Journal

I commissioned the amazing Freyjinn to do a portrait of Imbati Aloran and Lady Tamelera from Mazes of Power. She’s an incredibly talented animator with a YouTube full of fun animation as well as speed-painting videos. Here’s the art: She did an incredible job! Not only is this super gorgeous, but she worked really well […]

The amazing Arley Sorg reached out to me and asked if I’d like to do an interview for Clarkesworld… and there’s only one possible answer to that! The interview is now out. You can learn about how I went from being a reader to being a writer, find out more about my writing process and […]

Welcome to the world of Varin, where the caverns are safe, the surface is wilderness, and how you see reality has everything to do with who you are. To review: Varin has seven caste levels – which might seem like a lot, but is a lot easier to grasp than it might otherwise seem, because […]

I’m very excited! My first industry review for Mazes of Power was a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. “Wade’s excellent high fantasy debut, the first in the Broken Trust series, invites readers into an intricately constructed and morally ambiguous world full of complex political maneuvering and familial pressure. For centuries, the cavernous city of Pelismara […]

Varin is the name of the world in which my debut novel, Mazes of Power, takes place. It’s a secondary world of sociological science fiction, which means it’s designed as a world which is not connected to ours, but which operates according to the scientific principles (including sociology, psychology, etc.) that we are familiar with. […]