K. Eason: The Weep Book Series

May 14, 2022 Chris Well

Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, this sci-fi mystery follows an unlikely duo who investigate the strange happenings near a tear in space and time.

K. Eason is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, where she and her composition students tackle important topics such as the zombie apocalypse, the humanity of cyborgs, and whether or not Beowulf is a good guy. Her previous publications include the On the Bones of Gods fantasy duology with 47North, and she has had short fiction published in Cabinet-des-Fées, Jabberwocky 4, Crossed Genres, and Kaleidotrope. When she’s not teaching or writing, Eason picks up new life skills, ranging from martial arts (including a black belt in kung fu!), to Viking sword and shield work, to yoga and knitting.

Scroll down for the current and upcoming books in the series, plus for Q&As from author interviews with Ms. Eason.

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The Weep Book Series

Nightwatch on the Hinterlands (The Weep #1)

Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, this new sci-fi mystery follows an unlikely duo who must discover the motive behind an unusual murder.

THE TEMPLAR: When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don’t kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it.

THE SPY: Officially, Gaer is an ambassador from the vakari. Unofficially, he’s also a spy, sending information back to his government, unfiltered by diplomatic channels. Unlike Iari, Gaer isn’t so sure the riev’s behavior is just a malfunction, since the riev were created using an unstable mixture of alchemy and arithmancy.

As Gaer and Iari search for the truth, they discover that the murderous riev is just a weapon in the hands of a wielder with wider ambitions than homicide--including releasing horrors not seen since the war, that make a rampaging riev seem insignificant...

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Nightwatch over Windscar (The Weep #2)

Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, the second book in this sci-fi series follows unlikely allies who must discover the secrets of ancient ruins.

Iari is good at killing monsters. As a templar in the Aedis, a multi-species religious organization committed to protecting the Confederation, eliminating extra-dimensional horrors is her job. But after she helped stop separatists from sabotaging the entire Confederation, she discovered a new sort of monster: the rogue-arithmancer, political kind.

Promoted and sent north to the tundra of Windscar, Iari leads a team of templars to investigate ancient, subterranean ruins, which local legend claims are haunted, and which have mysterious connections to the dangerous arithmancy used by the wichu separatists. Iari isn’t worried about ghosts. She’s worried about surviving separatists and a fresh attempt to upend the Confederation.

Included in Iari’s team are Char, a decommissioned battle-mecha and newly-joined templar, and Gaer, ostensible ambassador and talented arithmancer. As they delve into the ruins, they find remnants of long-ago battles, bits of broken armor and mechas—which unexpectedly reanimate and attack. It seems there is still dangerous arithmancy in Windscar--but the source isn’t who Iari expected, and they’re far worse than the separatists….

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Interviews With K. Eason

Q: What has influenced your writing?

“Everything that I read, watch, experience—it’s all fair game. My writing style was influenced by stuff I read as a kid:...Gibson’s Neuromancer, CJ Cherryh’s Cyteen. Of course Tolkien, more The Hobbit than LOTR (I found The Hobbit when I was much younger). The Last Unicorn. Playing and running role-playing games actually taught me the most about the craft of telling stories. Staying a step ahead of smart players is the best way I know to build a consistent world and head off plot holes.”—Interview with K. Eason, author of Enemy (The Qwillery)

Q: If you could only describe Nightwatch on the Hinterlands in five words, what would they be? What can readers expect?

“Murder, monsters, politics, math-magic, battle-rigs. The plot deals with solving a mystery, but the story is about relationships–past histories and old prejudices, and how people do–or don’t–get past that baggage, or learn to work with it, or in spite of it. How heroism comes down to small acts of courage and loyalty and friendship.”—Q&A: K. Eason, Author of ‘Nightwatch on the Hinterlands’ (The Nerd Daily)

Q: What is Nightwatch On The Hinterlands about, when and where does it take place, and how is it connected, both chronologically and narratively, to The Thorne Chronicles?

“Nightwatch takes place about century after the Thorne Chronicles. The war Rory feared finally happened, oh yes it did, and while humanity did not lose…they did not exactly win, either. An arithmantic miscalculation has torn a long tear in the aether, and monsters that live in the very, very deep layers have come spilling out. This tear, The Weep, cuts through planets as well as interstellar space, and it is on one of those planets that this story takes place.

“Nightwatch is a much smaller story — the politics are local, rather than galactic.”—Exclusive Interview: “Nightwatch On The Hinterlands” Author K. Eason (Paul Semel)

Q: When/how did you realize you had a creative dream or calling to fulfill?

“To me, it’s not really a calling. It was a certainty. I just always liked making up stories, from the time it was just me and a stuffed animal. I declared I wanted to be a writer sometime in elementary school, and just started writing.”—K. Eason Interview - How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse (Jean Book Nerd)

Q: What is it with Fantasy you find fascinating?

“I had a Rankin-Bass vinyl version of The Hobbit when I was small, and I memorized it. Every word. Every song. So that probably got me started with fantasy, back in the day. (It was the dragons. Seriously, all about the dragons.) I love all spec-fic; what I love about fantasy in particular is how magic so often shapes the world-view, in the way that scientific materialism shapes ours. Different magics, different world-views, even within the same world.”—Interview with On the Bones of Gods author K. Eason (SFF World)

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