Latest News
| 03.07.08 | Chez Bragelonne at Kultima |
| 05.03.08 | Spectra Pulse Author Blog |
| 04.02.08 | Bantam Dell podcast interview now online |
| 22.01.08 | Tracing the Shadow published in the US |
| 04.07.07 | Tracing the Shadow cover art! |
| 06.06.07 | Extract from Tracing the Shadow |
| 16.10.06 | Brand new Tears of Artamon Artwork |
| 24.05.06 | Announcing my new duology: Alchymist's Legacy |
| 19.09.05 | US Edition of Children of the Serpent Gate available soon |
| 19.01.05 | News Update |
| 08.02.04 | Extract from Prisoner of Ironsea Tower now online |
| 28.10.03 | Sarah Ash delivers the sequel to The Lord of Snow and Shadows |
| 17.08.03 | Sarah Ash on The Lord of Snow and Shadows |
03.07.08 - Chez Bragelonne at Kultima
Sarah is absolutely delighted to have been invited by Bragelonne to appear at the Kultima Festival des Cultures de l'Imaginaire in Paris alongside JapanExpo at the Parc d'Expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte. Full details at the Kultima Festival website:
Retrouvez auteurs et illustrateurs dans le cadre de Kultima les vendredi 4, samedi 5 et dimanche 6 juillet prochains. Sarah Ash sera présente en invitée d'honneur avec la participation de Kultima.
05.03.08 - Spectra Pulse Author Blog
Follow the links below to read Sarah's guest blog post as she comes to the end of writing Flight Into Darkness, the sequel to Tracing the Shadow:
www.facebook.com/pages/Spectra-Pulse
www.myspace.com/spectrapulsebooks
04.02.08 - Bantam Dell podcast interview now online
From February 4th you can hear the author herself (recovering from laryngitis!) talking about Tracing the Shadow and reading a short extract from the book in a Bantam Dell podcast.
Updated weekly, the Bantam Dell Podcast has a permanent feature on the Bantam Dell home page (www.bantamdell.com) as well as a dedicated page that visitors may click through to for more information. The podcast also has a dedicated home on iTunes.
22.01.08 - Tracing the Shadow published in the US
It gives me the greatest pleasure to announce the publication of Tracing the Shadow by Bantam Spectra. The first part of the story of Celestine de Joyeuse is now available, with the second part of Alchymist's Legacy, Flight into Darkness due to follow in a year's time.
See the Books page of the site for more information, an extract from the book, and links to ordering information from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
04.07.07 - Tracing the Shadow cover art!
One of the most exciting moments after delivering a manuscript is waiting with bated breath to see the artwork that's been commissioned by the publishers to go on the cover. And I was so excited when my editor, Anne Groell, sent me my first preview of the cover by talented artist Phil Heffernan.
I'm really thrilled and delighted to be able to present it to you! If you'd like to see more of his work, please do check out his website at www.philheffernan.com.
06.06.07 - Extract from Tracing the Shadow
Tracing the Shadow, the first book of Alchymist's Legacy, tells what happened in Francia (and elsewhere) some years before Lord of Snow and Shadows.
It isn't due to be published until Feburary 2008 by Bantam Spectra in the US (more details to follow soon!) but you can read an exclusive extract here on the site:
Read the extract from Tracing the Shadow
16.10.06 - Brand new Tears of Artamon Artwork
I'd been wondering for some time what image a manga [-inspired] artist might draw after reading The Tears of Artamon.
Here is Andy Hepworth's striking portrayal of Khezef after Gavril's final transformation in Children of the Serpent Gate.
To view more of Andy's work, please visit www.andyhepworth.com.
And here's a handy guide to identifying a Drahhaoul.
The Seven Angels of Destruction -- or the Seven Drakhaoulim
NILAIHAH -- the golden-tongued, the Poet (golden eyes)
BELBERITH -- the Warrior of the Malachite Armour (green eyes)
ADRAMELECH -- the Dreamer (amethyst eyes)
SAHARIEL -- the Spell-Binder (scarlet and black eyes)
ZA'AFIEL -- Silver-Haired, the Spinner of Winds (silver eyes)
KHEZEF -- the Bringer of Death (indigo eyes)
NAGAR/NAGAZDIEL-- Prince of the Realm of Shadows (black and scarlet eyes)
24.05.06 - Announcing my new duology: Alchymist's Legacy
I'm really delighted to be able to announce that Bantam Spectra has bought Alchymist's Legacy, a duology set in the world of Artamon.
Tracing the Shadow (Book One) will tell Celestine's story before the events that take place in Lord of Snow and Shadows and Flight into Darkness (warning -- these titles may change!) picks up the tale again after Children of the Serpent Gate.
