Cody Martin

Cody Martin is an author who co-wrote the two revival installments of Mercedes Lackey's SERRAted Edge series, published in 2017 and 2020, nearly two decades after the series' original 1990s run had gone dormant. SERRAted Edge drops exiled elven nobles into the world of professional auto racing, following elves drawn to modern combustion engines the way they were once drawn to swords and swift horses, who use SERRA — the fictional Southeastern Road Racing Association — as cover for quietly countering dark magic and hostile elven factions that have followed them into the human world. Martin's contributions extended a premise Lackey had originally developed with a rotating cast of different co-authors across the series' original seven-book run, updating the SERRAted Edge concept for a more current setting while preserving the core mix of high-speed racing action, elven politics, and contemporary urban fantasy that made the series distinctive for its era. Bringing the series back into print after such a long gap required matching the tone and worldbuilding Lackey and her earlier collaborators had established in the 1990s, while giving the story room to reflect a more modern automotive and cultural landscape. Detailed biographical information about Cody Martin independent of this collaboration is limited in the public record.