Septimus Brown

​I’ve worked as a horse-carriage driver, a language teacher, a sailboat crew member, a tie-dye clothing designer, and (briefly) a dog food entrepreneur. I once housesat in the jungle in Panama to get some writing done. That novel wasn’t publishable, but it taught me what kind of writer I wanted to be.

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My fiction leans speculative and plays with form on purpose. I also edit fiction at the Darling Axe where I've co-authored three craft books (and counting)—Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling, Story Skeleton: The Classics, and Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors.

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What's next in the pipeline?

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Marix Desata from When the Sky Breaks will be back in the first of a four-book series called The Sparrow War—coming later in 2026. I'm meanwhile working on a fantasy noir novel, which could very well become a series, called Legacy of Ash. Stay tuned!