About the Author
Nicolas Richards
Author of the Tranith Argan series and Living the Principled Life
I discovered fantasy at age nine, when The Hobbit reached across the page and pulled me in. Something about Bilbo riding on the barrel along the lazy river with the fantasy trees spoke to me.
After devouring Tolkien, I began developing my own critiques of the genre (its representation, its moral simplicity), and began imagining the kind of story I could tell. In my early twenties, the outline of the entire Tranith Argan story arrived in a single afternoon. Then I set it aside. I simply hadn't lived enough.
Over the next fifteen years I did: marriage, bereavement, professional challenge and growth, the full weight of adult life. The manuscript waited. When I returned to it, I finally had something true to say about love and loss and tragedy and fear and growth and triumph.
The completed story forms six approximately 200-page books, with cover artwork by illustrator Niccolò Hilgendorf. The result is the Tranith Argan series: an epic fantasy for readers who want their stories to be exciting but satisfying in the end.
I am also the author of Living the Principled Life, with cover artwork by Jenna B. Neese, a book about deliberate living and the examined life, which grew from the same commitment to honest reflection that shapes all my work.
I am also the creator of iOS apps for movie watchng and baseball.