# Rachel Aaron’s By A Silver Thread

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**Created:** [July 9, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/t/rachel-aaron-s-by-a-silver-thread/416 "2024-07-09T20:49:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![JKlarinet](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/alcove.azaleaellis.com/jklarinet/32/256_2.png) [@JKlarinet](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/u/JKlarinet)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/t/rachel-aaron-s-by-a-silver-thread/416/1 "2024-07-09T20:49:51Z")

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I really think Rachel Aaron is one of the most creative urban fantasy and high fantasy authors writing right now. Her recent series, starting with _By a Silver Thread_, is a delight to read.

Specifically, she’s also written a gender nonconforming MC that I liked from the very first chapter. She handles the gender pronoun problem with elegant simplicity:

> As a changeling, Lola was technically a fairy spell without gender, but she’d still spent her entire life thinking of herself as a girl.

I think people who are a fan of Azalea’s series will like these books too.

Lots of magic in Rachel Aaron’s books, including Dragons (the Detroit Free Zone (or DFZ) first appears in _Nice Dragon’s Finish Last_), witches, wizards, shamans, sorcerers, spirits, and seers.

Rachel also wrote a book on how to write faster, \* 2k to 10k\* that is an impressive book, because of the simplicity of the advice in it, which I would sum up as: plan ahead and like what you write. The actual book has many examples and explanations and is totally worth a read for people interested in the mechanics of writing novels quickly.

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**Author:** ![JillAA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JillAA](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/u/JillAA)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/t/rachel-aaron-s-by-a-silver-thread/416/2 "2024-07-10T21:47:51Z")

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I haven’t read this series yet, but I’m extremely fond of her Paradox series written under her Rachel Bach pseudonym. I’ve read it several times.