The Arcane Prophecy finally has a face to the name
The Arcane Prophecy finally has its cover, and it exemplifies YA fantasy with the good old libertarian twist my readers expect.
If you want tropey YA academy fantasy, you’re not getting it in this book, so you can clear out now. I didn’t write The Arcane Prophecy to impress mindless readers who want an escape from life. We’ll have plenty of time for escape once we’re dead, so let’s throw caution to the wind while we’re here.
It was my game plan with this YA fantasy I concocted after reading about a Harry Potter fan fiction question on Quora. One that said, Why didn’t Voldemort just adopt Harry?
So I said, Why not turn the concept into a book? But without fan fiction and overused genre tropes those paying for Kindle Unlimited subscriptions devour.
Hell, you could give those people an automated AI story engine and they’ll put plenty of authors out of business without blinking an eye. Not that the binge crowd gives a damn, anyway.
No. I wrote The Arcane Prophecy for readers with brains, highlighting Rothbardian society and free market education choice.
Yeah, I can see teachers’ unions calling the feds for that one. Anyone other than the state and the Miss Carolines of the world educating children is a crime to these people because “backward thinking” parents are supposedly incapable.
Maybe if you want a society of human cogs and drones…
You’re still getting a story in The Arcane Prophecy
Could you call my protagonist, Yote Diamondback, a chosen one? Maybe. Read the book, and you can decide.
Can you claim people like her sister, Jett, and the mainstream education establishment alienate her? Come on, you know where this is going…
Three-act structure? Check. An antagonist whose guts you’ll hate? Check again. And a protagonist who can throw fire better than she can throw punches? Hey, there’s elemental magic involved.
They’re hot topics in The Arcane Prophecy, but so is what life looks like in Aurora, the village housing Arcane Elemental Academy.
You don’t get public services there; the free market produces everything, even the roads.
Will showing it off slow the story down? Again, I’ll let you decide, but my core readers don’t mind.
I’ve shown how mainstream society works in most of my books, and they loved it. Why would I do any different here?
You’re getting a YA story set in an Autsro-libertarian village. So this work promotes a certain Chaos Theory.
Formulaic genre fiction’s migraine-inducing anyway
Overdone, saturated, and more stale than cornflakes that’ve been sitting in your cupboard for months. That’s fine for simple minds, but for readers who want more? Oh, you’re getting shades of Ayn Rand meets J.K. Rowling here, guaranteed.
But not the same book you’ve read a million times before. Why? Because this one’s not gonna be “set and forget” once you’re finished. It’s gonna make your mind go to work.
And now, we’re a step closer. We got the cover for Book I, and she’s a 10 outta 10.
It screams YA fantasy vibes, but with hints of mystery that the school and its surrounding area hold. It’s got enough in there to show it’s lighter than some of my reads, but there are also hints of darkness.
If that sounds like your kind of YA fantasy, then get your hands on the book’s prequel novella, Arcane Awakenings, and meet Yote Diamondback.
