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City of Roses is an epic urban fantasy firmly set in Portland, Oregon—a wicked concoction of the urban pastoral and the incantatory fantastic, where knights are dubbed in Forest Park, and duels are fought in Pioneer Square, where union meetings are beseiged by ghost bicycles, and the Devil keeps a morgue in an abandoned big-box store. —It’s the story of Jo Maguire, a highly strung, underemployed telemarketer, and what happens when she meets Ysabel, a princess of unspecified pedigree. Jo rather unexpectedly becomes Ysabel’s guardian and caretaker, and now must make a place for herself among Ysabel’s decidedly unusual family and friends—which involves rather more sword-play than most of us are used to, these days.
The story is published in novelette-sized zines, on paper, and online: 44 so far, to date. These novelettes are then collected in paperback and ebook collections, of which four have been published so far: “Wake up…”, The Dazzle of Day, In the Reign of Good Queen Dick, and —or Betty Martin.
