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.

An increasingly important character to the series is Zoantheria, the Coral Dragon.  This tiny dragon appears as an egg given to Senta for safe-keeping in Book 4: The Young Sorceress.  The egg hatches in Book 5: The Two Dragons (making three dragons that actually appear in the book).  In Book 6: The Sorceress and her Lovers, Zoantheria is about the size of a house cat, and begins to speak, telling Senta her name.  In The Price of Magic, the dragon has grown larger than a dog and has her own adventures to take part in.

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.

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.

Of course the main character in any Senta and the Steel Dragon Book is Senta.  Senta Bly began as a small child in Book 0: Brechalon and has grown to a woman and a powerful sorceress by time The Price of Magic takes place.  Senta is twenty-three and has very little to fear from the world it seems.  Things that others find dangerous are mere annoyances to her.  She lets her relationships falter and pays little attention to those who care for her.

In this book Senta’s daughter is three years old.  We first saw her as an infant in The Sorceress and her Lovers.  The relationship of her mother’s lovers is really all about who Sen’s father really is.

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.

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.

Three characters who do not appear in the book are mentioned many times– Kafira, Garstone, and Zurfina.

As readers of the series know, Kafira Kristos occupies the same spot in the lives of the people of Birmisia and Brechalon as Jesus Christ does in our world.  Kafira is the daughter of God and the Holy Savior.  She is also the foundation of a great deal of unsavory language– Kafira’s tit!

Kazia Garstone is a writer of great renown, frequently mentioned throughout the series.  Her books are well-known, but she is not popular with the aristocratic Brechs because of her socialistic leanings.  Nevertheless, she is one of Iolana Staff’s favorites.

Zurfina, the greatest sorceress perhaps of all time, the mother of Senta, disappeared at the end of The Two Dragons and is presumed dead.  About the only person that believes she might not be is Senta.

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.

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.

Another lizzie character in The Price of Magic is Tokkenoht.  We met her, a female lizzie shaman, something of a rarity, in Book 6: The Sorceress and her Lovers.  At that point, she was already one of Hsranduss’s six wives, and by the end of the book, we see the king relying on her more and more.

In this book, Tokkenoht goes from being a relatively important character to being a major character– one from whose eyes we see much of the action in the book.  A quick note about her name.  I found when I was fleshing out characters to go into book six, that I had way too many lizzie names that started with S sounds.  I had established that they had names that began with a T sound, so I wanted something that sounded both vaguely Egyptian and vaguely Aztec.

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.

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 mentioned many of the human characters in previous weeks, but there are quite a few lizzie characters as well.  One of them played a quite prominent role in yesterday’s excerpt.  The lizzies  are the native lizardman race of Birmisia, and they have had mixed relations with the humans, to put it mildly.  Hsrandtuss is a major character and an important one.  He is king of the llizzie city of Yessonarah.  In Book 4: The Young Sorceress, Hsradtuss first appears when Senta and Bessemer visit his village of Hiisierra.  Hsrandtuss realizes that hitching his future to the new dragon god, might prove a big advantage.  In Book 6: The Sorceress and her Lovers, he shows up to do just that, and is encouraged to found the city of Yessonarah.

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 Smashwords.

We continue to look at the many characters appearing in The Price of Magic. I won’t tell you what happens to them in the book, but if you haven’t read the earlier books in the series– watch out. Spoiler Alert.

Aalwijn and Gaylene Finkler make their first appearances in Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land, though both are mentioned in the previous volume: Aalwijn as the son of Mrs. Finkler, the breadmaker, and Gaylene as the sister of Graham Dokkins.  Both make appearances in Book 2 and Book 3: The Drache Girl.  At the end of the latter book, we see the two of them getting together as a result of the lizzie attack on the town.

By Book 4: The Young Sorceress, they are married with children and Gaylene has another on the way by Book 5: The Two Dragons.  Aalwijn is a successful restauranteur in Port Dechantagne and Gaylene is his proud wife.  Senta and Gaylene are forever connected and split apart by the death of Graham.

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 for Kindle.

We continue to look at the many characters appearing in The Price of Magic. I won’t tell you what happens to them in the book, but if you haven’t read the earlier books in the series– watch out. Spoiler Alert.

Willa and Ascan Tice are sister and brother, members of the Zaeri minority in Birmisia.  Both first appeared in Book 3: The Drache Girl as children of Koenrad and Adabelle Tice.  In a more mature form, the two appear at Iolana’s Accord Day party in Book 5: The Two Dragons.

Despite being a few years older, Willa is one of Iolana Staff’s best friends, and it is fairly obvious that Iolana has a crush on Ascan.  Perhaps he feels the same way about “‘Lana”.

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 for Kindle.