I’m the author of the award-winning New Trails series — portal fantasy with LGBTQ+ protagonists, deep worldbuilding, and found family — and a Westerner by heritage, raised in Tucson. I’ve lived in Colorado, Georgia, and now New Mexico, with Portugal likely on the horizon.

I love thresholds, and portals, and passing through them. Places where you’re not quite here and not quite there. In other words: liminal spaces. To me, this is where potential and opportunity wait for the unwary passerby — and as a novelist, I enjoy placing my characters in these places and seeing them revealed for who they truly are, and who they could become.

Nature and I have an intimate relationship, and it’s key to all my writing — running through my novels like the fractal veins of a watershed. Since I believe nature includes our place in the universe, astronomy, quantum physics, cosmology, and systems theory (not to mention parapsychology and the paranormal) all inform the structure of my fantasy worlds.

I currently live in Silver City, a small town in Southwest New Mexico with an exciting history and a diverse culture that creates a writer’s mecca — local coffee shops, lots of art, and a vibrant downtown. In my spare time, I love exploring cosmology, quantum theory, and the paranormal alongside my partner of almost forty years.

Find me online — including @JodyNormanAuthor on BlueSky — and explore the Trails Universe further at Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/20049145.Jody_Norman.