Marc Rivers, Author

Greetings! This is the beginning of my author platform, where I plan to post various short works of fiction and, perhaps someday, shill an actual published novel. Wouldn’t that be something?

By way of introduction, my name is Marc Rivers and I live in the Portland, Oregon area in the United States. I primarily like to write fantasy fiction, the bulk of which is set in my own world of Estéa. It’s so far tended to be in the vein of heroic adventure fantasy, but I like to try weird and dark fantasy themes sometimes, too.

My hope for this site is to be a place where I can not only put some of my work out into the world, but also keep myself accountable to keep writing when life tries to get in the way. This is a hobby of mine I’ve been doing since I was a young lad, and like many authors, I have a dream of one day being able to walk into a bookstore and seeing my own work available for sale on the shelf. I don’t need to be the next George R. R. Martin or Brandon Sanderson; I just want to know that the work I put in amounted to something people appreciated. (That said, if there are any coked-out TV or movie producers out there that want to pay me a million dollars to adapt any of my work, I am very available for that conversation.)

Outside of working full-time and writing, I like to spend a lot of time with my wife, our two cats (Fafnir and Cindy Clawford), and our dog (Trixie). We watch TV or movies, play board games or TTRPGs, or find places to take relaxing walks and hikes. In my own time, you can probably find me watching sports (especially rooting for my Louisville Cardinals and a variety of pro teams across multiple leagues) or playing video games. I also have at least a passing interest in (read: have sunk money into) woodworking, painting miniatures for D&D, and developing drawing skills. Making time for reading is always on the list of things to do and one of these days I’ll get better about it.

I’m perpetually working on my first novel, titled Songs of the Eyldrmen, a story about a proud people brought low by tyrannical and nigh-unkillable dragons, until one young man discovers their secret vulnerability and has to undertake a journey to find more weapons with the same special metal or else find a way to make more of them. Along the way, he comes to realize that the heroes in his people’s songs did not have it easy and that ascending to such a stature isn’t such an enviable pursuit after all.

Thanks for reading! We’ll talk again soon.

-Marc