Sean McGervey
Weaver of Memory, Magic, and Myth
About the Author
“When reality is shaped by memory, forgetting can unmake the world.”
Sean McGervey is an engineer, professor, and lifelong storyteller based in Maryland. When he’s not teaching systems engineering at Johns Hopkins or revising manuscripts late at night with a mug of jasmine tea, he spends his free time taking care of my parents and preventing world-ending calamities with his friends... via weekly Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, of course.Whether guiding students through complex systems or crafting fantastical worlds filled with memory, myth, and quiet hope, Sean brings the same thoughtful precision and emotional depth to every story he tells. Remembered Forward is his debut novel—an emotionally resonant, lyrical journey through sacrifice, becoming, and the threads that connect us—the first book of The Song of the Stitch of Four series.
Novels
Remembered Forward
A lyrical fantasy about memory, identity, and the threads that connect us.
In a world where stars are souls twinkling with the light of their memories, sixteen-year-old Caeli Duskbloom watches her aunt’s star begin to fade from the sky—and with it, every memory of the woman she once loved. A message appears in her journal, written in her own hand: "Help her. Keep Elaris from falling. The Seeker must not return." But she doesn’t remember writing it.As Caeli races to preserve the last threads of her aunt’s life, she uncovers a deeper unraveling—one that stretches across the Tapestry of Possibility and into her own future. Guided by dreams she doesn’t understand and constellations she can no longer trust, she must decide whether the threads of memory can be rewoven—or if forgetting is the cost of moving forward.Petals Pressed in a Book of Stars is a lyrical, emotionally resonant fantasy novel about grief, transformation, and the quiet strength of connection. Framed as in-world historical fiction surrounding a mythic poem, the novel blends emotional intimacy with cosmological mystery. It is the first installment in a four-book series titled The Song of the Stitch of Four. For readers of Strange the Dreamer, The Starless Sea, or anyone who has ever looked to the stars and whispered, “Don’t forget me.”Genre: Lyrical Speculative High-Fantasy Fiction
Themes: Identity, becoming, found family, sacrifice, redemption, and the importance of memory.
🌱 Works in Progress
Stories taking root. Threads yet to weave.
But all growing beneath the surface…
Silence in the City of Echoes
Metaphysical fantasy noir set in the world of
The Song of the Stitch of Four
In Aurasterra, the dead don’t haunt you.
The forgotten do.
Detective Callen Thorne knows something is wrong. Names are vanishing. Faces once familiar now draw blank stares. No bodies. No blood. Just silence—and the chilling certainty that someone, or something, is feeding on the city’s memories.As he hunts a predator that erases its victims from existence, Callen uncovers a deeper rot: noble houses who profit from forgetting, a cult that worships the unwoven thread, and whispers that even his own past may not be his to trust.In a city of echoes, silence is the loudest warning. And it’s getting closer.Status: In development
Expected: 2026
Tone: Noir mystery, metaphysical horror, emotional depth
Bonus Content
“Even pressed petals hold starlight.”
📜Caeli’s D&D Character Sheet
Before she journeyed to Aurasterra, Caeli walked a different thread through D&D's Forgotten Realms—a path still unfolding through live storytelling. This character sheet is where her story began: a tarot-reading stargazer with secrets written in the sky.She was first introduced at the game table through a live in-character tarot reading for a mysterious hooded figure, revealed to be her future self. In the background of her sheet, you may even glimpse The Raven—a silent blessing from Velessa, the goddess of memory and becoming.This version of Caeli—played in an ongoing D&D campaign—still searches, still believes, still remembers forward.🎵 The Song of the Stitch of Four Soundtrack
Songs that inspired the story and characters📖 Snippets from The Journal of Caeli Duskbloom
Dreams, drawings, and forgotten memories📚 Collection of Lore from across the world of Sedera
Maps, myths, regions, and the Four Tides✨ Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Threadweaving
How magic—and meaning—flows through the Tapestry
Contact
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