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1MattBone
In response to the recent post by GaryBabb about making this place a bit more interesting for readers and authors alike, I thought to create a thread where speculative fiction authors can tell a little about themselves and their work - hopefully in a more engaging format than simply posting a blurb & link to your new book. I've limited the thread to fantasy and sci-fi authors to give it some focus, but others are free to set up similar posts for other genres.
The idea is for a succinct and fun resource for both readers and writers - the former to perhaps discover a book they might like, the latter to see what other sleep-deprived authors are up to. Authors can find the questions below; simply copy, paste, and tell us your innermost secrets. Or just tell us about your book.
Author name:
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords):
Book description in 5 words:
Plot summary / short blurb:
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book?
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):
What are you writing now?
What are you reading now?
Edit: If authors want to include their cover art, please keep it small enough as to not dwarf the posts. As an example, the image I use in the post below is 150x240 pixels.
The idea is for a succinct and fun resource for both readers and writers - the former to perhaps discover a book they might like, the latter to see what other sleep-deprived authors are up to. Authors can find the questions below; simply copy, paste, and tell us your innermost secrets. Or just tell us about your book.
Author name:
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords):
Book description in 5 words:
Plot summary / short blurb:
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book?
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):
What are you writing now?
What are you reading now?
Edit: If authors want to include their cover art, please keep it small enough as to not dwarf the posts. As an example, the image I use in the post below is 150x240 pixels.
2MattBone
To kick this off:
Author name: Matt Bone
Latest book title & link: Endless (Amazon; Barnes & Noble)
Book description in 5 words: Epic fantasy with contemporary twists
Plot summary / short blurb: After an inexplicable catastrophe on Earth, John is left to live out a solitary existence. Around him the streets are desolate and unchanging - yet he cannot escape the feeling of being hunted. Are his debilitating headaches and the glimpses of an impossible, living light symptoms of what happened to everyone else, or does the universe have something else in mind?
John's fate is entwined with Crescent, a world teeming with life both human and supernatural, where Spirit storms rack the skies and rumours of a terrible army in the north have the great nations in unrest. A world where John could rediscover the bonds of life and love - and where he could lose everything again.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy book? When writing Endless, my aim was to bring a slightly more literary approach to the fantasy genre. I wanted to combine the character-driven elements of the former with the adventurous plot of the latter. I'm hoping the result is a book as thought-provoking as it is exciting. If not, at least it has a few monsters.
One line from the book: "In that same sky she could see the pair of Spirit storms, hanging aberrantly, like pinched bruises in the skin of the world."
What are you writing now? I'm working on the follow-up to Endless, book two in the Crescent series.
What are you reading now? A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, which is an increasingly moving - and melancholy - read.
Author name: Matt Bone
Latest book title & link: Endless (Amazon; Barnes & Noble)
Book description in 5 words: Epic fantasy with contemporary twists
Plot summary / short blurb: After an inexplicable catastrophe on Earth, John is left to live out a solitary existence. Around him the streets are desolate and unchanging - yet he cannot escape the feeling of being hunted. Are his debilitating headaches and the glimpses of an impossible, living light symptoms of what happened to everyone else, or does the universe have something else in mind?
John's fate is entwined with Crescent, a world teeming with life both human and supernatural, where Spirit storms rack the skies and rumours of a terrible army in the north have the great nations in unrest. A world where John could rediscover the bonds of life and love - and where he could lose everything again.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy book? When writing Endless, my aim was to bring a slightly more literary approach to the fantasy genre. I wanted to combine the character-driven elements of the former with the adventurous plot of the latter. I'm hoping the result is a book as thought-provoking as it is exciting. If not, at least it has a few monsters.
One line from the book: "In that same sky she could see the pair of Spirit storms, hanging aberrantly, like pinched bruises in the skin of the world."
What are you writing now? I'm working on the follow-up to Endless, book two in the Crescent series.
What are you reading now? A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, which is an increasingly moving - and melancholy - read.
3lilithcat
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As a reader, I vote that that book description be a lot more than 5 words! Or that you add: Plot Summary. One of the first things I ask about a book is, "What is it about?"
As a reader, I vote that that book description be a lot more than 5 words! Or that you add: Plot Summary. One of the first things I ask about a book is, "What is it about?"
5sheviarnold
Author name: Shevi Arnold
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): Toren the Teller's Tale http://amzn.com/B006OBOI0M
Book description in 5 words: The magic of the Storyteller
Plot summary / short blurb: Seventeen-year-old Toren discovers she possesses the greatest magic her world has ever known, but it is a revelation that comes to her at a high price. Can she find the courage to accept it and let her own magic shine?
