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FORMAT/INFO: Two Twisted Crowns was published by Orbit Books on October 17th, 2023. It is 437 pages long and is told in third and first person from multiple POVs, including Ravyn, Elspeth, and Elm. It is available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook formats.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: For centuries, people have searched for a way to lift the magical cursed mist that haunts the kingdom of Blunder. Now, after years of work, Elspeth, Ravyn, and their companions are on the brink of finally uniting the twelve Providence Cards in a ritual that will break the curse. But to find the last card, they'll have to venture into the heart of a cursed forest and strike a deal with the Spirit of the Wood, one that could cost them everything.
Two Twisted Crowns is the kind of sequel that takes the solid foundation of book one and then smashes the finale out of the park. To set a comparison point, I found One Dark Window a bit mid. On the one hand, I loved the atmosphere and many of the central concepts, including the cursed mist and a main character who has lived with a spirit in her head for most of her life, a spirit that can be exceedingly dangerous if it takes control of her body. But I also found the main character of Elspeth a bit grating as she would continuously waffle back and forth, begging the spirit Nightmare to save her life then berating it for acting too violently.
Which leads me to the first way that Two Twisted Crowns is better than One Dark Window: instead of Elspeth being the only POV, the book widens to four POVs. This reduced Elspeth's time while giving me the chance to fall in love with other characters, some of whom had only lurked in the background of One Dark Window. In fact one of them, Prince Elm, I barely remembered from the earlier book, but here he was my favorite character of the story. He's the kind of character who is a bit broken and cynical from the terrible things he has endured over the years, yet ultimately keeps fighting to do good. He also gets a fantastic love story that builds up over the course of the book and was one that I appreciated more than Elspeth and Ravyn's pairing.
One of the only (minor) complaints I have about Two Twisted Crowns is that for most of the story, there are two storylines happening in parallel that felt like they were from very different books. There's Ravyn, Elspeth, and others traveling into the cursed wood to find the Twin Alders card, and Prince Elm trying to keep an eye on his dangerous royal family members. One storyline was full of riddles, mysterious creatures, and mystical tests, while the other was royal balls and sinister plots. It could be a bit of whiplash to go from the very magic infused quest to the more grounded court life intrigue.
And yet despite the whiplash, I was equally invested in both storylines. I always felt a mix of joy and frustration at chapter endings, as they inevitably ended on a cliffhanger before switching POVs, leaving me desperate to know what happened in the first story while being happy to find out what happened after the cliffhanger in the OTHER plot. Best of all, both stories crash together in a fantastic finale sequence, full of peril, high stakes, and emotional moments.
CONCLUSION: Going into Two Twisted Crowns, I had a feeling I would at least like this second book; I was not prepared for how I would absolutely love it. I'm not ashamed to say I cried at one point at how beautifully one element came together. It is a sequel that is better than its predecessor in every way and a worthy conclusion to this atmospheric duology.
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Q] Welcome Heather, thank you for joining us today. Readers have been blessed with your incredible books (32 of them so far) in the last decade. What do you make/feel about your journey through the last decade?
Heather: Gratitude. That’s it in a nutshell. I’ve never wanted to be anything but a writer (although as a small child I flirted with the idea of becoming a special-effects artist or a private detective), and here I am, fifty years old and doing it. A life in the creative arts can be an intensely stressful and chaotic thing, laden with uncertainty and fear around every corner (will I be able to survive another year? Another month? Another week?), but it’s all worth it. I’m so thankful to be able to do what I love most.
Heather: I came in during a big boom in self-publishing, and the landscape was a mix of people who wanted to create genuine art and people who thought writing was their get-rich-quick ticket to easy money and a lavish lifestyle. And as a veteran of the industry I have a hard time even saying that with a straight face. (I’ve been doing this for a decade and I still earn less than I made in my last office job, doing three times the work.) Thankfully I was able to gravitate to the people in the former category and learned a lot from their wisdom, both in craft and in business.
