As many of you know, 2013 is the release year for The Dark
Woods Trilogy’s all-new cycle – beginning three new books with three new story
variations on traditional tales. The first one, SPELL, is scheduled for release
in January.
Unlike The Wicked
Queen’s Tale, or the first book in our first cycle, this one relies less
heavily on a famous fairytale and more upon shades of lesser-known tales drawn
from the same canon of folklore as Beauty and the Beast. Like Fairy Godmother, it’s a tale within a
tale, a cast of original characters and not familiar or famous faces. There are
definite shades of the same worlds, a distant illusion to the “daughter of
Lilith” at play, and a hero instead of a heroine.
Here’s the book description which will appear on retail
sites soon:
There are sticks
and stones which can bind a witch, but not kill her. They can't be drowned as
some thinks. Killing one by flame is the only way to destroy the bone and
blood...
In a time when magic makers
and spell casters roam the countryside, there are men who earn wages by hunting
them. Burning them for their crimes, facing the peril of spells and subtler
dangers from dark servants skilled in evading punishment...
Among them, Neel is the
greatest of all. A legend in his prime who tracks even the most cunning of
witches who plague the land, he carves a mark for each sorceress or warlock of
power burned at the stake by his hand. Calculating and hard by nature, a loner
and wanderer by trade, he and his services are demanded by king and commoner
alike. Any who has a grievance against a magic maker and the coin with which to
pay the hunter's services.
A request from a queen to
track a witch of no name takes him across the vast countryside in pursuit of a
sorceress whose spell is unmistakable -- and whose curse takes a hideous form
each time it is cast. Three victims in all, three tales which span consequences
from abandoned thrones to lovers divided by pain. Three sufferers who describe
a witch whose physical appearance and power seems to change without
explanation, until the witch hunter knows his pursuit is of a witch possessing
no ordinary magic.
Three sufferers,
three separate fates, one spell.
The print copy of Spell will be available the same month as the e-Book’s
release, for paperback lovers, so no delay in the fashion of the previous Dark
Woods volumes.
