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Before and After: Have a look at the changes to changes to Witchlanders’ cover! Emails flew back and forth last week between my editor, my agent and myself about this small but important addition to my cover. Did I like it? At first I wasn’t sure. I was used to the gorgeous original, but agreed wholeheartedly that the cover without the sword was more suggestive of a paranormal, maybe even a paranormal romance, than the sword-swinging high fantasy that it is. Because we have a girl on the cover and my protagonists are boys, the fear that, beautiful as the cover was, we...
Read MoreFirst Blurbs for Witchlanders!
I’m so thrilled that these three wonderful authors have provided blurbs for my forthcoming book, Witchlanders. I hope they pique your curiosity about the book, which will be coming out from Atheneum on August 30th. It’s getting close! “As unique and enchanting a world as Garth Nix’s Abhorsen myth: here’s a thrilling tale of the clash between two magical races, Witchlanders and Baen, seen through the eyes of very likeable young characters. And it’s written in beautiful prose. Warning – you may stay up all night until you are finished and you will want more! Lena Coakley is...
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Witchlanders Published by Atheneum (S&S), Fall 2011 Hardcover, 416 pages ISBN-10: 1442420049 ISBN-13: 9781442420045 Grades: 7 and up x High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future. It’s all a fake. At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can produce. And even if they can predict the future, what danger is there to foretell, now that his people’s old enemy, the Baen, has been defeated? But...
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Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.