Announcing: Words of Fury (Words of Power series book 2) by acclaimed UK fantasy author Ritchie Valentine Smith

From: Emily Mullen
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Announcing: Words of Fury (Words of Power series book 2) by acclaimed UK fantasy author Ritchie Valentine Smith


I'm thrilled to announce that WORDS OF FURY (the second novel in the 3-volume Words of Power series) by acclaimed UK fantasy author Ritchie Valentine Smith is now on sale!

Smith imagines what has been called a "samurai wonderland" -- an imagining of Japan slowly growing in conflict with the west’s steampunk mysticism. But the realms of our hero Emmanuel "Man" Kinross is imbued with a magic wholly different from the usual medieval European fair of most fantasy. The city of Jade, the land of Albion, and the Lord of the North confronts our heroes in a multicultural battle were persecuted Christians fight for freedom.

Ritchie Valentine Smith talks about his new magical fantasy, WORDS OF FURY, during Reddit AMA

"Smith’s novel has an impressive density but equally moments where it reads almost like biblical psalms, a sort of Tolkein-esque prose reminiscent of The Silmarillion...Lovers of fantasy fiction will find in Words of Fury an intricate story already underway beckoning them to join, to follow along." --Reviewed by Daniel Casey, Misanthropester.com

FOR IMMEDIWORDS OF FURY
by Ritchie Valentine Smith
Award-winning writer of ‘Rocket Man’

WORDS OF FURY, volume 2 in the Words of Power samurai fantasy series, will be released for the first time in the U.S. on Tuesday, Oct. 17th from the UK-based indie publisher, RVSMedia (Amazon ISBN-13: 978-1544214832; paperback $17.99; also available as Kindle eBook).

To the people who live in this book, our world is the fantasy, but events here have powerful consequences there...

Now imagine the great multi-cultural city Jade, which trade and freedom has made rich. The walls are going up around Foreigners’ Town and the persecution is starting. However, a handful of heroes manage to escape by balloon. As they fight back, they must find sanctuary in a psychic fortress called “The Waning of the Moon” or their world will end…and so will ours.

WORDS OF FURY has real heart and magic. In it Emmanuel Kinross, ‘Man’ to his friends, has been exiled from Albion to a samurai Japan where steam-powered Europe is arriving. His opponent is the Lord of the North, but this entity isn’t human, and doesn’t just do dark magic: he represents cold, entropy, and the power of death.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ritchie Valentine Smith is a poet, writer of international thrillers, and an award-winning playwright for 'Rocket Man' who has become a powerful voice in contemporary fantasy. The author has travelled extensively to write the Words of Power fantasy series, and was in Israel when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. He has also visited Japan, where the story starts. Smith will be at the British Fantasy Society’s Fantasycon Sept. 29th-Oct. 1st, in Peterborough where he’ll launch WORDS OF FURY. He has been involved in SFF since he was a teenager, and was in anthologies with Brian Aldiss, Christopher Priest, Rob Holdstock, Ramsey Campbell, and Keith Roberts. A current member of the Crime Writers’ Association, Smith’s theatre work includes ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘Kiss’. He is currently working on a sequence of fantasies, which will be on sale at Fantasycon. For more info, please visit the author’s website at www.ritchievalentinesmith.com.

**Praise for the author’s work:

David Wingrove (Chung Kuo) - “A wonderful story, in the spirit of Robert Jordan.”

Thebookbag.co.uk (4 stars) - “...a story that comes to us dripping with fantasy-satisfying magic (and with) a thundering good denouement.”

AMAZON READERS – “Magic, mystery and danger...hard to put down.” “A very smooth read. The exotic samurai background is accessible and (the writer) really believes in what he’s writing.” “Extraordinarily well-written fantasy...twists and plot-turns all along the way.”

METRO – “There is a latent power in the story that can’t be ignored.”

THREE WEEKS – “Decidedly explosive…you’re left guessing until the very end. This goes with a bang.”

***Coming in 2018: WORDS OF DARKNESS, volume 3 in the Words of Power series, is scheduled for 2018. Stay tuned for more info!