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Archive of the Realms
The destination for compulsive, page-turning speculative fiction by Australian authors.
Authors
Meet our authors
Evelyn Caster
Jodie Lane
R. Lennard
Michelle Mariposa
Books
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Workbooks
Workbooks designed to help organise authors and cosplayers.
Books with spice
Books that you'll need a fan to read 🥵
Spice rating:🌶️
Spice rating:🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Books without spice
All slaying, no laying books you won't want to put down.
Anthologies
Tales from multiple authors are the perfect accompaniment to your
coffee break. Read a story at a time and relax.
Time Travel Books
Spanning ancient worlds and futuristic societies,
these books will have you (time) turning the pages.
Fantasy books
Spanning ancient worlds and other realms,
these are fantasy books you won't want to put down.
Writer resources
We offer both free and paid services to help writers.
Events checklist
Publishing your first book checklist
Basic formatting for fiction eBook and print
Free writer resources
Events checklist
Publishing your first book checklist
Paid writer resources
Basic formatting for fiction eBook and print
Refunds do not apply to the following goods:Digital goods: ebooks. These are instant downloads.Please choose carefully. Refunds only given if you buy a duplicate item within 48 hours of first purchase in which case the duplicate item will be refunded.
Refunds for physical goods.There is no return for change of mind. Returns are given for faulty items if you contact us within 7 days of receiving item (according to the tracking).For refund queries, please email [email protected] within 7 days of receiving your product (according to the tracking). Please use the subject "returns" and include your name, order number, and reason for return, and photographs of faulty item. If item is faulty, we resend your goods. We want you to be happy!
With thanks to Writers’ HQ, our supreme writing commanders, glorious leaders and excellent but tiny overlords, who have verily granted us permission to use their splendid and sweary Privacy Policy.Wow has anyone ever read one of these?We have to have one of these dealios to explain how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) because Freya knows there’s not enough actual interesting things in the world to read, you need to read 1,000 words of legalese nonsense that makes literally not one bit of difference to anyone, ever.Also we don’t really know what these things are. We're just an under-heighted writer who thought we’d have a laugh and share our stories with the world.Short WordsThe best bit about the GDPR is that all this has to be “concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible” so hold on to your hats, kids, this is going to be the shortest, clearest and best freakin’ privacy policy you ever did see.So. Here we go…We're just a team of overstretched people and we don’t have the time or energy to do anything nefarious with your data. It’s not that we're not evil – we're as corruptible as anyone – we're just too busy writing to think up a malevolent plot to steal your identity.We collect and store the info we need to provide you with the items you buy from me. We occasionally stalk you via Facebook adverts. That’s really it.CookiesSeriously who actually cares? Do you even know what a cookie is or does? Well then. Yes we use cookies because that’s kinda how the Internet works. If you don’t want our delicious home-baked chocolate chip scripts, then you need to block cookies on your browser but don’t come crying to me when nothing does what it’s supposed to.Stalky Visitor TrackingLook, we're following you, ok? We use Google Analytics, primarily to stare at the real time stats because they’re cool but also to see what stuff people looking at so we can write more of the stuff you like.It doesn't store any super personal data about you but probably they nab your IP address, not that we'd know what to do with it. All we see is that a person or many people have interacted with the website in a particular way. You can mess with us by doing something totally unexpected on the website and skewing our stats. Or you could do something way more fun and useful with your time LIKE READING MY BOOKS.Data StorageDATA!! It’s all about the data, baby. A literal tonne of petabytes whirring around the world and what? What’s it all for? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? What will future historians actually see of us and our slowly collapsing society? So. We store your data in a few different places and use it in a couple of different ways. You ready for this?Here on this website! If you register with the site, we will store your name and email address. If you buy stuff from us, we will store your name, email address, postal address, phone number if you give it to us, and purchase history. Your payment details ARE NOT held on the site. We obviously go to the maximum effort to keep this data secure and only one person has access to it. Only we ever actually look at it and that’s to solve any technical problems you might have.We’ll be honest: we do absolutely nothing unsurprising or radical with your info. We may use your purchase history to target you with ads for stuff you might like. For e.g. if you buy one of our books, we’ll occasionally ask you if you want to buy another one. Does that make us an EvilMegaCorp? Idk, it’s fairly standard isn’t it?Payment DetailsWhen you buy stuff, you pay through Stripe or PayPal. The only payment-based details we hold on our site is how much you’ve spent and that you've paid. We have no bank or card details or nada here. Stripe is GDPR compliant. PayPal is being totally weird about it but will have to be GDPR compliant or everyone in Europe will have to stop using it and probably they don’t want that.Email marketing thingys and newslettersIf you sign up to one of our newsletters, we will send you a newsletter – generally around one a month, but occasionally more if there is more interesting stuff to tell you. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button in every email. Your name and email address are stored securely by EmailOctopus.EmailOctopus automatically adds tracking things to links so if you click on a link, WE KNOW. If you open an email, WE KNOW. If you ignore us reminding you to keep reading, WE KNOW.The most important thing about this is we have neither the time nor inclination to actually look at or do anything with these stats.Your right to be deletedFINE. GO THEN. WE DON’T CARE. If you want to go undercover, just chuck us an email at info(AT)acrhiveoftherealms(DOT)com and we’ll delete all the info we have on you from our system while having a passive aggressive huff about what we could have possibly done wrong.This does not include Stripe or PayPal. If you want to delete your Stripe or PayPal accounts you have to do that yourself via Stripe or PayPal. We cannot delete your purchase history because the tax man will be terribly upset.Social Media and all that StuffWe use social media a lot, partly to promote our books but mostly as a vehicle for our creative endeavours. If you talk to us on our Facebook page and we become familiar with you, we might find you on Instagram or Threads and say hello. You can ask us to be less friendly if you wish and we will of course respect your boundaries.You are not required to follow our social media accounts. If anyone turns out to be racist, bigoted, homophobic dipshits then we wanna know so we can tell them to go to hell.Got it? Read it? Done it? WELL DONE YOU! Celebrate your achievement with a gold star.