These days most of those folks are long gone, but of course now we have their replacements who are telling ChatGPT to spit out unreadable dog-turd “stories” and deluging magazines with them. Which of course does nothing but fail, utterly, and swamp slush piles in garbage to make it harder for real writers to get noticed.
The good folks, though? Solid gold. I never would have made it this far without the advice of my peers, and I hope I’ve helped a few of them along the way as well. I always try to stress that writers are not in competition with each other, simply because books are not a zero-sum product. Car manufacturers compete because you only need to buy one car; if I get a Hyundai, Ford doesn’t get my cash. Readers, on the other hand, buy a lot of books (I say this as I glance at my towering to-be-read pile), so if someone picks up another writer’s book instead of mine, there’s still a chance I’ll get ‘em down the line. Everybody wins, especially the readers.
Heather: At the time, it was considered the best way to get vital early traction with readers. You can put out one well-received book and that’s great, but if you wait a year to do anything else people will largely forget about you by the time the sequel drops. So I waited until I had several books written, professionally edited, and ready to launch before dropping the first.
Heather: I feel silly saying it was a rough and dark time because, I mean, who WASN’T it a rough and dark time for? I was luckier than a lot of people, but the pandemic created a perfect storm for the burnout that was overdue and I just crashed, utterly.
Heather: The funny thing is, I’m not a fan of urban fantasy as a genre, at all. I’m all about crime, thrillers and mysteries, and I thought for a while that’d be my career arc (hopefully emulating Elmore Leonard and Donald E. Westlake, two of my all-time favorite authors.) But then I was reading my way through the Parker novels, which Westlake wrote under the pen name of Richard Stark. For the uninitiated, Parker’s adventures started with the 1962 novel The Hunter and the series ran until 2008. Parker is a relentless anti-hero, a heisting machine who puts together crews, takes down big scores, and shoots anyone who gets in his way.
So one day I was rewatching the 90s movie From Dusk Till Dawn. If you are one of the very, very few people on the planet who doesn’t know that movie’s totally bonkers mid-film twist, I will not spoil it, save to say it starts as a crime movie and then instantly shifts gears in a delightfully wild fashion. And it got me thinking, since I was reading this Westlake book at the time…What would it be like if Parker lived in a world with monsters and magic?
Thus, Daniel Faust was born. He’s not quite like his predecessors (he does have a conscience, albeit a tiny one, unlike Parker, and there’s some DNA from Seth Gecko – George Clooney’s character in From Dusk Till Dawn – in there as well) and quickly evolved into his own thing, but that was the genesis of the idea. And once I started, it was too much fun not to keep going.
Q] Was The Long Way Down the first book that you wrote or are there any trunk novels, which you never released?
Heather: It was my fifth or sixth book. There are trunk novels but they have been consigned to the outer void where they belong and will never be seen (my very first was written in high school at age 17, and you can probably imagine how horrible it was.)
Instead of trying to retool the existing manuscripts, I went back to square one and came up with new stories, from scratch, to better fit the new setting. There are elements of the first two that I like, and a couple of side characters have filtered their way in over the years, but the choice to throw out the first manuscripts and start from the foundations up was ultimately (if painful) a good lesson for me as a writer and the best choice for the books themselves. No regrets.
Heather: The three-book arcs were ideal early on, but Faust’s world has become a much more chaotic place with his two worst enemies on the rampage, and I wanted to reflect that ramping of the stakes by making the beats less predictable. I may go back to it at some point, but not until the Enemy conflict is resolved for good.
Heather: I would love to! I have a few irons glowing in that particular fire, but it’s too early to talk about it.
Heather: The Wisdom’s Grave trilogy is something I’m proud of, and it’s remarkable how it’s easily the most polarizing thing I’ve done. People either really love it or really hate it, and thankfully the ratio is largely on the love side. I figure a reaction that strong means I did something right.
Heather: I try to be fairly consistent with my branding, in the sense that if you pick up a Craig Schaefer book, you know what you’re going to get: a twisty plot, violent action, a found-family dynamic and a big dollop or two of body horror. (And probably, as someone said over at TV Tropes, BDSM and gourmet food.)
