The Wattys are here! This year I'm going to enter an original story that was first a sixth-grade school assignment, but now I'm rewriting it and making it more well-researched, realistic, etc. It's a fantasy story set on a fictional planet and I hope you like it!
Here's a peek at the cover and summary:
Janwald, Medein, a city situated in planet Mimalia's tallest mountain range, is one of the most oppressive communities on the planet. Over the course of history, Janwald has developed a mold that is accepted by everyone. And the unlucky minority that doesn't fit into that mold gets shunned, ridiculed, and sometimes even killed.
When one of Lanelae's biggest secrets falls into the wrong hands, she too is thrown in with Janwald's outcasts and her whole world is turned upside down. Her savior comes in the form of a fierce, selfless woman named Fadwa Abari. Without any of the twelve magics to aid her, Fadwa is constantly called an invalid by the powers-that-be, yet she stays resilient. Lanelae doesn't know how she does it all.
But there's much more to Fadwa than meets the eye. She has a very different type of magic and just like Lanelae, her world has been turned upside down in many ways. Fadwa just knows that in order to get back on your feet, you have to help someone else stand up.