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Today, I’m so excited to welcome Intisar to the blog and her absolutely fantastic fantasy novella, Sunbolt! One of the hallmarks of the fantasy genre tends to be a large emphasis on world building — a large, sprawling world. Characters go on epic journeys, there are fabricated kingdoms, made-up countries with unique customs, languages, religions, and philosophies, intricate political machinations, diplomatic exchanges, warring groups, economic systems. All that good stuff. And why is there such a large emphasis on world building? Well, because the novelist is creating and trying to establish an entire world of their own making, rather than setting their characters and story within a contemporary, geopolitical framework and that is already, at least somewhat, familiar. So, Intisar is here to introduce us to her world of the Eleven Kingdoms — the world of Sunbolt — and to tell us a little bit about the vivid, vast, ever-developing (and geographically connected) landscape of her stories.
Annnnnnd…. THERE MAY BE A MAP. Ok, there’s DEFINITELY a map. A MAP!!!
I’m so excited. I LOVE maps. I love charting the characters’ journeys, visually seeing where they’re going, gauging how big the world is by how long the travel takes. Yes, I’m a nerd. I come by it honestly, and maps just make my heart happy. So without further ado, I give you Intisar… and her map.
(Did I mention there’s a map?)
Title: Sunbolt The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she must conceal her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to undermine the powerful and corrupt Archmage Wilhelm Blackflame. When the League gets word that Blackflame intends to detain—and execute—a leading political family, Hitomi volunteers to help the family escape. But there are more secrets at play than Hitomi’s, and much worse fates than execution. When Hitomi finds herself captured along with her charges, it will take everything she can summon to escape with her life.
Series: The Sunbolt Chronicles (Book #1)
Author: Intisar Khanani
Cover Designer: Jenny Zemanek
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Release Date: June 17,2013
Publisher: Purple Monkey Press
Price: US $1.99 (eBook), US $5.39 (paperback)
Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing snow on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five. Intisar currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Until recently, she wrote grants and developed projects to address community health and infant mortality with the Cincinnati Health Department—which was as close as she could get to saving the world. Now she focuses her time on her two passions: raising her family and writing fantasy. Intisar’s latest projects include a serial novella project titled The Sunbolt Chronicles, about a young thief with a propensity to play hero, and her arch-nemesis, a dark mage intent on taking over the Eleven Kingdoms. She’s also developing a companion trilogy to her debut novel Thorn, which will feature a new heroine introduced in her free short story The Bone Knife.
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Hey Dani – Thanks so much for having me here again–it’s always a treat to come back to Refracted Light! And I’m so glad you liked the map, even if it’s still very much a work in progress
OHMYGOSH THEY’RE ALL IN THE SAME WORLD. O_O Write the trilogy. I WANT the trilogy!
finally a map. thank you!!!