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IFWG is very pleased to announce the acquisition of Garry Fay’s dark fantasy trilogy, The Sinistral Saga.

“Our submissions editor was extremely impressed with Fay’s original storyline, as well as evocative writing,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director of IFWG Publishing, “and it was a no-brainer to take on the series. From the moment he pitched to me I was impressed with what was presented, and this was confirmed through the formal acquisitions process. We very much look forward to having it published from 2026, beginning with the novel, Crowhand.”

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At various stages of his life Garry Fay has been a youth worker, a roadie, a record store manager, a primary school teacher, a visual literacy consultant, and owner of an Eisner Award nominated Comic Book Store. He is currently employed as a Children’s and Youth Librarian in regional Victoria.

An award winning writer, Garry has authored supplements and adventures for the Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, Castle Falkenstein, and Kult role-playing games. His one-act play, ‘The Devil You Know,’ was selected for production and performance at the Aussiecon National Science Fiction Convention.

An avid music collector and festival attendee, Garry also performs as one half of the acoustic duo, ‘Briar Patch,’ with his wife, Pauline.It is Garry’s fondest wish to discover he was a King’s Musketeer in a former life. 

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Words cut deeper than knives.

Quill is the celebrated eulogist of the Silver Tear Mourning Company. Coerced into a tournament of funeral rites for a disgraced nobleman, he delivers his oration in an outlawed language which awakens the spirit of a murdered kinswoman. Through the spirit he discovers the existence of Lankiya, a young woman raised to be the human vessel of an exiled god seeking vengeance on the land that shunned him.

Born into a life of silence and solitude and denied a voice of her own, Lankiya’s only means of communication is through the scribing of the final messages of those who have passed beyond the veils of death. After coming in contact with an object belonging to a long dead seer, she is just about to reveal the woman’s final prophecy when her ability to deliver the message is taken from her. 

It falls to Quill and his companion Daskinor, the last remaining knight of a mystical order, to aid Lankiya in regaining the ability to give words to the dead and save the land from the wrath a vengeful god.

Crowhand, Book 1 of the Sinistral Saga, will be released in mid 2026.