Battle On!

The contract is signed and everything is set, so at last I can tell my fun and exciting news, which is that Artix Entertainment is doing a Magic Thief “event” as part of their AdventureQuest massively multiplayer online role-playing game.  They’ve done “events” before with music-related people including They Might Be Giants and Paul and Storm; I’m the first author (though I’m told there will be more).

The event is like a side-story within the larger AQ world.  Regular AQ players can go into the Magic Thief story and interact with the MT characters and world.  There will be biscuits and misery eels and (hopefully) a hunt for a locus magicalicus!!   It should be online in early January.

As a bonus, I got an upgraded character of my own to play.  She is a mage with bright green skin and sticking up braids (though you can’t see them because they’re covered by the Dragonhero Helmet).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, I have a pet dragon.  She follows me everywhere.

Posted in Uncategorized on 12/07/2011 at 8:23 pm  |  4 Comments

Win a signed ARC of WINTERLING!

AND… the contest is over and random.org has chosen a winner. Weirdly, it was the number chosen by somebody who entered just for a line and not for the ARC, so I’ve gone to the next-closest number.

Thanks for entering!!

My dog

 

 

does not like

my book.

 

But some other people do!

“What a wonderful, imaginative alternate world Prineas has created for this book!” –Kristin Cashore, author of the New York Times bestsellers Graceling and Fire.

“Filled with wonder and with characters both devious and charming, Winterling is a mischievous delight!” –Ingrid Law, New York Times bestselling author of Scumble and the Newbery honor book Savvy.

And I’m running a contest–here’s how it goes:

All you have to do to enter is pick a number between 1 and 245 and post it in the comments. I’ll respond with a line from that page in Winterling. When we’re all done (12:00 midnight on Friday), I’ll do a random number generator thingy and that person will be the winner of the ARC (an advanced review copy of the book) (the book itself is out from HarperCollins Childrens on January 3, 2012). Be sure to include your email when you leave your comment so I can contact you if you win.

Come back and read all the comments, and you’ll get some sneak peeks!

[If two (or more!) people pick the same page, that’s fine–if that page number is the winner, I’ll just do another random generator thingie for that page.]

I hope you like it better than my dog does!

[Oh, and if you read this on Goodreads, be sure to come over to my blog to enter]

Posted in Contests,Winterling on 11/15/2011 at 9:30 am  |  95 Comments

Winterling gets its first review…

…and it’s a good one!

This is from Kirkus:

WINTERLING
Author: Prineas, Sarah

An atmospheric middle-grade fantasy ties the coming of age to the turning of the year.

Young Fer (short for “Jennifer”) loves her strict Grand-Jane and the herbal lore she teaches, but she feels more at home in the woods and fields than in the concrete and iron cage of her school. When she rescues the shapeshifting puck Rook, Fer opens a Way into a place of wild beauty, deep magic and strange half-human denizens. The land’s glamorous Lady claims friendship with Fer’s lost parents and begs her allegiance, but Fer senses something deeply wrong: something that holds Rook sullen and silent, forces the people into savagery and keeps the land in the grip of relentless winter… something that is now spreading to Fer’s home. Prineas calls upon Celtic (and a few Nordic) traditions to build a vivid fantasy world, steeped in pagan sensibilities, where the cycle of seasons resonates with the awakening of identity. The prose is lush and sensuous, evoking the sounds and tastes and scents of the natural world. Unusually, almost every character (except the puck-in-distress) is female, portrayed in all ages and roles—authority, hero, villain, mentor, warrior, healer, servant and goddess. Fer is herself brave and kind, but not unrealistically so; her magic is both matter-of-fact and a source of quiet joy.

There’s no flashy pyrotechnic wizardry to dazzle here, but the right readers will find refreshment in a tale as muted and miraculous as the return of spring. (Fantasy. 10-14)

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I especially love that the reviewer commented on the girl-power stuff, because that was a big part of what I wanted to do with this book.

Be sure to visit this blog again next week, ‘cos I’ll be giving away an ARC of Winterling.

Posted in Reviews,Winterling on 11/09/2011 at 9:35 am  |  16 Comments
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