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Jane Routley

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in Melbourne, Australia

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance

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Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, Angela Carter, Janet Evanovich ...more

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I write fantasy with strong women characters.
I’ve published 7 books as me – Mage Heart and the Aurealis award winners Fire Angels and Aramaya, The Three Sisters and The Melded Child.
I have a queer time travel romance called A Shining Knight.
I've begun a new series in a new world called Shadow in the Empire of Light.
I am also publishing TTRPGs in Call of Cthulhu.
My short stories have been widely anthologized, appeared in Meanjin and read on the ABC.
My favourite writers are Jane Austen, Angela Carter, Sara Douglass, Janet Evanovich, and Gail Carriger.

My current life ambition is to see an erupting volcano.
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	Mage Heart (The Chronicles of Dion #1) 3.78 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow in the Empire of Light 2.76 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire Angels (The Chronicles of Dion #2) 3.77 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aramaya (The Chronicles of Dion #3) 3.56 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Three Sisters by Jane Routley (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Locksley 3.43 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecopunk! - speculative tales of radical futures by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cat Sparks (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jason Nahrung (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.57 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Red Heart by Russell B. Farr (Editor), Jo Anderton (Goodreads Author), Raymond Gates 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear Me Roar by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (editor), Jenny Blackford (Goodreads Author), Faith Mudge (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Melded Child 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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New Book - The Melded Child

The new novel of the Archipelago and the Tari.

Coming out April 7

If you're interested in receiving an Advance Review ebook let me know. I've got 10 to give away.

In Print on Demand from Bernarra Press through Amazon and in ebook from Clan Destine Press

The Melded Child
An ancient prophecy has come to pass.

The peace negotiated by the Tari has held firm for ten years, but a new Demon Master is rising.

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“You can't base your life on other people's expectations.”
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“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
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“Saving nature' then, might not just mean a last-fence stand to preserve shrinking islands of Wilderness by keeping people out of them. Through restoration, we might escape from our locked dichotomy between the twin roles of destroyers and preservers and find a more rewarding middle way as facilitators of - and participants in - natural processes.”
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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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“The government is like a horse - the only reason a horse doesn't kill you is because it doesn't want to - it could kill you without any trouble.”
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