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The Mask of Mirrors

Ren is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadežra with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house, securing her fortune and her sister's future. But her masquerade is just one of many. And as corrupt nightmare magic begins to weave its way through the City of Dreams, the poisonous feuds of its nobility and the shadowy dangers of its impoverished underbelly become tangled . . . with Ren at their heart.

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Driftwood has made the lists for Best SF & Fantasy Books of 2020 from both Kirkus and the Library Journal!

11/30/2020

It only took me nineteen years of trying . . . I have finally sold a story to F&SF!

09/21/2020

I’m delighted to say I have sold a Rook and Rose short story, “As Tight as Any Knot,” to Beneath Ceaseless Skies!

04/27/2020

From the Journal

Sequencing

More and more, I feel like what I wrestle with in plotting novels is not figuring out what should happen, but what order it should happen in. This is almost certainly prominent in my mind right now because of the Rook and Rose books, which, with their multiple points of view and interweaving strands of […]

01-24-2021 11:58 AM
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New Worlds: Prostheses and Assistive Devices

I’ve worn glasses since I was seven, and unfortunately I’m not a good candidate for lasik surgery. Which means I’m one of the many, many people in the world who benefits from an assistive device — the topic of this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay. Comment over there!

01-22-2021 10:00 AM
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The Advent of Scent, Week 6

I am almost through the gift of perfume samples from Yoon! . . . with more on the way, and also another friend sent some, and my sister and I ordered a few from BPAL which showed up with random additional samples tossed into the package, and uh basically I will probably be continuing to […]

01-20-2021 1:35 PM
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