Norham Castle, Sunrise by J.M.W. Turner: a misty, sunlit castle above a still river.

J.M.W. Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise, c. 1845 · public domain

A.E. Haskett

Speculative Fiction Author

About

A.E. Haskett was raised by career musicians who had strong opinions about art as a profession, so she studied business instead. This pragmatism led her straight into developing software by day and writing fantasy by night (well, more like the early morning — she is always in bed by 9 p.m.).

She has spent much of her life in motion, from living out of a van to exploring chunks of the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She rarely stays in one place for long, always chasing new climates, different ways of living, and the fresh perspective that comes with them. When she isn’t reading or writing, she loves hiking with her partner, sewing, and hanging out with her (very soft) cat.

She is represented by Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency.

The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin: a fiery, apocalyptic mountain chasm.

John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1851–53 · public domain

The Crimson Knight

After Camelot falls, the woman history will call Morgana escapes in a dead boy’s clothes carrying a scale that enslaves a dragon in human form. She needs the dragon-knight to renew five ancient seals before a titan wakes beneath Britain — but she refuses to use the binding, and that refusal becomes the foundation for a love story, a political revolution, and a new kind of power.

A queer feminist Arthurian reimagining where the real quest is whether you can inherit a leash and choose to let go.

Preparing for submission

Also in Progress

The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice by J.M.W. Turner: a hazy, sunlit view across the Venetian lagoon.

J.M.W. Turner, The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1843 · public domain

The Secrets of Signora Cortese

Adult fantasy romance

Venice, 1561. Isabella Cortese has taught herself alchemy out of stolen books, and in eleven weeks she has done what the Republic’s own sorcerer has failed to do in fifteen years — grown the philosopher’s stone. When the vessel cracks, the escaping gold begins turning her to metal, starting with her hand. The only glass strong enough to contain it belongs to Aurelio Zorzi, who has the fortune and the craft but not the freedom: the Republic owns his magic and is still waiting on the stone he’s never managed to produce. She has two months before the gold reaches her heart. He has the same two months before the Republic takes everything he has. Neither of them can finish this alone.

The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky: survivors clinging to wreckage on a vast, glowing storm sea.

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave, 1850 · public domain

The Unclaimed Deep

Adult historical fantasy

Jamaica, 1748. The war that made privateering legal is over, and Captain Abena, a Windward Maroon who fled her mountain home a decade ago, commands exactly the kind of smuggling sloop the peacetime navy has started hunting. When her crew pulls a merrow from a burning wreck, Abena gains a stranger who reads tides like a second language and is hunting the same commodore who once destroyed Abena’s own life. A heist novel and a slow-burn romance about the last of a dying trade, and about two women who have survived by trusting no one, learning that being known might be worth the risk.

Contact

Rights & Submissions

Fabienne Schwizer, Ki Agency

fabienne@ki-agency.co.uk

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For readers, fellow writers, or anyone who just wants to say hi, reach out directly.

aehaskettauthor@gmail.com