Beginnings
Prineas wrote the first chapter of The Magic Thief for Cricket, a literary magazine for young adults, after a request for stories about wizards and serialized fiction. When she felt the characters had more to tell, she expanded it into a novel, and then into a trilogy.
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“When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”
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