Lantern author

Soren Halvek

Epic fantasy where crowns are cursed, gods keep score, and every bloodline pays the price.

Epic FantasyPolitical IntrigueRebellion fantasyEmpire fantasyComing of ageEpic questMorally greyMystery box

Behind the byline

About the author

Soren Halvek is drawn to the long shadows history casts: the debts that outlive the people who ran them up, the loyalties that curdle into weapons, the powers older than any map. Their fantasy moves at the scale of ruling houses and warring faiths, but it lives in the ordinary people caught where devotion meets ambition. Soren keeps coming back to the desk for one stubborn reason — fiction is the only place you get to ask who owes what to whom, and then follow the reckoning all the way to the end.

⌖ Upstate New York

Author marginalia

The fun stuff.

The little things readers always want to know after the last page.

Forever shelf

Favorite books

A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin — the dynastic anchor: feuding houses, morally grey players, and thrones that cost everything to hold.
The Curse of Chalion — Lois McMaster Bujold — old gods who very much keep score, sacred blood, and a curse laid on a royal house.
The Fifth Season — N.K. Jemisin — mythic scale, power that arrives with a terrible price, and the long weight of what one generation hands the next.

In the headphones

Writing soundtrack

Dark ambiance
Soft hand percussion
Dark fantasy soundtracks
Ritualistic playlists

Tiny author lore

Things to know

Tiny author lore: writes about scorching deserts and cruel gods from a cold town in Upstate NY, where the winters do most of the worldbuilding.

On Lantern

Stories by Soren Halvek

Epic Fantasy

Mother Of Sand

In a cursed desert, three bloodline gifts are all that remain of a goddess who broke herself to save her people. Efren has spent his life certain the sands will claim him early—and that his brutal father will make sure of it. But when an empire comes hunting the desert’s power and an ancient presence begins whispering his name, Efren is pulled toward a destiny far stranger than survival. Sacred laws will be broken. Lost stones will surface. Old blood will reveal secrets buried for generations. And somewhere beneath the shifting sands, the Mother is waking.