∞ The Author

Meet Blake Rivers

Hi, I'm Blake and as you may have guessed by now, I'm a writer. Yup, that’s right, I write books and I wrote my first novel, The Assassin Princess, in 2011 when I was twenty-eight. Two sequels followed, A Step into Darkscape and The Assassin's Codaci. This magical fantasy series started as a story written about my girlfriend, at the time, an artist who dreamed of being a fierce warrior in another world, who kicked butt and swung a sword to battle the enemy. It grew and became The Assassin Princess, a tale of an artist who is kidnapped and taken to a strange land full of magic, talking unicorns and dragons. It goes dark, exploring jealously, greed and hunger; it goes light and reaches for the best in even the most flawed of characters. But in essence, it still remains about her at its heart.

I started writing when I was seven years old. Back then it was mostly poems about whatever interested me at the time, be it the seasons or the planets, or my love for libraries and books. I also turned my hand to a few short stories, all hand written and lost over time.

I don’t remember why I started writing, but I do remember what inspired me to do it. It was Yuri, writing his poems to Lara in the frozen house in the film Dr Zhivago, and the beautiful music played, Lara’s Theme; it was the sound of the typewriter at the very start of the film Misery, where Paul Sheldon finishes his latest book.

These still inspire me to this day, along with whole host of other influences: the novels by Brandon Sanderson, Sarah J. Maas, J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell to name a few. Any movie that shows a typewriter.

There is a huge amount of AI Slop that has been created under the name of Blake Rivers and dumped on Amazon and their book platform Goodreads. I want to make it clear that this is not me, not mine, and when I kindly asked Goodreads to remove the attribution to me, I was told "There are over 100 books there you want us to move, we're not doing that." The fact that there is over 100 books should give you the subtle hint that they are not genuine. I first published my books, starting with The Assassin Princess in 2012, and a lot of work went into all three. I do not agree with the use of AI to 'create' such atrocities and I certainly am never going to be a part of it. I have removed myself from Goodreads as much as I can and they can drown in the slop if they want to. I just want to make clear that those other 'works' are nothing to do with me and my books listed on this website are the only books I have written and published. If they aren't listed on this website, they aren't me.

If you'd like to contact me in a more formal way, you can send an email to: blake@blakerivers.com.