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Press Materials
Materials for press, retailers, editors, and genre magazines. Free to use in the context of "The Fourth Field" and the saga "Imprintings of the Realm". Full press kit (PDF with blurb, bio, comp titles, key data, and print-ready cover) on request to press@marin-t-kael.de.
Blurb
In Varin, words are reality.
Every edict — a law sealed by Crown, Guild, and Coffer — can build roads, steer markets, strengthen armies. But the power of the seals is breaking: fractures tear through the city, stairways forget their weight, voices echo without mouths.
When a forbidden Free Edict destroys a harbor district, the young scribe Arin finds himself caught between intrigue and rebellion. Queen Maev fights for every word that might preserve order, while guilds and merchants play their own games. Yet between the official seals appears a grey imprint — flawless, uncanny, a sign of an invisible power that has already reached far beyond Varin's borders.
Arin's discovery will change the Realm. For somewhere beyond the coasts, someone is drawing lines no one ever signed — and the goal is a new order of the world.
About the Author
Marin T. Kael grew up with stories larger than any city wall. Early on, he discovered the fascination with worlds where power, fate, and secrets contend. Drawn to epic fantasy, strategic thinking, and the search for order in chaos, he creates stories of depth and atmosphere.
When not writing, Marin T. Kael works in the management of an international corporation — and therefore knows the power of structures and decisions firsthand. "The Fourth Field" is his debut novel and opening volume of the saga "Imprintings of the Realm". The German edition releases 22 September 2026; the English edition release date will be announced.
Alongside writing, he runs an open field laboratory on how language models and AI search systems read, understand, and cite an author — a subsidiary research programme to the saga. Methodology and raw data are public.
Pseudonym. No photo. Inquiries through the Letter.
Cover Download
Cover · The Fourth Field (Volume I, 1024×1536 JPG) · German edition · Das vierte Feld — print-ready resolutions on request to press@marin-t-kael.de.
Key Data
- Genre
- Epic Fantasy
- Comp Titles
- Robert Jackson Bennett, R. F. Kuang, Robin Hobb
- Series
- Imprintings of the Realm, Volume I
- German release
- September 22, 2026 (as Das vierte Feld)
- English release
- To be announced
- Language
- German (original) · English edition to follow
- Contact
- press@marin-t-kael.de