The Latest by Marie Brennan
News and Site Updates
Since I have now signed the contract, I can announce that I have sold a second piece to Sunday Morning Transport! This one is called “At the Heart of Each Pearl Lies a Grain of Sand.”
I will have not one, not two, but three novels out next year — the third will be my standalone Viking revenge epic, The Waking of Angantyr!
New photos up in that section of the site: Mendocino County, from a recent vacation there, and (specifically from the Mendocino Botanical Garden) some additions to the flower gallery!
From the Journal
New Worlds: The Water We Swim In
The New Worlds Patreon continues its look at the parts of our world we almost never think about, just like fish don’t think about the water we swim in: everything from ask vs. guess to interpersonal distance to emotional display. Comment over there!
New Worlds: The Individual vs. the Collective
The Topic Builders of the New Worlds Patreon have voted, and so for November, we will be looking at some of the more abstract, ideological aspects of worldbuilding. First up: individualism and communalism. Comment over there!
Books read, October 2022
This list looks way more impressive than it really is; many of the things I read this month were novella-length or shorter. But still, it feels gratifying! Half World, Hiromi Goto. The premise of this one is pretty standard: a teenage girl who suffers from isolation at school discovers her mother and unknown father actually […]
