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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, The United States

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Mary McMyne is the author of The Book of Gothel (Orbit/Redhook, 2022), the story of the medieval midwife and storyteller who would become known as the witch from Rapunzel. Her fairy-tale poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), won the Elgin Chapbook Award. Her stories and poems have appeared widely in venues like Gulf Coast, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, and Redivider. A former English professor, she earned an MFA from New York University in fiction. She lives with her family in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains just north of Atlanta.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 2,269 ratings · 606 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Book of Gothel 3.82 avg rating — 2,214 ratings — published 2022 — 10 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 Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works by Ron Riekki (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sharon Dilworth (Contributor), Janice Repka (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 43 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
	Faerie Magazine (Issue #29) by Carolyn Turgeon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author), Kate Bernheimer 4.59 avg rating — 22 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
	Wolf Skin 4.79 avg rating — 19 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
	The 2020 Rhysling Anthology by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Editor), Nisa Malli (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), P.S. Cottier (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Apex Magazine Issue 65 by Sigrid Ellis (Editor), Mary McMyne (Goodreads Author), Kris Millering 3.67 avg rating — 9 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

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Conversation with Jennifer Givhan at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore (In Store and Virtual, Dec. 8, 7pm PST)

I’m super excited about this in-person and virtual hybrid event I’m doing with author Jennifer Givhan through the amazing Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego! We’ll have a short conversation about our novels, followed by a Q&A with the audience and booksigning, where both virtual and in-person folks can get books signed and/or personalized! YouContinue reading "Conversation with Jennifer Givh Read more of this blog post »

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4th Quarter 2022 - Fantasy #2

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang - 545 pp

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Wolfsong by T.J. Klune - 494 pp

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 306 pp

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All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody - 400 pp

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The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher - 226 pp

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The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne - 384 pp

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Unraveller by Frances Hardinge - 496 pp

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Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones - 140 pp

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The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones - 352 pp

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Last Poet of Wyrld’s End by Melanie Stormm - 80 pp

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A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland - 512 pp

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