Posts Tagged ‘Rook & Rose’

The (first) decks have arrived!!!

Marie Brennan

If you haven’t seen me Kermit flailing all over social media already — our expedited set of pattern decks have arrived!

a photo of a pattern deck in its box, showing Emiko Ogasawara's back design of a spindle, shuttle, and shears joined by violet threads and ribbons

a photo of the pattern cards spread out so you can see Hundred Lanterns Rise, The Face of Stars, and Turtle in Her Shell

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 will be among the Guests of Honor next weekend! If you’re a Kickstarter backer who ordered a non-gilt-edged deck, let us know and we can probably hand-deliver yours to you at the con.

They are so pretty, y’all. I was nervous because we’ve never produced a deck before, so many elements of the process were new to us, which always introduces the chance to misunderstand and screw something up. But no: they look exactly as gorgeous as we’d hoped, and super professional. This is absolutely a deck we can be proud of. And if you want one but missed out on the Kickstarter, we’re still selling them on BackerKit!

Back to petting my deck and trying not to behave too much like Gollum . . .

Behold: the Rook and Rose wiki!

Marie Brennan

A world as complex as the setting for the Rook and Rose trilogy contains a lot of information — and when there are two authors involved, you can’t just assume everybody will remember everything the same. That’s why Alyc and I got my husband to set up a private wiki for us, where we could keep track of the details.

It grew to be . . . rather comprehensive, let’s say. (As in, 190K words, which makes it essentially the fourth book of the series — and longer than any non-Rook and Rose novel I’ve ever written.) With all that effort put into documentation, it seemed a pity to not to let others see it.

Which is why, courtesy of help from the excellent folks at wiki.gg, the wiki is now publicly available and open to editing! At the moment it’s almost identical to the private version; we removed only one detail we might want to save for a later reveal, and then added some pictures to gussy it up. But since anybody can edit it now, you’re free to add details we may have missed. Regardless, we hope you enjoy browsing it, and finding all the tidbits we know but never worked into the books!

Awards 2023 Eligbility Post

Alyc Helms

Remembering what came out when, and which category it falls into, can be hard even for the people involved in writing, so we’ve compiled this list of award-eligible works from the past year for the upcoming season. The biggest one is obviously the completion of the Rook & Rose trilogy, but we think there’s a lot of great short and medium-length fiction as well.

As M.A. Carrick (pseudonym for Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms)

Eligible Series

Eligible Novels

 

As Marie Brennan (solo)

Eligible Novels

Eligible Novelettes

  • “Pearl’s Price” (writing solo as M.A. Carrick)— When Swords Fall Silent, ed. Bryce O’Connor, March 2023 (anthology; requires purchase)
  • “The Naming of Knots” (writing solo as M.A. Carrick) — Beneath Ceaseless Skies #388, August 2023

Eligible Short fiction, flash, poetry

Short fiction

Flash

Poetry