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The Printer's Apprentice
Literary dark historical fantasy — 8 books
In a Renaissance city where the guilds hold magic the way the nobles hold bread, an indentured printer's apprentice discovers that his press can print spells any reader can work. An eight-book literary dark fantasy of revolution and its price: every working spends his own memory, and every truth he prints costs someone standing below him.
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The Bindery
Literary dark academia — 8 books
He can feel how open a person is. He thinks it means he can sense power. It means he can sense victims. Eight books watch a discarded bastard become the monster his family named him, one defensible choice at a time, in a Renaissance city where the printing press broke the monopoly on magic.
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The Penny Workings
Standalone twist shorts — 8 books
The Penny Workings. Eight standalone tales from the wave that spread out from Rivensol after one press broke the aristocracy's hold on magic. A copyist, a kiln-man, a sheet-seller, a printer working worn second-hand plates: ordinary working people the change arrives at, one document at a time.…
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The Benefactor
Literary horror in four parts — 4 books
A city's beloved free surgeon tells you, serenely, the story of his own great kindness, and you read past him, a page ahead, to the horror he cannot see. A four-part literary confession from the world of The Printer's Apprentice, in which the narrator is the monster and never finds out.
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