We continue to look at the long list of characters who appear in The Price of Magic. Most have appeared in previous books in the series. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Isaak Wissinger is one of my favorite characters in Senta and the Steel Dragon.  That may be because he’s a writer.  He’s first mentioned in Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land, when one of his books is passed around.  In Book 4: The Young Sorceress, he makes his first appearance in a ghetto of Freedonia.  He makes his escape with the help of Zurfina, who becomes his lover.  I was very glad to have a place for him in The Price of Magic.  If you’ve been reading the excerpt here, you’ve already read a bit of him.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.

Find The Price of Magic wherever fine ebooks are sold, including HERE at Amazon.

We continue to look at the long list of characters who appear in The Price of Magic. Most have appeared in previous books in the series. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

We’ve watched Yuah Dechantagne’s life from the very beginning of Senta and the Steel Dragon.  We watched her unrequited love for Terrence in Book 0: Brechalon, and her fighting to save him from himself in Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur.  When they get married in Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land,  that love is only slightly requited.  They seem to be finally getting together in Book 3: The Drache Girl, when Terrence is killed, while Yuah is pregnant with their daughter Terra.  Then in Book 4: The Young Sorceress and Book 5: The Two Dragons, we find her addicted to the same horrible drug that so troubled her late husband.  In the latter book, we really get to know little Terra for the first time, when she’s almost eaten by a deinonychus.  Since then, we’ve seen only a bit of either of them, but both make appearances in The Price of Magic, Terra much more than her mother.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.

Find The Price of Magic wherever fine ebooks are sold, including HERE at Amazon.

We continue to look at the long list of characters who appear in The Price of Magic. Most have appeared in previous books in the series. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Iolanthe is one of the primary characters in the story of Senta and the Steel Dragon.  She drives the action in book 0:Brechalon and book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur.  She has large parts to play in Book 3: The Drache Girl and Book 5: The Two Dragons.  Though she has taken a back seat to much of the action in the last two books, she remains a hugely important character to the overall story.

Some readers have complained to me that they find Iolanthe a bit one-sided.  There’s no doubt that her main feature is that she’s a bitch (and so she’s incredibly fun to write).  On the other hand, there is a different side to her when she’s dealing with her and her brother Terrence and her second husband Radley Staff. I think readers might detect another side to her in this book.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.

Find The Price of Magic wherever fine ebooks are sold, including HERE at Amazon.

We continue to look at the long list of characters who appear in The Price of Magic. Most have appeared in previous books in the series. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

The aboriginal people of Birmisia, the lizzies, play a large part in the story of Senta and the Steel Dragon.  They appear in every book, as enemies, as heroes, as friends, and frequently as household servants.  Most of the wealthy families of Birmisia have lizzie servants.  The Dechantagne household has several, including Garrah and Kayden.

Of the lizzies in the book, Esther stands out.  Raised from a tiny preadolescent by Iolana Staff, she speaks fluent Brech and unlike any other lizzie, wears clothing.  She also becomes the first lizzie to do several other things in The Price of Magic.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.

Find The Price of Magic wherever fine ebooks are sold, including HERE at Amazon.

We continue to look at the long list of characters who appear in The Price of Magic. Most have appeared in previous books in the series. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Marzell Lance is a character that has been around throughout much of the series of Senta and the Steel Dragon.  In Book 3: The Drache Girl, we find him working as a driver for the Dechantagne household.  In Book 5: The Two Dragons, he is in the militia and happens to sit next to Senta as she makes her way by train to Iguanodon Heath prior to the final battle with the lizzies.

I’m going to break a rule and give a little away of what happens to the character in The Price of Magic.  Marzell gets engaged to a young lady that some might think a bit out of his reach.  One of my favorite lines in the book goes something like, “but your you, and he’s Marzell.”

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.

Find The Price of Magic wherever fine ebooks are sold, including HERE at Amazon.

We continue to look at the long list of characters who appear in The Price of Magic. Most have appeared in previous books in the series. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Senta and the Steel Dragon Bessemer are the title characters for the series and Senta has been the title character for three of the individual books.  In each book however, there are others who play a major part.  This is never more true than in The Price of Magic, where the single greatest mover of the plot is Iolana Livonia Dechantagne Staff.  We first meet Iolana as a toddler in Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land.  She’s present in Book 3: The Drache Girl, where she manages to survive the attack on her home that kills many others.  She has a much larger part in Book 4: The Young Sorceress, where she is starting to come into her own a bit, and we find out that she has a connection with the steel dragon.  In Book 5: The Two Dragons, he saves her (and several other family members) from being eaten by a flock of deinonychus.  Then her Accord Day party is the scene for a great deal of the colony’s society coming together.  Finally, in Book 6: The Sorceress and her Lovers, she gets involved with the magical computer known as the Result Mechanism.  In many ways, The Price of Magic is the climax of her story.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.

Find The Price of Magic wherever fine ebooks are sold, including HERE at iBooks.