Tresh is an aquatic gryphon on a mission. She watched her home burn and the last of her family disappear into the bog. Now sheβll do anything to join an elite rescue team searching for survivors. A rescue team led by the same gryphon who killed her nieces and nephews.
An owl that blinks.
A medicine gryphon with a mane.
A goofy guardsman.
When new allies and old foes join forces to delve into the secrets of the bog, will they find their missing loved ones, or is something more sinister than starlings lurking in the abandoned eyrie ruins?
Starling is a full-length creature fantasy novel with gryphons, monsters, terrible secrets, and Blinky the Owl Gryphon. Buy it now!
K. Vale Nagle is alarmingly hard to kill.
While heβs written his entire life, after surviving a pulmonary embolism and multiple organ failure, he began to take his writing more seriously and worked to get a degree in creative writing while recovering.
During that time another embolism struck and failed to kill him, at which point the doctors discovered an undiagnosed autoimmune disorder and patched him back up. Having used up two of his nine lives, he began publishing short stories and novels. When the doctors said that lung surgery was a 95% certainty, he dyed his hair dark blue, which is when he discovered that he was so unwell that his hair wasnβt growing. A year later, and a switch from dark blue to teal, and his hair has finally started growing again (albeit silver instead of its pre-embolism black) and heβs writing like a fiend.
Now, Vale writes feral fantasyβbooks with mythological creatures and nature-based settings, often involving gryphons and conflict.