Introducing The Innocent Mage
- - April 11th, 2007
In the bestselling tradition of Trudi Canavan and Fiona McIntosh, Karen Miller’s debut for Orbit, The Innocent Mage, is an irresistibly compelling tale of destiny and forbidden magic, and the first volume in the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series.
We’re very excited at publishing Karen in the UK this month — and our sister imprint Orbit US will be publishing the series for American readers in the autumn.
It’s not always straightforward for us to get across our enthusiasm for a book in writing, so we decided to go straight to the author and sat Karen down in front of a video camera. This is a bit of an experiment for us, but we’re intending to do a lot more of these sorts of videos, and we hope that you’ll enjoy this first attempt and will perhaps try the book.
S Kelley
January 15, 2009
at 6:39 am
Your book and series is brilliant. I bought “The Inocent Mage” from Borders a couple of weeks ago and was in the store the next week to buy “The Awakened Mage” while I was finishing it. You truly are experienced in the art of torture. You present a great story, but constantly taunted me with a something much larger and secretive when I least expected it. The destiny, I had to know what it was, but the ride is a great one. The story had me turning the page constantly awaiting what came next. I missed the first few days of class this semester reading these books.
I’m glad Borders didn’t have the linux magazine I came to buy, otherwise I would have missed out on this great experience. You’re officially one of my favorite authors now. How could you not be when you when you tied my emotions to the characters of the book and present characters that rival those of Macbeth. It really did feel like that play had an influence on this book, the way the view changed, characters behaved and the way everything just blended together. Now I have to wait for the Prodigal mage. I have to know what you have planned for Asher and the land beyond Barl’s Mountains.