Alec J Marsh
Alec is a writer from the PNW. They spend their time reading fantasy novels, making candles, and taking long walks in the mountains.Enquire within at [email protected]
Calamity of a Coming Spring
Forced into an arranged marriage in the arctic, Prince Naja loses his lover and his plant magic. When his lover is kidnapped and his wife is betrayed, he must find a way to keep them both, and connect to the unique magic of arctic plants.
CALAMITY OF A COMING SPRING is an 104,000 word adult fantasy with crossover appeal. It is for readers who want their sweeping fantasies filled with human emotion, queer love, and soft power. It features two bi protagonists and a nonbinary love interest. It can be compared to Priory of the Orange Tree and Winter’s Orbit.
Nobleness, Like Stars
In a Scotland ravaged by invading demons, retired thief Cornelius Sinclair is blackmailed into stealing an ancient grimoire, the one used to begin the apocalypse two centuries ago.With the help of a genius socialite and the demon hunter he has loved since childhood, he must attain the book and then decide which he values more: his freedom, or the prestige of joining a brotherhood willing to blackmail him.
NOBLENESS, LIKE STARS is an 85,000 word adult Gaslamp fantasy set in magical 1920s Scotland. It will appeal to readers of Witchmark and The Witcher.
To Drive the Hundred Miles
Trans man Will dreads going home for the holidays, where his feminist Wiccan family smothers him with clumsy, sometimes harmful support. While stuck in their tiny town for the Solstice, he reconnects with Bea, a woman he went to high school with. Will got out, but she never quite managed it. Over the week, they find comfort in each other, and insulation from the pain of small town life.Length: 24,000 wordsCWs: clumsy family support, circuitous misgendering, a lot of gender feelings, narcissistic parents.
Alec was a contributor to Dirty Diamond's tenth anthology, "Death."
Dirty Diamonds #10: Death features comics from 67 contributors in our largest collection about being true to yourself through struggles and failure, and believing in your own strength, resolve, and what you're able to be.
Alec is a contributor to the upcoming Duck Prints Press anthology. Details released June 2022