A still mountain lake at night beneath the Milky Way — the peaks, pines, and stars mirrored in the black water.

Bill McKibbin · Epic Fantasy

The water is calming.

The world begins anew.

The Series

Chronicles of the Still Lake

On the shores of the Still Lake, magic is not commanded — it is received. Every gift drawn from the water leaves a ripple, and ripples do not care when they land. A new epic fantasy about the ones who listen, the ones who reach, and the difference between them.

The first draft of Book One is complete — finished September 9, 2026, at 213 chapters and ~223,000 words. Now in revision, then serialized free on Royal Road — chapter by chapter — beginning this winter. The complete edition (ebook, paperback, and hardcover) follows in 2027. Book Two is finished before Book One's complete edition ships; the full first trilogy releases within a year of Book One.

The Writing Desk

The work, live.

No decade-long waits. Watch the books happen.

Stories From The Still Lake — free novella Released · free
On Flowcraft — a reader's companion Released · free
Book One First draft complete
Book Two Outlined

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