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy book? My book is about real magic, the magic that takes you to new worlds and lets you experience other lives--the magic of the storyteller. Readers have said that after reading it, "You will absolutely believe in Magic."
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):"We are all only stories you know, Tor, only patches in the fabric of life."
What are you writing now? I'm about to start editing Ride of Your Life for publication. This is a romantic YA ghost story, and it won third prize in the YA category of SmartWriter's Write It Now contest, which was judged by Alex Flinn, the author of Beastly. Ride of Your Life is about a 17-year-old girl who finds the love of her life...30 years after her own death. It's a story of undying love inspired by a true event, the Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire that killed eight young people in 1984.
What are you reading now? So many books! Oh, my goodness, I read so many books at once. I'm reading a lot of nonfiction right now, particularly books on indie publishing and social media. I also have a ton of books I'm reading for entertainment, including Jasper Fforde, Christopher Moore, and Terry Pratchett. I also recently bought a huge pile of comic strip collections, including Baby Blues, Zits, Pearls Before Swine, and Fox Trot. I love anything that makes me laugh.
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): Toren the Teller's Tale http://amzn.com/B006OBOI0M
Book description in 5 words: The magic of the Storyteller
Plot summary / short blurb: Seventeen-year-old Toren discovers she possesses the greatest magic her world has ever known, but it is a revelation that comes to her at a high price. Can she find the courage to accept it and let her own magic shine?
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy book? My book is about real magic, the magic that takes you to new worlds and lets you experience other lives--the magic of the storyteller. Readers have said that after reading it, "You will absolutely believe in Magic."
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):"We are all only stories you know, Tor, only patches in the fabric of life."
What are you writing now? I'm about to start editing Ride of Your Life for publication. This is a romantic YA ghost story, and it won third prize in the YA category of SmartWriter's Write It Now contest, which was judged by Alex Flinn, the author of Beastly. Ride of Your Life is about a 17-year-old girl who finds the love of her life...30 years after her own death. It's a story of undying love inspired by a true event, the Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire that killed eight young people in 1984.
What are you reading now? So many books! Oh, my goodness, I read so many books at once. I'm reading a lot of nonfiction right now, particularly books on indie publishing and social media. I also have a ton of books I'm reading for entertainment, including Jasper Fforde, Christopher Moore, and Terry Pratchett. I also recently bought a huge pile of comic strip collections, including Baby Blues, Zits, Pearls Before Swine, and Fox Trot. I love anything that makes me laugh.
6MattBone
Thanks for the reply, Shevi. Toren The Teller's Tale (TTTT?) sounds a lot of fun.
To encourage more authors to get on the thread, I've expanded it to sci-fi as well as fantasy writers - can one of the moderators change the thread title to "Fantasy and Sci-fi Authors: Q&A"?
To encourage more authors to get on the thread, I've expanded it to sci-fi as well as fantasy writers - can one of the moderators change the thread title to "Fantasy and Sci-fi Authors: Q&A"?
7Heidicvlach
Author name: Heidi C. Vlach
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): My only full-length novel at the moment is Remedy. I also have Ravel, a romantic novelette set in the same world. They're available through many sites, including Smashwords and Amazon.
Book description in 5 words: Medical drama in a magical fantasy world.
Plot summary / short blurb: Peregrine, an aging avian, has been deaf for eighty years. He relies on keen-eared weasel friends to sit on his shoulder and guide his way -- current aide Tillian is the fifth in her family line to willingly devote her life to this work. Under his own mounting guilt, Peregrine decides to change himself and set Tillian free. But on the day he takes up messenger work, plague strikes a nearby village. Rose, an inexperienced mage of an insect-like race, can't save dozens of her people at once. As the only hands available to help Rose, Peregrine must fly for supplies and Tillian must take a crash course in healing magic. While innocent people grow sicker, Peregrine must figure out whether he can live for himself, whether Tillian is happier living without him, and whether Rose and her villagers will live at all.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book? Humans don't exist in this world. I've always loved to meet intelligent non-humans in fantasy stories, but it's hard to find completely human-free fantasy meant for thinking adults. I wrote what I wanted to see.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote): "A pause – like Tillian could taste the vinegar of understatement, or imagine the way Kelria had nearly smothered to death – and she squirmed deeper into Peregrine's feathers."
What are you writing now? The next book in the Aligare series, Render. It's a thriller-ish story where a remote village is terrorized by unnaturally bold wolves.
What are you reading now? I just finished Eel's Reverence today. Not sure what I'm going to pick up next.
8mlmjr
Thank you for starting this thread Matt!
Author name
Michael L. Martin Jr.