I’ve never been interested in coloring inside the lines. Genres, in general, are just small bundles of expectations (for example, readers picking up a horror book expect something scary, readers picking up a romance novel expect an HEA, fantasy comes with the expectation of the fantastical, and so on.) As long as you meet those crucial core expectations, you can go wild in the margins.
Alternately, I work for the Lady in Red and I write what she tells me to write. Go with whichever answer you like best.
Heather: The showdown will be resolved in the mainline books, not a spin-off, and the next couple will be laying the groundwork for it. Can’t say much more than that without getting into big spoiler territory.
Heather: Right now I’m working on the next Harmony Black novel, which doesn’t have a title yet. (Or more to the point, it has four or five and I don’t quite like any of them so I’m keeping quiet until I figure it out.) Barring some catastrophe, it’ll be out by the end of the year, and it follows up on a dangling plot thread from the original four books published by 47North: what the heck happened to Bobby Diehl, Harmony and Jessie’s original big nemesis? We last saw him as a desperate coked-up fugitive with his company gone and his assets frozen, bent on revenge.
Heather: Yes. I can’t talk about my plans for a direct sequel because some things might be happening behind the scenes (business stuff), but I can say that based on the ending of Dig Two Graves…yeah. Soon.
Heather: For those who don’t know the story, when I started working on the Faust series one of the first things I did was block out the whole thing in broad strokes. Not full outlines so much as “Okay, so first we have this arc, then this one” all the way to the end, giving me lots of wiggle room to add or remove individual stories while keeping a tight vision. I also wrote the final scene of the final book.
The Harmony series is likewise mapped (for example, the spoilery thing that happened with Nadine in the last installment, Never Send Roses, was planned out way back when she made her first appearance), but softer around the edges with a lot more room to move pieces around if and when new ideas pop into my head. I have three possible endings, all of which I like more or less equally, but that day is still a long way off.
Heather: Thank you! Writers can’t do what we do without readers. (I mean, we can, but it’d be pretty darn lonely.)
“Don’t you dare,” she told me. “Anyone can serve the flavor of the week. What you bring to your books is yours: it’s authentic, and readers can smell authenticity from a mile away. Yes, of course there are people who will turn away from your work because it’s too violent/gory/weird/whatever, but for every one of those you lose, you’ll gain another who will show up saying ‘This is exactly what I’ve been looking for.’ Every writer has a tribe out there, and you’ll only find them – and they’ll only find you – if you write as your most honest self and tell the story the way you think it should be told.”
I followed that advice, and I’m still in the game today. But the thing is…it’s not just writing advice, really, is it? It’s life advice, pure and simple, and if you ask me it checks out.
Know yourself and be yourself. You’re an original, and that’s what the world needs.
Q] Welcome to Fantasy Book Critic Lamia. To
start with, could you tell us what inspired you to be a writer in the first
place?
LNB: Thank
you for the warm welcome!
Writing was inevitable. My early childhood in Aleppo, Syria, were coloured by a
rich oral storytelling tradition. There were many power outages and almost no
television, and the grown ups entertained us with folk tales and poems. Those
stories at my grandmother's knee were where the trouble began - and even now
shape the way I write; I do love a bit of telling in a story, and not
just perpetual showing.
When I moved to England, Narnia and
the Shire and the like became the gateway to learning English. After that,
there was no going back. Later, writing became a means of mourning what I had left
behind.
Q]
Why did you choose to go the self-published route?
LNB: I
briefly queried this book and was met with one insurmountable obstacle: a
mammoth word count (for a debut). I wasn't prepared to compromise the story,
and there was no natural splitting point. I also quickly realised my day job won’t
currently allow me to meet last minute traditional publishing deadlines. And
once I got a a taste of controlling my own work and the creative process, there
was no letting go of the reins...!
Q] The artwork for The Wingspan Of Treason is beyond dazzling (to say the least). What were your main pointers for your cover artist as you both went through the process of finalizing it? What were the main things that you wished to focus on in it?
