We had a family friend who knew Roald Dahl - one of my favourite authors - and this friend offered to show Dahl my story. It turned out to be quite a long story, really a short novel, and I rewrote it the next summer. I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase). and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). I was born in 1967 in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C.
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Before he can desert, he is summoned to participate in the Trials, a series of life-and-death ordeals to crown the new Emperor and his lieutenant. When Laia, a Scholar girl, witnesses her brother being captured by Martials, she turns to the Resistance, who offers her a deal: spy for them in the Empire's most brutal training academy, Blackcliff, and they will rescue her brother.Įlias Veturius is Blackcliff's finest soldier, and also its most unwilling. The Scholars have only known suffering and slavery at the hands of the Martial Empire and its ruling class. Five hundred years ago, the Martials, a Proud Warrior Race, conquered the Scholars, a peaceful people. An Ember in the Ashes is a YA novel written by Sabaa Tahir, set in a world loosely based on Ancient Rome. 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