This is an established fantasy author (A Bad Spell In Yurt and other book is the Yurt series, issued by Baen). Release will be supported by a full-page advertisement in Locus, SF Chronicle, and SFWA.
New light fantasy from the author of, Bad Spell in Yurt. When the king goes on vacation, Daimbert, wizard to the king, learns there's a great deal to be said for the quiet life, as he faces an all-too-beguiling wood nymph, a plague of magical horned rabbits, a scandalous duchess's fondess for you...
Love and magic don't mix, and neither do wizardry and the church. But that doesn't stop Daimbert, the royal wizard of Yurt. When Daimbert discovers that the woman he's loved for years is marrying someone else, he decides to leave Yurt for Caelrhon. But no one wants him there and he senses hidden ...
A new wizard's adventure by the author of A Bad Spell in Yurt. The king of Yurt, his nephew, a prince, a priest and a wizard set out on a quest with differing goals for each member. They encounter intrigue, treachery, black magic and a big blue djinn. Only the wizard's ingenuity may be able to sa...
The tiny kingdom of Yurt is the perfect place--or so it seems--for someone who barely managed to graduate from the wizards' school, especially after all that embarrassment with the frogs. But Daimbert, newly hired Royal Wizard of Yurt, senses an evil spell at work. But who could be responsible? T...
It's not surprising that the daughter of a witch and a wizard has some innate magical aptitude, and Daimbert is more than willing to nurture her talent. But he's finding he also has to play dad to the rest of the younger genertion of Yurt. The duchess' stubborn twin daughters want to be respectiv...
Galoran: a scarred and wounded soldier, he has been cast out of his emperor's service now that his usefulness as an officer is over. But Galoran's life takes an unexpected turn when he learns that a distant cousin has died mysteriously -- and left him heir to a castle and the title that goes with...
A breakthrough quest fantasy by the author of A Bad Spell in Yurt. Earth and sky are ruled by the immortal Wanderers, the lords of voima--the magical force of life and renewal. But an upheaval is coming, so the Wanderers enlist the help of three young mortals, who will be swept into a tremendous ...
Dale - Wizard of Yurt 02 @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Part One. The Hermitage When it was over, the living back where they belonged—or someplace else—and the dead buried, I thought again of the day it al began. I wanted to keep Yurt the charming, bucolic, little ou...
Dale - Wizard of Yurt 03 @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Mage Quest Wizard of Yurt, Book 3 C. Dale Brittain 1993 ISBN: 0-671-72169-0 Part One. Quest I Christmas was over, and everyone was grumpy—that is, everyone except the king. King Haimeric of Yurt came back inside...
Dale - Wizard of Yurt 05 @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Prologue She was slimy, streaked with blood, squaling, and so smal I could hold her in my cupped hands. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. The midwife whipped her away from me, washed and dried her...
Dale - Count Scar @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } C DALE BRITTAIN C DALE BRITTAIN ROBERT A, BOUCHARD ROBERT A, BOUCHARD COUNT SCAR COUNT SCAR Chapter One ~ Caloron Chapter One ~ Caloron 1 1 Snow had fallen steadily all day, muffling the sounds of hooves. As we sat aro...
And yet he looked oddly familiar. He gazed out to sea as though deep in thought. Gulls soared high against the sky, and several heavy-laden ships were heading out with the tide. Heading for the Far Islands, I thought, with a twinge of nostalgia I did not want. Once I would have known what was ...
But then Hadwidis laughed. "I'll tell you the whole story when I've got you safe," she said briskly, taking charge. "Come on! We've got to get you further away from Elerius while he's still distracted." She took each by the arm and dragged them away from the castle, while I tried to keep up. "Wha...
It wasn't very much snow, a light dusting in the courtyard, but as evening came on it rose and whirled in the wind, and made al of us in the great hal linger around the fireplace after supper. Through the tal windows, I could see the moon, slightly orange and half obscured by whipping clouds, wha...
The first morning I strolled through the city for several hours, probing for wizards or magical creatures and seeing no one I knew except Prince Lucas, who turned deliberately away. Finally I spotted her coming out of a garment retailer's. But after that I abandoned all pretense and we arranged o...