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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
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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!

Even better, they ship interna Read more of this blog post »
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This, like King Sorrow, was another fomo read for me. Lots of people utterly adored this, so I grabbed it on audio. Also like King Sorrow, this was a disappointment.

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This is a really tricky one because for 50% of this, I thought it would be my first 5 star read of the year. The second half was less strong, but still enjoyable. But the final 50 pages or so have really made me re-consider.

First - that is one hell o
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" Julia wrote: "I’m really looking forward to seeing where this one goes.. 😊"

Me too!! I've heard from some ARC readers that it's EXCELLENT so I'm very e
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