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New Worlds, Year Two

Science fiction and fantasy are renowned for immersing their readers in rich, inventive settings. In this follow-up to the collection New Worlds, Year One, award-winning fantasy author Marie Brennan guides you through new aspects of worldbuilding and how they can generate stories. From beauty to books, from tattoos to taboos, these essays delve into the complexity of different cultures, both real and imaginary, and provide invaluable advice on crafting a world of your very own.

News and Site Updates

Two recent sales! First, Midnight Never Come and In Ashes Lie will be receiving a Russian translation. And second, Uncanny Magazine will be publishing the second Lady Trent short story, “On the Impurity of Dragon-kind”!

The German translation of Within the Sanctuary of Wings (Im Schutz der Drachenschwingen) and the French translation of In Ashes Lie (Gît dans les cendres) are both out now!

The entirety of the Memoirs of Lady Trent is a finalist for the Grand Prix l’Imaginaire in France!

From the Journal

Soundtracks on Spotify!

Last weekend @hannah_scarbs asked on Twitter whether I had the soundtracks to my novels on Spotify. To which the answer was no — but now it’s yes, because that made me realize that putting them up there is an eminently sensible idea. Of course not everything is available on that service (in particular, all of […]

Cats!

I had somehow missed the news that there’s going to be a film of the musical Cats this year. (Prefatory comment: if you’re one of the haters that doesn’t like it, please don’t come into my comments to say so. I imprinted on this thing around the age of six.) I’m . . . wary, […]

Read an excerpt from TURNING DARKNESS INTO LIGHT!

The release of Turning Darkness Into Light feels like it’s forever away — by which I mean, August 20th — but Tor.com is tiding us over with an excerpt! (Be warned that it does contain spoilers for the later Memoirs, particularly Within the Sanctuary of Wings. I did my best to minimize how much those […]

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