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Welcome to the TRB Lounge. Today, we are featuring author Amanda White for her latest release, The Fortune Telling Wizard and Other Stories from The Kingdom of Dar.

Book: The Fortunetelling Wizard And Other Stories From the Kingdom of Dar
Author: Amanda White
Publication Date: January 27, 2025 
Publisher: Amanda White
Genres: Fantasy
Page Count: 192

About the Book

Legends and common knowledge don’t always agree, but when it comes to wizards the facts are not so far from the stories.
Both say that tunics are made from wild magic. Both say that a len who catches, tames, and puts on a tunic is a wizard. And both say that a wizard is named and known by his deeds. Take Duin the Fearless or Bjarne the Vengeful as examples.
My name is Hol and I am a wizard of the kingdom of Dar.
Though this is true, what name will come from my deeds is yet unknown.
From the time I was young, my mother said I would be known as Hol the Proud. The Queen once called me Hol the Loyal. The other wizards of Dar call me Hol the Upstart. Most times, I fear I will be remembered as Hol the Failed.
My tunic has its own opinions about what I should be called.
In fact, my tunic has opinions about everything.
If it has its way, I will be known as Hol the Fortunetelling Wizard.
But there hasn’t been a fortunetelling wizard in Dar in over eight hundred years and because I didn’t actually catch or tame my tunic, I fear even more that I might not even be a wizard at all.
I want to prove my mother wrong.
I want to prove the other wizards wrong.
And most of all, even if my tunic ends up being right, I hope I prove myself wrong as well.

You can find The Fortunetelling Wizard here:
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About The Author

Amanda White

Amanda White is a fantasy and literary fiction writer. With a firmness of heart, she believes as Toni Morrison said, “If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” More and more, she sees the need for books with valiantly good characters, worlds that can be fixed, and hopeful and optimistic endings. This is not to say that her characters don’t have flaws (doesn’t everyone?), make the wrong choices, or have the occasional (or frequent) fit of temper. This is not to say that the worlds represented aren’t already broken or quite imperfect. This is not to say there isn’t plot, plotting, loss, pain, or growth. But rather that, overall, as the stories unfold, optimism wins out over pessimism and the hope that is served up both hot and cold is flavorful enough to taste.

She currently lives in Dallas, Texas where she dreams of mountains and high-altitude, low-humidity air and (barely) survives city living by being close enough to her young nephew and niece to play whatever it is they want to play (usually and often something to do with Pokemon or unicorns).

You can find author White here:
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