A Knight in the Silk Purse - Paperback

by Julie Czerneda (Author), Dan Wells (Author), Scott Taylor (Editor)

In Taux, the city of cursed stone, a new dark power stalks the dreams of the population with bloody footprints. Even among the celebrations of the Festival of a Thousand Blossoms, the hardy folk of the Black Gate must find a way to defeat this lurking menace before it consumes them all. A Knight in the Silk Purse blends the shared tales of twelve of fantasy's greatest modern storytellers into an epic weave of intrigue, murder, sorcery, death, and retribution like nothing else found on the shelves today.

Author Biography

Publishing jack-of-all-trades R. Scott Taylor has worn many hats in the field of both fantasy and science fiction for the past decade and is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent press Art of the Genre. He has worked as an art director, editor, agent, blogger, Kickstarter entrepreneur, and most recently created the digital fiction publishing arm, Skull Island eXpeditions, for Privateer Press. He still maintains a daily RPG art blog on his Art of the Genre website as well as appearing monthly as a guest gaming art blogger for Black Gate Magazine. He is also the author of four books in his homebrew world of the Nameless Realms, and editor of the Tales of the Emerald Serpent anthology series. He is an avid reader, gamer, and art collector and is always looking for a way to link artists and authors together in fantastic collaborative works. Scott currently resides in San Diego, California, with his wife and son where he strives every day to hold on to his Peter Pan lifestyle of never growing up.