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L.B. Marsh

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L. B. Marsh writes cozy fantasy about heroes, sidekicks, and the people who actually get things done. She grew up on Robin McKinley, Susan Cooper, and Tanith Lee - a debt she's been trying to pay ever since - and believes every prophecy should name the friend who shows up.

She wrote fiction for years, stopped for reasons that made sense at the time, and recently came back to it like she'd been thinking about this for a while and was done waiting for a better moment. Most of her chapters are drafted on her phone at hours she declines to disclose.

Her first book, Vaguely Sword-Shaped, is a novella about a prophecy that named the wrong number of heroes, a dragon who would rather not discuss the compost, and a princess who did the math on being r ...more

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Marsh L. B. liked A.K. Adler's review of Vaguely Sword-Shaped: "This story has good bones. It knows what it wants to say, and says it with humour and charm. The writing style is elegant and dryly witty, but not very emotive. As a reader, you feel as if you're watching the story unfold from above rather than exper" Read more of this review »
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