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Claire McKenna Claire McKenna i(A74026 works by)
Gender: Female
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y separately published work icon Deepwater King Sydney South : Voyager , 2021 22550560 2021 single work novel fantasy

'Since losing her great love to the Queen of the Sainted Isles, Arden must fulfil an impossible promise before she can return home – she must complete the dangerous Rite that will return Jonah’s spirit to the abyssal Court of the Deepwater King.

'This sets her off on a journey far out at sea to find believers of the old religion on the oil-slick and mysterious islands beyond the horizon. But such a responsibility will not come without sacrifice, for the Deepwater folk who worship the King require the most desperate payments the soul, and with one man Arden may have to pay the greatest price of all…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Division Novel
y separately published work icon Monstrous Heart Sydney South : Voyager , 2020 17541261 2020 single work novel fantasy

'When Arden Beacon is sent to the lighthouse, she is simply a woman with a job to do. She neither seeks, nor expects, distraction. After years tainted by disappointment, Arden is finally taking up her family’s profession. She must prove herself worthy of her name, for she has nothing else.

'But the coast she has been tasked with lighting is far from the world she knows – the salt-swept, backwater town of Vigil is battered by a sea teeming with colossal, ancient beasts. It is a place of secrets, rumours and tight-lipped expectations of a woman’s place.

'More than anyone, the folk of Vigil whisper about Arden’s new neighbour, Jonah Riven, hunter of leviathans. He murdered his wife, they whisper – a perfect, golden girl, full of charm and potential. So very different to Arden Beacon.

'They say he is as much a monster as his prey, but Arden cannot get this dark stranger out of her head.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 shortlisted Ditmar Awards Best Novel
2020 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Novel
2020 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Horror Division Novel
Mr Mycelium 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures 2017; (p. 21-38)
A speculative-fiction retelling of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.
2018 shortlisted Ditmar Awards Best Short Story
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