Marie Brennan
@swantower.bsky.social
Author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent. Also one half of M.A. Carrick. She/her.
Solidarity means being willing to put aside smaller differences and disagreements to help each other on the bigger things -- like preserving our freedoms and our democracy. This is a thing of beauty; let's make more beauty just like it.
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Solidarity means being willing to put aside smaller differences and disagreements to help each other on the bigger things -- like preserving our freedoms and our democracy. This is a thing of beauty; let's make more beauty just like it.
All from Yatakhayaloon:
August 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
All from Yatakhayaloon:
A poem for this Fourth of July.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A poem for this Fourth of July.
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<Zoom goes out; businesses across the world bail to Microsoft Teams>
Clippy:
Clippy:
April 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
<Zoom goes out; businesses across the world bail to Microsoft Teams>
Clippy:
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Looking up a saint on Wikipedia, and this is the disambiguation I find . . .
February 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Looking up a saint on Wikipedia, and this is the disambiguation I find . . .
I think that would be very festive!
November 18, 2024 at 3:46 AM
I think that would be very festive!
They're the tiniest, most fragile things, but with patience, with determination, they push against the weight of the dirt, they worm their way through the gaps, to reach the light.
We can -- we MUST -- do the same.
We can -- we MUST -- do the same.
November 6, 2024 at 6:57 PM
They're the tiniest, most fragile things, but with patience, with determination, they push against the weight of the dirt, they worm their way through the gaps, to reach the light.
We can -- we MUST -- do the same.
We can -- we MUST -- do the same.
Right now on my desk there is a little pot of sunflower seedlings that are juuuuust starting to poke their way up out of the soil. This turns out to be exactly the day I need to watch life grow.
November 5, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Right now on my desk there is a little pot of sunflower seedlings that are juuuuust starting to poke their way up out of the soil. This turns out to be exactly the day I need to watch life grow.
Modern software companies in a nutshell: clicking on the link pictured below, from the Adobe website, promptly pops up an "AI assistant."
July 22, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Modern software companies in a nutshell: clicking on the link pictured below, from the Adobe website, promptly pops up an "AI assistant."
True confession: the only way I can work out the story order for one of my collections is to print the stories out really small, tape them into long typescripts, then rearrange them on the floor until length and beginnings and endings and so forth all flow nicely.
May 23, 2024 at 10:26 PM
True confession: the only way I can work out the story order for one of my collections is to print the stories out really small, tape them into long typescripts, then rearrange them on the floor until length and beginnings and endings and so forth all flow nicely.
A BREVIARY OF FIRE is out now! Sixteen stories inspired by folklore and mythology, all in a convenient ebook:
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
May 21, 2024 at 7:40 AM
A BREVIARY OF FIRE is out now! Sixteen stories inspired by folklore and mythology, all in a convenient ebook:
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
A BREVIARY OF FIRE, collecting many of my folklore-based stories, will be out on the 21st! You can pre-order now or wait to buy it direct from the publisher after it's out (and a print edition will follow soon, I promise):
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
May 8, 2024 at 7:44 PM
A BREVIARY OF FIRE, collecting many of my folklore-based stories, will be out on the 21st! You can pre-order now or wait to buy it direct from the publisher after it's out (and a print edition will follow soon, I promise):
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
www.swantower.com/writing/a-br...
My latest Patreon collection is out today! NEW WORLDS, YEAR SEVEN takes a look at worldbuilding around everything from empires to beggars to labor unions to saints -- check it out!
www.swantower.com/writing/new-...
www.swantower.com/writing/new-...
April 30, 2024 at 7:39 PM
My latest Patreon collection is out today! NEW WORLDS, YEAR SEVEN takes a look at worldbuilding around everything from empires to beggars to labor unions to saints -- check it out!
www.swantower.com/writing/new-...
www.swantower.com/writing/new-...
I'm reading TONIGHT at @swsworlds.bsky.social with @gsmithauthor.bsky.social, @meredithrlyons.bsky.social,
@jessicapeter.bsky.social, and @victorianations.bsky.social
-- free event, register here! tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n
@jessicapeter.bsky.social, and @victorianations.bsky.social
-- free event, register here! tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n
April 18, 2024 at 6:20 PM
I'm reading TONIGHT at @swsworlds.bsky.social with @gsmithauthor.bsky.social, @meredithrlyons.bsky.social,
@jessicapeter.bsky.social, and @victorianations.bsky.social
-- free event, register here! tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n
@jessicapeter.bsky.social, and @victorianations.bsky.social
-- free event, register here! tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n
My Legend of the Five Rings trilogy is complete as of today, with the release of THE MARKET OF 100 FORTUNES from @aconytebooks.bsky.social! Supernatural enigmas, queer romance, and my folklore flag flying high . . .
www.swantower.com/writing/the-...
www.swantower.com/writing/the-...
February 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM
My Legend of the Five Rings trilogy is complete as of today, with the release of THE MARKET OF 100 FORTUNES from @aconytebooks.bsky.social! Supernatural enigmas, queer romance, and my folklore flag flying high . . .
www.swantower.com/writing/the-...
www.swantower.com/writing/the-...
Only FOUR DAYS LEFT for the Assassins & Rogues StoryBundle! Give yourself the gift (regardless of holiday or lack thereof) of all these great books + charitable support for kids' writing skills!
storybundle.com/rogues
storybundle.com/rogues
December 17, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Only FOUR DAYS LEFT for the Assassins & Rogues StoryBundle! Give yourself the gift (regardless of holiday or lack thereof) of all these great books + charitable support for kids' writing skills!
storybundle.com/rogues
storybundle.com/rogues
Since @aconytebooks.bsky.social posted this on the hellsite yesterday, I can now share the cover for THE MARKET OF 100 FORTUNES, due out next spring! I love the way this one combines the color palettes of the first two books in the trilogy . . .
October 5, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Since @aconytebooks.bsky.social posted this on the hellsite yesterday, I can now share the cover for THE MARKET OF 100 FORTUNES, due out next spring! I love the way this one combines the color palettes of the first two books in the trilogy . . .
Not entirely certain about all of these, because after a while the road trips and cons get fuzzy, but it's certainly a respectable rating:
September 2, 2023 at 3:12 AM
Not entirely certain about all of these, because after a while the road trips and cons get fuzzy, but it's certainly a respectable rating:
Good news for those of you who've been ogling the frock coat add-on for the #RookAndRose pattern deck! Alyc has chopped $100 off the price. Remember, there's only two available in each color -- so if you want one, get it while you can! (1/2)
August 27, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Good news for those of you who've been ogling the frock coat add-on for the #RookAndRose pattern deck! Alyc has chopped $100 off the price. Remember, there's only two available in each color -- so if you want one, get it while you can! (1/2)