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L.L. MacRae

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Hello fellow book dragon! Thank you for visiting my author page. :)

I'm a British fantasy author of character-driven stories and epic adventure.

My books contain dragons, bucket-loads of magic, less conventional characters, and are typically fun and hopeful.

I live in a tiny village in the English countryside, have a degree in Psychology, and was a professional copywriter before going full-time as an author—swapping corporate copy for magic and dragons.

Physical copies of my books are available exclusively through my website (or The Broken Binding) and never on Amazon. All paperbacks can be signed/lined/dated and ship internationally: https://llmacrae.com/shop

Book one in my Dragon Spirits Trilogy, The Iron Crown, was a finalist in SPFBO7, and ...more

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	The Iron Crown (Dragon Spirits, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 2021 — 5 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
	Moroda (World of Linaria, #1) by L.L. MacRae (Goodreads Author), L.L. McNeil (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2017 — 8 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 Advent of Winter by Dom McDermott (Goodreads Author), Thiago Abdalla (Goodreads Author), Kian N. Ardalan (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 253 ratings — 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 Citrine Key (Dragon Spirits, #0.5) by L.L. MacRae (Goodreads Author), L.L. McNeil (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 232 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
	The Shadow Gate (Dragon Spirits #2) 4.31 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2023 — 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 Broken Sword (Dragon Spirits #3) 4.69 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	From Dragon-Flame Begun Part I - World of Linaria Books 1-3: Box Set 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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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The Iron Crown now stocked at The Broken Binding book shop!

Hello fellow book dragons!

I just wanted to shout about the fact that UK-based book shop, The Broken Binding (which is THE place to get all your signed SFF books!), is now stocking signed copies of The Iron Crown!

They have recently opened an Indie Published section, where they are stocking equally awesome books - many of which are signed or come with signed bookplates!

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Echoes of the Fall, 3 books by Adrian Tchaikovsky starting with The Tiger and the Wolf

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“Gods do not exist. Power does not exist. There is only leverage.

Anyone - anything - can be broken. Even dragons. Even… a Sevastos. - Sapora”
― L.L. McNeil, Palom

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“The past has passed. Grudges are a poison better ignored and forgotten.

- Moroda”
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tags: inspirational, peaceful

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“Scars are tallies of the battles you’ve survived.”
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“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: aspirations, confidence, dreams, goals

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“Living in exile taught him trust was the only necessary element for betrayal and he would never be a victim again.”
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