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Raven Dane

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The United Kingdom

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Dark Fantasy, Steampunk, Horror, Alternatve History

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Ray Bradbury, Alan Garner, Mervyn Peake, Michael Moorcock, Tanith Lee

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Raven Dane is a UK based author of dark fantasy, alternative history, post apocalyptic SF, horror, steampunk novels and short stories. Her first books were the dark fantasy Legacy of the Dark Kind trilogy, Blood Tears, Blood Lament and Blood Alliance. These were followed by a High Fantasy spoof, The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire.
Her steampunk novels so far are the award winning Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron and sequel Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde. She has had many short stories published, including one in a celebration of forty years of the British Fantasy Society and in international horror anthologies. These have included Tales of the Lake 2, alongside Richard Chizmar, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Lebbon and Jack Ketchum. She also had a

Raven Dane is a UK based author of dark fantasy, alternative history, post apocalyptic SF, horror, steampunk novels and short stories. Her first books were the dark fantasy Legacy of the Dark Kind trilogy, Blood Tears, Blood Lament and Blood Alliance. These were followed by a High Fantasy spoof, The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire.
Her steampunk novels so far are the award winning Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron and sequel Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde. She has had many short stories published, including one in a celebration of forty years of the British Fantasy Society and in international horror anthologies. These have included Tales of the Lake 2, alongside Richard Chizmar, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Lebbon and Jack Ketchum. She also had a story in Billie Sue Mosiman’s Frightmare –Women Write Horror which was shortlisted for a prestigious Bram Stoker award in 2016.
She has appeared in two international lists of best female horror writers. In 2013, she was signed up by Telos Publishing for her collection of Victorian ghost stories, Absinthe and Arsenic and in 2015, the alternative history/ supernatural novel, Death’s Dark Wings. All the Cyrus books are with Telos now in new editions with the third book in the series due in 2019.
A lifelong Dr Who fan, Raven was delighted and honoured to be part of the script team on a spin off film, The Daemons of Devil’s End by Reeltime Pictures in 2017. She also contributed to the novelisation of the film.
Raven brought out a horror novella, The Bane of Bailgate in 2018 and is currently working on a Victorian-based supernatural novel, The Arcane and a prequel to her Legacy of The Dark Kind trilogy, entitled The Blood of Kings More recently Raven has a post, post apocalyptic SF novel released by Demain Publishing called House of Wrax and a short story in an anthology set in celebrated author Dave Jeffery's A Quiet Apocalypse world called A Silent Dystopia.

Readers, please note , some old editions of Blood Tears,Blood Lament, Blood Alliance and the Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire are no longer available and publishers no longer trading. So far Blood Tears and The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire are now republished with lovely new covers. Goodreads does not let the author remove out of date editions

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I cannot believe it has been so many years since updating my blog! Life and a great deal of writing has clearly got in the way. To make things simple here is my latest CV. that lists all the new books.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 487 ratings · 88 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Blood Tears 3.89 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2005 — 6 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
	Cyrus Darian And The Technomicron 4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Absinthe and Arsenic 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Legacy of the Dark Kind: Blood Lament (Book 2) 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	Blood Alliance 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde (Cyrus Darian #2) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	House Of Wrax 4.29 avg rating — 7 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
	Drwg Stones 4.33 avg rating — 6 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 Bane of Bailgate 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 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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message 9: by Raven

Mar 27, 2017 07:08AM

Timothy wrote: "We meet again miss Dane. Thank you for your friendship. Any idea how to make an author page on this site? I'm finding it quite difficult to navigate."

Timothy wrote: "We meet again miss Dane. Thank you for your friendship. Any idea how to make an author page on this site? I'm finding it quite difficult to navigate."

Hi Timothy! Lovely to meet up again, even if it is in cyberspace. To be honest, I am a totally clueless techno-eejit....and have never been able to master Goodreads, to the point I am rarely if ever on it. Delighted though you are putting up an author page, just wish I could have been more help!

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message 8: by Timothy

Mar 27, 2017 03:49AM

We meet again miss Dane. Thank you for your friendship. Any idea how to make an author page on this site? I'm finding it quite difficult to navigate.

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message 7: by Savannah

Jul 24, 2012 08:24AM

Raven,
Thank you for the friendship.
Stay naughty,
Savannah

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message 6: by Cheryl

Apr 13, 2011 05:15AM

Thanks for accepting my friend request, Raven.

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message 5: by Bill

Mar 18, 2009 07:55AM

Hi Lisa,

I'll take a look at your work. My latest is : The Feathery...It blends romance, suspence and history in with the game of golf. Check it out on Amazon UK.

Best and thanks for the UK frindship.

Best,

Bill

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message 4: by Michael

Mar 16, 2009 03:22PM

Hi, Raven! Thanks for friending me!! :-)

Cheers,
Mike

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message 3: by Jeannie

Feb 23, 2009 12:36PM

Hi Raven and thanks for adding me as a friend!
Blessings,
Jeannie

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message 2: by Shadonna

Feb 02, 2009 04:32PM

Thanks for the add. Have a great week!

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message 1: by Raven (last edited Jan 27, 2009 03:03PM)

Jan 27, 2009 03:02PM

A bit alarmed with this networking site. I posted a review on a piece of writing, the review didnt appear but an icon stating that I liked the chapter did. Nothing could have been further from the truth!
It was not only poorly written and inept but was insulting to the spiritual beliefs of many people ,myself included.
Worse of all there was no way of deleting the icon.

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