The Flaw in the Stone: The Alchemists’ Council, Book 2

Sales and Market Bullets

• This prequel transports readers back through time into the deepest archives and hidden motivations of the Rebel Branch.
• Timely subject matter includes gender fluidity, rebellion, and reproductive technology/rights. Themes of free will, choice, and the inherent abuses of power reflect the political dynamic we currently see in our world.
• Author has a PhD in late-medieval alchemy, and translates her expertise into genre fiction that can be enjoyed by readers with no knowledge of the subject. Fortunately, given her last name, the book appears on fantasy shelves beside George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
• The first book in the series, The Alchemists’ Council, has been optioned a television series.

Publishing Diverse Voices

• Content: LGBTQIA+ representation in the main cast, gender fluidity

Audience

• Fans of Game of Thrones and other popular genre fiction
• Crossover appeal to YA audience
• Given its thematic complexity in the areas of alchemy, philosophy, and environmentalism, the book will appeal to professors
• Readers of the first book in the series