C.S.E. Cooney (Author of Saint Death's Daughter)

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C.S.E. Cooney

欧宝娱乐 Author

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C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015).

Her work includes the novella Desdemona and the Deep (Tor.com 2019), three albums: Alecto! Alecto!, The Headless Bride, and Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir, and a poetry collection: How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes. The latter features her 2011 Rhysling Award-winning 鈥淭he Sea King鈥檚 Second Bride.鈥�

Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow鈥檚 Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice in Wonderland, the Sword and Sonnet anthology, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones ...more

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	Saint Death's Daughter (Saint Death, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 1,894 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desdemona and the Deep 3.84 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bone Swans: Stories by C.S.E. Cooney (欧宝娱乐 Author), Gene Wolfe (Introduction) 4.34 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twice-Drowned Saint 4.25 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Breakers by C.S.E. Cooney (欧宝娱乐 Author), Sharon Shinn (Introduction ), Brett Mass茅 (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Death's Herald (Saint Death, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bone Swans of Amandale 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witch in the Almond Tree (Witch's Garden, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack o' the Hills 4.55 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Breaker Queen 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, Bone Swans: Stories

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“But if Desdemona knew one thing, it was this: if misery loves company, malice adores it.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, Tor.com Publishing 2019 Debut Sampler

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“The angel Alizar sometimes looked like a human-shaped paper lantern, or a sudden release of soap bubbles, or a cloud. He glowed on the inside as if he'd swallowed a hive of horny fireflies, and on the outside, he looked as if a toddler with a glue gun had gone wild with the craft buckets containing outrageous feathers, and twining golden vines, and trumpet-like flowers, and thin, prismatic insect wings.

Alizar also had the ability to spontaneously produce eyeballs whenever and wherever he fancied, though I'd never seen him sport more than eleven at a time, hence his name.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, The Twice-Drowned Saint

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