Two new books to tide you over

[Borderlander]

Hi Everyone,

 

Usually I only post on the TV show Forum, so my username may be unfamiliar to a lot of you, but I wanted to let the Dragonmount community (which is the only social site I am a part of) know that I just published a couple of books that might find a warm welcome among WOT fans. (I never would have started writing if I had not stumbled across The Eye of the World when I was 16.)

 

The first book, The Alleys of Olde Architecture: Vol. I—A Key for Every Lock is a mind-bending, dark fantasy that skirts the line between YA and Adult. If you are anything like me and you used to scour the Wheel of Time theory posts at Wotmania back in the day, or if you wish that Harry Potter had a little more meat on the bone, or if you ever find yourself wondering why more modern fantasy authors don't put half as much time into their prose as they do their Gordian plots, this might be the book for you!

 

Here's the elevator pitch: When her father is arrested in the middle of the night and confesses to a crime that cannot possibly be true, fifteen-year-old Alley a'Door has one day to climb to the top of the mountain, free her father, and clear his name—but how do you save a man who is dead-set on orchestrating his own execution? Over the longest day of her life, Alley and her friends will race against the clock to climb the great Stair, unraveling the mystery of her father’s cabalistic testimony and the truth behind his cryptic warning that their city—the only home she has ever known—is not what it seems to be.

 

 

My second book, What Magic Is Not, is a quirky, cheerful Middle-Grade fantasy about a bunch of kids who attend summer school in an enchanted forest with an eccentric, old wizard. The premise is basically Wayside School meets Hogwarts with a lighthearted, whimsical tone and a story that should appeal to all younger readers (and older kids-at-heart!) 

 

Here's the pitch: Summer school in the Enchanted Forest is just like you would imagine it: chasing frogs (that are not really frogs), making new friends (with trolls), and learning what magic is (and more importantly, what magic is not.)

 

 

 

If you are at all interested, please check out my website at jeffevans.org for more info, artwork, links to Amazon, etc.

 

If anyone ends up reading one or the other (or both!) I would love to hear your thoughts!

 

Thanks,

 

J. Evans (a.k.a. Borderlander)