About the BOOK AND the author
G.P. Rice
A whimsical and cozy fantasy novel by a student of fine literature
About the Book
Aetheria on Earth
Windermere, Merriweather and Tinsel of the planet Aetheria return to Earth after many centuries and find themselves in need of a new human assistant. When spirited young Aisla stumbles upon their cottage in the woods and agrees to help them recover two powerful objects entrusted to their last assistant, the adventure she had been longing for seems to be finally here.
But Aisla's home, the remote wintry isle of Makepeace, is not so far removed from a world at war as she once thought. Powerful forces seem to be meddling in its affairs.
And when a near relation suddenly returns from the war with a strange man and begins to make desperate westward of her, her loyalty to her new friends and her home collide.
Genre
Literary Fantasy
Pages
350 pages
Publisher
Brenton Point Press (Newport, RI USA)
Release
October 13, 2026
About The author
G.P. Rice
G.P. Rice is the author of Aetheria on Earth, a debut literary fantasy novel published by Brenton Point Press.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, and educated at Princeton University and the University of California - Berkeley, G.P. Rice first began writing novels while living in Washington, D.C., and now splits his time between Newport, Rhode Island, and Hanover, Massachusetts. The writing of Aetheria on Earth has taken G.P. Rice more than five years. The project has been carefully developed through thousands of handwritten manuscript pages and through several typed drafts before finding the perfect form in a novel of 52 fast-moving chapters encompassed within approximately 350 tightly plotted pages. In in age where fiction is imperiled, it represents a high level of literary craftsmanship and can therefore be read and enjoyed by people of all ages and of all backgrounds.
Brenton Point Press
Brenton Point Press is an independent publisher based in Newport, Rhode Island, dedicated to literary fiction that takes the imagination seriously.