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Courtney Floyd writes speculative fiction – novels, short stories, and audio drama. She has a PhD in British Literature and a penchant for irreverent literary allusions. Her debut fantasy, HIGHER MAGIC, will be out with Mira in Fall 2025.

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Higher Magic

Coming Fall 2025, Higher Magic follows first-generation mage student, Dorothe Bartleby, as she faces down her second and final attempt to pass her program’s qualifying exams while juggling her own teaching responsibilities. When she realizes her students are disappearing, she must rally her friends, her sentient exam spell, & her cute classmate to set things right.

Publishers Marketplace listing that reads Courtney Floyd’s HIGHER MAGIC, a whimsical dark academia fantasy debut in which Bartleby, a mage candidate with anxiety, struggles to pass a crucial exam and inadvertently discovers a conspiracy to disappear students with accommodations from her university’s magic program, to Dina Davis at Mira Books, in a very nice deal, in a pre-empt, for publication Fall 2025, by Rebecca Matte at Bradford Literary Agency (World)

The Way We Haunt Now

The Way We Haunt Now

The Way We Haunt Now is a lighthearted horror audio drama about friendship, found family, and fighting the narratives that try to define us – even in the afterlife.

It is currently in its final season, which is written by Courtney Floyd and Georgia Mckenzie with sound design by Brad Colbroock. Season three is supported in part by an award from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Learn more and listen to the entire series here.

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