Tremontaine: Lessons from sharing my famous, award-winning fantasy world

When it was published in 1987, Swordspoint was a scandal, a cause célèbre – not so much because of The Gay, but because it was a Fantasy Novel! Without Magic! I subtitled it "A Melodrama of Manners;" then some wag dubbed it Mannerpunk, and a marketing genre was born.

I went on to publish two more novels set in the Riverside city (The Privilege of the Sword and The Fall of the Kings), plus a series of interconnecting short stories, delving into the lives of the daring, the desperate, the witty, the deadly friends and family of my Mad Bad Boys.

In 2015, the population of my unnamed city changed again, not just with new characters, but with new writers. And with the serial collaborative series Tremontaine, my entire world has changed (no pun intended).

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