Literary Fantasy · Speculative Fiction · Essays
“The stars had been peculiar all week.”
— Prologue · The Lost Amulet · Book One of the Salt & Stone Chronicles
I · The Salt & Stone Chronicles
The Lost Amulet
An art historian. A relic the Church has hidden for centuries. Seven weeks until the sky opens.
Dr. Marcus Voss has spent seven years perfecting the professor’s mask—art history at a seaside university, his inheritance locked in a drawer with his mother’s Creole spellbooks. Then a relic hunted across five centuries finds its way into his keeping, and every faction that has ever wanted it turns toward the California coast.
As the Grand Conjunction nears and the boundaries between worlds thin, Marcus must decide what he is willing to inherit—and what it will cost to refuse.
- Series
- The Salt & Stone Chronicles · I
- Genre
- Occult fantasy thriller
- Themes
- Inheritance · sacrifice · redemption
- Status
- Forthcoming
“The only thing we had in common was the craft that I didn’t practice. Besides, their magic was academic, aesthetic, clean. Mine was blood and water, loss and survival.”
II · Essays & Poems — Winter 2027
A New Place
On identity—Black, queer, spiritual—and the long work of arriving.
A collection of essays and poems tracing one life’s pursuit of wholeness through unlikely rooms: the studio, the archive, the ocean, the ancestral South. An honest—at times luminous and humorous—account of making a home in one’s own body and life; and what it means to begin again, in a new place.
III · The Author
Jaymes Wade
Jaymes Wade is a writer of literary fantasy and speculative fiction based in Santa Barbara, California. His work moves between the archive and the altar—art history, diaspora, ritual, and the long memory of the sea—asking what we inherit, and what inherits us.
He is the author of The Salt & Stone Chronicles and the forthcoming essay collection A New Place. Off the page he keeps a small teaching practice in yoga, meditation, and energy work—the quiet corner of this site called The Practice.
Portrait
forthcoming
- Coordinates
- 34.42° N · 119.70° W
- Writes
- Fiction · essays · poems
- Now
- The Lost Amulet — final revisions
- Socials
- @jaymeswade · everywhere
IV · Notebook
Marginalia
Essays and dispatches — a register of work in progress.
- 01 On Peculiar Stars—astronomy as grief work Essay Forthcoming
- 02 The Archive & the Altar Essay Forthcoming
- 03 Reading Winslow Homer in Salt Water Criticism Forthcoming
- 04 Seven Points—notes on the heptagram Field notes Forthcoming
V · Off the Page
The Practice
Movement, stillness, and the subtle body—weekly sessions in Santa Barbara, and online.
- Yoga
- Linking breath with movement, stilling the mind. Registered 200-RYT, teaching since 2015—Vinyasa as a practice of return: to the breath, to the body, to the knowing that lives below the noise. Come as you are. Leave feeling lighter.
- Meditation
- Meditation is not about escaping life. It is the practice of arriving fully in the body, welcoming what we were too busy to notice. We begin with the simple rhythm of the breath, opening the door to deeper states of awareness; the result is a profound sense of self-trust and a quiet power that belongs only to you.
- Energy
- The subtle body, taken seriously. Kundalini Activation—a guided waking of the current at the base of the spine. Quiet, precise, sometimes surprising. Not for the faint of heart; exactly for the ready.