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The Firebird Chronicles will be a three part series written by Yorkshire based author Daniel Ingram-Brown, with book 1 published and book 2 due out in May 2016. Book 1 Rise of the Shadow Stealers Fletcher and Scoop are Apprentice Adventurers from the ancient establishment of Blotting’s Academy on Fullstop Island – the place where all story characters are trained. The trouble is, they can’t remember how they got there. It’s the first day of term but the two apprentices soon realise something’s wrong. Things are going missing – including their own memories – and Scoop has the unsettling feeling that something is creeping in the shadows. As the children search for answers, they become entangled with the life of the Storyteller, the island’s creator and king. They journey to his wedding banquet and find themselves uncovering a hidden past. What is their connection to this mysterious man? And is there more to him than meets the eye? This is a story of murder, Dream Analysis, Plot Knotters, Noveltwist Cordial, an exploding casket, a girl called Wisdom and her magical treehouse, and the battle between the firebird princess and her shadowy nemesis. The Shadow Stealers is published by John Hunt Publishing under their Our Street Books imprint. The Rise of the Shadow Stealers will be available as an audio book in March 2016.

The Nemesis Charm, the second book in the Firebird Chronicles series is due to be published on May 27th 2016 with a launch in Waterstones Leeds at 7pm. They say only the dead can cross a Threshold, the dead and those who have faced a Nemesis Charm. When Apprentice Adventurers, Fletcher and Scoop, discover their mother has fallen under the curse of a strange sickness, they prepare to sail for its source, a Threshold, a doorway to the world beyond the Un-Crossable Boundary. But they are not the only ones seeking to cross the Threshold. Their old enemy, Grizelda, has heard that beyond the Boundary lives a woman with the same power as the Storyteller. With the help of a monster made with an undead heart, she plans to cross the Boundary and steal that power for herself. If she succeeds, the Academy, the island and everything in Fletcher and Scoop’s world will be hers.

You can follow Daniel Ingram-Brown on Twitter @daningrambrown or @firebirdchrncls

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