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The Witch & The City
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2023
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The Chaos Court
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2020
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The Dream and the Muse
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"This book is pure chaotic middle-grade magic. Patience Fell — a totally normal, sensible 12-year-old — gets dropped into a town where trash hurricanes are real, mail comes by crow, and magical beings are out here acting unhinged.
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"This novel is about a witch with no memory trapped in a drifting prison‑city, gradually piecing together who she is and uncovering the twisted, haunting secrets of the city itself.
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Unfortunately, the second book in Patience's story has been delayed... indefinitely. That doesn't mean *never* exactly, just that I don't have a speci
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“A great deal of my rebellious attitude really stems from a simple inability to understand what is being asked of me.”
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“Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekondiere der Welt.”
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“I revere a kind of sanctity in language and that reverence stands in place of an aesthetic. I wouldn't even make the case that I'm a writer; it's just what I put in the field if someone asks. It's easier than saying what I actually am, which is best expressed as what I actually do, which functionally a kind of worship. I think there are configurations of words that have power. I think they can be arranged in such a way as to modify the operation of the mind. I'm not even saying I succeed at this. I'm saying that seeking these configurations is the only thing I know how to do.”
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“When a man’s verses cannot be understood, nor a man’s good wit
seconded with the forward child Understanding, it strikes a man
more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
-As You Like It, Act 3, scene 3”
― As You Like It
seconded with the forward child Understanding, it strikes a man
more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
-As You Like It, Act 3, scene 3”
― As You Like It
“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
