What to expect
A.J. Caster takes the people typically cast as side characters (the loyal bookish best friend with a heart of gold, the weird loner with a dark sense of humour, or the wild card wise cracking comic relief) and forces them to take centre stage as her main characters.
These books are for the self-identifying wallflowers and society outcasts who perhaps never saw themselves as the main character of their own stories, but have it buried deep within them if given the chance.
Books
A SCHOOL OF DEATH AND OTHER MAGICS
a short story coming soon in the anthology HOLOMETABOLA
Myrtle Peachwell is just trying to graduate from her magical university before any of her fellow classmates discover her considerable, if not disgusting, talent for necromancy.
Unfortunately, her rival, Wolfrum, seems to do everything in his power to make that difficult. Handsome, wealthy, and obnoxiously gifted, Wolfrum is almost the entire package. It really is a shame that he's been dead almost a year.
As Myrtle and Wolfrum are forced to work together to save a friend, their attraction becomes harder to resist. But what chance can they possibly have in a romance that was dead on arrival?
A School of Death and Other Magics was written during a cyclone. With the power out and the wind tearing at the windows like a howling beast, a tale of necromantasy was born.
This short story will be published in an anthology with the works of several other amazing Aussie authors in early 2027.
In the pipeline
THE FOX AND THE SILVER SERVANT
A girl is a whisker away from being executed after she saves the hunter she’s secretly in love with by accidentally turning his soul into a fox, and must find a way to evade the soul-killer on their tail and undo her foxed-up magic, before he loses his humanity completely and only the fox remains.