She is also author of Ice Forged, Reign of Ash and War of Shadows in The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, Dark Lady’s Chosen); The Fallen Kings Cycle (The Sworn, The Dread) and the urban fantasy novel Deadly Curiosities. Gail writes three short story/novella series: The Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures, The Deadly Curiosities Adventures and The Blaine McFadden Adventures. The Storm and Fury Adventures and Spells, Salt and Steel, are co-authored with Larry N. Martin.
Her work has appeared in over 35 US/UK anthologies. Newest anthologies include: Hath No Fury, Journeys, #We Are Not This, The Baker Street Irregulars, and In a Cat’s Eye.
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Afterword
Authors’ Note
This is a work of fiction, so any similarity to real people living or dead is entirely coincidental. The towns and landmarks mentioned do exist, but the businesses are completely fictional, and any similarities are also coincidental.
I grew up in Meadville, and Larry grew up in Sandy Lake, so Northwestern PA is home turf for us. Although we’ve lived in the South now for quite a while, we make frequent visits back and have enjoyed the chance to explore and revisit favorite places when we do our scouting expeditions for this series, the Iron & Blood and Storm and Fury Steampunk series (set in an alternate history Pittsburgh in 1898), and two upcoming series also set in Western and Central Pennsylvania. Rogue, one of our Storm and Fury novellas, is set in and around Meadville, Cambridge Springs, and Mercer back in the Gilded Age.
The Linesville Spillway and its carp are real, and we’ve posted photos on Facebook about the truly massive and closely-packed fish, so you can see for yourselves. Likewise, the Keystone Ordnance Works old TNT ruins are also real—and off-limits. Urban explorers have posted photos online. Gail heard the story about the Nazi sniper from the father of a high school friend, a man who claimed to have done guard duty there in the army during WWII. We haven’t been able to verify it, but hey—this is fiction. Squonks figure in Pennsylvania lore, but remain unverified cryptids. As for Gus the ghostly deer hunter, a surprising number of injuries and fatalities happen in the PA woods due to drinking and tree stands, which are a bad combination.
The text Father Leo quotes at Johnny Vasili is from the Malleus Malificarum, Part 3 Question XXX, and you can find the public domain version here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/mm03_30a.htm.
This is the first of at least four novellas in the Spells, Salt, and Steel series, so watch for new episodes!
About the Authors
Larry N. Martin is the author of the new sci-fi novel Salvage Rat, and co-author of both the Spells, Salt, and Steel series and the Steampunk series Iron and Blood: The Jake Desmet Adventures (Solaris Books) as well as the related series of short stories/novellas: The Storm & Fury Adventures. He has co-authored stories in the anthologies Clockwork Universe: Steampunk vs. Aliens, The Weird Wild West, The Side of Good/The Side of Evil, Alien Artifacts, Gaslight and Grimm, Space, Contact Light, and Robots.
Gail Z. Martin is the author of Scourge: A Darkhurst novel, the first in the new Darkhurst epic fantasy series from Solaris Books. Also new are: The Shadowed Path, part of the Chronicles of the Necromancer universe (Solaris Books); Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel in her urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC (Solaris Books); Shadow and Flame the fourth and final book in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga (Orbit Books); and Iron and Blood.
She is also author of Ice Forged, Reign of Ash and War of Shadows in The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, Dark Lady’s Chosen); The Fallen Kings Cycle (The Sworn, The Dread) and the urban fantasy novel Deadly Curiosities. Gail writes three short story/novella series: The Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures, The Deadly Curiosities Adventures and The Blaine McFadden Adventures. The Storm and Fury Adventures and Spells, Salt and Steel, are co-authored with Larry N. Martin.
Her work has appeared in over 35 US/UK anthologies. Newest anthologies include: Hath No Fury, Journeys, #We Are Not This, The Baker Street Irregulars, and In a Cat’s Eye.
Find us at www.GailZMartin.com / www.LarryNMartin.com, on Twitter @GailZMartin and @LNMartinAuthor, on Facebook.com/WinterKingdoms, at DisquietingVisions.com blog, on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/GailZMartin , on pinterest.com/Gzmartin and read free excerpts on Wattpad http://wattpad.com/GailZMartin.
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