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Author · Storyteller
Isaac Marshall
@isaacmarshall
Fantasy writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Isaac Marshall is a fantasy writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
A story only works when somebody has something to lose.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Isaac Marshall
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Salt Road Ledger
When a coastal archive begins losing whole pages from its oldest maps, a careful copyist named Eira Vale is sent inland to trace the thefts to their source. She finds a road that only appears in certain kinds of weather, a chain of ruined watchtowers, and a kingdom quietly erasing its own borders.
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Publishing
Audiobooks expose sentences that print is happy to let off the hook. On the page, a line can look neat enough. Read a...
16 August 2026
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Worldbuilding
Names do a great deal of quiet work in fiction.
14 August 2026
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Brainstorm
A lot of fantasy covers have started to look like the same book wearing different clothes.
14 August 2026