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Author · Storyteller
Nathan Palmer
@nathanpalmer
Independent writer working mainly in fantasy, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Nathan Palmer writes fantasy and dark fantasy. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Nathan Palmer
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Currently creating
First draft
The Salt Chapel
In a coastal city where the dead are bound into the walls of old shrines, a minor archivist discovers that the city’s protection is failing for reasons the priests have spent decades hiding. As the tide rises and the buried names begin to wake, she is forced into a bargain with something that should have stayed under the sea.
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Feedback Wanted
Scenes don’t always need to flare up to matter. Sometimes the more useful choice is to keep the emotional temperature...
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Crime & Mystery
Crime scenes are often built out of tiny lies rather than one grand one. A missing receipt, a door left “as found”, a...
16 August 2026