Arae: The Tiny Viking Queen began as a simple concept—a small girl with flaming red hair having adventures with her animal companions and father/uncle, depending on which Viking Queen I was remembering in my heart at any given moment….the same man…just different versions of him.
But as the story developed, it became something deeper: a tale about finding your worth in a world that often measures value by the wrong standards.
At its heart, this is a story about how we define ourselves versus how the world defines us. Arae is small, young, and has lost her mother—circumstances that could have limited her.
Instead, through the support of those who truly see her, she learns that these perceived limitations are irrelevant to her true worth.
Tiffany Solter, PhD is a mental health professional, educator, advocate, and lifelong seeker of magic whose writing explores the boundaries between life, death, justice, and the profound connections that define us. Born into a family of mountain people spanning Wyoming and Colorado, she grew up shaped, largely, by two grandmothers who taught her, one through train journeys across the West, the other chasing shooting stars across the plains, that anything is possible.
A survivor of a near-death experience in 1996, Solter spent decades integrating what she encountered in that "warm place where light is everything" into a life of healing work, academic achievement, and fierce advocacy. She holds a doctorate with a dissertation on grace and recovery, and has worked alongside peer counselors, nurses, and mental health teams she considers among the most transformative teachers of her life.
Her advocacy voice is unflinching and deeply personal. In "Be a Man": The Violence Society Ignores, Solter turns her clinical expertise and lived experience toward a crisis our culture has long refused to see: domestic violence against men. Drawing on research, survivor accounts, and her own family history, she challenges the archetypal and institutional blind spots that leave male victims invisible, unbelieved, and without adequate resources. The book is equal parts gripping fiction, Jungian psychological analysis, and practical call to action. It is complete with resource guides for survivors, supporters, military families, and children. It is the work of someone who has sat in clinical rooms with these men, loved them as family, and refused to stay silent.
She lives in what she calls Camelot, a home she and her husband Jeff manifested in childhood whispers, surrounded by family, familiars, motorcycles, and what she simply calls the magic.
Between Worlds is her memoir. "Be a Man" is her battle cry.