Petersburg Pilot -

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Ketchikan author Patrice Motschenbacher-Hammer has recently released her new fantasy novel, “The Weavings of Akaria,” the first in her planned series: “The Veils of Wisdom.”

Motschenbacher-Hammer sat down at a local coffee shop Wednesday with her husband, Bob Hammer, to talk about the journey of publishing her first novel.

“It just evolved,” she said, of completing the novel. “I like fantasy, so I wanted to write something about a fantasy type. I found that creating different worlds is wonderful.”

Creating a fantasy story has its unique challenge...