About the Author

In addition to her work as a writer, editor, artist, and publisher, JM Landels teaches swordplay and riding - sometimes both at the same time - in Richmond, BC. She draws on this experience, as well as her time as a rock musician and childbirth educator, to inform her debut fantasy novel, Allaigna's Song: Overture.

Reviews

"Magically unputdownable! JM Landels not only knows her magic, music, and swords, she knows how to weave all these elements into an exciting, enchanting, and uplifting tale. More please!" - CC Humphreys, award-winning author of Plague and Shakespeare's Rebel."From the very first page, JM Landels draws me into Allaigna's brilliantly observed world, a land rich in conflict and magic. Landels is gifted gives her readers those greatest of rewards, surprise turns and great character growth and transformation. Subtle and powerful, her writing always pleases." - Mel Anastasiou, author of Stella Ryman and the Fairmount Manor Mysteries."I love the characters and [their] stories. I want to read them again and again." - Cathy Levinson."I very much liked what I read, finding Allaigna, whom I very much want to revisit, possessed of strong voice and character." - Fletcher Vredenburgh, BlackGate.com"Allaigna by JM Landels is satisfying fantasy with the emotional grit and depth that could only be written by a mother of girls. It's part romance, part step-family dynamics, part magical coming-of age story, braided together in narratives that have distinct yet overlapping points of view." - Susan Pieters"The fantastic detail of Allaigna's adventures would've been enough to keep me hooked. But it is her spirit, and the emotional history tying her family together, that really makes this an epic." - Amanda Bidnall, author of The West Indian Generation"For everybody out there who hasn't been reading it in serialized form in Pulp Literature, do yourself a favour and buy it! Heck, buy it even if you read the serialized version already! It's that good." - Alana Krider