Chantz

Qwyrk can’t get a break. Spring is springing, but she’s stuck breaking up drunken faery fights as Beltane approaches. She really wants to take things to the next level with her possibly-probably-girlfriend Holly, but she keeps coming down with a chronic case of chickening out.

And now, her best human friend, Jilly Pleeth, has had a rather odd encounter. While attending a concert by her favorite band, the Mystic Wedding Weasels, Jilly was amazed by their enigmatic singer, Chantz. There’s something downright magical about her voice, something so magical that an evil force from outside this world wants her for nefarious reasons. But will Chantz succumb to its lure?

Chantz is the third in a series of four novels about the comic misadventures of a group of misfits at the edge of normal reality in modern northern England, a world of shadows, Nighttime Nasties, eldritch screaming horrors, appalling neo-Shakespearean sonnets, undead corvids, an abundance of verbal sparring, and…

Qwyrk is not an elf, all right? They’re just silly!

Published by Thousand Acres, an imprint of Armin Lear Press.

Order from your beloved local bookstore, or your favorite online vendor
or maybe just ask the Nighttime Nasties to pilfer a copy and give it to you…
on second thought, please don’t do that!

“There’s never a dull moment when it comes to the lives of Qwyrk and Jilly, and Chantz continues to perform and enchant in new ways as we discover more about them and their friends. Readers will dive into another page-turning adventure full of not only myth and magic, but whole cauldrons full of wit and heart!”

~ Laura Tempest Zakroff, author of Visual Alchemy and Weave the Liminal

“Libraries seeking fantasy stories that either expand the series origins or stand nicely on their own will find Chantz a compelling adventure. It neatly juxtaposes real-world concerns with the concurrent presence of magical forces underlying them for a rich read in fantasy and social ideals alike.”

~ Donovan’s Literary Services/Midwest Book Review

Praise for Qwyrk:

“I liked this book a great deal! Charming and funny, the characters are delightful, and it’s scary exactly where it should be. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything.”

~ Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn

Praise for Lluck:

“Qwyrk and Jilly are back, on a new crusade to save a boy named Lluck who is having some rather bad luck in Leeds. Once more evil forces are on the move, and an unlikely alliance of Otherworldly beings and mortals are the only defense. The worldview is wacky, the plot line is twisty, the dialogue is a demented fruitcake of British humor, and you won’t be able to stop turning the pages…”

~ Diana L. Paxson, author of Sword of Avalon