Sean McGervey
Weaver of Memory, Magic, and Myth
About the Author
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 his 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—a standalone first novel in The Song of the Stitch of Four series.
Beyond the Page
Writing, memory, and the stories we remember forward
Sean recently appeared on Victoria Todria’s YouTube writing series, Struggle is Real, for a live ten-minute writing session and conversation about point of view, memory, grief, and the emotional roots of Remembered Forward.In the episode, he discusses the real-life moment that helped inspire the novel:
bringing an old board game to his father, only to realize his father no longer remembered
the game they had once regularly played together as a cherished father-son activity.
A brief clip about writing through his father’s struggle with memory loss
and the power of story to help him process grief and remember his dad forward.
Novels
Remembered Forward
Inspired in part by Sean’s experience caring for a parent with memory loss, Remembered Forward explores
the fragile power of memory, the ache of preservation, and the love required to carry stories onward.
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A lyrical fantasy about memory, identity, and the threads that connect us.
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In a world where souls are stars anchored to the sky and memories are woven into the Tapestry of Possibility, Caeli is content charting stars in a quiet monastery. But when her beloved Aunt Elaris goes missing and her star begins to fade, Caeli must leave the safety of her cloister for the overwhelming splendor and magic of Aurasterra, the City of Echoes.Falling in with the Nightingales—a quirky, fiercely loyal found-family of magical misfits—Caeli begins tracking a terrifying force known only as the Seeker, who is unraveling towns and erasing lives from existence. She must decide whether pain is meant to be erased—or woven into the future as part of who we become.Remembered Forward is an adult magical fantasy with a mythic foundation, told in lyrical, emotionally resonant prose. Framed as in-world historical fiction around a mythic poem, it blends emotional intimacy with cosmological mystery. It is the first installment in the four-book series The Song of the Stitch of Four.For readers of Strange the Dreamer, The Starless Sea, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
Genre: Adult magical fantasy with a mythic foundation.
Themes: Identity, connection, 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: a black market for illicit memories, allies with too much to hide, and whispers that the past may not be what it seems.In a city of echoes, silence is the loudest warning. And it’s getting closer.Status: In development
Expected: 2028
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 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 Little Star Who Stayed
Caeli's favorite children's story🎵 Remembered Forward Soundtrack
Spotify playlist 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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