The Songbird and the Heart of Stone

Carissa Broadbent is an epic fantasy and romantasy author who lives in Rhode Island. Before becoming an author, Broadbent was a graphic designer, and she uses these skills for the interior design in all her books. She later transitioned into cybersecurity marketing, which became her day job as she pursued independent publishing for her novels.

Broadbent began her writing career by publishing serially on blogs. Her first published works were The Valtain Preludes duology consisting of A Palace Fractured and A Crown in Shadows, self-published in 2017.

Following her original duology, Broadbent wrote The War of Lost Hearts trilogy, consisting of Daughter of No Worlds (2020), Children of Fallen Gods (2021), and Mother of Death and Dawn (2022). Daughter of No Worlds, written in 2018, was the first novel Broadbent felt proud of. It was in the process of writing The War of Lost Hearts series that Broadbent invested more time into writing and developed the marketing skills she’d use to promote her self-published novels.

After self-publishing The Serpent and the Wings of Night—the first installment in the Crowns of Nyaxia series—in 2022, Broadbent became a seemingly overnight success. Her novel gained massive traction on Amazon and

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