Exclusive to the author's mailing list subscribers, this collection of Gryphon Clerks short fiction consists of ten stories totalling almost 50,000 words. The Gryphon Clerks is a lightly steampunked noblebright fantasy series featuring heroic civil servants and engineers. Gnome Day: A young Gryphon Clerk helps out on the day the gnomes are emancipated, and so begins a story of love, friendship, tragedy and longing. Good Neighbours: Mistress Prudence is quite used to having dwarves living in the basement. She rather likes them, in fact, even though Mister Sinter never says much and young Two has such a heavy accent. So when Human Purity protesters throw a stone through Mister Sinter's window, she feels she has to stand up to them... (Previously appeared in New Realm magazine, December 2013.) Not Like Us: A beasthead clan leader encounters both prejudice and aid from humans in this side story to the novel Beastheads. (Previously appeared in Theme-Thology: Invasion from HDWP Books.) Intrusion: A gnome whose dwarven master plots an attack on technology used by humans and free gnomes must walk a dangerous line between service and resistance. (Previously appeared in Theme-Thology: Mad Science from HDWP Books. Characters recur in the novel Capital Crimes.) Realmgolds' Guard: A three-way contest decides who will hold the prestigious position of the Realmgolds' elite guard. (Novelette. Contains spoilers for the novel Realmgolds.) Vegetation: Petty politics in the Gulfport Vegetation Association, which looks after the former elvish city's public plants. Inspired by P.G. Wodehouse. Where Is Your Breath?: An unlikely friendship between a smelly shaman and a young rural minister of religion upsets those around them. (Previously appeared in Theme-Thology: New Myths from HDWP Books.) Skyboat to Three Brothers Springs: Looking back from middle age, a Gryphon Clerk remembers his first love. Fluff: An aristocratic young woman comes to work at a fundraising business, sent by her interfering aunt. She seems harmless, scatterbrained even. Nothing to worry about at all... (A prequel or prologue to a projected future Gryphon Clerks novel, Cut Crystal and Broken Glass.) Mama Bear: As the military skyship Resolute prepares for sky trials, its newest young officer must convince gruff Commander River that he isn't the useless aristocratic snot she thinks he is. (The Resolute and its crew may get an extended mission in a future novel, currently entitled Flight of the Resolute. Think steampunk Star Trek and you won't be in completely the wrong ballpark.)

A reluctant, inexperienced and ineffectual ruler must become the leader his people need when an old rival's hate-filled rhetoric foments rebellion. The young ruler has an ally and mentor, a competent woman who rules the realm to the south. Unfortunately, an ancient magical treaty between their realms means she can’t send in her troops, her skyboats or her pressure guns. What she can do, though, is share a new magical communications technology and her elite corps of Gryphon Clerks.

An act of powerful magic in a moment of rage almost destroys Hope's magical career before it starts, leaving her even more determined to prove her worth. Her chance comes when she's assigned to work for the eccentric inventor known as the Clever Man. The magical technology they create together could change the course of a war and help an oppressed people plan their revolution, but wealthy and powerful interests will fight to put it down any way they can.

When a promising date ends in head trauma and ruined trousers, Hope must confront the curse she accidentally placed on herself at the end of her first relationship. But can she do so while also qualifying as a Senior Mage, solving the mystery of her parents' toxic marriage, and helping two awkward friends communicate - all while periodically blacking out? A love story, with engineering. About - and for - smart, nerdy women and the men who adore them. Content warning: While it does not depict sex directly, this book does contain "adult situations" and what one reader has described as "delicate eroticism". If you are uncomfortable with these elements, this isn't the book for you. Place in the series: This is a direct sequel to Hope and the Clever Man and picks up where that book leaves off, but it can be read as a standalone.

Follows the struggles and triumphs of Hope, Patient, Dignified and Rosie forward from the end of Hope and the Patient Man. Parallel timeframe to Mister Bucket For Assembly. (Mailing list exclusive.)

When Bucket the gnome takes up an offer to stand for the Representative Assembly on behalf of his newly-emancipated people, he expects hard work and civilised debate. Not the bitter enmity of an old flame, nasty innuendoes in the opposition's newspaper, or threats from organised crime. Certainly not snipers and firebombs. Along the way, he has to confront his own cultural prejudices when his beloved and her friends raise the question of why female gnomes can't study engineering. Can Bucket stand up to the pressure to compromise his ideals in order to get elected? Thank you for your interest in our novel. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed presenting it. - Digital Fiction

They may be putting out a newspaper, but there are some things they don't want becoming news. The Illustrated Gnome News is the only newspaper serving the newly emancipated gnome community, but there are days when Ladle, the paper's overworked editor, thinks that's because nobody else is stupid enough to try to run one. She has to balance not scaring off all their advertisers with putting out a paper that stands for a better future for all gnomes. Including those gnomes who don't match up to traditional ideas of what's proper. One of these is her friend Loom, the first gnome woman to qualify as an engineer. But Loom has a secret that would shock conventional gnomes even more than that, and must somehow find a way to pursue her own happiness amidst the wider struggle to turn gnome emancipation into true freedom. (Advisory: contains non-explicit scenes of a romantic and sexual relationship between two women. The book itself is not illustrated; the title refers to the newspaper at the center of the story.)