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Kelly McCullough

Author

  • About
  • Shopping
    • Bookstore
    • Kelly’s Patreon
    • Dragon Diaries Patreon
  • Writing
    • Numismancer
    • Winter of Discontent
    • Middle Grade Fantasy
      • School for Sidekicks
      • Magic, Madness, and Mischief
      • Spirits, Spells, and Snark
    • Fallen Blade Series
      • Broken Blade
      • Bared Blade
      • Crossed Blades
      • Blade Reforged
      • Drawn Blades
      • Darkened Blade
      • Tien City Map
      • The Eleven Kingdoms of the East
        • The Wall Version
      • Fallen Blade Master Glossary (SPOILERS)
      • Old Blade World Glossary SPOILERS
    • WebMage Series
      • WebMage
      • Cybermancy
      • Codespell
      • MythOS
      • Spell Crash
    • Dragon Diaries
      • Dragon Diaries Part One
      • Dragon Diaries Part Two
      • Dragon Diaries Part Three
      • Dragon Diaries Part Four
      • Dragon Diaries Part Five
      • Dragon Diaries Part Six
      • Dragon Diaries Part Seven
      • Dragon Diaries Part Eight
      • Unicorn Diaries
      • Dragon’s Cat
    • Online Fiction
      • Short Stories
        • Dying Season (A story of the Urbäna)
        • FimbulDinner: The Last Supper
        • Shatter (A story of the Urbäna)
        • The Basilisk Hunter
        • The Sharp End
        • The Wyrm OreBoreUS
        • WebMage (The Original Short Story)
        • When Jabberwocks Attack
      • Poetry
        • The Bees: A Poem by Edgar AllanPooh*
        • Cry Werewolf
        • The Mourning After the Night of the Living Dead
      • Bad Noir—Morning Arrived
      • Not my…
      • Stuff That Fell Out Of My Brain
      • Voorwerp Science Comic
  • Shenanigans
  • Press Kit
    • Author Photos
    • Book Covers WebMage
    • Book Covers Sidekicks
    • Book Covers, Magic, Madness, Mischief
    • Book Covers Fallen Blade
    • Bios Page
    • Interviews And Appeances Link
    • Magazine and Anthology Covers
    • Pull Quotes
  • All the Other Stuff
    • Acknowledgments
    • Bibliography
    • Interviews, Appearances, etc
    • Recommended Reading
    • Cool Writer Stuff Album
    • Find Me
    • Links to Smart/Interesting Things
    • Kelly’s Miss Snark Index
    • Kelly’s Making Light General Index 2001-2006
    • A Writer’s Index to Making Light (2001-2006)
  • Speaking
  • Contact

Author Photos

Photos credit: Matthew A Kuchta

Author gif, video credit: Matthew A Kuchta, Todd Zimmerman,

animation Matthew A Kuchta

Photos credit: Ben Zvan

Photos credit: Laura McCullough

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Kelly McCullough writes fantasy, science fiction, and books for kids of varying ages. He lives in Wisconsin with his physics professor wife and a small herd of cats. His novels include Numismancer, Winter of Discontent, the WebMage and Fallen Blade series — Penguin/ACE, School for Sidekicks, Magic, Madness, and Mischief, and Spirits, Spells, and Snark — Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He has Patreon and Ko-fi pages for those who are interested in supporting his work more directly. He does microfiction on twitter at Morning Arrived and DragonDiaries, and DragonDiaries has its own Patreon. He also dabbles in science fiction as science education with The Chronicles of the Wandering Star — part of an NSF-funded science curriculum — and the science comic Hanny & the Mystery of the Voorwerp, which he co-authored and co-edited — funding provided by NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope. Kelly on Twitter, Facebook.

Newest Novels

numismancer

winter of discontent

Newest Book


For Younger Readers

metal porthole; Shutterstock ID 82146736

Newest Blade Book

DARKENED BLADE

Newest Short Story

metal porthole; Shutterstock ID 82146736

Newest Audio Book:


WebMage—full series

Newest Full Cast Audio:


Fallen Blade—full series

Site Highlights

  • About
  • Shopping
    • Bookstore
    • Kelly’s Patreon
    • Dragon Diaries Patreon
  • Books
    • Numismancer
    • Winter of Discontent
    • Middle Grade Fantasy
    • Fallen Blade Series
    • WebMage Series
    • Online Fiction
    • Dragon Diaries
  • Shenanigans
  • Speaking
  • All the Other Stuff
  • Press Kit
  • Contact

News

  • Monday Meows Committeea Del Arte Version
  • Monday Meows
  • Monday Meows
  • Monday Meows
  • Monday Meows