The ash princess series6/19/2023 ![]() With the help of a few loyal Astrean subjects, Theo plots to kill the Kaiser and his henchmen to take her country back from Kalovaxia once and for all.Īt first blush, Ash Princess appears to be your typical YA fantasy novel, and in many ways, it is. Theodosia, known as Thora by her captors, is the last living member of the Astrean royal family and the heir to the Astrean throne–now occupied by said Kaiser. Astrea fell to Kalovaxia ten years prior to the events of the book and the cruel Kaiser has taken the Astrean queen’s place. I knew I had to see if such a book was worth such an enormous amount of money.Īsh Princess is the story of Theodosia, the lost queen of the fallen kingdom of Astrea. ![]() ![]() Having never read Ash Princess, I knew I had to pick it up after I saw that tweet. That’s in insane amount of money for a debut author, and served to illustrate the disparities between what white authors get as advances versus authors of color. Ash Princess is the first book in the Ash Princess trilogy, and the series sold for six figures. In the tweet, if you can’t access it, author Laura Sebastian describes the advances she got for each series she’s written thus far. ![]() Bur then…The PublishingPaidMe hashtag started trending on Twitter and one tweet caught m Same story about a girl saving her kingdom, I thought. I’d been aware of the book when it was published in 2018, but I hadn’t given it so much as a passing glance. Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian was not really on my radar. ![]()
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