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Nicholas McIntire

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Born

in Odessa, TX, The United States

October 03, 1983

Website

https://www.nickmcintire.com

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Fantasy, Spirituality, Gay and Lesbian

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Christopher Rowley, Elizabeth Haydon, Oscar Wilde ...more

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July 2017

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Nicholas McIntire has been writing fantasy since he was 8. The bones of the Archanium Codex were created when he was 16, and in the past 20 years he has taken that initially simple concept and crafted it into a fully realized, celebrated world,

Nicholas's debut novel, The Hunter's Gambit (Book One of the Archanium Codex) was released Sept. 20th, 2019 to critical acclaim. The novel was entered into the SPFBO 6 competition, where it was a Semi-Finalist.

McIntire's sequel, A Wicked Wind (Book Two of the Archanium Codex) is out now! The prequel novelette, The Gilded Prince, is free for download from nickmcintire.com, but can also be purchased for $0.99 on Amazon. He lives in Fort Worth and Fort Davis, Texas. ...more

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

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This answer contains spoilers… (view spoiler)[This is always a tricky, but excellent, question. When I get asked the "what period in history would you most like to live in" the answer is more or less right now, because as a gay guy, the past is a terrible option and I don't know how things are going to go in the future. When it comes to fantasy realms, there are so many I love, but typically I'm incredibly glad I don't have to live in them. I would actually choose my own world (boo, I know, but I'll provide alternatives), specifically because it exists without homophobia, racism, transphobia, or sexism. I'd still legitimately die within 10 minutes of showing up. Maybe 15 minutes, if I had magic? Stories, and especially epic fantasy stories, tend to glorify certain aspects of the past. "Oh, this is a reflection of a 15th-century medieval German military, and battles will have X number of opponents etc" Since neither the 15th century as we know it, nor Germany (random example) exist in any fantasy world, authors can pick and choose the bits we want to use and toss out the rest. We're basically gods in our worlds. Thus, it would be cheap to just say my own world because I know all the rules, I'd throw in Elizabeth Haydon's excellent Symphony of Ages. I'd live in that world in a heartbeat. Music and the spectrum as magic? As a musician, sign me up, I'd love to be a Skysinger like Rhapsody, going around and helping as many people as possible. Plus it's a world in which people like me exist, so win-win. I grew up on Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and if I could live in said Enchanted Forest (without getting turned into a floating blue donkey) provided I knew how it worked, it'd be basically heaven for me. It would be deeply cool to be a great witch in Christofer Rowley's Bazil Broketail series, because talk about a soft magic system that still feels cogent and open to exploration! (though being a Master of Padmasa has its advantages, disturbing as they are) If it's Wheel of Time, I'd be in the Yellow or Blue Ajah in a heartbeat (As a nurse, fixing people with magic would be incredible and extremely rewarding. So would following righteous cause as a Blue. But I can't pretend that I wouldn't be tempted by the Greens or the Browns.) If It's N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy, I'd love to be a maybe 7 or 8-ring orogene (well, I wouldn't LOVE it, but it'd be cool). Going back into classic fantasy, the devils and gods are the most fun. I'd love to be Aslan (forgetting that, SPOLIER ALERT for the end of Chronicles of Narnia!, he's overjoyed that everyone in Lucy's family dies in a train crash except Susan, since she became too materialistic, and thus can never enter the "paradise" he set up for literally everyone else. After killing them intentionally so they could hang out with him for eternity. Nice guy! And they're all surprsinginly cool about it). Those are literally the best examples I can come up with while staring at my library. Mostly, going in either direction, I'd probably die from ignorance before I could do anything interesting :) (hide spoiler)]

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Nicholas McIntire I have a katana blade that my grandfather brought back from Japan after WW2. He was an incredibly discerning man, so he wouldn't have brought back jus…moreI have a katana blade that my grandfather brought back from Japan after WW2. He was an incredibly discerning man, so he wouldn't have brought back just anything. In fact, he only brought back 3 things from Japan: a robe, a vase, and a sword blade. (Note that I said "blade" because it was kept in a shirasaya, a bamboo storage element for a blade.) Multiple people told me it was probably just a Guntō, which were mass-manufactured during WW2 for Japanese soldiers. However, the blade is marked in kanji along the tang (the bit that gets locked into the handle, which basically means it's likely really old. Blades have been marked in Latin characters for centuries, and it's also been clearly cut down to have a shorter hilt, which would reflect the style changes from the 16th century to the 19th. It also has a hamon (that wavy line you see in katanas today, though most of them look like a sine wave with acid. This looks more like mist above mountains. I have no idea where this blade came from. Mr grandfather was an OB-GYN and I have records of where he went and what he did to a degree. But if I could, I'd love to go back in time and find out where this blade came from, how old it is, and what, if anything, it meant to my grandfather. He passed away in 1995, so all I have are historical records to go on. But once I learn the true history of this blade (at least as much as is possible) and what, if anything, it meant, I'd love to construct the narrative backward and tell the story of the blade. It'll still 100% make an appearance in The Archanium Codex, but it's a much more personal story that I'd like to investigate :)(less)

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	The Hunter's Gambit (The Archanium Codex #1) 3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2017 — 4 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 Wicked Wind (The Archanium Codex, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2021	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 Gilded Prince: A Prelude to A Wicked Wind (Archanium Codex #1.5) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021	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 Hunter's Gambit: Book 1 of the Archanium Codex it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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 Wicked Wind: Book 2 of the Archanium Codex it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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