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Michael Vadney

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in Key West, The United States

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Michael Vadney was born in the Florida Keys, raised in the woods of Pennsylvania, and currently resides somewhere between the real world and the fantastic realms in his head.

In his early-thirties, he rekindled his childhood dream of becoming an author. Balancing a full-time career in software with an unshakable need to write, Michael dedicated nights, weekends, and an unreasonable number of pre-dawn hours to storytelling. The result was Crownfall, his debut novel and proof that sleep is, in fact, optional.

His writing lives in the nobledark corner of fantasy, where grim, morally complex worlds meet heroic virtues. He believes every story worth telling explores the space between who we are and who we could become.

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