Dapper Zmey

A Zmey is an intelligent, dangerous, shape-shifting creature from Bulgarian folklore. A dragon who’s able to wear a three-piece suit.

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If you’re interested in life in Bulgaria, speculative evolution, constructed languages, reading, and writing, you’ve come to the right place. I write scifi, alternate history, and fantasy, which these reviewers seemed to enjoy.

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Who are you?

I’m an author and English teacher living with my family in Sofia Bulgaria. My work includes the speculative-biology novel Junction and its sequel Interchange, the optimistic post-apocalyptic comic-book First Knife (with Simon Roy). and the Sidewise Award-winning alternate history short story “Treasure Fleet” (in the Tales from Alternate Earths anthology).

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