About Joel Kajok
Joel Kajok writes dark fantasy built on Slavic mythology. He is of Polish descent.
The Deathless Courts is his debut series - at its center is a question: what does it cost to be permanent in a world that needs to change?
Eight books of dark fantasy built on Slavic mythology, following different characters across a world where rivers hold spirits, forests remember who they belong to, and one man's immortality has frozen everything in place for three hundred years.
The mythology is real. It draws from centuries of Slavic folklore: the old stories about death, water, forests, and the boundary between the living world and the dead. The interpretations are his own.
Books One through Three each follow a different pair of characters in different corners of the same world. Each stands alone. Each pulls a thread that connects to something much larger. From Book Four onward, the series changes. The scope expands. The story becomes continuous. The world gets bigger. The stakes get heavier. The tone gets darker. If you came for the individual stories and want to stop after Book Three, I respect that completely. The first three books are whole on their own terms.
Book Two, What the River Remembers, is in the late stages of development. Book Three, The Iron Garden, is in pre-development.