I’m excited to announce that Blood Road and sequel are going to be audiobooks! The Blood Road audiobook will be released by Audible at the same time as the print release by Month9Books, in Fall 2017.
Author: Amanda (page 2 of 48)
I started reading Courtney Schafer’s Shattered Sigil trilogy for the first time last fall. That turned out to be great timing—entirely unplanned on my part—because the third book, The Labyrinth of Flame, was released in December. If you’ve been following Courtney on Twitter, or following fantasy publishing news over the last few years, you’ll know that The Labyrinth of Flame had a pretty tortuous route to publication. To make a long story short, fans who’d been faithfully following Shattered Sigil from the beginning had a three-year wait between books two and three; I only had to wait a couple weeks.
Shattered Sigil is a complex adventure fantasy set in a world where elemental magic is part of the fabric of society. It’s sometimes dark, always exciting. The first book introduces us to Dev—a smart-mouthed former thief and sometime smuggler who works as an outrider, guiding caravans across the Whitefire Mountains—and Kiran, a blood mage trying to escape his sadistic master. Both are haunted by demons from their pasts—in Kiran’s case, literally. Over the course of the trilogy, Dev and Kiran must navigate treachery and tragedy, trying to find peace for themselves and their world.
Courtney graciously agreed to answer some burning questions I had upon finishing The Labyrinth of Flame (no pun intended). Fair warning if you haven’t read the books: there are mild spoilers below.
I considered skipping this one, because I didn’t have time to do a full list of ten. But I wanted at least to mention one song I’ve always thought should be a novel: “Dissident,” by Pearl Jam. Here’s how Eddie Vedder described it:
In “Dissident,” I’m actually talking about a woman who takes in someone who’s being sought after by the authorities for political reasons. He’s on the run, and she offers him a refuge. But she just can’t handle the responsibility. She turns him in, then she has to live with the guilt and the realization that she’s betrayed the one thing that gave her life meaning. It made her life difficult. It made her life hell. But it gave her a reason to be. But she couldn’t hold on. She folded. That’s the tragedy of the song.
There are so many ways to spin this. I’d love to see a historical take, but SFF or even contemporary would work just as well.
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