Courtney M. Privett (Author of Mayfly Requiem)

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Courtney M. Privett

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in Detroit, MI, The United States

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Courtney M. Privett is the author of The Malora Octet, Huron, and The Bacra Chronicles. She spent her childhood in rural northeastern Michigan and graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) in 2005 with a degree in ceramic engineering. She lives in Washington with her husband, three young children, and three useless cats. In addition to being a writer, she is an accidental artist, a classical percussionist, a former analytical chemist, and a vivid dreamer who has both auditory-tactile synesthesia and narcolepsy.

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Average rating: 4.39 · 116 ratings · 28 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Mayfly Requiem (The Malora Octet, #1) 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 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 Abyssal Night (The Malora Octet, #2) 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Shadows of Absolution (The Malora Octet, #5) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 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 Crystal Lattice (The Malora Octet, #7) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Shards of Chaos (The Malora Octet, #3) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 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 Shattered Veil (The Malora Octet, #4) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Sand into Glass (The Malora Octet, #6) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Huron 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Cavelost (The Bacra Chronicles, #1) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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
	Rain Falls on Malora 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 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

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May is Mental Health Month, so I'm going to do something a little different. All* of my book royalties for this month will be donated to the .Why am I doing this? Many of my books, especially The Bacra Chronicles, were born out of my own struggles with prenatal and postpartum depression, anxiety, and depersonalization-derealization. Writing these stories h Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Courtney M. Privett

The Malora Octet (8 books)
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Echoes of Oblivion (3 books)
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Emergence (3 books)
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The Bacra Chronicles (4 books)
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“Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

tags: darkness, darkness-and-light, inner-light, light

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“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Shadows of Absolution

tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, malice, torture

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“We were born of stars and in death we will return to them. Let's not strive to be black holes in the meantime. Let's illuminate the world instead of darkening it, instead of tearing it to pieces. Let's prove we are worthy of being stardust.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Arrow of Entropy

tags: black-holes, death, destruction, illumination, stardust, stars

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“Our descendants deserve libraries, not barracks. They deserve to inherit a world that values both their waking lives and their dreams.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

tags: descendants, inheritance, libraries, posterity

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“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

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“Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

tags: darkness, darkness-and-light, inner-light, light

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“We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

tags: loss, love, love-and-loss

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“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Shadows of Absolution

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