#swordspoint prequel

[ellenkushner]

Tremontaine: The Complete Season One by Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Malinda Lo, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltesse, and Patty Bryant. ★★★1/2 Tremontaine is the prequel to Ellen Kushner’s…

“My stand out favorite character was Diane, who’s Machiavellian manipulations put her on par with Lord Vetinari of Discworld. Woe to the many who underestimate this society lady. While no one else quite matches the delight I feel for Diane, I liked all of the other characters as well. If I had to pick a second favorite, it would probably be Micah, an autistic girl with a love of turnips and mathematics who always seems at a comfortable distance from everyone else’s drama and angst.

“If you’ve never read any of the previous Riverside books, I think Tremontaine is actually where I’d recommend starting, since it has the advantage of being chronologically first. I would highly suggest it for anyone interested in books with LGB characters or fantasy of manners in general.”

[ellenkushner]

Tremontaine: Season Two by Ellen Kushner, Joel Derfner, Tessa Gratton, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Paul Witcover, Racheline Maltese, and Alaya Dawn Johnson. ★★★★ Tremontaine is a prequel to Ellen Kushner&#…

“If queer fantasy of manners sounds like your thing, you’ll probably enjoy this series.”

[ellenkushner]

(via Nine Duels: a Tremontaine Story - Serial Box Serial Box)

A new  standalone story by @tessagratton

[ellenkushner]

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: Serial Box’s TREMONTAINE by Ellen Kushner

In the highest room of their splendid family townhouse on the highest part of the Hill, Diane, Duchess Tremontaine, sat in a window seat and surveyed her city. Below the sweeping lawns of Tremontaine House the river roiled under the dull grey skies of a windy, rainy day. Across the river, prosperous houses sent up trails of smoke from their many chimneys. But beyond them, in the older part of the city, only some of the ancient buildings of the University bore these flags of prosperity. Many students went cold for their learning.  But for a clever man not born to land or riches, what else was there? Diane smiled. Her husband the duke loved the University. He believed in clever men, and he had some pretensions to learning, as his extensive library testified. He served on the University’s Board of Governors, and was happier there than in the halls of the Council of Lords. She didn’t object. It gave him something to occupy his mind, while she occupied hers with weightier matters. She clutched the sheaf of papers in her hand and craned her slender neck, looking down the river past the Council buildings to the docks, where every day she hoped for her salvation. - See more at: http://www.rtbookreviews.com/blog/85786/exclusive-excerpt-serial-boxs-tremontaine#sthash.EBgyjprT.dpuf

Art by Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel