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C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015).

Her work includes the novella Desdemona and the Deep (Tor.com 2019), three albums: Alecto! Alecto!, The Headless Bride, and Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir, and a poetry collection: How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes. The latter features her 2011 Rhysling Award-winning “The Sea King’s Second Bride.”

Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the Sword and Sonnet anthology, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones ...more

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Orange & Bee Salon!

I was asked to be at a guest at the Orange Salon, hosted by editors Carina and Nike at theorangebee.substack.com, a fairy tale journal. They will be hosting salons for paying subscribers, and this was their first!

We did a Q&A and a reading, and then I ran a short “Infernal Salon” with our Negocios Infernales cards, “the Deck of Destiny.” Nike asked me as a sweet favor to sing them all a song on m

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	Saint Death's Daughter (Saint Death, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 1,694 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desdemona and the Deep 3.85 avg rating — 870 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bone Swans: Stories by C.S.E. Cooney (Goodreads Author), Gene Wolfe (Introduction) 4.34 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twice-Drowned Saint 4.27 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Breakers by C.S.E. Cooney (Goodreads Author), Sharon Shinn (Introduction ), Brett Massé (Illustrator) 4.39 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bone Swans of Amandale 4.40 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witch in the Almond Tree (Witch's Garden, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack o' the Hills 4.54 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Breaker Queen 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Flirt in Faerieland & Other Wild Rhymes by C.S.E. Cooney (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Huston (Illustrator) 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, Bone Swans: Stories

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“But if Desdemona knew one thing, it was this: if misery loves company, malice adores it.”
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