Welcome to Swan Tower. I'm Marie Brennan, fantasy author and ex-academic. Here you can find not only the usual information on my books and short stories, but also various and sundry essays, musings, rants, screeds, and bits of unsolicited advice. Check out the links to the left, and if you'd like to be notified about updates to this site, sign up for the newsletter.
(4/10/13) Small news: a short story sale, for "Centuries of Kings." Bigger news: the sequel to A Natural History of Dragons is almost fully revised, and finally has a title! It will be called The Tropic of Serpents.
(2/5/13) A Natural History of Dragons is on sale today! And there's a page with details on how to get a letter from Lady Trent.
(2/2/13) The book page for A Natural History of Dragons now has actual content!
(1/24/13) Continuing my streak of being in every Clockwork Phoenix anthology to date, I have sold "What Still Abides" to Mike Allen for volume 4. The anthology will be out this summer.
(12/11/12) "Welcome to Welton," the prequel novelette to Lies and Prophecy, is now available in e-book format (epub and mobi, both of them free) from Book View Cafe.
(10/31/12) You can now read "The Last Wendy" for free here on my site. Also, I forgot to mention sooner that A Star Shall Fall is now available in mass-market paperback.
(9/20/12) And in short story news, "The Ascent of Unreason" is live as both text and audio at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.