Where imaginations take flight, we will take you to distant galaxies, explore mystical realms, and encounter the supernatural. From futuristic adventures to epic fantasies and paranormal mysteries, Dragonbrae offers you an enchanting landscape into the astonishing. Welcome to a world where the extraordinary becomes reality.
Imprint Publisher
George “Clay” Mitchell
George wrote his first short story in first grade (1978) about a boy who woke up to prepare for school. Everything was going wrong, only to have the kid wake up again to realize he was about to repeat the day, and he’s been telling stories ever since.
A vigorous reader since he picked up his first book, George completed two 100-book challenges during two summers and takes pride that he’s read every Texas Bluebonnet Award book nominee who was listed from 1980-1984. It was also at this time he discovered the kind of books that children weren’t probably supposed to read, like the works of Ian Fleming, HG Wells, Issac Asimov, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, Louis L’Amour, Arthur Conan Doyle, John le Carré, and Gothic Romances (Women With Great Hair Fleeing Dark Houses). He’s also read an entire encyclopedia set about the stories of the Bible and all of the Time-Life Old West books before he was eight years old. (He still has the original set his parents owned with the index, and for a long time, it was a point of tension with his mother about whether or not he would give them back.)
Before junior high, he also discovered Dungeons & Dragons and the world of role-playing games. This led to ghostwriting and editing some RPGs during the d20 boom.
Being half-deaf, watching movies and TV shows was challenging to follow before closed captioning became widely available. In college, he discovered foreign films… movies, and TV shows with English captioning built right in. This developed his appreciation for stories being accessible from around the world. He’s a bit of a cinephile and will often guess the lines and “plot twists,” much to the amusement and dismay (respectively) of his family.
What does this have to do with Roan & Weatherford? To quote the founder, Casey Cowan, “George is the best story developer I’ve ever met. It just comes naturally to him.” It wasn’t just instincts but the accumulation of stories and insight across different mediums about what works and doesn’t.
He has developed over 70 novels for Roan & Weatherford across various genres and reading levels and has begun work on a story-development guide to help teach others what to look for.
George is also a 20-year newspaper veteran and freelancer for an online high school sports website. He can also accurately predict what penalty is about to be called during a football game.
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Imprint Editor
Storm Humbert
Storm Humbert grew up in Ohio, got an MFA and taught for a bit at Temple University in Philadelphia, and now lives with his wife, Casey, and their cats, Nugget and Honey Mustard, in Michigan. In his free time, Storm likes to be with his wife, play games, and work out. His writing has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways, Interzone, Apex, Galaxy’s Edge, and other magazines. Storm’s work has also featured in many anthologies, including the The Librarian and We are All Thieves of Somebody’s Future. He is also a winner of the Writers of the Future contest and has work forthcoming from other markets.
Storm and some friends recently started a small press: Calendar of Fools. Their first anthology, Inner Workings, came out in Winter of 2023, and their next project, Intergalactic Rejects, is due out next year. Storm has been lucky to have had tremendous writing instructors and mentors throughout his life, including Lee K. Abbott, Samuel R. Delany, Don Lee, David Farland, and Tim Powers, so he tries to teach and facilitate writing whenever and however he can. This is why he currently teaches a monthly workshop at the Westland Public Library.
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I am currently looking for character-driven, adult fantasy and science fiction (with the exception of military SF). For fantasy, I am particularly drawn to big, thic (I meant to spell it that way) multi-POV epics. I want diverse casts of characters struggling toward individual goals across a rich, unique world. I want magic that means something and monsters who think they’re heroes—heroes who are a bit monstrous.
For science fiction, I want stories that not only make me think, but make me wonder and question. I also love experimental forms and structures, particularly in SF and love when scientific topics are presented in original ways.
In all things, I’m a sucker for wonderful prose. Give me elegance and beauty and precise word choices. I would also especially love to see Own Voices queries from BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, and other underrepresented author groups. In the end, I believe novels must ultimately make an argument of some kind, so if all your book is doing is “telling a good story,” it’s probably not for me.
