I’ve been buzzing about my forthcoming novella, The Necromancer’s Apprentice, for a while, and now I can finally reveal the cover! Only it’s not here – it’s over on Dark Continents Publishing’s blog, along with my post in which I discuss my influences and the world building of the story. If you want to see the cover, and read my post, then click here. The cover is beautiful, and I’m so grateful to Daniël Hugo and Carmen Begley for their fantastic work on it.
If that’s whetted your appetite, you can check out my visual influences on my Pinterest board, and read some of my Friday flashes set in the same universe.
Blurb
Though Jyximus Faire lives in a crumbling tenement in the Underground City, he escapes the squalor daily to attend lessons in magic and sorcery at the prestigious Academy in the City Above.
But the pace isn’t fast enough for Jyx. He wants to learn everything—and he wants to learn it now. Then the dread necromancer general Eufame Delsenza sets her sights on Jyx; she needs a new apprentice, and Jyx fits the bill. When she tasks him with helping to prepare royal mummies for an all-important procession, he realises this might be a chance of a lifetime.
Will Jyx’s impatience lead to him taking his education into his own inexperienced hands, and can a necromancer’s apprentice really learn to raise the dead—and control them?
Terrific!
It looks interesting. I’ve shared this over at my blog.
What a great cover for the setting! Congratulations!