• Sara Douglass: Voyager Author of the Month

    Sara Douglass was born in Penola, South Australia, and moved to Adelaide when she was seven. She spent her early working life as a nurse before completing three degrees at the University of Adelaide. After receiving a PhD in early modern English history,Sara worked as a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at La Trobe University, Bendigo, until 2000.

    Sara's first novel, BattleAxe, was published in 1995 and she wrote a further 19 books of epic and historical fantasy fiction, a collection of short stories, and two books of non-fiction. Three of her novels won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy and many were shortlisted. Sara shifted to Hobart, Tasmania, in 2005 and lived there writing full-time and restoring her beautiful old house and garden, until her death in September 2011.

    Sara's last book, The Devil's Diadem, has just been nominated for a Norma K Hemming Award and is now out in paperback.

    Devil's Diadem

    About The Devil's Diadem:

    A foolish monk stole the Devil's favourite diadem and the Devil wants it back. It is mid-twelfth century Europe and Maeb Langtofte joins an aristocratic household to attend Adelie, the wife of the Earl of Pengraic. The earl is a powerful Lord of the Marches, the dark Welsh borderlands. Then a plague that has swept Europe overtakes England and as life descends into chaos and civil disorder, Maeb is about to discover that the horrors she survived at Pengraic Castle were but a prelude to the terrifying maelstrom which now envelops her and all of her countryfolk.

     

     

15 Days of Deverry

Book Seven of the Dragon Mage

Book Seven of the Dragon Mage

The Silver Mage by acclaimed fantasy author Katherine Kerr is out at the end of this month from Voyager in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and from DAW in the US.

The 15 Days of Deverry Party Committee are delighted to share the news of an online-everywhere celebration in honor of the publication of The Silver Mage. Everyone is invited!

The Silver Mage is the final volume in the Celtic inspired cycle of interbraided lives, personalities and events in the alternate world of Deverry, through eras and generations of Deverry’s historical and chronological time!

15 Days of Deverry is an online celebration of the successful conclusion of Katharine Kerr’s vision for this Celtic knot of inter-braided novels. The 15 Days stands for the 15 titles that constitute the cycle’s sequence.

A community at livejournal, deverry15 , has been set up and will be used to house all links to all things Deverry over the next two weeks and more.

For further information, join the deverry15 community at livejournal where you can ask questions, join the discussion, and make additional suggestions.

We encourage you to post about your experience reading these books, as well as to post your congratulations to the author and her grand vision. You can post about how and when you first read one of the books, what attracted you to the series, which of the Deverry heroes ranks #1 in the Hotness Factor, the overarching themes and structure of the series — or anything else about the Deverry world and books that has affected you. We hope you all will share your own unique views of Katharine Kerr’s achievement.

We’re very excited by the successful completion of this Grand Fantasy Vision, so we’re throwing a big party to celebrate! All of you are special guests. Please come! Post often! Bring your friends, your dog, your cat and your dragon too!

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  1. [...] “The Silver Mage is the final volume in the Celtic inspired cycle of interbraided lives, personalities and events in the alternate world of Deverry, through eras and generations of Deverry’s historical and chronological time1” publisher Voyager writes on its blog this week. [...]

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