Erin Snyder - Fantasy, SF, and Other Bizarre Fiction

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When I was growing up, fantasy was full of elves, dragons, and goblins. It was the mix of myth and fairytale that caught my imagination and made me fall in love with the genre.

Like everything else, fantasy literature moves in trends. Certain elements and tropes go out of fashion, and others are introduced. At some point the elves, dwarves, and monsters fell out of favor. To many readers, they became synonymous with a brand of epic storytelling that had grown repetitive and stale.

But these are the elements I love. I wrote the ten short stories in Tending the Fire to celebrate the history of this genre and all its glorious trappings by exploring them in a new light. 

In this collection, you’ll find existential stories about gnomes and assassins, cultural clashes between magical empires and lost villages, comic adventures and dark fables, stories that touch on the nature of dragons, dreams, and of story itself.

I hope you enjoy them.

Excerpts available:
The Goblin Prince
The Worst Assassin in Kalbrin

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From nihilistic elves to tortured snowmen and cursed gifts, A Man of Snow and Other Seasonal Stories explores a different side to the holidays.  These five tales will take you from the North Pole to an empty shopping mall on Christmas Eve, and even through the dark depths of the US Postal System.

Whether you love the holidays or hate them, this is our gift to you.

Contains four stories which ran on mainliningchristmas.com during December 2010, plus an exclusive story: "The Escape"