Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to the short novel Driftwood and Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. She is the author of several other series, over sixty short stories, and the New Worlds series of worldbuilding guides; as half of M.A. Carrick, she has written The Mask of Mirrors, first in the Rook and Rose trilogy. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon.
Book 1 of Onyx Court
by Marie Brennan
(Novel)
$3.99
ISBN 978-1-61138-609-7
A great light casts a great shadow . . . .
ABOVE
The year is 1590. The City of London flourishes, the most brilliant jewel in the crown of Elizabeth I, Gloriana, the Virgin Queen.
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An Onyx Court Novella
by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-266-2
LONDON, 1625. A young gentleman lies murdered in a Coldharbour alley. Before his death, he uncovered secrets that could threaten the mortal world above and the faerie world below. Now, to find the murderer and protect both realms, Sir Michael Deven will need the help of a man with reason to hate the fae of the Onyx Court — the victim’s own brother.
A novella of the Onyx Court, set between Midnight Never Come and In Ashes Lie.
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Book 2 of Onyx Court
by Marie Brennan
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-615-8
If two worlds cannot come together, London itself may not survive . . . .
ABOVE
It is the seventeenth century. For twenty years, the City of London has been torn apart: by war, by plague, by fire.
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An Onyx Court Omnibus
by Marie Brennan
$9.99 (Omnibus) ISBN 978-1-61138-651-6
Welcome to the first two centuries of the Onyx Court.
For centuries a faerie court has hidden itself beneath London: a place of shadows and intrigue, where the city’s immortal inhabitants can watch and manipulate the mortals above. Through two royal dynasties, through rebellions and plots, through war and plague and fire, the Onyx Court endures.
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Varekai I
by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-866-4
Out of nothingness they summon her: a woman with no name and no memory, and the power to bring them what they need. Across an island that changes beneath her feet — into a cavern that holds a terrible trap — to the brink of her soul’s annihilation — her journey will transform her forever.
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Varekai II
by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-867-1
Once she had nothing: no name, no memory, no purpose beyond the one her master bound her to fulfill. Now the wandering archon known as Ree must walk an unseen path — one that will lead her toward the untold story of her origins. But the road to the truth is paved with blood . . .
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by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-903-6
Step beyond the ordinary . . .
Beneath the surface of our reality lies a world of magic and danger — a world where buildings have guardian spirits, shapeshifting coyotes prey on the hopeful and the desperate, and ancient traditions prepare for an apocalyptic future. These seven urban fantasy tales from award-winning author Marie Brennan paint the everyday with a layer of wonder, inviting you to imagine what could lie just around the corner.
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by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-694-3
A BVC Original
Follow the map to another world . . .
Two cities joined by their reflections. A realm of feathered serpents and jaguar-men. A desert where a former goddess seeks the ultimate truth. In this collection, award-winning author Marie Brennan takes you to ten different fantastical lands, including the world of her famed scholar-heroine Lady Trent. Journey with her to places rich and strange: here there be more than just dragons.
by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-702-5
A BVC Original
The past is prologue . . .
Kit Marlowe. Guy Fawkes. Ada Lovelace. Kings and sailors and sainted nuns populate these seven stories of historical fantasy by award-winning author Marie Brennan. They span the ages from the second century B.C.E. to the nineteenth century C.E., from ancient Persia to the London of the Onyx Court. Discover the secret histories, hear the stories that have never been told — until now.
by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-854-1
A BVC Original
A young woman with an unreliable prophetic gift. A street musician searching for the magic she lost. A king whose voice is too dangerous for ordinary people to hear. This collection of short stories explores the Nine Lands, a realm created by award-winning author Marie Brennan. From the spirit-haunted jungle of the Nahele Peninsula to the cold archipelago of Kagesedo, from the occupied lands of Sahasrara to the decadent courts of Quilibria, the Nine Lands offer you visions of fantasy, peril, and wonder.
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A Writer’s Guide to the Art of Worldbuilding
by Marie Brennan
$3.99 (Nonfiction) ISBN 978-1-61138-729-2
A BVC Original
Step into a world of your own making . . .
Worldbuilding is one of the great pleasures of writing science fiction and fantasy — and also one of its greatest challenges. Award-winning fantasy author Marie Brennan draws on her academic training in anthropology to peel back the layers of a setting, going past the surface details to explore questions many authors never think to answer.
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More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding
by Marie Brennan
$3.99 (Nonfiction) ISBN 978-1-61138-783-4
A BVC Original
Explore a world of your own . . .
