The Ravenstone Family series: It's a little like the Addams Family, a little like Harry Potter (without the bigotry) or The Worst Witch, a little like the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire, and a little like none of those things. It features an ethnically and neurologically diverse cast; the protagonist of the first book, Dalia Ravenstone, is a black, autistic, transgender goth girl with chronic anxiety, chronic depression, and a missing foot (by birth). Dalia's best friends are a Korean-American boy with ADHD who uses a wheelchair, a white ginger girl who likes both girly things and tinkering with machines, a kitsune living in poverty, a Goblin foreign exchange student, and a laptop computer that acts like it’s sentient.
This series owes its existence to fan fiction, and more.
Dalia’s family consists of:
It is the first year of magic school for Dalia and her friends, and they're looking forward to a normal, fun learning experience full of magic and wonder. What they weren't looking for was intense and bigoted bullying, a dangerous mystery, malfunctioning magical powers, and the possibility of Dalia's non-human friends being expelled from the school forever! Can they figure out who the culprit is and stop them before their group is split apart by the school board? If they do crack the mystery, can they survive the culprit's mysterious attacks long enough to call for backup? And even if they survive all that unscathed, is this just the beginning of a much more sinister plot?
Genres: fantasy/sci-fi, comedy, drama, slice of life, mystery.
(Free to read, as for complex reasons I'm not interested in going to the hassle of pubishing it properly. Too much work to find a publisher, I don't have the patience to deal with Amazon books, and I don't even want to think of the taxes. This is mainly a hobby I do, I just want people to read it without having to pay money. "Dalia Ravenstone and the Vicious Circle" is Copright 2017 Fay Anne Aura Arts, but if you want to make fan fiction of it, go on ahead, I got started as a fanfic author.)
Read a sample of book one:
Click here for the sample of book one.
Click here for a glossary of terms used in the book, which also includes a pronunciation guide for potentially difficult words.
Read a short story set in the Ravenstone universe: "No Place Like Gnome."
Read the whole thing:
(688 pages when in RTF format, which includes glossary of terms and pronunciation guides at the bottom.)
(Some of these files are functional but flawed.)
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"Vedya Ravenstone and the Forge of Ponos," book two in "The Ravenstone Family Series," centers around Vedya Ravenstone, a breakout character from book one. I was originally going to have all the books center around Dalia, and to some extent they do relate back to her, but Vedya was so hilarious to me in book one that I centered this book around her.
In this book, Vedya Ravenstone is going to Fae Springs now, and she is a force to be reckoned with. The Principal already had a headache knowing she would be coming there, as Vedya speaks her mind plainly and is not afraid to be boistrous and fun. She unfortunately is too smart for her own good and bores easily because of it, getting into trouble with teachers frequently. Some would say she is loud and opinionated and prone to mischief. Book two contains several 'flashback' chapters about Vedya's childhood. More information about this book would spoil parts of book one.