Crownless
M. H. Woodscourt
Publication date: June 19th 2021
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
A fugitive storyteller running out of time. A prince hiding from his mother. A kingdom on the brink of collapse. A search for a world of magic.
Convinced his tales are true, storyteller Jinji is determined to find the legendary fae realm of Shinac to save his world from a dread lord trying to cross over—before a fatal illness ends Jinji’s life.
Prince Jetekesh is caught between a controlling mother and his affection for his dying father—until he’s kidnapped and forced to journey with a delusional storyteller and a motley band of fugitives in search of a myth.
Hunted by the queen, hindered by a malady, and invaded by an enemy empire, Jinji and Jetekesh race across a crumbling kingdom to find the alleged gate between worlds.
But even if Shinac exists, how can a humble storyteller and deposed prince hope to stand against a devastating evil?
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Author Bio:
Writer of fantasy, magic weaver, dragon rider! Having spent the past 20 years devotedly writing fantasy, it’s safe to say M. H. Woodscourt is now more fae than human. All of her fantasy worlds connect with each other in a broad Universe, forged with great love and no small measure of blood, sweat, and tears. When she’s not writing, she’s napping or reading a book with a mug of hot cocoa close at hand while her quirky cat Wynter nibbles her toes.
Learn more at www.mhwoodscourt.com
Guest Post
The Books That Move Our SoulsWe readers all have at least one.
No matter how many delicious new book titles come out, sometimes none of them quite satisfy that hunger for that one book you’ve read too many times to count. You know, that beloved tome that’s falling apart. Literally. The spine is broken in two places, the cover is worn and splitting at the edges, the pages are yellowed. Maybe you’ve already replaced it twice. (Guilty!)
For me, Lorna Freeman’s Covenants tops that special list. It’s the first book of a little-known epic fantasy series, largely unheard of, despite being a National Bestseller, because the series never finished. The fourth and final installment has never been published for some reason. I pray Lorna Freeman is well, whether she someday completes this fantastic series or not.
Reasons I love her beautiful series, especially Covenants, include the gorgeous prose; a memorable, loveable main protagonist named Rabbit (the puns throughout are glorious); stunning worldbuilding; brilliant humor; and at the heart of it all, that intangible something that takes a book and brings it to life. That immortal soul books gain when a reader is swallowed in its pages and never wants to come back to reality.
Not every book does that for me, but every reader has a treasured book that does that for them.
Another incredible thing about Covenants is how much it makes me crave writing. I can devour its 548 pages in a few spare hours and immediately sit down inspired to hammer out my next novel. One kind of magic books have is, good or bad, they always make me want to write.
Covenants is a personal “classic,” but it’s not alone upon that honored shelf. Other titles that move me include the timeless Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, the Prydain Chronicles, and, oddly, Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Not odd because it’s lesser, but odd because it’s newer. That and Covenants were my first steps into a more modern age of fantasy literature.
Elantris fell into my lap before Sanderson had built a name for himself. In fact, Elantris was hot off the presses and sitting in a local bookshop with the sign “Local Author.” My sister bought a numbered, autographed hardcover. She read it, recommended it, and let me borrow it.
Sanderson’s accessible prose, fun magic system, and main male character kindled a fire in my aspiring writer soul. I can’t land on quite why his world moved me so much, but reading that book spurred me to finish writing my first novel within the next three months. When I later lost that autographed book in a house fire, some small part of my heart burned with it.
Books are incredible. How they move our spirits, touch our hearts, make us laugh, weep, scream. They prove how much power words have to make or break a person, and they’ve taught me to wield my words wisely in written and verbal form.
And that’s just one lesson they’ve showed me.
What are your favorite, tattered reads and how have they moved your soul?
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