{"id":2032,"date":"2009-10-14T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2009-10-14T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:51:11","slug":"an-aside-a-new-blurb-for-spellwright-by-blake-charlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/news\/an-aside-a-new-blurb-for-spellwright-by-blake-charlton\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | A new blurb for Spellwright by Blake Charlton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via his new website<\/a>, Charlton released a new blurb for his upcoming debut novel, Spellwright<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\"Spellwright\n

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Imagine a world in which you could peel written words off a page and make them physically real. You might pick your teeth with a sentence fragment, protect yourself with defensive paragraphs, or thrust a sharply-worded sentence at an enemy\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n

Such a world is home to Nicodemus Weal, an apprentice at the wizardly academy of Starhaven. Because of how fast he can forge the magical runes that create spells, Nicodemus was thought to be the Halcyon, a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent an event called the War of Disjunction, which would destroy all human language. There was only one problem: Nicodemus couldn\u2019t spell.<\/p>\n

Runes must be placed in the correct order to create a spell. Deviation results in a \u201cmisspell\u201d\u2014a flawed text that behaves in an erratic, sometimes lethal, manner. And Nicodemus has a disability that causes him to misspell texts simply by touching them.<\/p>\n

Now twenty-five, Nicodemus lives in the aftermath of failing to fulfill prophecy. He finds solace only in reading knightly romances and in the teachings of Magister Shannon, an old blind wizard who\u2019s left academic politics to care for Starhaven\u2019s disabled students.<\/p>\n

But when a powerful wizard is murdered with a misspell, Shannon and Nicodemus becomes the primary suspects. Proving their innocence becomes harder when the murderer begins killing male cacographers one by one\u2026and all evidence suggests that Nicodemus will be next. Hunted by both investigators and a hidden killer, Shannon and Nicodemus must race to discover the truth about the murders, the nature of magic, and themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I’ve got a review copy on the way, and I find myself getting more and more eager to get my hands on Spellwright<\/strong> which is unusual for a debut novelist. Everything I’ve heard about the novel (from the synopsis to advance praise to my upcoming interview with Charlton) make it seem like something that’s right up my alley. I’ll be taking an eager look at Spellwright<\/strong> as soon as it arrives on my doorstep and you can expect a review not long after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via his new website, Charlton released a new blurb for his upcoming debut novel, Spellwright: Imagine a world in which you could peel written words off a page and make them physically real. You might pick your teeth with a sentence fragment, protect yourself with defensive paragraphs, or thrust a sharply-worded sentence at an enemy\u2019s… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n