Del Rey (an imprint of Random House) has purchased my novel
Spellbent and two of its sequels. I believe their tentative plan is to release
Spellbent in early-to-mid 2009 and the other books in the trilogy will of course come later (first I have to write them!)
I'm entirely geeked about this. I got into science fiction and fantasy as a result of reading Del Rey authors such as Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley, so I'm pretty darn happy to have become a Del Rey author myself.
Here's the semi-official, subject-to-change book blurb:
Spellbent is an urban fantasy adventure set in Columbus, Ohio. Jessie Shimmer is a young, Talented woman who studies wizardry under her lover, Cooper Marron. He's a roguish practitioner of ubiquemancy, the art of finding the magic in everyday things. When the pair go downtown to call a rainstorm for local farmers, things go terribly wrong. A hellish portal opens, and Cooper is sucked through.
With only her ferret familiar to help her, Jessie must find the dimension Cooper's trapped in and bring him back alive before dark machinations make both of them vanish for good.
This, really, tells you practically nothing about the book. Blurbs are like that. The novel has a lot of humor to balance out the gritty bits, and I'd like to think it has the sense of wonder that's missing from a lot of current urban fantasy. I tried to write the kind of book that excites me as a reader who enjoys a wide variety of genres.
I had the first chapter of the book, which is entitled "A Simple Storm-Calling", up here for a bit, but it needs to go through Del Rey's editorial process etc., so I need to pull it down for the time being.
It will likely appear here in the not-too-distant future, so stay tuned!
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