Hi there! My name is
Reese Axford
Coburg, USA
Synopsis
It’s the year 1165 S.E. (Separate Era) and the country of Llyrak is separated from humanity by a massive wall. Llyrak and its six regions-Sergandia, Kazimat, Lukenstein, Dimasiia, Nadihko and Klavdiar-feel resented by this wall.
They feel cut off from mankind.
Abandoned.
Alone.
This has caused tension between the rulers of the six regions, leading to an overall hate of the largest of these regions, Sergandia. This tension only rises when the young prince’s becoming advisor and best friend mysteriously disappears. To make matters worse, Prince Nikita also knows that she’s in Kazimat, the region hidden by it’s secrets.
Nikita is all but hopeless of ever saving his friend until he finds exactly what he needs: eighteen-year-old Mishka Mironovna Pronina, the regions greatest thief.
To avoid starting an all out war with Kazimat, Prince Nikita and Mishka go behind the emperor’s back to rise to the challenge of saving the young advisor. But the stakes are high. Nikita knows he has to save his best friend, but at what cost? The regions are already on the brink of war, and the curiosity of why they have been sealed off from humanity continues to increase.
Stepping out of place may be just what Llyrak needs to cause the entire country, and maybe even the world, to collapse into ruin.
Read sample chapterAbout Me
Teen author currently working on my first original novel, The Mysteries of Llyrak: Crown of Secrets | Figment: K.C. Pinnix | Wattpad: @kcpinnix
Favorite Things
| Coffee | Ew | |
| Book | Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, The Reckoner's Series by Brandon Sanderson, Unenchanted by Chanda Hahn, Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie | |
| Superhero | Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man | |
| Movie | Doctor Strange | |
| Musical | Hamilton, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables | |
| Ice Cream | Mint Chip |
Q&A with Vincent
How would you increase literacy?Introduce children at a young age to books, and give them the freedom to read (most) whatever they wish. We need to stop making reading a task, and forcing children to analyze it in detail and come up with random reasons as to why an author chose to do a certain thing with characters. It is fine to do with older students, but I believe to build a love for reading in children, we need to make it fun for them, and not make it an assignment or a job.
What are the ingredients for a blockbuster story to you?Science fiction, by my own bias because I love science fiction novels, that show some reality of our world without really showing it. Like a metaphor. It also should probably feature teenagers in some way.
What are your top stories that entertain and/or inspire you?Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, The Reckoner's Series by Brandon Sanderson, Unenchanted by Chanda Hahn and Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie. Especially The Lunar Chronicles. Whenever I need help with how to construct a sentence, I go to one of them and study the sentences and how they are written.
Do you have any advice to aspiring writers?Well I am very much an aspiring author myself, but I guess to just keep writing. That's what I do, and it works out pretty well.
Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?Yes! In fifth grade, when I was about ten years old, my teacher told us to do this project where we had to make this flower on construction paper, and give it five petals. Then we had to write one thing on each petal that we might have an interest in becoming one day when we were older. Because of my love for reading, I wrote "published author" on one of the petals. It was the first time that I ever came up with the idea of becoming a published author.