LNB: Thank
you kindly! It was actually difficult to distil a long epic down to one unified
image. I didn't want to focus on weapons or warriors for this book - which I
feared would minimise its metaphysical themes, though they're more conventional
for the genre and do inspire beautiful, dramatic art. The story follows the
metamorphosis of a repressed mapmaker and features a lot of avian mythology,
and I'm slightly obsessed with astronomical instruments ... so in the end, the
cover put itself together!
I illustrate by hand and agonised for weeks over which medium to use, in order
to achieve a result that might aspire to the ranks of the stunning digitally
produced covers that have been wowing us in recent years. I'll just say it was
the most wearying coloured pencil drawing I've done to date and I never want to
draw a circle ever again...
Q]
Let’s talk about how The Wingspan Of Treason came to fruition?
What was your inspiration for this fantasy story?
LNB: The
story began fairly organically in 2016. I had very little reading time and
craved something I wasn't finding (beyond the books I’d already read and loved
to death), so I wrote the book I wanted to read. They say write what you know,
so I did - cultures of many colours, tribalism and sectarianism, drought, war,
migration, displacement, social injustice, spirituality. Then COVID19 hit
during the early edits and writing became a much-needed escape from work.
Q]
Can you tell us more about the world that The Wingspan Of Treason is
set in? What are the curiosities (geographical, mystical, etc.) of this world?
LNB: This book is set in a world of Seven Parts, namely the Silfren Part, which is half lush, half desert (both icy and arid). The story's foundation was conceived around a strategic river dam and its many enduring, destructive impacts on land, resources, society and commerce... on everything. In Syria I learned to respect the availability of clean water and to fear regular shortages of it; this appreciation was a core building block of the story.
The book also features
clever minibeasts that humans use both as companions and for their special
(non-magical) senses, who I'm probably too fond of and who have taken over my
illustrations...! Sentience animates various physical substances of this world
in the form of “slight matter” that people have almost forgotten how to sense,
understand and harness – a forgotten science waiting to awaken.
Q]
Is The Wingspan Of Treason going to the first book of a series?
What can you reveal about your plans for the series (number of books)? Is there
a series title?
LNB: This
is the first book of a planned five. Guilty confession: I'm still grappling
with a series title. Watch this space.
Q]
Can you share something about the book that is not mentioned in the blurb and
why should fans should be excited for this new story?
LNB: The
blurb follows the central plot, but the story is a multi-POV third person web
of several narratives. The book is also full of my illustrations, which I hope
will bring some of its scenes and themes to life. A book about a mapmaker is
incomplete without maps, and maps are not merely accessories to this story -
they will grow to become as important as the characters who rely upon them.
There will many maps and much artwork to come!
Q]
For someone who has not read any of your novels, how would you describe the
type of stories that you write?
LNB: I've
tried to write character-driven narratives in fully-fledged worlds that are
still relatable despite the fantastical elements, and which really employ only
a modicum of magic - because reality is more fantastic than we often
appreciate.
Arabic is my first language and I
wrote poetry before prose, and I’ve been told these facts show in both my
fantasy and literary stories.
Q]
In closing, do you have any parting thoughts or comments you’d like to share
with our readers?
LNB: Thank
you for reading this far! THE WINGSPAN OF TREASON will hopefully be
listed for pre-orders by the end of the summer, and I would be honoured to
share it with you.
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Release date: Tuesday 3rd September 2024!
OFFICIAL
BOOK BLURB: Invelmar. A great kingdom boasting unrivalled peace and a
brutal grip over the known world. A kingdom built with blood.
Former Invelmari prince Klaus surrendered
everything to it. Now he’s fleeing a shattering betrayal and wondering why his
parents want to kill him.
Neighbouring Derinda – a once-magnificent realm
devastated by Invelmar’s damming of its mighty river – may offer Klaus a new
life mapping distant roads. But feuding Derinda makes poor refuge for a
fugitive mapmaker, and there’s no peace from his questions here. Questions
about who his real family are. Questions about the sentient particles awakening
in Derinda’s desert, intent on unearthing the devastating secret buried in its
sands…
Because this desert wind is thick with poets and
pirates, shamans and spaewives, and the answers are far worse than Klaus could
have imagined. His loyalties to his beloved home are fast unravelling, and the
desert clamours for a trial of Invelmar’s crimes. But can he separate vengeance
from justice?
