Rivensol is a world built on a dangerous idea: magic is nothing more than knowledge, held in the mind. Anyone who can learn a rune can work it. But holding knowledge that way costs you yourself, memory by memory, and those who hold too much are hollowed into something that no longer knows what it has lost. There is one escape from that price: the written page. A spell read from a book costs the reader almost nothing. Which is why books are power, why the guilds and the great houses ration who may read, and why the Order of the Index burns the wrong ones.
Then a printing press changes what a book is. When any apprentice can pull a hundred impressions of a forbidden page, the question stops being who owns the magic and becomes whether magic can be owned at all. These are novels about that revolution: the ink, the cost, and the people who pay it.
The Series
ThePrintersApprentice
Literary dark historical fantasy · 8 books
In a Renaissance city where the guilds hold magic the way the nobles hold bread, an indentured printer's apprentice discovers that his press can print spells any reader can work. An eight-book literary dark fantasy of revolution and its price: every working spends his own memory, and every truth he prints costs someone standing below him.
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Free TalesOfTheKnowledge
Literary horror in four parts · 4 books
A city's beloved free surgeon tells you, serenely, the story of his own great kindness, and you read past him, a page ahead, to the horror he cannot see. A four-part literary confession from the world of The Printer's Apprentice, in which the narrator is the monster and never finds out.
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