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A novel told in stories, UNWORTHY, follows a woman who comes of age as the member of a royal family. She's next in line to take the throne, a position she does not aspire to possess. Her siblings are unable to assume the role as one by one they're deemed unfit for the position. The task is thrust upon her, as it is her duty. Yet, at the right angle, under the proper lens, the real path is shown, paved with bones and held in place by the viscid and the bloody. There the truth is told, spoken in whispers into ruined ears. There, smiles sit askew on bloated faces, waiting for their turn on the other side of the veil. Can she find the strength within to prove not only to the court and country, but also to herself that she's not unworthy of the crown?

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L. Marie Wood is a Bram Stoker(R), Golden Stake Award, and International Impact Award-winning author. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a Rhysling and Elgin nominated poet, an accomplished essayist, and a play wright. Wood has won over 50 national and international screenplay and film awards. She has been published in groundbreaking works, including the anthologies Sycorax's Daughters and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire, as well as industry staples such as the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Nightmare Magazine and in multiple languages. Her nonfiction has been published in academic textbooks such as the cross curricular, Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook. She is also part of the 2022 Bookfest Book Award-winning poetry anthology, Under Her Skin, as well as Bram Stoker Award(R) and Shirley Jackson Award Nominee anthologies Shakespeare Unleashed and Mooncalves. Her papers are archived as part of University of Pittsburgh's Horror Studies Collection. Wood is the Vice President of the HorrorWriters Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, a horror scholar with a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and an MFA in Speculative Fiction, and a frequent contributor to the conversation around the evolution of genre fiction. Learn more about L. Marie Wood at www.lmariewood.com

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