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The Thirty-Seventh Impression
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
Historical fantasy shorts with a twist — 8 books
One printer broke the aristocracy's monopoly on magic, and cheap printed workings began spreading outward town by town, reaching people who had never had any. Eight standalone tales follow the ordinary working lives the change arrives at, each turning on a single sheet of paper, each ending on a last page that re-frames the rest.
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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 Thirty-Seventh Impression, in which the narrator is the monster.
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