About Ancient Roads

Hi, I'm Chris Struble (rhymes with ruble). I am a software test engineer and former manager with a lifelong passion for fiction writing and songwriting. I write speculative fiction and music from the worlds I create. I am based in Seattle, where I live with my wife, nephew, adult son, and our cat.

I’ve had a lifelong love of both speculative fiction and music, and made my first attempts at writing both in high school, a very long time ago. I once saw fiction writing and songwriting as separate creative interests, then I found a way to connect them together.

In 2018 I started writing what became my first novel, an adult fantasy, Shield of the Goddess. After finishing the first draft in 2022, and two more years of polishing, I decided to rewrite it and self-publish it here as a web serial starting in 2025.

The novel came from the music. The prayers and spells in the novel are original songs I wrote, inspired by my studies of ancient music and modern pagan music. I'll release the songs from my novel here too. Subscribers will be able to hear what they sound like.

Curious? Subscribe today, and you'll get full access to the chapters and songs as well as a monthly newsletter with musings on fiction writing, songwriting, and the crossroads where ancient life and the modern life meet. I'll also release new book chapters, songs from the novel, and other new content when its available.

Check out my Books, Music, and Reviews pages to see organized lists of everything I have published here to date.

Also check out my Recommendations for selected authors, bookstores, and providers of unique services I know.

See you on the road.

Chris Struble

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