Designing a Conlang Backwards
I invented an alien accent by ear, then went back and reverse-engineered the grammar that would naturally produce it. The end result? A new conlang for Doors to the Stars.
Doors to the Stars Sample Chapter
Sixteen-year-old Wulan has weeks to live. Radiation poisoning from her last salvage run is killing her, and the only thing that might save her is selling the ancient Forger disk she found in the wreck—alien biotech that hums with her dead mother’s lullaby.
Wanted: Advance Readers for Doors to the Stars
The artifact is changing her. Sixteen-year-old Wulan was dying on a scavenged world until she found an ancient Forger relic humming with alien intelligence. Now the regime hunts her, revolutionaries need her as a weapon, and a smuggler crew just saved her life.
Doors to the Stars: She Who Dares, Wins
Doors to the Stars is a YA Space Opera about choosing what you’ll lose to save worlds that never gave a damn about you. For readers who loved Ship Breaker’s survival grit with Becky Chambers’ found-family heart, and protagonists who break—but keep going anyway.
