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Woodblock-style card back, with an ornate golden border of rope and ribbon surrounding a spindle, a shuttle, and shears, through which runs purple material that goes from loose fibers to thread to a ribbon to Asian-style knotwork

Important updates!

Ordinarily this space would be occupied by our most recent book (Labyrinth's Heart! Thrilling conclusion to the Rook and Rose trilogy! Check it out!) . . . but since we have several things underway at the moment that we want you to know about, we're temporarily posting this notice instead.

First up: Hello to all the Broken Binding subscribers! We're delighted you are getting a special edition of the trilogy. Since many people have asked, yes, we do have signed bookplates available for purchase -- contact us and we'll hook you up.

Second: Did you know the pattern deck from the Rook and Rose series is about to become a reality? We successfully Kickstarted it a little while ago, and you can still pre-order your very own deck (along with other goodies like enamel pins and numinatrian horoscopes) from BackerKit.

Third: We will be Guests of Honor at BayCon in the San Francisco Bay Area this July! We are formulating wonderful plans with the con organizers for Rook and Rose-themed events, so stay tuned -- and you can always subscribe to this site for updates (check the sidebar or scroll down) to hear all the news as we have it.

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The (first) decks have arrived!!!

06-26-2025 6:14 PM Marie Brennan
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If you haven’t seen me Kermit flailing all over social media already — our expedited set of pattern decks have arrived! The bulk of our order is coming by sea mail, so they won’t be here until late July at the earliest. But we wanted to have some to show off at BayCon, where we […]

BayCon is coming up!

06-20-2025 11:29 AM Marie Brennan
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We are just two weeks out from our joint stint as one of the Guests of Honor at BayCon in the San Francisco Bay Area! And according to the shipping update we just received, we should have <drumroll> a few sample pattern decks to show off at the con! The rest are coming by sea […]

Research reading: La Valencia del XVII, Pablo Cisneros

01-24-2025 12:14 AM Marie Brennan
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Last year I stopped posting to my personal blog about what I’d been reading because it abruptly became All Research, All the Time for The Sea Beyond, and I couldn’t talk yet about what Alyc and I were working on. Then I could talk about it, but it didn’t make good fodder for the usual […]

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In celebration of M.A. Carrick’s “birthday” — the anniversary of when our collaboration began — we have posted the annotations for Labyrinth’s Heart!

09/21/2024

If you missed the pattern deck Kickstarter, you can still pre-order the deck and various add-ons through our BackerKit store!

09/08/2023

To whet your appetite for the pattern deck Kickstarter and the impending release of Labyrinth’s Heart, we have a new Rook and Rose novelette for you!

08/10/2023
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