Hi! I’m Petra.

I’m an indie author who writes stories about chosen family and figuring out what it means to be human. I don’t stick to just one genre, because that would be extremely boring. Currently I dabble in fantasy, sci-fi, spicy romance, and poetry. The latter mostly on my Instagram page for #FebruaryPoetryAdventure.

My first novel, Manly Hero, was co-written with my partner, Adam Lombard, and is currently under our pen name, Adrastus Rood. (Watch for that to change shortly.) It is a light-hearted fantasy novel that’s been described as “Well written”, “Pure, unadulterated fun”, “Perfect”, and “Trite, Simplistic, and Boring”. If you’re interested in reading it you can decide which opinion you agree with. In fact, here’s an excerpt.

I’m currently working on three more novels: book two of The Discovery of Legends series, a sci-fi action-adventure, and a spicy romance. Keep an eye out for them, hopefully next year.

If you want to keep up with my works-in-progress, short stories, poems, thoughts on enjoying the writing process, and small life adventures you can check out my newsletter, Petra Glyphs.

If you want to know more about me, I live in the PNW, I can swear a blue streak. I have an insanely large TBR pile — it’s actually become an entire bookcase. I don’t clean my house as often as I should. I love animals. I love a good pun. I also enjoy a bad pun. I can never decide what color to paint my walls. And I love my local library.

Thanks for stopping by! 😀

I eat plants

If you have vegan, gluten-free ramen recipes, twelve bonus points for you!!! And yes, I know, minus twelve points to me for being food difficult. But I’m okay with it. I’ll make them up somewhere else.

Obligatory “normal” picture

This is a picture where I pretend to be normal, but with a hat.

i take a lot of car selfies

Not while driving! People on phones while driving is a major pet peeve of mine. I’m safely ensconced in the passenger seat here. And fully decked out in my peace & love gear. Peace and love to you. (Even if you’re on a cell phone while driving. But for the love of all things sane, put the phone down!)