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Bibliography: Vardin | Breath | Alliance | Radiance
Iron into gold, anger into love, grief into song: a world where all things are possible. There are rules of power.
Myth, Legend, and Folktale
This is the post I have been waiting for. Marie Brennan, in a guest post on Jim Hine's journal, encapsulated beautifully so many of the things I have wrestled with about my own fiction recently. My good friend, Rabia, asked … Continue reading
Cover Testing the Worlds
The idea here is to have each storyworld recognizable for what it is, but also to have each collection look different than an individual short story. Download article as PDF
Re-Covering the Books in Anticipation
So Pearl Wise's covers needed an update from the time I got started, and I knew it. With the advent of Radiance approaching, I decided to just go ahead and try and here they are, in gallery: Download article as … Continue reading
Snippet: The Falcon That Does Not Fly
The Falcon That Does Not Fly Author's Notes: So this snippet was a contest entry years ago and needs some tweaking, but I see flashes of potential. The falcon flew. Download article as PDF
Radiance
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Iron into gold, anger into love, grief into song: a world where all things are possible. A young noble seeks the unfamiliar help of an alchemist to deal with his iron mountain. A little girl discovers the cost to sing the Creator's power. The last of the great singers still lives, but is it too late to save a nation at war? Three fantasy short stories: The Alchemist, The Child, The Singer
