Kimberly Howatt
REALMS OF RAIDHO™
Fantastic Tales
This place is dedicated to Kim's creative writing.
Here playful, impactful storytelling brings the imagination alive.
A debut novel is nearing completion. The manuscript's story is complete and another revision has begun, this one preparing for the editing cycle. So much gratitude to alpha and beta readers for epic feedback that helped the story become nuanced and helped Kim grow into her role on this planet as a writer.
A collection of short stories is waiting and ready to be revised and shared in varying capacities.
A second, unrelated novel, has been started and ideas are coming in hot!
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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 is a dog, watching her, head tilted with curiosity. Wire-rimmed glasses sit low, on the tip of its long snout.
The dog speaks to Emma, and 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 one-way ticket home?
Caught in a nightmare, Emma must learn to live in a dog-centric world and to communicate using a language humans forgot long ago. As she travels with the pack from one world into the next, her darkest fears become reality. Survival depends on her ability to become one with her new family.
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 One-of-a-Kind Book That Lasts Forever.
A custom hardback book for you and your kindred people.
Your dog has a story to share, and it will likely be surprisingly fun and entertaining, with a deeper message at its heart.
How does the story come to be?
Kim and the dog have a special communication session. Together, they create a playful, fantastical short story that will entertain for lifetimes.
Illustrated by AI, printed, and delivered to your door.
Six copies. Yours to keep, gift, and treasure.
Raidho's most precious creation.
This 1500-2000 word story filled with layers that keeps the reader coming back time after time.
Free your imaginations. Let the playful words and images see your dog's world in a profoundly new way. You may just end up with a keepsake that outlasts us all.
Investment: $1,110.00 - 2 Payments of ($555.00)
1500-2000 word short story
AI Illustrated hard copy book. Additional copies available on request (Shipping not included)
Include personal photos to include in the finished book
12-16 week delivery due to demand and a need for creative freedom. Subject to change.
Add on formats available in additino to the hard cover book
Choose ONE ($550.00)
Video story-telling (mp4 format)
Audio-book style (wav format)
Add BOTH audio AND video for $880.00
Champions Of Challenge
A Short Story Collection
Champions of Challenge is a playful, animal driven collection of eight short stories with a strong message.
You are always enough. Your companions are always enough.
How it began:
Three simple questions posed inside a private FB group encouraged seven brave humans to answer the call. The animals spoke and seven short adventure tales were born.
Each story is built around the theme of challenges becoming superpowers.
The animals who inspired Champions Of Challenge shared one common message.
Don't be afraid to recognize the gift in the grotesque.
But wasn't there eight stories??
The eigth story came unexpectedly from a lost tortoise named Tank, who we searched for the previous fall.
He asked if he could be the eighth story, and the story that came through was a story about how he needed to move on. A story about why he didn't come home. Finally. Closure.
The Champions Of Challenge stories are being reimagined. They deserve to be the best version of themselves.
Some will become published books. Some will become something else unknown at this time.
All of them will find life 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.
Come hang out with me. Read what the journey looks like from the inside.
Kimberly Howatt is a fantasy author and storyteller exploring relationship, imagination, identity, animals, and the hidden stories shaping our lives. Fantastical Tales is home to her novel The Infinite Drop, the Champions of Challenge short-story collection, writing from her Substack, and Their Story—custom fiction inspired by people and their dogs.
The journey continues beyond this page.
Come with us.
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