YA fantasy author
Young adult fantasy, and how to build a world of your own
I’m Sana. I write young adult fantasy set in a flooded city of rooftops, kites and crows, and I sell ebooks, worldbuilding guides and two video courses for writers.
Blog
Free stories and notes
The Crow Who Carried a Key
A free short story: a girl, a crow and a key that opens only at low tide.
How I Drew the Map of the Flooded City
From a coffee ring on a notebook page to a map with forty-one named roofs.
Kite Day on the Rooftops
A free short story about the one afternoon a year when the whole city looks up.
Five Rules for a Magic System
What to decide before your characters cast anything, and what to leave a mystery.
Digital downloads
Downloads
Download as soon as you pay. Yours to keep.
Online course
My course
Video course · 7 lessons
Write Your First Young Adult Fantasy
From a character and a world to a finished first chapter and a plan for the rest, in seven lessons.
- Starting with a young hero
- A world in one page
- The first chapter
- Friends, rivals and a crow
- Magic that has a cost
- The middle of the book
- Finishing a first draft
Newsletter
Kite Letters
A free letter every Friday: the new story, a note on how it was made and one writing idea.
About
Hello, I’m Sana
I write on a flat rooftop with a notebook, a flask of tea and a view of far too many water tanks. My stories are set in a city that the sea has half taken back, where people live on the roofs and the streets below are canals. The heroes are sixteen and seventeen, they are rarely sure of themselves, and most of them have a crow for a friend.
I put the stories on this site for free, a new one most weeks, and I sell the things behind them: two ebooks, and the guides, sheets and maps I use to plan a world. I also teach, in two short video courses for anyone who has a fantasy world in their head and wants to get it onto the page.