Guest Post with Jaclyn Dolamore, Author of Magic Under Glass

Today I'd like to welcome author Jaclyn Dolamore whose novel, Magic Under Glass recently released this month. Jaclyn brought us this teen magazine interview with main character Erris Tanharrow. Erris Tanharrow is a fairy trapped inside an automaton, just waiting for someone to come along and break the curse. Erris recently sat down with The Young Maiden's Own Magazine and I'm thrilled to be featuring his interview here. If you've been wanting to learn more about this dashing young fairy, well now is your chance!

Erris Tanharrow, The New Clockwork Man

from "The Young Maiden's Own Magazine"

There is a new young man on the scene, whom you have surely heard about in your father's newspaper, one made not from yielding flesh, but from cogs and gears.

He is the new and long-lost fairy prince, Erris Tanharrow. We happened to come upon him in a small village outside of the city. He was pleased to sit down with us for a moment or two, despite his sad and desperate situation, for not only has he been cursed to inhabit a clockwork body, his cousin occupies the throne that should be rightly his.

Our fair reporter may have swooned at his feet before posing a few polite questions to the fairy gentleman, who looked quite well in a dark gray suit and green cravat.

Besides being a fairy prince, Erris is an accomplished pianist, but when asked if he would ever consider producing a newfangled phonograph record, he is charmingly modest. "Oh, no, I'm much too busy to pursue a career in music, and 30 years behind. Why, before I was enchanted, the pianoforte was in fashion, but now I hear the harp guitar is all the rage."

We're sure he will pick up the latest fashions soon. Why, he even offered a compliment upon the newly trimmed "fringe" my mother so disapproved of!

When asked about his sweetheart, Nimira, the most becoming blush came upon his face. "I wish to protect her privacy, but I will say it is quite serious."

This avowal, I'm afraid, will bring a tear to the eye of anyone who has seen a reproduction of the latest daguerreotype of him.

So what is next for this personable prince?

"Oh, well, taking back the throne of fairy, I suppose."

Handsome and ambitious! I know the readers of this periodical wish him well.

Magic Under Glass
December 22nd 2009
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books

Nimira is a music-hall performer forced to dance for pennies to an audience of leering drunks. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to do a special act - singing accompaniment to an exquisite piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new life. In Parry's world, however, buried secrets stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumours abound about ghosts, a mad woman roaming the halls, and of Parry's involvement in a gang of ruthless sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. When Nimira discovers the spirit of a dashing young fairy gentleman is trapped inside the automaton's stiff limbs, waiting for someone to break the curse and set him free, the two fall in love. But it is a love set against a dreadful race against time to save the entire fairy realm, which is in mortal peril.

To learn more about the author, visit her website HERE.
You can purchase Magic Under Glass HERE.
You can read my review of Magic Under Glass HERE.

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