Untalented

Saroya: Untalented, a stain on her family's honor. Orphaned and barred from the Guilds, she has nowhere to go when her Talent fails to emerge.

Loric: Brother-in-law to the king. Thwarted in his ambitions, he'd do anything to usurp the throne. And he finds just the scandal he needs when he unearths Saroya's hidden pedigree.

The Kingdom of Veyle: Where all power flows to the Talented, and where the Guilds and the Order of Adepts control the destinies of Talented and Untalented alike.

When calamity strikes the capital city, with Untalents blamed and on trial, Saroya knows that proving her Talent and parentage means saving more than just her own life. A tangle of lies hides secrets that force Saroya to choose between her future and Veyle's.

Bio: Katrina Archer lives and writes on her sailboat in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has worked in aerospace, video games and film, and has been known to copy edit for fun. Other editions: Kindle - ISBN 978-0-9880512-5-6 $3.99 ePub - ISBN 978-0-9880512-6-3 $3.99 Print, Commonwealth Edition - ISBN 978-0-9880512-4-9 $19.99

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I am just ramping up a blog tour, first stop: Lorna Suzuki's All Kinds of Writing.

Planned book signings include VCon (Vancouver) in October and Surrey International Writer's Conference.

I will also be approaching local bookstores to gauge their interest.

I plan to run at least one Goodreads giveaway, plus potential giveaways via FB, Twitter, Google+.

I'm toying with the idea of geocaching a book and trying to get it to Venice (since the book is set in a very Venice-like environment), and asking people to upload pics of the books travels to my social networking feeds.