Spirit Singer
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Winner of the 2002 Regina Book AwardΒ (one of theΒ Saskatchewan Book Awards)
Winner of a 2002Β Dream Realm AwardΒ (young adult category)Β for excellence in e-published science fiction, fantasy, and horror
Winner of the 2002Β EPPIE AwardΒ for best electronically published young adult fiction
Amarynth is a Spirit Singer, gifted β or cursed, as sheΒ Β sometimes thinks β with the ability to lead the spirits of the dead from the Lower World through the Between World to the Gate of the Upper World and the Light that lies beyond it.
While she is still an apprentice. her grandfather and tutor dies, slain by a mysterious creature in the Between World, an evil Beast that is blocking access to the Upper Worldβs Gate. Without a Spirit Singer, her village cannot survive, so Amarynth embarks on a hazardous quest to find out what the Beast is, how it can be defeated, and how she can become a full-fledged Spirit Singer β a quest that takes her not only from her tiny seacoast home to the city of Havenheart and the haunted mountains of the south, but across the even more rugged terrain of her own soul.
PRAISE FOR SPIRIT SINGER
ββ¦a strong, well-written book with great adventure andΒ sympathetic charactersβ¦βΒ β Canadian Literature Magazine
βA fast-paced, spiritual quest book, full of narrow escapes, evil masquerading as goodβ¦adventure, dreams, and bits of wisdom. Written for teens, but this fifty-something guy had a great time.βΒ β David Waltner-Toews
βThe plot is fast-paced and clever, the writing never disappoints, and the author clearly keeps his target audience in mind. A great read from start to finish.βΒ β Shirlee Matheson
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Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of fantasy, science fiction, and non-fiction for all ages. He won the Canada's top science fiction award, the Aurora Award, for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009 for Marseguro (DAW Books); the sequel, Terra Insegura, was shortlisted for the same award. Other science fiction books from DAW include Lost in Translation, The Cityborn, and Worldshaper, which launched the new Worldshapers series. He's also the author of the fantasy novels Magebane (written as Lee Arthur Chane) and the Masks of Aygrima trilogy (written as E.C. Blake). Other titles include the five-book Shards of Excalibur young-adult fantasy series. Ed began his career as a reporter, photographer, columnist, cartoonist, and eventually editor for the Weyburn Review, then spent five years as communications officer for the then-fledgling Saskatchewan Science Centre. He's been a fulltime freelance writer (and actor and singer) for more than twenty-five years. His nonfiction runs the gamut from science books and biographies to local history. He lives in Regina with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P.Eng., their teenaged daughter, Alice, and their black Siberian cat, Shadowpaw.
