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Marcus Hughes
@marcushughes
Independent writer working mainly in fantasy, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Marcus Hughes writes across fantasy and urban fantasy, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Marcus Hughes
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Later first draft
The Salt Gate
In Portsmouth, old sea defences and forgotten alleyways hide a system of doors that only open at certain tides. When Mara Vale, a surveyor with a habit of noticing what other people miss, finds one of those doors marked with her dead brother’s name, she is pulled into a hidden dispute over who gets to control what comes through the city’s cracks. The deeper she goes, the more it becomes clear that the gate is not just a route into the uncanny, but a lock on something that should probably have stayed shut.
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