Praise for
MICHELLE SAGARA
and The Chronicles of Elantra series
Cast in Shadow
âNo one provides an emotional payoff like Michelle Sagara.
Combine that with a fast-paced police procedural, deadly magics, five very different races and a wickedly dry sense of humorâwell, it doesnât get any better than this.â âBestselling author Tanya Huff
âIntense, fast-paced, intriguing, compelling
and hard to put down ⦠unforgettable.â âIn the Library Reviews
Cast in Courtlight âReaders will embrace this compelling, strong-willed heroine with her often sarcastic voice.â âPublishers Weekly
âA fast-paced novel, packed with action and adventure â¦
integrating the conventions of police procedurals with more fantastic elements.â âRomantic Times BOOKreviews
Cast in Secret âThe impressively detailed setting and the bookâs spirited heroine are sure to charm romance readers as well as fantasy fans who like some mystery with their magic.â âPublishers Weekly
âRemarkable â¦. Filled with time-release plot threads and
intricate details, these books are both mesmerizing and unforgettable. If youâre a fan of rich fantasy, this is the series for you!â âRomantic Times BOOKreviews, Top Pick (4½ stars)
MICHELLE SAGARA has written fourteen novels since 1991, when her fi rst book,Into the Dark Lands, was published. Sheâs written a quarterly book review column for the venerable Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for a number of years, as well as dozens of short stories (or novellas, to be more exact).
In 1986 she started working in an SF specialty bookstore, where she continues to work to this day. She loves reading, is allergic to cats (very, which means they crawl all over her), is happily married, has two lovely children, and has spent all of her life in her native Torontoânone of it on Bay Street
She started reading fantasy almost as soon as she could read, and fell instantly in love with Narnia; her next fantasy discovery was Patricia McKillipâs Forgotten Beasts of Eld. She moved on to The Hobbit, which led to her discovery of the life-changingThe Lord of the Rings.
Her greatest hope for her writing is that someone will read it and be moved by the same sense of magic and mystery that she fi nds in the books she loves.
She will talk about writing, bookselling and books forever if given a chance. Youâve been warned.
I always wonder at people who tell other people to get a life, because, for all accounts and purposes, I have one. Itâs a good life, but there are times when itâs overwhelming, and at times like that I seek a little bit of escape, and a little bit of something thatâs larger. I find it in different placesâI adored Buffy, especially the first two seasons, adored beyond reason Firefly, read novels, manga and play video games.
I do all these things because they entertain me, and when I decided to write THE CHRONICLES OF ELANTRA books, I wanted to return some of that entertainment, to capture some of its essence. It was a bit of a departure for meâthe stories are structured a little bit more like the beloved television shows mentioned above; each volume has some hint of a larger arc, but should be self-contained in the events. I went for a modern sensibility, because the world itself is strange enough. I wanted to be able to make other people laugh, or to move them, because thatâs what I want when I seek escape.
Cast in Shadow introduced Kaylin Neya, a young officer of the Law whoâs still trying to sort out who she is and where she fits in. Cast in Courtlight threw her headfirst into politics, which is not one of her strengths. In Cast in Secret, I wanted to reintroduce the Thaâalaniâthe Cityâs native telepaths. They keep to themselves as much as possible because most of the citizens of Elantra fear and shun themâafter all, how many of us want to be surrounded by people who can, at will, examine all our petty or ugly truths?
Kaylin certainly doesnât. But in Cast in Secret, she has no choice, and I hope the consequences of that lack of choice give back some of what Iâve found in books, manga, anime and movies through the years.
In October, donât forget to look for Cast in Fury, which deals with the aftermath of this storyâand more about the Thaâalani!
This one is for my kidsâand peersâ
in Makaveli, on Shadowsong /bonk /hug /love
My long-suffering husband, Thomas,
kept home, household and the peculiar space authors often need safe, as always, but also found time to read the work in progress, even when the progress was agonizingly slow. My parents, Ken and Tami; my children, Daniel and Ross; John and Kristen Chew and their children, Jamie and Liam, kept my house lively. Terry Pearson read this in all stages, and offered the usual commentary, and the incentive to keep going.
Mary-Theresa Hussey proved saintly in her
patience, and invaluable in the way editors are when the author is still too much