• my love of Dungeons and Dragons and fantasy


• the works of Alexandre Dumas like The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers


• books like War for the Oaks which involve people rising up to be the equal of magical powers


• swashbuckler movies


• my desire to have a fantasy novel that reflects trans people and gay people as just people living their lives (well, as normal as you get in a fantasy world, but you get the idea) until things get weird


• and an image I got in my head and had to get out one way or another.

Young noble Jeyreme Corbeau has been assigned by his father to catch the notorious bandit known as the Grey Swan, who is robbing merchants in their barony.
Amongst the problems with this assignment are the facts that Jeyreme is actually a trans woman, that she's trying to find a way to run away with her lover...
...and she is the Grey Swan.
When the Baron decides that Jey's not doing the job well enough, he calls in a bounty hunter dedicated to an evil god.
Now the Grey Swan has to become a hero to save everyone from this threat!
Add in the interest the faerie lord called the Prince of Fireflies has in Jey's lover, and no one can guess what powers will come to clash in the woods of Barony Corbeau!
All of Jey's secrets will come crashing together in a story of queer swashbuckling adventure!

As of today, here's how you can get the novel:

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zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

*adds it to wishlist*

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Congrats!!! I look forward to picking it up!

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

I got the hard copy and read it over the weekend, and I enjoyed it a lot. The world building was well done (though it's clear there's a lot that is yet to be revealed given the limited scope of the story), the plot was fun and coherent, and the characters were well written. Overall I'd give it an 8.5/10 - there were a couple things that just didn't quite work for me as well as the rest of the story, but were well executed nonetheless. And, for anybody who has enjoyed Jen's writing in UF, I think you'll enjoy this too - totally different genre, but stylistically it's got all the good stuff we've come to expect. :)

Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
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... is the extended middle finger intentional? Am I just dense for missing it before now?

If it's intentional, congrats on a fine pun!

--sofaspud
--if it's not double congrats for the unintentional fine punnery