His investigation gains urgency after a fatally poisoned man is brought to the hospital asking for him. As Miles, he’s careful to hide his magical skills (his ‘tricks’) as a healer from patients and staff, but veterans of the war between Aeland and Laneer are returning home with mysterious, violent homicidal rages – strangers to their families and friends – and Miles is desperate to understand why. Miles Singer, a physician and psychiatrist at Beauregard Veterans Hospital.
When Witchmark begins, Sir Christopher has hidden his magical powers, reinventing himself as Dr. Sir Christopher Hensley was born into the aristocracy, but as a ‘Secondary’, he was unwilling to bind himself to his sister and amplify her power as a Storm-Singer he fled his family and went to war instead. In Aeland, a fictionalized Edwardian England, aristocratic families use their magical gifts to keep a stranglehold on the power and wealth of the nation, whilst relegating anyone outside their sphere of power to a life of slavery, an asylum, or death. Polk, is an intriguing blend of history, science fiction, fantasy and romance. Polk is represented by Caitlin McDonald of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.Witchmark, by début author C. You can subscribe to their free newsletter on TinyLetter, or subscribe to their Patreon for content writing nerds like. They drink good coffee because life is too short. A city person at heart, They menace the streets on rideshare scooters and ride a green bicycle with a basket on the front. They dwell in an apartment the same age as they are with too many books, not enough cats, and a yarn stash that could last a decade.
Polk lives In Calgary on Treaty 7 land, among the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, and the Métis Nation (Region 3). Their Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winning novel The Midnight Bargain was a Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award finalist.Īfter leaving high school early, they have worked as a film extra, sold vegetables on the street, and identified exotic insect species for a vast collection of lepidoptera before settling down to write fantasy novels.
Polk (they/them/she/her) wrote the Hugo nominated Kingston Cycle, beginning with the WFA winning novel Witchmark.
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