Just Arrived: “The Whitefire Crossing” & “The Tainted City” by Courtney Schafer
One of the great things about the internet is that it facilitates communication with fellow authors, even those on the far side of the world. As a new author myself, I particularly enjoy getting to meet other new authors in the same field—and someone I have gotten to know recently via Twitter, FantasyReddit and Abhinav Jain’s “Names: A New Perspective” guest author series, is Courtney Schafer.
Courtney and I enjoyed each other’s posts in the “Names: A New Perspective” series, and then discovered that we are both fans of Peter Helprin’s magic realism novel, Winter’s Tale—and so we decided to do an author exchange of our respective Fantasy novels. 😉
So today I am absolutely delighted to tell you that The White Fire Crossing and The Tainted City, Books 1 and 2 in Courtney’s “The Shattered Sigil” (Nightshade Books) series are here—and I am very much looking forward to reading them both!
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Ask Me Anything Thursday 8, CST:
Before I give you the back cover information, I also thought I’d let you know that Courtney will be doing an “Ask Me Anything” Q&A on FantasyReddit this Thursday at 8 pm, (US) Central Standard Time.
For NZ readers, that’s not actually today—it will be our 3 pm tomorrow, Friday 9 November; and 1 pm (also on Friday) for Australian Eastern Daylight Time.
So if you are free at that time, consider participating with a question for Courtney—I hope to drop by myself. 🙂
And if you want to check out Courtney’s post in the “Names: A New Perspective Series”—which I recommend—it’s here: “Building Fantasy Worlds One Day At A Time.”
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From the Back Cover:
OK, now onto what the back cover for The Whitefre Crossing says (I’ll only do that one because it’s first up):
“Dev is a smuggler with the perfect cover…”
He’s in high demand as a guide for the caravans that carry legitimate goods from the city of Ninavel into the country of Alathia. The route through the Whitefire Mountains is treacherous, and Dev is one of the few climbers who knows how to cross them safely. With his skill and connections, it’s easy enough to slip contraband charms from Ninavel – where any magic is fair game, no matter how dark – into Alathia, where most magic is outlawed.
But smuggling a few charms is one thing; smuggling a person through the warded Alathian border is near suicidal. Having made a promise to a dying friend, Dev is forced to take on a singularly dangerous cargo: Kiran. A young apprentice on the run from one of the most powerful mages in Ninavel, Kiran is desperate enough to pay a fortune to sneak into a country where discovery means certain execution – and he’ll do whatever it takes to prevent Dev from finding out the terrible truth behind his getaway.
Yet Kiran isn’t the only one harboring a deadly secret. Caught up in a web of subterfuge and dark magic, Dev and Kiran must find a way to trust each other – or face not only their own destruction, but that of the entire city of Ninavel.”
For any more information at this stage, check out Courtney’s website, here.
So today I am absolutely delighted to tell you that The White Fire Crossing and The Tainted City, Books 1 and 2 in Courtney’s “The Shattered Sigil” (Nightshade Books) series are here—and I am very much looking forward to reading them both!
You are going to love them as much as I did, I think. 🙂
Given the books Courtney and I share a love for, such as Mark Helprin’s “Winter’s Tale” and Janny Wurts/Raymond Feist’s “Empire” trilogy, I suspect I shall…:)
They look good. Have made a request for the library to buy them.
Go you, Jan! 🙂