THE DROWNING CITY - AMANDA DOWNUM

PUBLISHER: ORBIT

JACKET TEXT:

The Drowning City: home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government. For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers - even the dead are plotting. As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Amanda was born in Virginia, and has since then spent time in Indonesia, Micronesia, Missouri, and Arizona, with brief layovers in California and Colorado. Seventeen years ago she was sucked into the gravity well of Texas, and hasn't managed to escape. Yet.

She graduated from the University of North Texas with a BA in English Literature, a minor in German, and a Technical Writing certification. She still uses the German sometimes.

She married a technical boy, and runs a housing project for fat and bitchy cats, and one rambunctious puppy. She lives near Austin, in a house with a spooky attic, and is currently a bookstore minion while writing and beast-herding full time. Details of her mental breakdown will follow.

The Proustian minutiae of her life can be found on her blog, where she does not speak of herself in the third person. Usually.