N E L Carver.
Nya Elise L Carver has been writing fantasy for over a decade — not because it seemed like a sensible thing to do, but because she couldn't stop.
She failed English in high school. Years later, she sat down with Oxford-trained English professional Jan Kent and quietly learned everything she'd missed. What followed was ten years of writing, failing, studying, rewriting, and growing into someone who actually knew what she was doing.
Her first major project, the opening book of the Finding Euphora series, was less a polished debut and more an honest act of catharsis — the kind of writing you have to do before you can do the writing you were meant to do. She gave it everything she had, learned where the gaps were, and kept going.
Thae Motherhood is what came next. A women's fantasy set in the Otway Ranges, it carries the full weight of that decade — the craft she built slowly, the motherhood she stepped into, and the particular strangeness of a landscape that doesn't behave the way landscapes are supposed to. It is, in the truest sense, everything she learned how to do.
Elise lives and writes in the Victorian Otways, where the forest keeps her honest.
Projects.
Finding Euphora
YA Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Emeliah Carlyle has spent her life being told she was broken. Raised under the shadow of her manipulative psychiatrist mother, Maura, in an oppressive small town, Emeliah struggles with rage, insecurity and visions she can’t explain. As her eighteenth birthday looms, Maura threatens to send her to Haven Sanctuary, a facility for the mentally impaired. It’s a fate Emeliah refuses to accept, but when her so-called hallucinations reveal a hidden world of magic, she must confront the lies that have shaped her reality and trust the instincts she’s long ignored. To break free, save those she loves and reclaim her power, Emeliah must uncover the truth about her family, her best friend’s death and herself before it’s too late.
Finding Euphora is a story for anyone who’s ever felt like they didn’t belong, even within their own family. It speaks to the outcasts, the misunderstood, and those who’ve questioned their own sanity in a world that demands conformity. Emeliah’s journey mirrors my own fight for self-acceptance: learning to embrace what makes us different as a source of strength. It’s a weighted blanket for those seeking their own found family—the people who accept them for who they are.
Complete - Seeking Agent
Thae Motherhood
Women’s Fiction Fantasy
First draft in progress.