Does he even want to?
TRUTH IS A KNIFE. LOYALTY’S A CAGE. NO ONE IS
INNOCENT.
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OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: For a thousand years, Davi has been stuck in a time loop. After waking up in a fantasy world with no recollection of how she got there, she was told she was the one prophesied to defeat the Dark Lord and save the world. And Davi's tried! Over 200 times she's tried to find a way to beat him, only to inevitably end up killed and sent back to the pond where she first woke up. Tired of defeat, Davi decides to try something new: What if, instead of defeating the Dark Lord, she just becomes the Dark Lord? She knows from experience there's a gathering in two months to choose the next Dark Lord. All she needs is to show up a hoard and claim the title. How hard could that be?
Whether or not you'll like How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying can be summed up with a single question: How much do you like the movie Deadpool? There's a lot of similarities in tone between the two, including my reaction to it. Davi is vulgar, crass, and horny, reeling off quips and pop culture references at a mile a minute. It's especially egregious in the opening of the book, and was overwhelming enough I almost DNF'd the book in the prologue. After a few pages I was convinced this book wasn't going to be for me, but given how much I'd like Wexler's previous (more straightforward) works, I decided to hang on for one chapter.
And then one chapter became two and and two became four and then next thing I knew I'd finished the book in 48 hours. Because despite being riddled with humor that isn't my thing, this book was compulsively readable. To start with, it's a great premise that starts at the right moment to maximize the absurdity of the situation. When we meet Davi, she's gone through the time loop over two hundred times. She knows her way around the Kingdom and the time loop, and has long since given up on trying to break free and return to the "real world". We don't live through the early days of her realizing she's in a loop or figuring out the rules. The Davi we meet has accepted her lot in life and moves through the Kingdom completely blasé about the whole thing, deciding what she wants to do on this particular outing in the loop, and generally messing with people as her mood strikes her.
I was impressed with the ways the time loop convention was used for both comedy and tension. Early on in the story, Davi doesn't care if she dies or who she kills in the process. After all, she's just going to wake up again, everything will have reset, and she can try a new tactic. But the further Davi gets in her journey, the less comfortable she is with resetting the time loop. Will she be able to recreate the circumstances that got her this far?
And underneath all the coarse humor, there is a heart at the center of Davi. Sure, she may ruthlessly kill a bunch of people on the way to her goal but despite talking a big game about how her hoard is just her minions, she can't seem to bring herself to actually TREAT them like minions. Between that and the pacing, I ended up finding more than I expected to like in this adventure.
CONCLUSION: How to Become the Dark Lord is definitely not going to be for everyone. Between the pop culture references (everything from World of Warcraft to Is it Cake?) and the off-color humor, there are many who are going to find this grating. But there are just as many who are absolutely going to love it. I'm glad I trusted Wexler enough to ride out my rough entry into the story, because now I absolutely need to know what happens next.
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FORMAT/INFO: A Fate Inked In Blood was published on February 27th, 2024 by Del Rey. It is 432 pages long and told in first person from Freya's point of view. It is available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats.
About the Author: Morgan Stang lives in the humid part of Texas. He graduated from the University of Houston with a BBA. By day he works in accounting and by night he sleeps, and sometime in between he writes in a wide variety of fantasy genres, ranging from dark fantasy (The Bartram's Maw series) to gaslamp murder mystery (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries) to cozy fantasy (The Bookshop and the Barbarian). He is a fan of all things nerdy, and lives with an immortal ball python.
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FORMAT/INFO: The Element of Fire was republished in a revised form on February 27th, 2024 by Tordotcom Publishing in the omnibus The Book of Ile-Rien; the original novel was published on July 1st, 1993. It is 320 pages long and is told in third person from multiple POVs, including Thomas and Kade. It is available in paperback and ebook formats.
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