Even though they will - I hope - be fun for readers of the first series to discover more about characters they have already met, I also intend these two books to be completely accessible to new readers. No publication dates yet, but I hope to post those soon.
So - a big thank you to all those of you who have supported The Tears of Artamon and have written asking for more. And also a big thank you to Bantam Spectra and my editor Anne Groell for making it possible.
19.09.05 - US Edition of Children of the Serpent Gate available soon
Children of the Serpent Gate - the gorgeous US hardback edition - will be available from the end of September 2005. I've just completed the proofs for the (equally gorgeous) UK edition, which will - all being well - be available to buy at the beginning of December. This is the third and final volume of The Tears of Artamon and I'm delighted that Publisher's Weekly has given it a starred review!
I've recently begun work on another series set in the same world called Embers of Empire, so keep your fingers crossed that a kind publisher will like it and take it on. Read more in my new interview with Jay Tomio at www.fantasybookspot.com.
19.01.05 - News Update
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have written to me via this website. I've been truly surprised and delighted to read all your comments, thoughts and good wishes. I've endeavoured to answer your questions as best I can! And I wanted to apologize if you've contacted me and not received a reply. Sometimes my ISP has returned my replies to you, saying that the address I'm sending to is not recognized. So do try again!
Prisoner of Ironsea Tower
The mass-market edition of Book Two of The Tears of Artamon (UK edition) is now available at £6.99. It also contains the first two chapters of Children of the Serpent Gate! The US mass-market edition follows in June 2005. Visit the books section for more information.
Children of the Serpent Gate
Book Three of the Tears of Artamon, Children of the Serpent Gate is now scheduled to come out in October 2005 from Transworld UK and Bantam Spectra US. Read the First Chapter here.
WORLDCON 2005 GLASGOW
I'm planning to be at the exciting INTERACTION (World Science Fiction Convention) in Glasgow in August 2005 and hope to have the chance to meet some of you there. I'll post other appearances before August here soon.
08.02.04 - Extract from Prisoner of Ironsea Tower now online
The second novel in the Tears of Artamon series will be published by Bantam Press in the UK on May 1st this year.
But if you don't want to wait that long for a taste of what's to come, you can click here to read the entire prologue and first chapter of Prisoner of Ironsea Tower right now.
28.10.03 - Sarah Ash delivers the sequel to The Lord of Snow and Shadows
Sarah has just delivered Prisoner of Ironsea Tower to Simon Taylor in the UK and Prisoner of the Iron Tower to Anne Groell in the US, so book two of The Tears of Artamon will have different titles on either side of the water!
And a new short story, 'Divina', has been published in UK genre magazine 'Interzone'. It's set in the world of Bel'Esstar, though many years later than Songspinners. Like all the Bel'Esstar stories, 'Divina' is set in the world of music, opera and singers.
17.08.03 - Sarah Ash on The Lord of Snow and Shadows
To mark the launch of www.Sarah-Ash.com, the author thought she'd tell us about the inspiration for this first installment in her brand new fantasy series, The Tears of Artamon.
"The idea for Lord of Snow and Shadows came to me some years ago with the single vivid image of a young man and a girl rescuing an injured owl in a snowy forest. Blood on the snow, wild golden eyes of a frightened creature, the towers of a haunted kastel looming behind them... All I knew at that moment was that the young man's life was tainted by a terrible family secret and that the girl, Kiukiu, was a servant in his household. That single image led to the slow unravelling of the story of Gavril Nagarian - and his dark inheritance.
"The discovery of the music of Reinhold Glière helped to shape the story in its early stages. His music to the Azeri folk legend 'Shakh-Senem' with its driving rhythms, evoked the wild, ghost-haunted moorlands of Azhkendir; 'The Bronze Horseman', by contrast, brought Mirom, capital of Muscobar to life, with its broad river and elegant Winter Palace. Memories of Russian hero legends first encountered in childhood were revived with Glière's Third Symphony and inspired the creation of the Drakhaon's fierce Azhkendi bodyguard, the druzhina.
"Lord of Snow and Shadows (Book One of The Tears of Artamon) grew from these little seeds into a fantasy saga of empire and thwarted ambition, enchantment and madness. In Azhkendir, the remote mountain kingdom he inherits from the father he never knew, Gavril encounters scientists and shamans, spies and sorcerers. And, haunting his every move, is the daemon-spirit he comes to know as the Drakhaoul.
"I've just delivered Prisoner of the Ironsea Tower (Book Two of The Tears of Artamon) and I'm starting to plot the intricacies of Book Three. I'm still having the greatest fun imaginable following the tortuous destinies and the loves and losses of Gavril and Kiukiu!"