About The Author

I’m Mark Feenstra, and I write fantasy books.

I’ve published over 45 works of fiction under various pen names and across a variety of genres, but these days I’m mainly focused on slice-of-life stories set in the fictional world of Tellen. Most notably, the forthcoming classic fantasy series, The Traveling Librarian, about a… well, that one’s fairly self-explanatory.

I’ve been publishing fiction for over a decade now, mainly under a variety of pen names, but it’s only recently that I had a long hard think about what kind of stories meant the most to me. I’m a fairly avid reader with a history that has spanned genres like spy thrillers, horror, beat poetry, sci-fi, CanLit, romance, and the kind of stuff you’d find on the average New Yorker or Paris Book Review subscriber’s bookshelf.

Through it all, there has been fantasy of all stripes. Maybe it’s the craziness of the last several years, and maybe it’s just my personal need for relaxed slice-of-life fantasy I just can’t find enough of, but these days I find myself writing cozy(ish) adventure and slice-of-life fantasy. You know those stories that feel like a warm blanket and a mug of your favorite hot beverage on a rainy day? Books that whisk you away from the everyday stress of a life circumstances that never seem to let up? That’s where I’ve been living and writing these past couple of years.

The bulk of this work has been set in a fantasy world called Tellen, in which a young librarian travels far and wide in search of rare and dangerous books. These stories are not without their trials and tribulations, but they are tales that take their time exploring the nuance of what it means to experience these fantasy narratives.