by authordwhawkins | Jan 18, 2026 | News, The Seven Signs, Uncategorized
This week, I finished The Heart of the Wasteland — the final book in The Seven Signs series. After years of work, false starts, rewrites, deployments, career changes, and more than a little self-doubt, the series is finally complete. The first...
by authordwhawkins | Sep 29, 2025 | News, The Seven Signs
Time for another writing update, folks. In my long tradition of bipolar interactions with my stories, I have come once again to bemoan the state of my current manuscript. Ye gods, how could I have let things get this crazy? So many POVs. Chapters long enough to be...
by authordwhawkins | Aug 31, 2025 | Seven Signs Lore, The Seven Signs
From Child of the Flames–a map of Cambrell, The Cannon Steppe, and northern Shundovia From The Knife in the Dark–a map of the southeastern Sevenlands From The Old Man of the Temple–a map of Ishamael and the northern Sevenlands From The City Under the...
by authordwhawkins | Aug 27, 2025 | Seven Signs Lore, The Seven Signs
Among the ruins and shadowed passages of The City Under the Mountain, the story pauses to let us glimpse something rare — the actual process of learning magic. D’Jenn, patient and razor-sharp, takes Bethany under his wing, guiding her away from raw instinct and into...
by authordwhawkins | Aug 26, 2025 | Seven Signs Lore, The Seven Signs
In the world of The Seven Signs, the gods are never absent — but they are rarely present in the way we expect. Their names linger in curses, prayers, and ruins, even as their temples crumble and their followers dwindle. They are shadows in the background of the...
by authordwhawkins | Aug 26, 2025 | Seven Signs Lore, The Seven Signs
The Sevenlands are built on ruins, and few are stranger than the Steele of the Founder. Rising from the plains like a field of silver teeth, these monoliths mark one of the oldest sites tied to Indalvian, the figure who shaped the Conclave and codified the study of...
