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Two series: Facing Out and The Cutters’ Roll. Logline, pitch, and back-cover copy. The manuscripts are not on this site.
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14 novels
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Facing Out · Books One to Seven
Seven coming-of-age fantasy novels by Ryujin (495,528 words across Books One to Seven). Read them in order.
Book One is The Size of a Door (20 chapters, 60,596 words). Its page has the opening pages, back-cover copy, cover art, and six character portraits.
The Cutters’ Roll · Books One to Seven
Seven novels by Ryujin (22 chapters each, 493,055 words total). Read them in order.
Book One is The Second Hand (22 chapters, 70,117 words). Its page has the opening pages, back-cover copy, cover art, and ten character portraits.
Every working has a price stamped where you can read it. His father's knife costs one memory.
On a cliffside guild coast where every working carries its price on a strip that faces out, a boy who was told to wait at the gate grows from eight to twelve learning to read the bill. Then a sold route leaves him one way to save a friend: his dead father's cracked knife, at a price of one memory.
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In the March, the price is pressed inside the seal, and whoever cuts the last date wins.
In a dry country where water is sold sealed and a ruling lasts only until somebody cuts a later date, a boy raised on prices said aloud grows from twelve to eighteen still saying the bill out loud. Then a polite man in a clean gray coat starts asking for the party by the knife.
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In the wet green country, light is a brand in the ground, and the wolves will not cross it.
In a wet green country where an old road glows at night and each stretch must be fed slowly, a young man who still prices a lock out loud learns a keeper's rule: a name said backward can end a stretch for good. An order on that road calls holding a pulse a theft of years.
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South of the salt, the sea is a white floor, and the town is built inside a rib.
In a country of salt plates and buried jars, a young man who still writes every price on a list walks south with his friends until the land drops onto a sea's floor. Under the curve of a rib, a guild town called the Keel is warm at the back, and the question at the bottom of the list is what Bone work costs.
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On the road north of the salt, a factor in a good coat knows their names, and he still does not write a price.
A man who has spent a cool at the mouth of a rib walks north toward a wet wind and a sea he last saw at twelve. A factor named Wenlow is waiting at a well-house, offering work with no contract yet, and a ring on his hand is cut with a ladder of three rungs.
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The lift runs a few days a month, when the coats feed it, and Tamsa's letter does not show what is at the top.
In a cliff shop with a child at the table learning strips, a letter says the lift in the hills runs this hot. A factor has been asking in the Keel for Names who can read a heart, and a girl of seven asks what a shelf is, and expects the answer.
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A harbor gate holds the yard for whoever paid this year's rope-tax, and a child reads the strip facing out.
On his sixty-second birthday, a man who still prices a brand by having it read aloud sits on a hemp cart while Bren, eight, names the cheaper job: pay the tax. In the shop Linn has already priced the afternoon strips, and Sira keeps the knife when the light turns.
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Linn (thirty-four) sits at the cliff shop in Hana's apron with Pell's list shut under a clean stone and prices a fisher's hire-coat collar whose clause is light and honest and whose maker line reads only a Tally cutter; she speaks that office-word at the wool and runs light backward and nothing happens, writes Cannot unwind. First one., and tells Omber the coast has learned to take the name off the page.
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At the start of the hot the harbor opens a hire-coat court in the old net-shed, and Senna (twelve, unranked) comes as Linn's unpaid reader while Ilse Corvane files every case by number, never offers, and posts prices; Orlo Pask clerks; Linn reads strips facing out; Senna asks who cut a boy's mother's year-note and Corvane files the answer not public, teaching that open is not fair.
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At nineteen Senna takes a reading job north to the Cold Sound with Saffi, reads Aske's seven well-stones by hand and tool on Grennet Holm, burns the nameless strangers onto the boat list by manners, and stays a year learning water (pushing fails; waiting works) while Saffi's kin sing rounds; a round of three (Saffi, Morna, Ivo) sweetens Brack Holm's salted well, and at body's twenty she holds light, stone, and water in one breath.
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At twenty-eight (body 29½) Senna marries Hollis on the cliff — sheet facing out: her book and questions and the Ferrow bench; his second pair of eyes, a forge that lights in the wet, and every answer though she will want more — and Dace sends a horn-handled punch for that bench.
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At forty (body 42½) Senna holds Juno Ellery's newborn in the net-shed — the held one, unnamed until the ninth day — and finds Teale's bond plate on The Hum (Tobin's old boat): front face a lawful share in hours on share-day; back face, blind and numbered, binds the holder and heirs for ever with the boat.
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At fifty-eight (body sixty-two) Senna keeps the Reading Room on Weigh Street with Hollis (sixty) and Bren (eighty-one), who hold the green door every morning; Dot lies under the bench, an ordinary dog. A picker brings a humming Tally coat (C 4 419, I.C.); fair, with no maker's name — thirty years in the room and she still cannot take a numbered brand off.
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Dace (seventy) crosses Weigh Street for the first time in four years and asks the collar read — a lifting brand, number with no name.
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