Alyx Dellamonica is a Vancouver writer whose fiction began to appear in print in 1986. Her alternate history of Joan of Arc, “A Key to the Illuminated Heretic,” was short-listed for the 2005 Sidewise Award and in 2006 she was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts’ Grant for Emerging Artists for her novel THE WINTERGIRLS. She teaches writing through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Learn more about her at A.M. Dellamonica‘s 
Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica
Indigo Springs is the first novel by A.M. Dellamonica, who has been publishing short fiction for nearly two decades. It shows the skill of someone who has long practiced in making words do what she wants them to do, and also the inexperience of a first-time novelist who has a great idea but doesn’t exactly know how to execute it. It’s a terrific story with new ideas and a unique magic system that works. With a stronger structure and a more coherent ending,
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