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Adam M. Steiner hails from Highgate, North London, a place of wild forest and crumbling graveyards. He spent his schooldays raiding the local library, and paying attention to his teachers when they spoke of ancient gods. Later in life, he travelled the world, had many adventures, and learned a great deal about the murky worlds of business, politics and magic. When he is not writing dark fantasy novels, Adam fences épée and longsword. He recently returned to Highgate to raise semi-feral children with his perfect wife.

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	The Censor's Hand (Thrice~Crossed Swords Trilogy #1) 3.98 avg rating — 124 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
	It's A Living: Volume One by Stefan M. Nardi (Goodreads Author), Jacob S. Nardi, A.Z. Anthony (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2019 — 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 Pillow Knife (The Thrice~Crossed Swords Trilogy, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 14 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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Gollanczfest and a mystery solved.

I've been wondering for ages why I've found so many of the fantasy novels recently fired from the trad-publishing hype-cannons to be simultaneously beautifully written and yet utterly pointless.The Gollancz writers fest yesterday seemed to provide something of an answer.

Apparently there's a consensus amongst agents and editors that "voice" is what they're looking for because, while you can fix a s Read more of this blog post »

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The Stealer of Souls

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