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.
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More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding
by Marie Brennan
$3.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-879-4
A BVC Original
Create a world of wonder and imagination . . .
The boundless complexity of worldbuilding can create a daunting challenge for writers of science fiction and fantasy. In the third volume of the NEW WORLDS series, award-winning fantasy author and former anthropologist Marie Brennan provides not only the building blocks for creating a setting, but advice on exposition and other aspects of craft. Whether you need guidance on security or sanitation, demographics or demons or drugs, you’re sure to find inspiration here.
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More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding
by Marie Brennan
$3.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-63632-007-6
A BVC Original
Escape into another world . . .
Bathing and banking, animals and adultery: human culture contains a truly daunting array of elements. The fourth volume of the NEW WORLDS series takes readers on a tour of all-new topics, delving into everything from childbirth to dream interpretation to the importance of generosity, as award-winning fantasy author and former anthropologist Marie Brennan continues her in-depth exploration of worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy.
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by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Non-fiction) ISBN 978-1-61138-307-2
Have you ever:
• Held a sword?
• Taken a karate class?
• Punched another person in the face?
Even if your answer is “no,” you can still write a good fight scene. In this guide, fantasy novelist Marie Brennan will show you how. Drawing on her experience with fencing, stage combat choreography, Okinawan martial arts, and above all writing, she lays out the components that turn the strikes into a compelling story.
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Wilders, Book One
by Marie Brennan
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-199-3
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.
Kim never had to wonder what to major in at college. Her talent for divination made her future clear in more ways than one. But there are limits to what even a gifted seer can predict, and no card reading or prophetic dream can prepare Kim for what’s to come during her junior year at Welton.
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by Marie Brennan
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.
Kim never had to wonder what to major in at college. Her talent for divination made her future clear in more ways than one. But there are limits to what even a gifted seer can predict, and no card reading or prophetic dream can prepare Kim for what’s to come during her junior year at Welton.
Something has taken an interest in her friend Julian — an unseen force neither of them can identify.
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Book 2 of Wilders
by Marie Brennan
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-569-4
A BVC Original
Manifestation was only the beginning.
The Otherworld has returned — bringing with it the sidhe, the source of humanity’s psychic powers. Some mortals welcome these creatures of legend, some fear them . . . and no one is ready for the change their presence will bring.
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A Prequel to Lies and Prophecy
by Marie Brennan
$1.29 (Novelette) ISBN 978-1-61138-235-8
In this prequel to the urban fantasy novel Lies and Prophecy, Kim is ready for her freshman year at college—but her challenges include more than just choosing courses and learning to live with a roommate.
Welton University has welcomed a new student, one of the strange and powerful wilders. If Julian Fiain is going to fit in among his fellow psychics, he’s going to need friends.
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by Marie Brennan
$1.29 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-435-2
Seven tales of supernatural horror . . .
A maiden in a tower. A grandmother in a cottage. A stranger at a ball. None of them are what they seem, in this collection of very brief stories from fantasy author Marie Brennan. The dark forest of fairy tales hides things more perilous than wolves and wicked stepmothers. Are you prepared for what you’ll find?
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Thirteen Twists on Familiar Tales
by Marie Brennan
$1.29 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-777-3
A BVC Original
Forget perfect princesses, handsome princes, and “happily ever after.” In this collection of thirteen flash-length fairy tale retellings, award-winning author Marie Brennan introduces you to a world of manipulative mirrors, treacherous pigs, and candy houses that will eat you right up. Each one is a subversive little gem, guaranteed to shock the Brothers Grimm.
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Essays on role-playing games and storytelling
by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-684-4
A BVC Original
Some people play roleplaying-games for the challenge; others play them for the story.
Award-winning fantasy author and freelance game writer Marie Brennan is unabashedly in the latter camp. In these essays she looks at tabletop and live-action RPGs from a narrative perspective, exploring the ways the framework of a game can generate and support (or undermine) your tale.
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Edited by Sherwood Smith
The pleasure of your company is requested.
Graceful feet tracing courtly steps.
Eyes in jeweled masks meeting across a room of twirling dancers.
Gloved hands touching fleetingly–or gripping swords…
Anything can happen at a ball.
You are invited to enjoy stories of fancy and fantasy from thirteen authors, framed in the splendor and elegance of a ballroom. Be it at a house party for diplomats and thieves, or Almacks in a side-universe in which the Patronesses have magic, or a medieval festival just after the plague years …
Prepare to be swept into the enchantment of the dance!
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