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords)
Burn in Hades (The Life After Death Trilogy, Book #1) Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks
Book description in 5 words
Fantasy set in the underworld.
Plot summary / short blurb
Cross never forgives because he never forgets.
Haunted by the Hell of his past transgressions, he sets out on an epic journey across the underworld to paradise--not to frolic in the gardens with the righteous, but to drink from the river Lethe which causes complete forgetfulness.
He's a rare soul who remembers his life before death, known throughout the underworld as "The Man Who Remembers". There's a bounty on his memories, and envious spirits hunt his head to steal them.
Erasing his mind will get the spirits off his neck and allow him to keep his crown on its throne, but he will have to continue his afterlife in an ignorant bliss. Even more unfortunate for him, paradise is guarded by a great wall that annihilates any soul that gets too close. No member of the damned has ever broken in.
Burn in Hades is an action packed and fast-paced fantasy by Michael L. Martin Jr. It is the first book in The Life After Death Trilogy and is approximately 113,000 words long (about 400 printed pages).
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book?
Readers often compliment the story's world building. Burn in Hades bridges mythology from over fourteen different cultures and has been described by readers as particularly dense and complex, but in the fun way where many story elements are intentionally left open to interpretation, allowing readers to fill in the blanks with their own imagination. Readers have been picking the story apart looking for hidden gems and emailing me their thoughts. I'm having an awesome time answering questions.
Aside from blending established mythologies together while updating them with my personal vision, I've also created over 100 original concepts for this story including, creatures/beasts, beings/spirits, and legends/history. Not all of which has made it into the story however. I have my own personal wiki and it is still growing.
Also, the plot was inspired by Sergio Leone's epic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I'm a huge fan of that film.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote)
"Eternity was a restless bitch."
What are you writing now?
The two sequels to BiH: Say Your Prayers and Reach for the Sky as well as lighter novel called Monster Bakery.
What are you reading now?
I'm obviously not reading all these at the same time but these are some books that I'm getting ready to plow through next: American Gods, The Mistborn Series, David Copperfield, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Stand, Les Miserables, The Dark Tower 3 & 4, Pride and Prejudice, and Lonesome Dove.
Author name
Michael L. Martin Jr.
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords)
Burn in Hades (The Life After Death Trilogy, Book #1) Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks
Book description in 5 words
Fantasy set in the underworld.
Plot summary / short blurb
Cross never forgives because he never forgets.
Haunted by the Hell of his past transgressions, he sets out on an epic journey across the underworld to paradise--not to frolic in the gardens with the righteous, but to drink from the river Lethe which causes complete forgetfulness.
He's a rare soul who remembers his life before death, known throughout the underworld as "The Man Who Remembers". There's a bounty on his memories, and envious spirits hunt his head to steal them.
Erasing his mind will get the spirits off his neck and allow him to keep his crown on its throne, but he will have to continue his afterlife in an ignorant bliss. Even more unfortunate for him, paradise is guarded by a great wall that annihilates any soul that gets too close. No member of the damned has ever broken in.
Burn in Hades is an action packed and fast-paced fantasy by Michael L. Martin Jr. It is the first book in The Life After Death Trilogy and is approximately 113,000 words long (about 400 printed pages).
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book?
Readers often compliment the story's world building. Burn in Hades bridges mythology from over fourteen different cultures and has been described by readers as particularly dense and complex, but in the fun way where many story elements are intentionally left open to interpretation, allowing readers to fill in the blanks with their own imagination. Readers have been picking the story apart looking for hidden gems and emailing me their thoughts. I'm having an awesome time answering questions.
Aside from blending established mythologies together while updating them with my personal vision, I've also created over 100 original concepts for this story including, creatures/beasts, beings/spirits, and legends/history. Not all of which has made it into the story however. I have my own personal wiki and it is still growing.
Also, the plot was inspired by Sergio Leone's epic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I'm a huge fan of that film.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote)
"Eternity was a restless bitch."
What are you writing now?
The two sequels to BiH: Say Your Prayers and Reach for the Sky as well as lighter novel called Monster Bakery.
What are you reading now?
I'm obviously not reading all these at the same time but these are some books that I'm getting ready to plow through next: American Gods, The Mistborn Series, David Copperfield, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Stand, Les Miserables, The Dark Tower 3 & 4, Pride and Prejudice, and Lonesome Dove.
9MattBone
Thanks both, Heidi and Michael. Both novels sound fascinating, in entirely different ways - and it's great to see such lovely cover art.
For other authors out there: remember this thread is now open to sci-fi writers as well as fantasy, so get posting!
