Welcome to SageAuthor/ Books
Jessica Dailey
Casey Robert Swanson
An talented artist and writer, Jess adds vibrant content to our writing and does our cover design. She is a graduate of Berkeley College in Art. She recieved her Museum Curator Certificate from the University of Washington.
Casey Robert Swanson
Casey Robert Swanson
Casey Graduated from the University of Washington in History and International Studies. He began writing at an early age. The Order of the Sage was begun at Interlake High School, class of 1973, and Beyond the Fear of Tomorrow was begun at the University of Washington.
Our Team
Our Team
We are ow both retired and writing has become one of the pleasures of our life.
For 9 years we had their own traditonal publishing house and published 84 books., mostly first time authors.
We'll often will go to a coffee shop and spend a few hours drinking coffee and sharing our story ideas.
Our books are now a true partnership between us.
Sage Author Books
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Coming Soon, March 31, 2026
Branches
Synopsys
In a future where Earths resources have been deleted, humanity relies on the Explorer’s guild to discover and colonize new worlds.
Senior Explorer Anya Tyszko and her apprentice, Sulligan embark on a First Landing mission to a barren world that once supported life. Their goal is to map. Explore and establish a base for future missions.
As Anya and Sulligan explore the planet they discover the ruins of an ancient civilization, mysterious glyphs and evidence of a catastrophic event that ended life on the planet.
Their discoveries raise questions about the fate of the lost world’s the Guild has discovered, and the possibility of finding living cultures beyond the Earth and its colonies.
The Explorers face technological challenges, psychological strain and the ever present danger of the unknown.
Meanwhile, Anya’s husband Gustof, an agricultural researcher for the Guild, struggles with loneliness and paranoia back on Earth. His green house is sabotaged with a hallucinogenic spore, leading to a tense investigation that reveals a conspiracy inside the Guild.
Throughout all of this Anya and Gustof’s love and psychic bond endures across the cosmos and, together with Sulligan they address humanity, affirming a new era of exploration, cooperation and hope for the future.
Coming This Summer
Simon's Heritage
Synopsis
We continue to follow the journey of the crew of The Proctant.
From a new discovery in the Wolf City, more secrets of the Teachers are found. Several of the crew journey back to their own homelands to discover just what the heritage of Simon, The Order of the Sage and the Teachers is.
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The Order of the Sage
Book 1 of tyhe After the Atoms Fall Series
ISBN 979-8-9986992-2-1
eISBN 979-8-9986992-3-8
$14.95
Synopsys
Two thousand years in the future, 2000 years after the aftermath of the apocalyptic Great War, we find the mutineers of The Proctant, a trading vessel of the Confederation washed ashore on the edge of a jungle swamp in a land previously unknown to the Confederation.
The White, a mutated inhuman offspring of man, immediately attack the survivors. Deformed with translucent bodies, they are led by their Myk and survive by eating their preferred choice, living human beings.
Two thousand years earlier, the Teachers, travelers from beyond the Earth, saved what they could of Earths population in the aftermath of an Armageddon they couldn't stop. Their servants, selected from the best of Earths survivors after 1000 years underground, The Order of the Sage, work to follow the prophesies that the Teacher laid before them.
A catalyst for change in this world, the traders of The Proctantfind their paths predestined. Initially divided, they come together once more, becoming the spearhead bringing this world together into a future meticulously crafted by the Teachers long ago.
The Trail of the Myk
Book 2 After the Atoms Fall Series
ISBN 979-8-9986992-1-4
eISBN 979-8-9986992-0-7
$14.95
Synopsis
The second book of the After the Atoms Fall Series continues the adventures of the lost crew of The Proctant in this new land.
The Battlewith the Myk's army was won; however, he was still out there with his followers. He must be found.
The New Confederation is on shaky ground as many refuse to embrace the changes.
Zircon, on the behest of The Order of the Sage has made a dramatic discovery in a previously unexplored skeleton city.
New friends are found and new discoveries made as the men of The Proctant continue to create change in the land that they found.
Beyond the Fears of Tomorrow
ebook version
eISBN 979-8-9986992-4-5
Synopsys
The story of a man who is unable to deal with the conflicts of insecurities of the world around him. He withdraws into his own mind where he creates a new universe and plays God, often with reluctance.
Once in his new reality he tries to create the perfect order of good.
At the crowning point of his achievement his universe is destroyed, partly by what he unkowingly created out of his own repressed fears.
Unable to effect any change he is forced to watch as this destruction happenes.
This, in turn, forces him back to the real world with full memory of what had transpired,
Beyond the Fears of Tomorrow
ISBN 0-9773676-0-6
9.95
This is the original DaileySwan Publishing paperback
The paperback version is only avaiable at my autograph signing events
Review
Have you ever wanted to escape life so badly that you simply created your own universe and escaped into it? Eller, the protagonist of a new book by Casey Robert Swanson, does just that, and it's a fantastic ride along.
Beyond the Fears of Tomorrow follows Eller as he slips into the dark void of his own creation and generates another world from his dreams. Desiring to create a perfect universe, he starts to sculpt the Home Planet, his reincarnation of Earth. Swanson gives a glimpse into the primordial plains and forests of our own world as he depicts this act of creation. The inhabitants of this world are then born from his memories.
We find Eller playing god with his new race of people, and helping them along, Sid Meiers-style, as they build civilizations and reach out to new planets.
Everything goes dreamily until a new race, the Swarm, is born from Eller's foul memories of our world. In the end, Eller is jettisoned back into reality, but not before watching an alien starship invasion, an emperor’s assassination by nuclear weaponry, and a priestly thought-bomb ravage his world.
The most remarkable facets of this work are its length (the book can easily be read in a single sitting), and its poetic form.
“Beyond the Fears of Tomorrow” is written in verse, making it feel like a classical legend, a Homeresque epic. While enjoying this science-fantasy existential romp, you'll find yourself in Eller's place, filling in the stretches of history and exploration with your own fantasies. Your thoughts on creation, imagination, and perhaps even spirituality will be challenged and stretched.
Swanson does a remarkable job of not only putting Eller's story on paper, but also involving the reader in his actions. Anyone with half a taste for sci-fantasy or free-verse poetry will want to pick of a copy of this fantastic book.
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