About the Author

Nicolas Richards

Author of the Tranith Argan series and Living the Principled Life

Nick Richards discovered fantasy at age nine, when The Hobbit reached across the page and pulled him in. Something about Bilbo riding on the barrel along the lazy river with the fantasy trees spoke to his young self in a way he never quite forgot.

After devouring Tolkien, Richards spent his teenage years developing his own critiques of the genre — of its representation, its moral simplicity — and began imagining the kind of story he would tell instead. In his early twenties, the outline of the entire Tranith Argan story arrived in a single afternoon. Then he set it aside.

He hadn't lived enough yet. Over the next fifteen years he did: marriage, bereavement, professional challenge and growth, the full weight of adult life. The manuscript waited. When he returned to it, he 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 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.

Richards is also the author of Living the Principled Life, a book about deliberate living and the examined life, which grew from the same commitment to honest reflection that shapes all his work.