For other authors out there: remember this thread is now open to sci-fi writers as well as fantasy, so get posting!
10Tavaresden
I agree! All of these books sound like something right up my alley. Kudos to the one who made this thread, it makes browsing for sci-fi/fantasy books easier :D
11katjevanloon
Author name: Katje van Loon
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): Bellica (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00755SVB8)
Book description in 5 words: Yarrow buckles swashes like crazy.
Plot summary / short blurb: Amor vincit omnia. As a new leader, pledged to dark forces, takes the Sceptre, can the embattled, valiant women of Athering prove that the power of love is greater than the love of power?
All Bellica Yarrow wants from life is to stay the course. Her military career fulfills her childhood dreams and affords her a freedom royalty never did. Yarrow doesn’t need anything more than the steadfast friendship of her Major, Caelum, and her Chief Medical Officer Jules.
The Goddesses have other plans, however. They set in motion events that threaten the Bellica with madness and despair. Constancy has been Yarrow’s standby, but betrayals on every side push her further into chaos. She watches the puppet-Empress, her aunt, destroy the country, and dreads the day Zardria, her power-hungry twin sister, takes the Sceptre and rules openly.
Should Bellica Yarrow keep her military oath, or topple her sister’s cruel regime? Can she?
The choice is nearly impossible. The longer she equivocates, the more she risks the lives of everyone she holds dear. Meanwhile, Zardria has her own idea of how events should unfold – and what Yarrow doesn’t know could cost the Bellica her life.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book? I write strong, non-sexualized women characters in non-misogynistic societies which is rarely done. In fact, the entire society I've written about is matriarchal -- by which I do mean "patriarchy reversed."
I also posit that deities are real beings with actual effects in the world, from a pagan perspective.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote): 'Yarrow kicked him in the leg, her large military-grade boot making a solid thunk against him. He didn’t even flinch. “If you call me Princess one more time, Caelum, I swear to Goddess....”'
What are you writing now? I am currently working on The Jade Star of Athering, set directly after events in Bellica.
What are you reading now? A million and one books that I never have time for. Most recently A Lion Among Men.
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): Bellica (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00755SVB8)
Book description in 5 words: Yarrow buckles swashes like crazy.
Plot summary / short blurb: Amor vincit omnia. As a new leader, pledged to dark forces, takes the Sceptre, can the embattled, valiant women of Athering prove that the power of love is greater than the love of power?
All Bellica Yarrow wants from life is to stay the course. Her military career fulfills her childhood dreams and affords her a freedom royalty never did. Yarrow doesn’t need anything more than the steadfast friendship of her Major, Caelum, and her Chief Medical Officer Jules.
The Goddesses have other plans, however. They set in motion events that threaten the Bellica with madness and despair. Constancy has been Yarrow’s standby, but betrayals on every side push her further into chaos. She watches the puppet-Empress, her aunt, destroy the country, and dreads the day Zardria, her power-hungry twin sister, takes the Sceptre and rules openly.
Should Bellica Yarrow keep her military oath, or topple her sister’s cruel regime? Can she?
The choice is nearly impossible. The longer she equivocates, the more she risks the lives of everyone she holds dear. Meanwhile, Zardria has her own idea of how events should unfold – and what Yarrow doesn’t know could cost the Bellica her life.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book? I write strong, non-sexualized women characters in non-misogynistic societies which is rarely done. In fact, the entire society I've written about is matriarchal -- by which I do mean "patriarchy reversed."
I also posit that deities are real beings with actual effects in the world, from a pagan perspective.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote): 'Yarrow kicked him in the leg, her large military-grade boot making a solid thunk against him. He didn’t even flinch. “If you call me Princess one more time, Caelum, I swear to Goddess....”'
What are you writing now? I am currently working on The Jade Star of Athering, set directly after events in Bellica.
What are you reading now? A million and one books that I never have time for. Most recently A Lion Among Men.
12RobertCollins
Author name: Robert Collins
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): "Lisa's Way"
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006C0NYV4
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/107355
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lisas-way-robert-collins/1107746903
(also at the Sony & Kobo ebook stores)
Book description in 5 words: Rebuilding society through trade
Plot summary / short blurb: Lisa Herbert lives in on the planet Fairfield. The “Savage Rain” decades earlier isolated her world. A remark from her sister gets Lisa to ask, “If life was better before the ‘Savage Rain,’ why couldn’t it be better again?” Lisa travels to three planets, using wits, compassion, and a little sneakiness to rebuild civilization.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book? The main character, Lisa Herbert, prefers talking to fighting when it comes to problem solving.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):
What are you writing now? Stories featuring the main character of my first novel, "Expert Assistance."
