings: blood, violence
- booze
- bread knives
- uppity … I mean, wise wizards
- austere … I mean, wise witches
- traditional faceless minions
- no nobles or intrigues. Well, maybe a few intrigues.
Journeywomen
Second part in the Triand series: contains spoilers for the first part!
If you’re not afraid of spoilers, read more here!
Granny Trudy vs the Ancient Ones
A quick little story for the June ’25 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest to challenge myself to write under pressure of actual deadlines instead of the ol’ “I’ll get around to it.”
The prompt: Children of the Sky
What’s it about?
A long time ago, a child fell from the sky … and nothing else happened.
Seventy years later, young hopeful wizard Hungerford Munck shows up at Granny Ermentrude’s bakery. His master was supposed to unite all three Children of the Sky but died before he found them. Together with Trudy, Munck sets out to find the other two of odd birth, not an easy feat in a world where babies appear in tree trunks and assorted fruit at least once a month, and bring them to the capital. Little do they know what they will actually summon into their peaceful world …
Genre: Fantasy
Word count: 36k
Read for free at Royal Road!
