919 ratings | 434 reviews | avg rating:3.85

M.A. Ray’s Followers (42)

M.A.’s Bookshelves

to-read (137)
currently-reading (11)
read (1097)
mistakenly-added (0)
owned (223)

M.A.’s Friends (138)

Jimmy Cearlock-Gibot

122 books | 61 friends

Hilary

1,502 books | 111 friends

Jane Peskara / Audrey Valentine

843 books | 500 friends

Eric Morrison

171 books | 211 friends

Jen

812 books | 64 friends

Stephanie Brown

450 books | 474 friends

Karen

948 books | 62 friends

Juliann Whicker

569 books | 277 friends

More friends…

M.A. Ray

Goodreads Author

Born

The United States

Website

https://www.facebook.com/marayauthor

Twitter

menyoral

Genre

Fantasy, Ebooks

Member Since

July 2012

edit data

I've been reading fantasy since I was very small, starting with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. My enjoyment has become a deep and abiding love. It was only natural that I try to write it.
I would love to discuss fantasy or writing with fans of the same -- and express the hope that you might like my books! ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask M.A. Ray questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
M.A. Ray’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 588 ratings · 97 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Hard Luck (Saga of Menyoral, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	The Service (Saga of Menyoral, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2014	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
	Oath Bound (Saga of Menyoral, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2014 — 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 High King's Will (Steel for the Prince, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2015	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 Dragon's Rocketship Presents: The Scribe's Journal by M.A. Ray (Goodreads Author), Gary S. Watkins, Fiona Skye (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	A Wing and a Prayer: A Tale from the Knights 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015	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 Thread of Life: A Tale of Rothganar 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	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
	Vistridir: A Tale of Rothganar 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	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
	Storied Lives 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016	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
	Live Free or Die: A Tale from the Knights 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	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

More books by M.A. Ray…

163 posts
M.A. Ray's Blog

I Want To Read

Sometimes (okay, every day, sometimes twice) I wonder why I’m doing this, the whole writing thing, and putting my naked soul on display for nameless gawker.

I think it’s because I want to read. I want to be engaged in books and stories, and talk about them in my own way. To read actively, to the fullest extent, I need to be a writer too.

It’s not enough for me just to read books alone and never talk

Series by M.A. Ray

Steel for the Prince (1 book)
by

M.A. Ray (Goodreads Author)

3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings

M.A. is Currently Reading

M.A. Ray is currently reading

Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)

by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

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

Jun 11, 2019 08:39PM

M.A. Ray is currently reading

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

by Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

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

Jun 03, 2019 07:39PM

M.A. Ray is currently reading

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm

bookshelves: currently-reading

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

May 27, 2019 07:35PM

rss
M.A.’s Recent Updates

M.A. Ray has read Hard Day's Knight (Black Knight Chronicles, #1) by John G. Hartness (Goodreads Author)	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
Aug 23, 2025 02:00PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Hard Day's Knight by John G. Hartness. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Hard Day's Knight by John G. Hartness <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">

More of M.A.'s books…

Quotes by M.A. Ray (?)

“It doesn’t help a lot right now, but remember: nobody gets to choose. Not one person gets to decide what they have to work with.”
― M.A. Ray, Hard Luck

1 likes

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Goodreads Librari...: Elsewhere #1: Sons and Fathers (M.A. Ray)	3	105	Sep 24, 2024 03:09PM

M.A.’s Quotes

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2051 likes

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

1895 likes

“Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs

tags: apologies-to-secaucus-new-jersey, finishing, reading-books, resonance

48 likes

“Everything you want in life has teeth.”
― Jonathan Carroll, From the Teeth of Angels

61 likes

“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: love, sex

2243 likes

More of M.A.’s quotes…