Yes! That’s the big announcement for today, the thing that’s been being counted down to in the margin and in my other posts. I have published a novel! My first novel. And I’m excited.

It’s called The Ballad of the Grey Swan. It’s a swashbuckling fantasy novel inspired by things like:

• 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.

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