This week YA Author Alma Alexander took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. Alma Alexander is the author of Cybermage. (See YEM’s interview with Alma Alexander here.) See highlights from the takeover below.
#YAauthorTakeover Hi, my name is Alma Alexander, thank you for having me! Currently here to tell you about the Collector’s Edition of my Worldweaver novels, being reissued into the world in brand new editions, brand new cover art, spanking new… but still the great story…/1
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So let me walk you through these, first of all. This is #1 in the series, “Gift of the Unmage” where we meet young Thea WInthrop, Double Seventh, whose parents expect so much of her but despair of her – and the first steps she takes on a magical journey…#YAauthorTakeover /2 pic.twitter.com/YTPWnSMEyD
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Worldveavers #2 is “Spellspam” – which was a great deal of fun to write – and it’s all about what happens when your email spam starts carrying genuine WORKING magical spells. If book 1 was the first eyes on the tale this one is hands-on now… #YAauthorTakeover /3
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Book #3, Cybermage, is the heart of this story – and it just dropped, on July 4… it’s where young Thea comes to terms with her own unique gifts, and the legacy of Nikola Tesla… #YAauthorTakeover /4
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Oh, forgot, here’s the cover for “Cybermage…” you can find it at the Book View Cafe online store, and all the usual suspects (including Amazon, where you can find both the ebook and the paperback…) #YAauthorTakeover /5 pic.twitter.com/q3P8OW468p
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Sneak peek – this is #4, coming this Fall… where all loose ends are tied up and Thea closes the circle… #YAauthorTakeover /6 pic.twitter.com/ZMmlB9v9kl
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So where did these books begin? I wrote them to be as American as the iconic Harry Potter was English, and with a girl taking the helm… #YAauthorTakeover /7
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(By the way I have other series too – you can go look for the Were Chronicles Omnibus (3 novels, Random, Wolf, and Shifter) – books I am very proud of, and also YA all the way to fully A readers…. #YAauthorTakeover /8
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you can find out more about me and all these books over at https://t.co/dfWo2HvUHy, the official website of the Duchess of Fantasy (the title is real. You can read all about it on the site.) #YAauthorTakeover /9
— ready set watch (@YoungEntmag) July 7, 2023
BTW here’s where you can go look for all these books… https://t.co/cyhniLUOUj #YAauthorTakeover /8.5
— ready set watch (@YoungEntmag) July 7, 2023
Reviewers called the Worldweavers books both “the perfect antidote to Harry Potter” and “wholly original and nothing like Harry Potter” so like HP or not you might like these… #YAauthorTakeover /10
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Let me tell you about some of the characters in the Worldweavers books. Thea herself is an amazing heroine it was my privilege to write. Imperfect (even if she doesn’t know why) and courageous, she is challenged by the world and answers the challenge… #YAauthorTakeover /11
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Thea’s stalwart friends are twins Tess and Terry, Ben, and a complicated young woman known as Magpie – all of whom are with her at the school for the magically “deficient” known as the Last Ditch School for the Incurably Incompetent – but, of course…#YAauthorTakeover /12
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… the school is a real treasure in disguise (and the only people allowed to diss it are the ones who love it). Thea learns a lot here, and it isn’t necessarily all “formal” education. #YAauthorTakeover /13
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Nikola Tesla, known as the New Wizard of the West (and the only known quad-Elemental mage in human history…) is Thea’s colleague, and mentor. This is a great place to meet Tesla if you want to get to know him…#YAauthorTakeover /14
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And finally… there’s Corey, otherwise known as Coyote the Trickster, whose only real job is to throw a spanner in the works but who becomes SO much more than that in these books. One of my favorites amongst all my characters. #YAauthorTakeover /15
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…or you could ask them over on my own twitter @AlmaAlexander at any time…
— ready set watch (@YoungEntmag) July 7, 2023
Thank you for listening to me talk about Worldweavers, and thank you for having me! Again, find out more https://t.co/dfWo2Hwsx6, or follow me on Twitter or on Facebook… #YAauthorTakeover /17
— ready set watch (@YoungEntmag) July 7, 2023
