Meet Me at Realm Makers!

Whew! It’s been a hot minute since I graced the blog with my presence!

I’m so sorry I’ve been so silent here for the past… 2 months! Spring has just become one of the busiest times of the year for me, and trying to release the last book in the Turrim Archive in the middle of all that just wiped me out.

Life just keeps moving forward, and so does time, and here we are in June!

I would love to say that I’m going to try to be more faithful to write posts, but I fear that would just be setting me up for failure and you all for disappointment. I still love blogging and I have all these ideas, I just don’t ever seem to have the time. As my kids get older, I am more and more involved in all of their activities, and what little time I have left over to myself, I actually want to spend it writing books. So the blog may continue to be silent for a while as I work my way through these sweet, busy, eventful years.

Jenelle SchmidtJune 5, 2026 Comment

An Evening in the Stormcave: With Guest Benjamin Fife

Welcome back to another Evening in the Stormcave

Today’s guest on our podcast is none other than Storyteller, Voice Actor, and Narrator Benjamin Fife!

Benjamin has narrated 10 novels for me so far, and I look forward to collaborating with him on many projects in the future, as well.

Come listen in as we chat about The Turrim Archive, audiobooks, and what it takes to be an audiobook narrator!

PodcastJenelle SchmidtMarch 23, 2026Comment

Release Day for Towers of Might and Memory

Today is the Big Day!

The final book is out in the wild!

And I’m being interviewed! Come on over to MH Elrich’s instagram account this afternoon (3pm CDT) and join the fun as we chat about Towers of Might and Memory!

Jenelle SchmidtMarch 21, 2026 Comments

Tomorrow Is the Big Day!

Tomorrow is release day!

It feels like the end of an era. I began writing these books back in 2013. I’ve been talking them on the blog as far back as 2017 (possibly earlier, it’s hard to do an exact search for when I started talking about The Orb and the Airship, but I found posts dating in 2017). I’ve been thinking about this series since 2005 when my husband first started building the world and creating Dalmir and Grayden as characters.

And tomorrow, the journey ends. The final bell tolls. The fifth and final book in this sweeping, epic, won’t-stay-in-a-box series releases tomorrow.

And I’m a little bit unsure how to feel about it.

Turrim ArchiveJenelle SchmidtMarch 20, 2026 Comments

The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin Review

Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead was one of the first fantasy books I read all by myself.

My dad had already read me The Chronicles of Narnia, The Spirit Flyer Series, The Prydain Chronicles, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings… and I had already fallen in love with the genre. I can’t tell you how many times I read and re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (especially The Two Towers) over and over after he read them to us the first time.

But Taliesin was a gift from some family friends who, upon hearing that I liked fantasy, handed me a copy and told me I would love it.

I was 12.

Jenelle SchmidtFebruary 18, 2026 Comment