About the Author

S.L. Sloane is the author of Carnstone, the first book in The Blood Wrought Saga — a dark fantasy series for readers who are tired of heroines who suffer beautifully and burn politely.

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Sloane writes women who want things: power, answers, revenge, each other, the man across the room. Her work is built on the belief that female desire — messy, bisexual, unresolved, occasionally catastrophic — is more interesting than female virtue, and that the most subversive thing a fantasy novel can do is let a woman look at the world the way the world has always looked at her.

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Originally from Massachusetts, she moved to New York City to attend Barnard College, where she studied English with minors in Mandarin and Economics. She draws from Woolf's interiority, Dostoevsky's moral violence, Nabokov's obsessive precision, and Tolkien's conviction that a fully built world is an argument about how to live.

 

She works as Head of North America for a sustainability fintech company, which has taught her that systems survive by making victims complicit — a theme she finds equally useful in finance and dark fantasy.

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She lives in New York with her husband and her Doberman, Zoë. She is not writing for the male gaze. She is not writing for a demographic. She is writing the book she wanted to read.

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Carnstone is the first.