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Exclusive to my mailing list subscribers, this collection of Gryphon Clerks short fiction consists of ten stories totalling almost 50,000 words.
Gnome Day: A young Gryphon Clerk helps out on Gnome Day, and so begins a story of love, friendship, tragedy and longing.
Good Neighbours: Mistress Prudence is quite used to having dwarves living in the basement. She rather likes them, in fact, even though Mister Sinter never says much and young Two has such a heavy accent. So when Human Purity protesters throw a stone through Mister Sinter’s window, she feels she has to stand up to them…
Not Like Us: A beasthead clan leader encounters both prejudice and aid from humans in this side story to the novel Beastheads.
Intrusion: A gnome whose dwarven master plots an attack on technology used by humans and free gnomes must walk a dangerous line between service and resistance. (Characters recur in the novel Capital Crimes.)
Realmgolds’ Guard: A three-way contest decides who will hold the prestigious position of the Realmgolds’ elite guard. (Novelette.)
Vegetation: A light little story about petty politics in the Gulfport Vegetation Association, which looks after the former elvish city’s public plants.
Where Is Your Breath?: An unlikely friendship between a smelly shaman and a young rural minister of religion upsets those around them.
Skyboat to Three Brothers Springs: Looking back from middle age, a Gryphon Clerk remembers his first love.
Fluff: An aristocratic young woman comes to work at a fundraising business, sent by her interfering aunt. She seems harmless, scatterbrained even. Nothing to worry about at all… (A prequel or prologue to a possible future Gryphon Clerks novel, Cut Crystal and Broken Glass.)
Mama Bear: As the military skyship Resolute prepares for sky trials, its newest young officer must convince gruff Commander River that he isn’t the useless aristocratic snot she thinks he is. (The Resolute and its crew are likely to get an extended mission in a future novel, currently entitled Flight of the Resolute. Think steampunk Star Trek and you won’t be in completely the wrong ballpark.)
You also get exclusive access to a novella in the Gryphon Clerks series, which follows on from the Hope novels and features the same characters (in the same time period as Mister Bucket for Assembly).
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The Signup Process
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- Type your email address in the Email Address field in the sidebar on the right of the screen.
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- Check your email. It may take a few minutes for the confirmation email to come through. Check your spam folder if it’s not there in about half an hour.
- When you get an email with the subject “C-Side Media: Please Confirm Subscription”, open the email and click the button that says “Yes, subscribe me to this list”.
- Within a few minutes, you’ll get another email with the subject line “Member-only content.” Open that email and click the link to take you to the download page. I use a service called Prolific Works to deliver the book; if you have any problems, let me know (but also contact their support).
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Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
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