Nathanael Bazzell

Nathanael Bazzell lives in Kentucky with his wife, children, dogs, and chickens. He received his master’s degree in history and has, at one point or another, worked at a feed mill, played in a rock band, and taught as a professor. When he isn’t attending soccer tournaments, track meets, or volleyball matches, he enjoys bow fishing.


A lifelong fantasy and science fiction reader, he especially loves long stories that take multiple books to tell. Having determined there are not nearly enough of those, he decided to write his own and share the tale with like-minded readers.

About the series

The Chronicles of the Orphan King is set in a sprawling world that spans a continent. That world was almost destroyed in an earlier Age in an event called the Cataclysm. That devastation was inadvertently unleashed by the group known as the Twelve Builders.

In the present, new threats arise to the Three Lands. The story begins with The Binding of the Twelve. It continues with The Forging of the Twelve and The Diaspora of the Twelve. There is more to the story, but those books are still in my head waiting to be typed. Sign up for the newsletter to keep up to date.