Publications

A comprehensive list of publications created or contributed to by tonia laird


SEVENTHBLADE
Set in a fragmented, fascinating world of dangerous magics and cryptic gods, and loaded with complex characters and intricately staged action, Seventhblade is a masterful new fantasy adventure from a bright, emerging Indigenous voice.
For readers of N.K. Jemisin and Rebecca Roanhorse, a fast-paced, anti-colonial action-adventure fantasy that explores twisted power dynamics and the effects of settler colonialism.

JUNE 2025 Find it here!
Published by ECW Press


SWORDPLAY
Mixing classic with unconventional approaches, SWORDPLAY collects into a single volume a group of tales like you’ve never experienced, while retaining a familiar feel all fans of the genre will recognize.

Featuring original tales by:
CLIFF BIGGERS- DAN BRERETON- CULLEN BUNN- MICHAEL BURKE- RICHARD DANSKY- CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN- STEVEN GRANT- TONIA LAIRD- BRACKEN MACLEOD- JAMES A. MOORE- ALLISON PANG- LINDA ROBERTSON REINHARDT- CHARLES R. RUTLEDGE
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A Howl: An Indigenous Anthology of Wolves, Werewolves, and Rougarou

This collection edited by Elizabeth LaPensée (Co-Editor of Deer Woman: An Anthology, Sovereign Traces Vol. 1, MOONSHOT Vol. 3 & Editor of Sovereign Traces Vol. 2) features new comics by accomplished writers and illustrators who have a love for all things wolves, werewolves, and rougarou. 

KIN written and illustrated by tonia laird
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SPARKLE AND SHINE
Speculation City, Issue 5: Occult
Speculative City is an online magazine that showcases works focused on the city and the complexity of life within these spaces.
FICTION
Dawn Colored Night by Donyae Coles
Glass City, Glass Heart by Mike McClelland
Sparkle and Shine by Tonia Laird
Seeking Flesh by Christina Persaud
In a Tide of Blood by Lindsay King-Miller
POETRY
I Hear the Bells of Hell by Cindy O’Quinn
NONFICTION
Occult Fiction in Translation by Rachel Cordasco
Witch-in-Residence with Hilary Berwick


POSTER GIRL
An Interactive Novel
Born the star of an ongoing propagandist documentary, a young colonist who was orphaned after an accident on a migrant spaceship, discovers her family may still be alive. Abandoning her life of privilege, she risks everything to uncover a deadly web of lies created by her own government.


Dragon Age: Inquisition
Writer on 2014 Game of the Year


Everlove: Rose
Mobile interactive romance novel
Lead Writer – 2013


Dragon Age 2
Writing Intern – 2010