{"id":243,"date":"2016-02-02T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viscerate.com\/?page_id=243"},"modified":"2022-09-08T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T02:24:20","slug":"writing-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/?page_id=243","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Sorcerer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/finalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for Notorious Sorcerer\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/finalcover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/viscerate.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/finalcover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>In a city filled with dangerous yet heavily regulated alchemical magic, a man from the slums discovers he may be its only hope to survive certain destruction in this wickedly entertaining fantasy.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging bravi race through the night and rich and idle alchemists make magic out of mixing and measuring the four planes of reality.<\/p>\n<p>Siyon Velo, Dockside brat turned petty alchemist, scrapes a living hopping between the planes to harvest ingredients for the city\u2019s alchemists. But when Siyon accidentally commits an act of impossible magic, he\u2019s catapulted into the limelight\u2014which is a bad place to be when the planes start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send Bezim into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>It will take a miracle to save the city. Good thing Siyon has pulled off the impossible before. Now he just has to master it.<\/p>\n<p><b>A dazzling fantasy bursting with wild magic, chaotic sword-fighting street gangs, brazen flirting, malevolent harpies, and one defiant alchemist.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Out 13th September 2022 from Orbit in the US, UK and Australia!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59650738-notorious-sorcerer\">Add Notorious Sorcerer on GoodReads!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Buy <em>Notorious Sorcerer<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>I strongly encourage you to order from (and support) your local bookstore wherever you are in the world!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbit-books.co.uk\/titles\/davinia-evans\/notorious-sorcerer\/9780356518671\/\">Buy Notorious Sorcerer (UK)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/davinia-evans\/notorious-sorcerer\/9780316398039\/\">Buy Notorious Sorcerer (US)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachette.com.au\/davinia-evans\/notorious-sorcerer\">Buy Notorious Sorcerer (Aus)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Praise for\u00a0<em>Notorious Sorcerer<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u2018From the razor-sharp social climbing to the glimmering alchemist\u2019s library to the hidden realms beneath it all, I loved getting lost in this dazzling debut\u2019<\/strong> S. A. Chakraborty, author of <i>The City of Brass<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNotorious Sorcerer is firework of a fantasy novel: vibrant, explosive, deliciously dangerous and impossibly fun. A must-read debut.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013Tasha Suri, author of <em>The Jasmine Throne<\/em><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<\/i><b>\u2018<i>Notorious Sorcerer<\/i>&#8216;s unique magic system adds to this delightful fantasy setting, leaving readers eagerly anticipating the next book in the Burnished City series\u2019 <\/b><i>Booklist<\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u2018<b>Notorious Sorcerer<\/b><\/i><b>\u00a0feels like a dream you don\u2019t want to wake from<\/b>. . .\u00a0<b>I devoured it and want more!\u2019<\/b>\u00a0Melissa Caruso, author of <i>The Obsidian Tower<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018A delightful and fast-paced ride full of flashy swordplay, high society, and thrilling magic. . .\u00a0<\/b><b>Sheer, glorious fun!<\/b>\u2018 Freya Marske, author of\u00a0<i>A Marvellous Light<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2018Notorious Sorcerer<\/i>\u00a0is a real delight, with compelling characters and wonderful worldbuilding\u00a0<\/b>that sucks the reader in and keeps them engaged from beginning to end\u2019 Mike Brooks, author of\u00a0<i>The Black Coast<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n<\/i><b>\u2018A brilliant alchemical recipe!\u00a0<\/b><i>Notorious Sorcerer<\/i>\u00a0is a delicious melange of my favourite things, remixing historical magic with class consciousness.\u00a0<b>I couldn\u2019t put it down\u2019\u00a0<\/b>Olivia Atwater, author of\u00a0<i>Half a Soul<\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i><b><br \/>\n<i>\u2018<\/i><\/b><b>If you like a healthy dollop of rollicking fun with your epic fantasy, this is the book for you\u2019\u00a0<\/b>Megan Bannen, author of\u00a0<i>The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Intricate and fascinating<\/strong> &#8211; I would eagerly read more tales of the city of Bezim&#8217; Marie Brennan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a city filled with dangerous yet heavily regulated alchemical magic, a man from the slums discovers he may be its only hope to survive certain destruction in this wickedly entertaining fantasy.\u00a0 Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging bravi race through the night and rich and idle alchemists make magic out of mixing and measuring the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/?page_id=243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Notorious Sorcerer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viscerate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}