Shadows, Stories, and New Chapters

There are nights when the world feels heavy, almost like the shadows themselves lean closer to see if I will break. I have carried words like armor and like chains, sometimes both in the same breath. My writing has always been more than stories, it is survival, it is defiance, it is the quiet way I say I am still here.

People attack with words, sometimes sharp, sometimes subtle. They assume silence means weakness. What they never realize is silence can also be strategy. While others waste their breath on cruelty, I gather my strength in pages and chapters. Every insult becomes fuel, every doubt becomes ink.

This is where storytelling and reality meet. Because my battles off the page slip into my fiction, and my fiction teaches me how to fight the battles off the page. There is no clean line. It is all tangled together, messy but alive.

Sorry about not posting regularly lately. I have been so hyper focused on writing my new fantasy novel, Return of the Veil Walkers, that time slipped away from me. I am about halfway through the first draft, and it feels like one of the most powerful projects I have ever taken on. It is raw and full of secrets, and I cannot wait to share it when the time comes.

And while I keep navigating those shadows, I also have exciting updates. Both of my books, Bloodline and Bloodline Tower Keeper, are now officially published. They will be out in stores this December, something I once only dreamed about. Thank you to everyone who read, supported, preordered, and believed in these stories.

So yes, the shadows press in sometimes. Yes, the world throws its attacks. But I write anyway. And with every chapter, every book, I carve out more light.

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About the Author

Caleb P. writes stories that blend personal truth and dark imagination, with a focus on resilience, memory, and the small fierce moments that hold us. Author of Bloodline and Bloodline Tower Keeper, Caleb is currently writing Return of the Veil Walkers.

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