Curtis Craddock

Curtis Craddock is an author of fantasy fiction best known for The Risen Kingdoms series, an alternate-history fantasy set among floating island kingdoms where a disfigured, sword-fighting princess and a disgraced musketeer navigate courtly intrigue and forbidden magic. The series begins with An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors and continues through A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery and The Last Uncharted Sky, building a French-influenced secondary world defined by sky-sailing airships and a rigid, magic-inflected class system. Craddock's fiction is notable for centering a disabled protagonist without treating her disability as incidental, weaving it into both the plot's stakes and its swordplay-driven action sequences, within a richly imagined baroque fantasy setting.