Big news! This week, my first book’s cover has been designed, and I couldn’t be more in love with it. Even just seeing the mockups and how they’ve been changing, and speaking with my cover artist, has made everything so much more real. I’ve been working on this book since I was in my A Levels at secondary school, but the book used to be set in a futuristic UK setting. It’s only over the last year or so that it’s become a full on fantasy novel, and ever since that rewrite, I’ve had so much fun expanding on the characterisation, plot and the world-building that comes with it!
I will have a cover reveal dropping here very soon, but for now, check out Steel Princess‘s blurb. Maybe in July next year, you might like to give it a read? If you do, be sure to leave a review and let me know what you think!
TWO WORLDS: ONE OF MAGIC, ONE OF STEEL.
She just wants to belong.
Determined to fit in and connect with her human friends, android Silver has always felt like an outsider within her human travelling community. In the Queendom of Elysia, humans are seen as outsiders, their steel Queen claiming every last one of them as rebels. They’ve always been on the run.
Like her mother, Silver just wants to help others.
But when cruel Queen Magnolia’s soldiers come looking for their missing Princess, who was stolen by rebels when she was only three years old, Silver begins to unravel an endless string of secrets woven into the family she has always cared for. Could her parents have stolen her from the Elysian palace when she was small? Worse, could she be the Princess they’re looking for?
After journeying to their Northern Mountain Sanctuary where her parents were born, Silver finds a new purpose:
She must kill the cruel Queen and take her throne before she destroys them all.
He only longs to know who he really is.
Tinker Eden has only ever known life in the palace lab. Taken from his home in the Northern Mountain Sanctuary when he was only three years old and brought to the palace, he spends his days working under close supervision of Master Lennox, building, rebuilding and repairing the Elysian android royals until his fingers bleed. He knows nothing of his parents or their lives, and remembers barely a thing of his childhood, leaving far too many questions about his own life unanswered.
So when Master Lennox’s assistant reveals he’s been working with a community outside of Elysia and sends him to the Sanctuary where he was born to work on the missing Princess, Eden seeks the opportunity to return home and learn more about where he came from. When Silver and Eden meet, their connection is clear, but things don’t always go to plan. Kidnapped by pirates while searching for his parents at the Elysian harbour, Eden finds himself caught up in an adventure across the seas to Elysia’s magical enemy Kingdom of Panyria, who have plans to infiltrate the Steel Queendom.
He discovers a world full of magic, new friends, and the family he’s always wished he had.
Both only want to make the world a fairer place for everyone.
April Grace 