Luke R. J. Maynard
Author
Luke R. J. Maynard is a writer, poet, scholar, lapsed medievalist, musician, and wearer of sundry other hats in the arts & letters. Born in London, Ontario, Canada, he received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Victoria in 2013, and his Juris Doctor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law in 2019.
Luke’s first CD, Desolation Sound, was released in June of 2018. His first novel, The Season of the Plough, was released by Cynehelm Press in 2019, and you can find more information about both his books and music over at lukemaynard.com.
Books by Luke R. J. Maynard
The Travalaith Saga
The Season of the Plough (2019)
The Season of the Cerulyn (2020)
The Season of Rust and Rhyme (coming soon!)
The Travalaith Saga is a long-form epic fantasy series, currently open-ended, which chronicles the lives and adventures of a diverse ensemble cast living under the shadow of a civil war. The world of these troubled times does not belong only to the square-jawed heroes of legend. It belongs to farmers, soldiers, refugees, exiled royalty, beekeepers, wizards, and tax collectors in equal measure. Taken as a whole, the Travalaith Saga is the story of a land in turmoil, and the small hopes and heroics of all who dwell there.
Cynehelm Classic Doubles
Everything Wants To Live / That Most Foreign of Veils (2020)
Revisit the bygone days of the classic "dos-à-dos" pulp stories with the fun Cynehelm Classic Doubles series!
The pairing of two spine-tingling, thought-provoking or retro-quirky tales makes for a quick read in a tiny, portable pocket book format.
This inaugural double-short pairs the dark gnostic journey of a Yemeni emigrée seeking occult wisdom with the fable of a man who gives his body to science—only to lose more than he ever bargained for.
In Everything Wants to Live, a jaded programmer at the end of his rope makes a fatal deal to test the limits of his boss's latest advancements in bioorganic computing inside his own body. As his sentience bleeds between man and machine, Alan Church must ask himself whether this profound technological awakening will lead to his evolution... or his extermination.
In That Most Foreign of Veils, earthly alienation informs a young woman's journey into a truly alien realm beyond the known world, to a place of primordial cold that hides the forbidden secrets of sleeping forces too terrible to name.
