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Magic Thief event is live at AQ!!!

For those of you who are already AQ players–welcome to my site!  If you have any questions about Conn or magic or the Wellmet world, here is the place to ask (in the comments).

To readers of the Magic Thief books, if you want to quest with Conn, you can play a free Magic Thief adventure at Adventure Quest.  It's a massively multiplayer online role playing game enjoyed by millions of players around the world.  It's free to register!  You can go on a biscuit hunt, battle misery eels, and join...

Yes, this is the AQ book!

Hi there, O Heroic ones!  Chaorrupted wizards!  Misery eels!  Biscuits!

Welcome to my website–and yes, my book The Magic Thief is what the latest AQ event is based on.

As a note for you AQ players around the world, it's possible my book is available in your country  So far it's been published in the following languages, so if it's in your country and you want to read about Conn and Rowan's magical adventures, you can probably find it at your library or bookstore.

English (US, UK, Australia, New ...

Magic Thief #4!

Every day readers show up at my website using search terms like this:

magic thief 4 by sarah prineas

and

is the fourth magic thief book going to come out?

and

the magic thief book four

and

is there a fourth magic thief???

And AT LAST I can answer that question with a big, giant, happy YES!!!  There is a fourth Magic Thief  book–it is written, and my wonderful publisher, HarperCollins Childrens, is going to publish it.  I'm not absolutely sure yet when it'll be out–maybe not for a while–but it's...

(Contest ended) Win an ARC of GOBLIN SECRETS (plus extra prize)!

THE CONTEST HAS ENDED!!  Thanks for stopping by–do come again!

 

 

I have hereby given up trying to get my dog into these book pictures.  She's a Rottie and she's stubborn, and she just won't do it.  So it's paws up for William Alexander's terrific MG debut Goblin Secrets, coming in March from Margaret McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster.  It recently got a starred review from Kirkus!

You can win a copy!  All you have to do to enter is pick a number between 1 and 225 and post it in the comments...

Win an ARC of GOBLIN SECRETS (plus extra prize)!

 I have hereby given up trying to get my dog into these book pictures.  She's a Rottie and she's stubborn, and she just won't do it.  So it's paws up for William Alexander's terrific MG debut Goblin Secrets, coming in March from Margaret McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster.  It recently got a starred review from Kirkus!

You can win a copy!  All you have to do to enter is pick a number between 1 and 225 and post it in the comments. I'll respond with a line from that page in the book. When we're...

Win an ARC of ABOVE WORLD!

This is not a nice cat.   She doesn't like me; she detests my dog.  She has shredded the couch and the comfy chair in the living room.  She turns up her whiskered nose at cat treats.  She hates everything.

Well, almost everything.

Because she looooooves this:

It's Above World, a fabulous middle grade adventure by debut author Jenn Reese, and it's coming out from Candlewick on February 14th.  YOU can join my evil cat in her love of this wonderful book, because I'm giving away an ARC, along with s...

Today is the day!

Yup, my new book, Winterling, is released into the world today.

As is traditional, I celebrate book-release day by posting the acknowledgements page.

No book is created only by its author.  Without a publisher the book would be a mess, and without friends and supporters the writer's life would be a lonely one.

So without further ado, the acks for Winterling:

 

Beginning with the dedication:

To Jenn Reese.  For you, and for the girl you once were.

 

Acknowledgements.  Many thanks…

To my wonderful...

Winterling Book Trailer

Here it is, the book trailer for Winterling!  I'm not really much of a book trailer fan, but I have to admit that the ending of this one gave me a chill.

Click here for the Winterling book trailer

If you watch it on YouTube, you can click on the snowflake button on the bottom bar, there, for the full wintery effect:

Battle On!

The contract is signed and everything is set, so at last I can tell my fun and exciting news, which is that Artix Entertainment is doing a Magic Thief "event" as part of their AdventureQuest massively multiplayer online role-playing game.  They've done "events" before with music-related people including They Might Be Giants and Paul and Storm; I'm the first author (though I'm told there will be more).

The event is like a side-story within the larger AQ world.  Regular AQ players can go into...

Win a signed ARC of WINTERLING!

AND… the contest is over and random.org has chosen a winner. Weirdly, it was the number chosen by somebody who entered just for a line and not for the ARC, so I've gone to the next-closest number.

Thanks for entering!!

My dog

 

does not like

my book.

 

But some other people do!

"What a wonderful, imaginative alternate world Prineas has created for this book!" –Kristin Cashore, author of the New York Times bestsellers Graceling and Fire.

"Filled with wonder and with characters both devious and...