STEAMPUNK! Plus Dragons!
Trenton
Colman is a creative thirteen-year-old boy with a knack for all things
mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove, a
steam-powered city built inside a mountain. In Cove, creativity is a
crime and "invention" is
a curse word. Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of
the notorious Leo Babbage, whose father died in an explosion-an event
the leaders of Cove point to as an example of the danger of creativity.
Working
together, Trenton and Kallista learn that Leo Babbage was developing a
secret project before he perished. Following clues he left behind, they
begin to assemble a strange machine that is unlikely anything they've
ever seen before.
They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth
their city is founded on-and quite possibly their very lives.
Author Note:
Like many of my books, the inspiration for my new series
Fires of Invention came from the collision of two ideas. The
first time the story occurred to me was while I was watching the musical
Wicked with my wife. The moment I walked into the theater and saw the
huge mechanical dragon above the stage, I
thought, Wow! I have to write a story about that! A few weeks later, I
was talking with my nephew, who is probably the most creative kid I
know, but whose inventiveness often gets him into trouble, and I
thought, What if a kid who had the talents of my nephew
lived in a world where creativity was against the law? What if the kids
were building . . . a steam-powered dragon? Bam! I had my story.
Powered
by great feedback from my agent, Michael Bourret, my good friend and
author James Dashner, my publisher, Chris Schoebinger, and the song
“Warriors” by Imagine Dragons, I wrote the entire first draft of the
first volume in the series,
Mysteries of Cove in four weeks. This book is unlike anything I have
ever written. There are elements of City of Ember, Dragon Riders, and
Hugo in it all mashed up together in a world I fell in love with from
the moment I started writing.
I
think what’s most exciting to me about this book is that it’s about
giving yourself the freedom to imagine. To take chances. Too often we
limit ourselves by only trying things we’re confident we can succeed at
when what we need to do
is give ourselves permission to fail. Often it is when we attempt
things with no idea of how we can possibly pull them off that we achieve
our greatest successes.
J.
Scott Savage is the author of the Farworld middle grade fantasy series
and the Case File 13 middle grade monster series. He has been writing
and publishing books for over ten years. He has visited over 400
elementary schools, dozens
of writers conferences, and taught many writing classes. He has four
children and lives with his wife Jennifer and their Border Collie,
Pepper, in a windy valley of the Rocky Mountains.
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