What are you reading now? Not as much as I would like.
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): "Lisa's Way"
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006C0NYV4
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/107355
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lisas-way-robert-collins/1107746903
(also at the Sony & Kobo ebook stores)
Book description in 5 words: Rebuilding society through trade
Plot summary / short blurb: Lisa Herbert lives in on the planet Fairfield. The “Savage Rain” decades earlier isolated her world. A remark from her sister gets Lisa to ask, “If life was better before the ‘Savage Rain,’ why couldn’t it be better again?” Lisa travels to three planets, using wits, compassion, and a little sneakiness to rebuild civilization.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book? The main character, Lisa Herbert, prefers talking to fighting when it comes to problem solving.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):
What are you writing now? Stories featuring the main character of my first novel, "Expert Assistance."
What are you reading now? Not as much as I would like.
14DMAndrews
Author name: D.M. Andrews
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords): The Serpent in the Glass (click book cover image above to access second edition paperback as Amazon still displays first edition only)
Book description in 5 words: "Narnia meets Hogwarts" (Amazon Reviewer)
Plot summary / short blurb: On his eleventh birthday Thomas Farrell is informed that the deceased father he never knew has provided for his education at Darkledun Manor, a school for gifted children. Thomas, however, feels he's just an ordinary boy, but Darkledun Manor proves to be anything but an ordinary school…
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book? I've made it accessible to all age groups that can be described as "confident readers" (as young as 9)
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote): Deep down inside us all is a yearning to know who we are and from whence we’ve come.
What are you writing now? Several things, including a parody of a classic, a teen fantasy, and a YA fantasy.
What are you reading now? Just started a Diana Wynne Jones novel (Fire and Hemlock).
15gwenperkins
New here but here goes! (Please excuse my formatting. I'm new to this.)
Author name: Gwen Perkins
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords):
The Universal Mirror, available at Amazon, B&N, and Powell's. See http://www.hydrapublications.com/ourbooks/the-universal-mirror/ for all the links on one page. (But be aware, my publisher is website redesigning this month!)
There is also a book website at http://theuniversalmirror.com
Book description in 5 words:
Friends defy authority to heal.
Plot summary / short blurb:
On the island of Cercia, the gods are dead, killed by their followers and replaced with the study of magic. Magicians are forbidden to leave their homeland. Laws bind these men that prevent them from casting spells on the living—whether to harm or to heal.
Quentin, a young nobleman, challenges these laws out of love for his wife. His best friend, Asahel, defies authority at his side, unaware that the search for this lost magic will bring them both to the edge of reason, threatening their very souls. The Universal Mirror shows how far two men are willing to go for the sake of knowledge and what they will destroy to obtain it.
This is the first novel of the new fantasy series, Artifacts of Empire.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book?
The book centers on characters who are ordinary people and about their struggles with trying to overcome that aspect of their lives.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):
"The thing in the casket--for he could not, even now, let himself think of it as a person--had been alive."
What are you writing now?
The second book in the Artifacts of Empire series, titled The Jealousy Glass.
What are you reading now?
I keep switching between Ukishima by Nigel Sellars and The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Author name: Gwen Perkins
Latest book title & link (ie. Amazon, B&N, Smashwords):
The Universal Mirror, available at Amazon, B&N, and Powell's. See http://www.hydrapublications.com/ourbooks/the-universal-mirror/ for all the links on one page. (But be aware, my publisher is website redesigning this month!)
There is also a book website at http://theuniversalmirror.com
Book description in 5 words:
Friends defy authority to heal.
Plot summary / short blurb:
On the island of Cercia, the gods are dead, killed by their followers and replaced with the study of magic. Magicians are forbidden to leave their homeland. Laws bind these men that prevent them from casting spells on the living—whether to harm or to heal.
Quentin, a young nobleman, challenges these laws out of love for his wife. His best friend, Asahel, defies authority at his side, unaware that the search for this lost magic will bring them both to the edge of reason, threatening their very souls. The Universal Mirror shows how far two men are willing to go for the sake of knowledge and what they will destroy to obtain it.
This is the first novel of the new fantasy series, Artifacts of Empire.
What's different, distinctive, or particularly interesting about your fantasy/sci-fi book?
The book centers on characters who are ordinary people and about their struggles with trying to overcome that aspect of their lives.
One line from the book (ie. a favourite, illustrative, or randomly selected quote):
"The thing in the casket--for he could not, even now, let himself think of it as a person--had been alive."
What are you writing now?
The second book in the Artifacts of Empire series, titled The Jealousy Glass.
What are you reading now?
I keep switching between Ukishima by Nigel Sellars and The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
