Part of Series
This 23,000 word NOVELLA is book number two in the INK MAGE SideQuest trilogy. Templeton Kane is a minor lord from a failed house, a rogue, an amateur troubadour, and an opportunist. Lill is a muscular barbarian from the Glacial Wastes. She's also an Ink Mage. After their adventures in The Murder Blossom, Templeton and Lill now find themselves on the run from the mysterious Shadow Sorceress. Why? Because Lill has stolen the secrets of a special Shadow Tattoo ... except it's not quite a tattoo but some new magic. So Lill and Templeton flee to Klaar in search of a wizard who can help decipher this new magic. While in Klaar, Templeton meets the daughter of the duke, a young lady with ambitions of her own. But the Shadow Sorceress ... she's out there. Occasional strong language, brief adult situations, and gritty sword-stabbing action. The Shadow Sorceress is a 23,000 word NOVELLA. A word about SideQuests: Ink Mage SideQuests are meant to be shorter works set in the world of Ink Mage. Think of them as "in between meal snacks" while waiting for the books in the main series. Characters and situations might (or might not) appear in the main novels.
Author
Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction. Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster. He has also writes American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1. Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.
