Spotlight: Seraphina’s Lament – Sarah Chorn
About the book:
There are the old stories. And then there’s what actually happens.
The world is dying.
The Sunset Lands are broken, torn apart by a war of ideology paid for with the lives of the peasants. Drought holds the east as famine ravages the farmlands. In the west, borders slam shut in the face of waves of refugees, dooming all of those trying to flee to slow starvation, or a future in forced labor camps. There is no salvation.
In the city of Lord’s Reach, Seraphina, a slave with unique talents, sets in motion a series of events that will change everything. In a fight for the soul of the nation, everyone is a player. But something ominous is calling people to Lord’s Reach and the very nature of magic itself is changing. Paths will converge, the battle for the Sunset Lands has shifted, and now humanity itself is at stake.
First, you must break before you can become.
Published: February 19th, 2019
About the author:
Sarah has been a compulsive reader her whole life. At a young age, she found her reading niche in the fantastic genre of Speculative Fiction. She blames her active imagination for the hobbies that threaten to consume her life. She is a freelance writer and editor, a semi-pro nature photographer, world traveler, three-time cancer survivor, and mom to one six-year-old, and one rambunctious toddler. In her ideal world, she’d do nothing but drink lots of tea and read from a never-ending pile of speculative fiction books.
Sarah has been running Bookworm Blues, a popular and highly respected speculative fiction book review website for eight years. She ran a weekly column on SF Signal called Special Needs in Strange Worlds, talking about the importance of disabilities in the genre for three years. She is a regular guest on genre podcasts, and has been a panelist at several large literary conventions in her area. She has been a judge for the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off, hosted by Mark Lawrence for three years running. Sarah has had a few editorial pieces published, most recently by Jim C. Hines in Indivisible 2. She currently works as a freelance developmental and copy editor and takes a ridiculous amount of pride in the fact that she reads roughly 200 books a year.
You can find her annoying people on Twitter as @BookwormBlues, on Facebook, and here, on Bookworm Blues.
