A girl with an athletic build, long brown hair and blue highlights, and light skin, races through a futuristic set of city streets in a surveillance state, all Hallmarks of the Catenarian Chronicles.

Catenarian Chronicles fits into how many genres, exactly?

ByTC Marti

If you’re a genre fiction stickler, you’ll hate Catenarian Chronicles. But if you love authors who push genre limits, you’ve found the right series.

I call Catenarian Chronicles a dark paranormal fantasy, and it’s got your usual ingredients:

  • Female protagonist, Kaija, who chats with ghosts
  • Dark forces pursuing Kaija, who
  • Makes a dark discovery about herself

Sounds like it’s full of haunted houses and ghost stories, with a girl coming into her own to fight and keep evil at bay, yeah? Cookie-cutter, in other words.

Oh, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s a list of what makes this dark paranormal fantasy different:

  • It’s set in an alternate world
  • 22nd century technology
  • Surveillance state
  • The “dark forces” are crisp, clean-shaven, PR-driven talking heads
  • Numerous car chases through packed city streets

Catenarian Chronicles falls into a sh*t ton of genres

Paranormal fantasy

Here’s the Captain Obvious one. In each installment, whether it’s Cursed Mage, Astray Mage, Rising Mage, and any book in the Catenarian Chronicles I might come up with, Kaija’s gonna chat with a ghost or two.

Dark fantasy

Sorry, dark fantasy lovers, but there are no real monsters that’ll fit your liking. That’s because the monsters in this book wield swords, are clean-cut, clean-shaven, and PR-friendly men (and women) who get on well with the masses. Those same masses they tax to death while fueling their own financial interests and spying on them.

Urban fantasy

It’s hard to call Astray Mage an urban fantasy unless you know what’s residing under the lake. As for the other books in the series, Kaija and Company spend half their time in the city. But they ain’t going there for leisure.

Political thriller

I write libertarian fiction, so every book idea that walks into my mind’s gonna have political thriller elements. And if you’re on the mainstream Left or the mainstream Right, you’re gonna be pretty pissed off. The Catenarian Chronicles, like all my work, rails against one common mortal enemy: The State.

Sci-Fi

They don’t carry mobile phones around in this series. Nope, they got watch phones with touchscreen holograms. And those watch phones do everything through facial recognition technology, something that’s not an option in the world of Catenary.

Dystopian

Not a core concept to the Catenarian Chronicles, but one where I give you just enough information that you’ll know you’re reading dystopian fiction. The way people get whisked away for believing they possess a supernatural ability, to the dark secrets Kaija uncovers in Astray Mage, there’s a lot of Orwellian doom and gloom here.

Get Cursed…

If you made it this far, I’ll assume you’re intrigued enough to check out Cursed Mage. This is usually when I tell you how great the book is, but I’ll also assume you know what’s waiting for you since I gave you a f*ck ton of info already, including a rundown of what Kaija’s going through.

So go grab Cursed Mage today through my Payhip store if you want a discount and are sick of outlets like Amazon tracking your every purchase.

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