Shapeshifting royals. Forbidden love. Space magic.
A kingdom can give you a name.
Who gets to decide who you are?
When royal heir Arianna’s shapeshifting powers fail, her sister Dressa is ordered to take her place—including courting Arianna’s bride-to-be. The sisters’ struggle for their own identities opens into an interstellar world of court politics, dangerous magic, and queer love.
The Stars and Green Magics is Novae Caelum’s continuing fantasy-in-space series, with sapphic romance, trans and nonbinary characters, and a story told across multiple perspectives.
The books
Follow the story through the stars.
Begin with The Truthspoken Heir. The published sequence below runs through The Second Ruler: Part Three; A Cycle of Three, book 9, is in progress.
Book 1 · Published
The Truthspoken Heir
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Book 2 · Published
The Shadow Rule
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Book 3 · Published
A Bid to Rule
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Book 4 · Published
Court of Magickers
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Book 5 · Published
The Nameless Storm
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Book 6 · Published
The Second Ruler: Part One
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Book 7 · Published
The Second Ruler: Part Two
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Book 8 · Published
The Second Ruler: Part Three
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Where AI enters the series.
Books 1–7: the original writing
These novels were human-written. Novae’s process disclosure notes one specific exception: a header quote in Court of Magickers was rephrased with AI.
Later AI-assisted artwork, marketing, and audio do not describe how those earlier novels were written.
Books 8–9: an evolving workflow
The Second Ruler: Part Three and A Cycle of Three use Novae’s AI writing process. He describes this as a way to continue the established series seamlessly while substantially reducing the time he needs.
The writing and editing happen within apps and systems he builds himself, with an AI workflow designed around these books.
For the broader account of development, draft expansion, rewriting, and final creative decisions, read Novae’s How I Work page.
A world beyond the novels.
Cover art & a special edition
AI has been part of the cover-design process across the series, and in creating the special edition of The Truthspoken Heir. Visual development gives the books another form through illustrated editions and reader swag.
Explore the special edition ↗Marketing with AI video
The series’ imagery also moves into AI-assisted video marketing: a way to introduce readers to its characters, mood, and world. This promotional work sits alongside the novels’ separate writing history.
Explore the studio’s filmmaking practice →Music from the story world
The AI-assisted official soundtrack extends the series into music, including songs with lyrics drawn from the books. Pop, rock, and instrumental pieces give readers another way to inhabit its universe.
Explore the soundtrack ↗Audiobooks
Digitally narrated editions bring the novels into audio. Novae’s public process account describes AI narration, including licensed voice-clone use through ElevenLabs, and the importance of audio accessibility in his own reading life.
The Truthspoken Heir audiobook ↗
Screen project · In development
The Stars and Green Magics on screen
The world also has a place on the studio’s screen slate. The screen project is in development, with a trailer available to watch.
The studio behind the series
These books connect Novae’s work as an author, artist, filmmaker, and systems builder. The same catalog can hold human-written novels, later AI-assisted writing, visual promotion, a special edition, music, and a developing screen project—each with its own creative process.
Explore AI writing, creative systems, or The King’s Weaver for another view of how the studio works.