I’ve been publishing YouTube Shorts for a few months now, but I just published my very first long-form video on YouTube. It’s a deep dive into Ulstra’s magic systems: emotional magic, elemental magic, and crystal magic. It’s a great way to learn how magic works in Ulstra, the setting of my upcoming queer normative fantasy novel, Crystals of Ulstra.

Watch the video now, and let me know if these magic systems intrigue you:

Question for you: What are your favorite magic systems in the fantasy genre?


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The book cover for Crystals of Ulstra, a queer epic fantasy novel by Bradley Bowen. It features an illustration of the main character Koralo over a backdrop of a eucalypt forest.

Crystals of Ulstra

An epic fantasy tale with a queer-normative sensibility, Crystals of Ulstra is the first book in the Ulstra trilogy.

Meet the Author

Bradley Bowen is a Colorado-based writer, digital fundraiser, and author of the queer fantasy epic Crystals of Ulstra.