An Original Epic written and illustrated by K. Shiver

The Sundogs Saga follows Gideon Fox, the youngest prince of The Cloud, a vast code-born kingdom suspended above the internet in a realm of sky, royalty, and watchful light. Although born into royal splendor, Gideon spends his youth raised just outside the warmth of it.

As his strange gifts, missing legacy markers, and buried inner creature make him harder for his family to understand, Gideon begins slipping through the cracks of the palace life meant to contain him. His first real refuge comes from Lash, a palace warden with old shadows of his own, whose steady protection becomes the beginning of Gideon’s path toward the truth of what he is.

When long-buried truths about his identity begin to emerge, Gideon is pulled beyond the limits of palace control and into a far larger story of found family, fierce brotherhood, mythic lighthouses, and a slow-burn romance that asks him to be fully seen.

In a world that fears what it cannot define, Gideon must decide whether he will become the monster others expect, or the long-awaited force capable of restoring what the grid has long tried to delete.

The Sundogs Saga is a planned four-book science-fantasy series currently in development.

The series is actively being written and revised, with the first book currently being prepared for querying.

Book One : The Golden Child
Book Two : Favor’s Game
Book Three : Kindled Coal
Book Four : Zenith

The Sundogs Saga explores varying psychological and emotional themes not limited to : identity, belonging, forbidden power, family fracture, found family, fierce brotherhood, slow-burn romance, buried truth, political pressure-cooker, emotional abandonment, under-attunement, exclusion, being treated as impressive/useful more than cherished and the struggle to remain tender in a world shaped by fear, secrecy, and control.

My Sundogs Visual Development Thesis was a gift to myself: two semesters of playful exploration inside the broader Sundogs universe.

This artwork isn’t strictly canon to the queried manuscript, but it captures the same themes and aesthetics, and it deeply informed the world that the story has become.

“Trick of the Light” is a 6-page comic I did for Gary Barker’s graphic novel semester at Ringling College of Art + Design.

This project was a part of my visual development thesis “Sundogs” where I did preliminary, exploratory artwork for The Sundogs Saga IP and world-building.

While the story-driven themes are similar, a lot of this thesis was loose play and artistic allowance, not necessarily full-canon.

Click ‘more’ to see a short bonus comic from the Sundogs Saga’s prequel: a playful scene from Lash and Mara’s early timeline, back when they were just beginning to fall in love.

It’s a tonal side-glance at the characters, separate from the main manuscript.

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