Kimberly Howatt
REALMS OF RAIDHO™
Fantastic Tales
This place is dedicated to creative writing and where the realms come together with playful, impactful storytelling.
Imagination and fantasy rule this part of the realm, and the possibilities are limitless.
A debut novel is nearing manuscript completion and in preparation for developmental editing. So much grtitude to alpha and beta readers for feedback full of treasure.
After the novel is packaged and sent out for edits, a series of nine short stories is ready to be revised and shared in varying capacities that are yet to be determined. And a second, unrelated novel, has been started and ideas are coming in hot!
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Also, a custom one-of-a-kind adventure story is a gift from your animal to you. Guaranteed to entertain and surprise.
The Infinite Drop
A Novel
Emma didn't fall asleep. She fell into another realm. One moment nestled in bed between her dogs.
The next?
She's sitting outside on the grass in the pitch black night. The sound of a stick snapping nearby reveals she's not alone.
A light clicks on. Beyond the beam, Emma sees a shadowy figure. When the stranger steps into the light, Emma knows she isn't anywhere near home. The figure, a dog standing on hind legs, watches her, head tilted with curiosity. Wire-rimmed glasses sit low, on the tip of its long snout.
The dog speaks to Emma, armed with a notebook and a pencil. The vocalizations sound like gibberish, different from her dogs back home. Unmistakable urgency in its tone sends shivers down her spine.
Is this dog her only ticket home?
Caught in a nightmare, Emma must learn to live in a dog's world and to communicate using a forgotten language. As she falls from one world into the next, her darkest fears become reality. Survival depends on her ability to transmute cowardice into courage.
The Infinite Drop is coming.
The final phase of pre-edit rewrites and revisions are coming to a close.
Emma is real, and she's almost home.
Follow The Infinite Drop progress. Be one of the first to know when it arrives!
Their Story
A Book That Lasts Forever.
A custom illustrated hardback book in short-story form.
Through a special communication session, your animal reveals a plot and together we create an intimate yet playful tale that will last lifetimes.
Illustrated by AI, printed, and delivered to your door.
Six copies. Yours to keep, gift, and treasure.
The most personal thing created inside the Realms of RAIDHO.
This 1500-2000 word story will surprise you at every turn. Every read reveals layers of emotion and meaning that keep the reader coming back again and again.
Because the story is written in close collaboration with your animal, their personality, gifts, and challenges take center stage.
Their magical imagination will captivate you with the words and images brought to life inside this keepsake that will outlast all of us.
Investment: $1,110.00. Add on one of the following: storytelling video .mp4 or audio-book style .wav for an additional $550.00.
1500-2000 word short story
AI Illustrated hard copy book - 6 copies included in investment cost. More added by request (Shipping not included)
Personal photos, if you want them, for the ending
12-16 week delivery due to demand and creative freedom. Subject to change.
Add on includes your choice of video story-telling (mp4) or audio-book style (wav) allowing you to listen anywhere
Add BOTH audio AND video for $880.00
Champions Of Challenge
A Short Story Series
Champions of Challenge are playful, animal driven short stories with a strong message.
You are always enough. Your companions are always enough.
How it began:
A simple series of questions posed inside a private FB group encouraged seven brave humans to answer the call.
Without a plan, the animals spoke.
Weeks later, seven fictional tales were born.
Each story is built around a real companion animal, and a challenge as seen by the human who answered the question.
What came after shocked me. Each told their unique story, yet there was one common theme between them.
Their mission?
Recognize the gift in the grotesque.
Turn perceived challenges into superpowers. That's exactly what we did.
As I wrote the stories, I felt an intuitive nudge, unrelated to the other seven stories. Or was it?
As I listened, I heard Tank, a lost tortoise who I helped search for the previous fall. He asked to be the eighth story.
His beautiful tale brought closure for the family and for everyone involved in his search.
His story is about moving on.
What will be the ninth?
These stories are being reimagined. They deserve the best version of themselves.
Some will become published books. Some will become something else unknown at this time.
All of them will find you at exactly the right moment, in exactly the right format.
Something super is coming. Watch this space.
Substack
Stories from the Realms of Raidho
Words From The Realm. Writing from the heart.
Some inspiration arrives with a subtle nudge while washing dishes, inside a crazy-ass dream, or on a walk among the birds and trees.
Some inspiration arrives like a freight train that has no brakes. Like the linked article from the day Jango had a stroke.
October 2025.
Tick Tock Boom was written the evening following the event.
Jango is amazing, healthy, and appears to now be aging backwards. The follow-up artcle MOOB KCOT KCIT is on Substack now, from April 17, 2026.
In the intense moments, the ones where time stops, I write. It heals me.
Substack is my outlet, a place I share my heart, my creative work, and my honesty in the midst of a life experience.
Words fall onto the "page" when there is something important to share.
Come hang out with me. Read what the journey looks like from the inside.
My first printed book. And far from my last!
The journey continues beyond this page.
Come with us.
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