Fable’s life has been turned upside down…
After coming home to find her parents missing, Fable is transported to a new and magical world. She must cross that world to get back and save her parents. Along the way, she makes a new family. She must decide whether she should keep her newfound family or sacrifice everything for a chance to save her parents.
This clean fantasy has themes of birth family, found family, magic, growing in one’s power, new love, growing pains, and good vs. evil.
Trigger warnings: There is violence, including gun violence, magical monster violence, and magical power violence.
About the Illustrations
Many of the moments found in the Art Gallery have changed drastically or have been cut altogether (the image to the right is from a cut scene.) I was trained as a concept and sequential artist for movies, and I often use these illustrations to inspire the prose and explore the many characters' personalities. I am not attached to keeping a scene simply because I have illustrated it. If the story demands it, I will cut or change a scene, even if that means the illustration no longer works for the book.
However, the illustrations that cap each of the chapters are the final illustrations, ready for when I make an illustrated book. I actually plan to have even more illustrations when I bring this book to print.
Amelia Pendleton…
…has always been a dreamer. She loves to write stories, create divers imaginative worlds, and draw intricate pictures that go with it.
Amelia originally went to school to be and English teacher, but her interests changed as she delved into illustration, storyboarding, sequential art, and comics. Her passion became using art and words to tell engaging stories. She received her degree in Digital Art and Animation from Cogswell College in San Jose. She’s worked as a freelance artist and illustrator helping to bring to life short animations, children’s books, comics, and video games. She has also worked in graphic design and marketing.
Currently Amelia has illustrated four independently published children’s books and a few small-press comic books. Beyond Fable of the Lamplands, Amelia has other personal stories in development, including a middle grade graphic novel and two picture books. She actively attends conventions, marketing her own work, and enjoys interacting with fans and talk to people at those shows.
Amelia lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband and three thriving houseplants.