What is Julie Czerneda reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Julie E. Czerneda, author of A Change of Place.

Her entry begins:

Karin Lowachee’s The Mountain Crown

I love dragons—and have huge respect for Karin Lowachee’s writing (she’s the author of the magnificent Warchild Mosaic). Imagine my joy to find her writing them in her latest, The Mountain Crown. Impressive, wonderful masses of original and fascinating dragons (called suons) permeate the landscapes of her world and if this wasn’t enough to make me hug this book, there’s more. The main character, Méka, is a member of the Suonkang family, a Ba’suon, with the innate ability to reach into nature—and the minds of suons—to create a partnership. When she’s sent into the land of their magic-blind enemies to coax a king dragon from the wild, little does she realize where her path will lead. It reminded me of my favourite moments in McCaffrey’s Dragonriders. I’m...[read on]

About A Change of Place, from the publisher:

Return to the Aurora Award-winning, cozy romantic fantasy Night's Edge series and the rich and atmospheric world of Marrowdell

Spring in Marrowdell is a time to celebrate. Life stirs, the air warms, and Jenn Nalynn and Bannan Larmensu couldn't be happier. But spring is also fraught with change, and nowhere is this truer than the edge, where the Verge, the magical realm of dragons and sei, touches that of snow and roads. The spring equinox marks the final turn before Marrowdell’s sun starts to dominate the sky and Jenn, turn-born and sei, feels the pull to cross to the Verge.

Marrowdell’s river floods, and Jenn knows she is needed at home, but deep within the Verge a perilous force is calling her away from all she loves. For the house toad’s mighty queen has waited for the first equinox with the powers of a turn-born in the edge, and now she is ready to make her move against it.

Caught up in plots they cannot understand, Jenn and Bannan find themselves separated, and to reunite they will have to outsmart the queen herself. But even if they can foil her plan, will Marrowdell still be there when they return?

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