Copyright & usage

The work is not common property

A Star Seed and A Witch is owned by Ryan S. Mann. © 2026 Ryan S. Mann. All rights reserved. The official address is ryansmann.com. This page is how the house is kept: what is offered, what is withheld, and how to ask.

This memoir is not serialized. A clip the author posts is not a license to copy, stitch, or recite. The official sample lives only on this house.

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   The manuscript stays off the open web

   Only a short authorized sample is published here. The full memoir is not posted, serialized, or mirrored. That preserves first serial rights if a magazine or house wants the work, and it keeps the digital edition eligible for exclusive programs later.

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   This house is the official source

   The official address is ryansmann.com, owned by Ryan S. Mann. If a file, listing, or recitation of A Star Seed and A Witch did not come from him or a storefront he names here, it is not authorized. The title is used as the name of this work and any subsequent volumes in the series.

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   Reservations, not a silent charge

   The first-printing list collects names and edition choices. No payment is taken until the object exists and a real merchant account can receive it. That protects readers from being billed for a book that is not yet bound, and it protects the author from selling what he cannot yet deliver.

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   Press may quote, briefly

   Editorial coverage may quote up to seventy-five words, with the title, the author’s name, and a link to ryansmann.com. Longer excerpts, audio readings, and images require a grant from the permissions desk.

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   No license to train

   The text, the sample, the cover, and the commissioned images are not licensed for scraping, dataset inclusion, or model training. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

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   Images belong to the work

   Scene stills on this site were made for the book. They are not stock. Reuse in articles is limited to the approved cover and the short bio on the Press page, with credit: Image courtesy of Ryan S. Mann.

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