His adventure brings him in contact with a woman with immense power and an unfathomable gift, a most unusual comrade. He is a Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers, which is one of the most respected organizations in all of Britain. Zacharias Wythe (eminently skilled magician and freed slave) is at his wit’s end, and goes to the border of Fairyland to find out why all of England’s magical stocks are drying up. “Sorcerer to the Crown” is the first novel in the “Sorcerer Royal” series, which was released in the year 2015. “Sorcerer to the Crown” was nominated for Best Novel by the British Fantasy Society. “The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo” was nominated for a John W. She has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer and the Crawford Fantasy Award. If they have a romance in the first book, you won’t want to see them argue in the second. “Sorcerer to the Crown” was inspired by Regency romances and it is tough to stretch a romance over more than a novel without annoying the readers.

She spent a long time revising, working with her agent for a year.Ĭho focused on new characters for “The True Queen” because after trying to write about Zacharias and Prunella for three long years, she had a tough time making things feel fresh. She grew used to finishing and starting to shop them around in a quick time in the past, and focusing all her writing time and energy on a single novel that may not sell was something difficult for her emotionally. In the year 2014, she released her first short story collection called “Spirits Abroad”.īefore writing “Sorcerer to the Crown”, she had written two “drawer novels”, and finds that she is really still learning how to write a novel. Her debut novel, “Sorcerer to the Crown”, the first book of her “Sorcerer Royal” series, was released in the year 2015. It taught her to enjoy stories that were set in alien worlds that featured strange people that spoke another language, and had intricate, mysterious social customs. She started writing stories when she was only six years old, after learning how to read at around age three or age four.Īs a child, she read a lot of nineteenth century North American and British fiction while growing up in Malaysia during the twentieth century.

Zen feels that when she dies, she wants to look back at her life and see that she spent as much time as possible with her loved ones and that she had written many stories. She tries to write a bit every day, but never at the cost of her social time. She read law at Cambridge and lives in London, where she works as a lawyer and writes stories. She writes science fiction, fantasy, and romance. Author Zen Cho was born and raised in Malaysia in the year 1986.

The true queen by zen cho