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I’m extremely happy to announce that IFWG Publishing International has taken on the publishing rights of Guardian of the Sky Realms, as well as the new sequel, Champion of the Sky Realms!

I should begin by saying that the previous publishers of Guardian were great to work with, but in each case, middle grade fantasy wasn’t strongly entrenched in their publishing branding, and so they reluctantly let go of the books and I made the decision to pick them up with my own publishing company. This is something I would not normally do, but given that two respectable publishing houses wanted to publish my first book, and one of them wanted to publish the second, I feel that the two titles ‘earned’ there way into my own business. And I’m excited!

I negotiated the retention of the cover art and most of the design of Guardian by the previous publisher because I absolutely loved it and I couldn’t see it being executed better. And, miracle of miracles, I got the same artist to do the artwork for Champion: kudos to Do Hung Hoang who is a masterful artist.

Hoang perfectly captured the essence of an important episode in Champions in this cover art, including a beautiful Sumerian vista far below the confrontation between Mirriam and her earlier incarnation, many thousands of years ago. Here is the full cover art, less the design:

IFWG will be announcing the release dates in coming weeks, but I thought I would get in early with the nuances of the publishing rights, as well as the sneak peeks!