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August 2022 Addendum: Manuscripts
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- 2006-2014, undated (Creation)
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Stina Leicht (1972-) was born in St. Louis, MO and currently resides in Austin, TX. Leicht is the author of several well-regarded novels, including the two-book The Fey and The Fallen series (2011-2012), a dark fantasy set in war-torn 1970s Northern Ireland. The first book in the series, Of Blood and Honey, was nominated for a Locus Award for Best First Novel; the second, And Blue Skies From Pain was also a Locus nominee.
Her next novel project was the two-book series The Malorum Gates (2015-2017). The two books, Cold Ironand Blackthorne comprise a high 'flintlock fantasy' set in a world at war between the magic-using Kainen of Eledore and the magic-less humans of Acrasia. Blackthorne was a 2018 Locus nominee. In 2021, Leicht released a well-received space opera, a futuristic queer feminist riff on The Seven Samurai, entitled Persephone Station. Her latest novel Loki's Ring, a thoughtful space action-adventure set in and around a ringworld, was released in March 2023.
Leicht has also written several short stories, including "Texas Died For Somebody's Sins", published in the Rick Klaw-edited 2013 anthology Rayguns Over Texas. She received a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2012.
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1-1/1: "Last Drink Bird Head" (2009), typescript draft, undated; and partial typescript draft of version under alternate title "Revenge of Bird Head", undated
1-1/2: "Of Blood and Honey" (early version of novel), story from The Edge of Propinquity website, July 2006
1-1/3: Of Blood and Honey (2011), typescript draft of opening pages, undated
1-1/4: Of Blood and Honey (2011), typescript draft, pages 1 - 104, undated
1-1/5: Of Blood and Honey (2011), typescript draft, pages 105 - 203, undated
1-1/6: Of Blood and Honey (2011), typescript draft, pages 204 - 307, undated
1-1/7: Of Blood and Honey (2011), typescript draft, pages 308 - 405, undated
1-1/8: Of Blood and Honey (2011), typescript draft, pages 406 - 511, undated
1-1/9: Of Blood and Honey (2011), typescript draft, pages 512 - 598, undated
1-1/10: Of Blood and Honey (2011), partial typescript draft of chapter 1 with handwritten edits, undated
1-1/11: Of Blood and Honey (2011), editor's notes and criticism, 2010?
1-1/12: Cold Iron (2015), typescript draft [under old title Changeling] of chapter 5, undated
1-1/13: Cold Iron (2015), typescript drafts [under old title Changeling] of chapter 1, with ArmadilloCon Writers Workshop critiques, 2006
1-1/14: Cold Iron (2015), typescript draft pages for chapter 3, July 2014
1-1/15: Cold Iron (2015), typescript draft pages, July 2014
1-1/16: Cold Iron (2015), typescript page with handwritten notes, and map of Acrasia, June 2014
1-1/17: Cold Iron (2015), notes on military information, July 2014
1-1/18: Blackthorne (2017), notes on notecards, undated