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Featured Author : Lena Fenn - The Waking Lands Trilogy
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Book One · launching 28 August 2026
A Map of Vanished Things
Seventeen-year-old Neve crosses the Sunder Sea toward the home her family lost — and finds something in the moving dark that would freeze the whole world to end all grief. The first book of The Waking Lands.
PUBLISHING WITH FENN & FABLE
Two ways to join the House
One is us backing your book. The other is you staying in control of it. Choose the path that fits your story.
Route One
Published by Fenn & Fable
Submit your manuscript. If we take it on, we publish it — the cost, the craft and the risk carried by the House. Free to submit, and opening 1 September for a limited period only.
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The Writer’s Studio
Publish independently, with our craft behind you. Story and character development, structural and line editing, cover design, maps and typesetting — pay-as-you-go, and you keep every right, every royalty, and your manuscript.
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The Book House
Fenn & Fable is an independent book house for big-hearted, dark-edged stories — the kind you fall right into and carry with you long after the last page. We are built for debut authors: we take on new voices, shape each book with real editorial care, and give it a proper home — cover, design and readership — so a first novel arrives like it always belonged on the shelf.
A home for debut authors · new voices and new worlds, published with care
FENN & FABLE WRITER’S STUDIO
The Writer’s Studio
The Writer’s Studio is where new authors bring their stories into print — story and character development, structural and line editing, cover design, maps and typesetting, and all the small touches that turn a manuscript into a book worth keeping.
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Chapter & Fable
We’re currently reading Lena Fenn. Read along with us — our free Reading Group Guide brings fifteen questions to open up A Map of Vanished Things, with a Vaeli welcome of bread and salt to set your table. We refresh our current read here regularly, so there’s always a new book to share.
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