Kip ManleyJo Maguire, a highly strung, underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecified pedigree—and rather unexpectedly becomes her guardian and caretaker. Now Jo must make a place for herself in a city few of us ever get to see...
Thirty-five (35!) novelettes of acclaimed urban fantasy! An epic serial set in Portland! Thrills, chills, tragedy and hijinks! Why aren't you reading this right the heck now?
"It's like Twin Peaks had a baby with Once Upon a Time."
"The characters are both subtly human and bold rock-opera caricatures and why do they both work—"
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Which means, starting next week, and appearing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the 31st novelette, " – marble sends regards – "!
https://thecityofroses.com/chapbooks/no-31
(In which the body, the water, the sun; the air, those teeth, the light—)
The 29th novelette, " – shiver & headache – ", is up at the city in its entirety—29 novelettes of acclaimed urban fantasy, there for the reading!
"…a flicker of sharp impressionistic scenes skittering atop a deeply imagined alternate present."
"It's like Twin Peaks had a baby with Once Upon a Time."
"…like Little, Big crossed with Revolutionary Girl Utena."
"It's serial fiction done right."
"Our reviewers loved the world-building and well-drawn characters."
"Action scenes resolve in single run-on sentences like giant domino arrangements going off precisely."
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The 21st novelette is done, which means, starting next week, the 22nd, "Maiestie," will appear, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays—the last novelette of vol. 2; the epilogue, for the first season:
19 novelettes now available online—we're coming up on the end of the first season of the epic:
The first season of the epic—the first two volumes—gathered together in an ebook omnibus for only eight bucks American:
