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Krystle Matar has been writing for a long time, but things got serious when Tashué Blackwood walked into her life, an amber-eyed whirlwind. Her debut, Legacy of the Brightwash, is a SPFBO Finalist, an r/Fantasy nominee for Best Debut and Best Indie.

She is currently working on lots of stories set in the Dominion, is 1/2 of the Dripping Bucket Podcast, and is probably obsessively rewatching BBC’s Ripper Street and/or anything that Dennis Lehane worked on like Apple TV's Blackbird.
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Welcome to the Dominion - Part 2

So, Tashué decided he trusted me enough to give up his car... Now what?


There were some things I knew we had to save. Tashué chasing the serial killer who murdered children was some of the strongest writing I've ever done for him. It allowed me to examine parenthood and family, and let me write a male character who values those things. It let me look at the pressure we put on ourselves as parents, Read more of this blog post »
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“Better to be lonely and feel the sharp edges of it, she thought, than to be empty and filled with nothing.”
Krystle Matar, Legacy of the Brightwash

“At least we could have been in pain together instead of me feeling isolated. ”
Krystle Matar, The Alchemy of Sorrow

“Maybe it’s the Dominion way to separate your life from your parents, but Qasani families stay together. They sprawl in their mountain valleys, and they build tight-knit communities. Generations live in the same homes, and they can trace their lineage back to the hands that laid the foundation stones. Or… they could, back when. When they still lived there. Before war between other nations chased them off the mountain. ”
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