Finding Home

An award-winning slow-burn romance about learning to let yourself grow.

On a long journey, two very different people thrown together by circumstance end up growing much closer than they expected.

Janek, a human cook who just wants to get back home to his old life, meets Chepi, a wandering fae healer haunted by memories of his past. As they get closer, they each find out there’s more to the other than meets the eye. But they're too different - it could never work between them... right?

Lord of the Rings (queer reading) meets Wild.

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Hari Conner got in touch with me in late 2017, and we started working together right away. Finding Home was the first ongoing series I worked on, and in fact the first editing job that wasn't for someone I already knew.

I came in on chapter five of volume one. Hard had already done most of the planning for the volume; their outline was pretty solidly in mind. So, to begin with, I made notes on scripted layouts.

This continued for all of volume one, although occasionally I would see a script (text only) rather than scripted layouts (sketches of how the pages will be arranged, with the dialogue placed roughly), or scripts and layouts together (the text of a scene in one window, and sketches of how the pages will be arranged in another, to look back and forth between). This is an enjoyable way to work; it’s process-involved and feels very collaborative.

Towards the end of volume one, we had meetings and discussions where we workshopped Hari’s intentions and plans for the next two volumes. At that time, Finding Home was intended to be a trilogy of parts—it developed, because of how Chepi’s story needed to carefully unfold, into a four volume story. This story is based so heavily in the ugly work of healing and the awkward obstacles people are able to throw into the paths of their own relationships that to rush it would have felt false.

The process of making notes on scripts, scripted layouts or scripts and layouts together continued until the end of the book, which came (from my perspective) in mid-2022. Working on Finding Home was truly a blessing.