Kikthawenund is first mentioned in the second book in the series: Resurrection of the Druidess, where Jamie explains to Eliyana how a city was named after her mother’s family. Anderson, Indiana, just south of where Jamie grew up.

In The Time Travelers Tarot, he stands on the edge of a cliff, but there is an Egyptian theme behind him because Dalton the Fool fought in Gallipoli during World War I.

This week, I opened a small collection of poems I inherited decades ago and felt something shift. They were written by my great-uncle Harlow, who served in World War II and passed away in the early 1980s. I didn’t know him well, but I remember him kindly. He lived far away—to me as a child at least, in San Francisco. It always felt like more of an idea than a place—and he kept mostly to himself. He never married. He read constantly, especially history and science, and sometim

The countdown has begun. The Time Travelers Tarot deck is officially printing, and the companion guidebook goes on sale April 1.

When I set out to design a tarot deck, I never expected to become “the first” in two different categories. Yet here we are. The Time Travelers Tarot is the first tarot deck built around the theme of time travel, and it is also the first tarot deck fully designed by the author of the book series it comes from. That combination makes this deck both highly collectible and fully functional for readings.

Readers sometimes ask why, as an author of historical science fiction, I would create a tarot deck. On the surface, the two might seem like strange companions.