A press release from Edward Willett:
Magebane by Lee Arthur Chane (a.k.a. Edward Willett), published by DAW Books, has been shortlisted for the $2,000 Regina Book Award, for best book by a Regina author, in this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards. The awards will be presented April 28. Willett won in this same category in 2002 for his YA fantasy novel Spirit Singer.
The other nominees in Willett’s category are: Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers by Mark Cronlund Anderson & Carmen L. Robertson; Call of the Fiddle by Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton; Leaving Berlin by Britt Holmstrom; and Picturing Alyssa by Alison Lohans.
Willett describes the book: “Eight centuries ago, the world changed. A devastating war swept the lands, and the MageLords, who had long ruled by virtue of their spell powers, were driven to a distant place, separated from those they had ruled by a magical Barrier. With magic banished from the rest of the world, the MageLords became mere legend and people turned to science to improve their lives. But if one man has his way, all that is about to change.…”
Written as Lee Arthur Chane (the middle names of my older brothers, Jimmy Lee and Dwight Arthur, and myself, Edward Chane Willett).
The prologue and first chapter of the book are available on this page.