Natalie C. Parker

“The Devil And The Ocean” 

pirate girl aesthetic

A slipper ship

A clip-the-cold-wind’s-fury ship

A slip-between-horizons ship

A runner’s ship

A gunner’s ship

A run-before-the-wind’s-edge ship

‘The Queens Of Innis Lear’ Is The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Meets ‘King Lear’ Fantasy Of Your Dreams — COVER REVEAL

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Praise for The Queens of Innis Lear

“Amazing.” ―Robin McKinley

“The Queens of Innis Lear is a spectacular book. This is a story about family and love, jealousy and destiny, with its roots in the earth and stretching to the stars. Beautifully written, it’s full of complex characters who will break your heart and heal it again. An instant favorite, this is a book I’ll return to again and again."―Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians

“I adore this―rich, epic, blood-soaked―a glorious and grand sweeping fantasy.” ―Kate Elliott, author of The Poisoned Blade

“A gloriously symphonic, thematically rich variation on the story of the daughters of Lear. The danger of seeking certainty makes this a tale for our time; the power of truth and mercy makes it a tale for all times. Prepare to devour every word, for Innis Lear will consume you.” ―Karen Lord, author of Redemption in Indigo "Messy, beautiful, and dark, darker than Shakespeare could have dreamed.” ―E. K. Johnston, author of Star Wars: Ahsoka

“A darkly rendered epic of old magic, hardened hearts, and complicated choices"―Booklist, starred review

“Enthralling.”―Publishers Weekly “Engrossing and magical adult debut.”―Library Journal

DREAD NATION FICTION CELEBRATION

If you haven’t heard about Justina Ireland’s upcoming DREAD NATION yet, I’m about to change your life…. 

At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland’s stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar—a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.

In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.

But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.

But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose.

But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies.

And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.

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In keeping with the spirit of the book, we asked 5 authors to write a story around a single prompt: UNDEAD DIVERSITY. From tomorrow until April 3, you’ll see how Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, and Shaun David Hutchinson all interpreted that prompt.