Cantatas from the World of Allaigna’s Song
by JM Landels
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Return to the world of Allaigna’s Song through the eyes of women who came before and after. This collection of standalone stories expands and illuminates the Ilmar, seducing us with mischief, mystery, and music from characters both familiar and new.
Within these pages
- Sisters Irdaign and Lauraign plan a grift to snag some property deeds and end up tipping the balance of power in the Ilmar …
- Brandishear’s princess-to-be Gwannyn makes a deal with a mage to save herself from a loveless marriage, without fully understanding the price …
- A chance encounter with a young nobleman upsets Saoira’s cattle herd, her summer, and her life …
Readers will delight in magical mischief, ache with lost love, and cheer in triumph as these complex characters find their power. Nuanced, gripping, and deeply feminist, Ilmar Songs is a collection to savour.
© JM Landels 2026, Pulp Literature Press
ISBN (trade): 978-1-988865-85-0 $22.95
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-988865-86-7 $6.95
Early Reviews for Ilmar Songs
“The women of Ilmar Songs seem to step off its richly imagined pages and sit down next to the reader. Landels is as assured with her prose as with her storytelling, drawing the reader in and holding them long after the light should have gone out.” – Kate Heartfield, author of The Embroidered Book, The Valkyrie, and Mercutio.
“What an enchantment to delve into the mystical, magical prose of these compelling stories. Each one rewards with character details that make us hungry for more. I read Ilmar Songs as an art form freshly new and wisely ancient. These stories merge the lyric with prose, bringing both pleasure and insight. We learn the truths about human nature by spending time with this beautiful book.” – Renée Sarojini Saklikar, author of Children of Air India, Brahmah’s Discovery, and the THOT J BAP series.
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Also by JM Landels
Allaigna’s Song: Chorale
The magnificent conclusion to the Allaigna’s Song trilogy!
In the six years since Allaigna left home, killed her betrothed, and joined the Brandishear Rangers, she has hidden her family name and her ability to sing music into magic. Confronted with the dire implications of her grandfather’s exploration into long-forbidden arcana, Allaigna must swallow her pride and summon her courage to return home with the ashes of her cousin to prevent yet another war, or worse, an arcane catastrophe to rival that of the legendary Cataclysm.
The Allaigna’s Song trilogy is a love story, a family saga, and a coming-of-age novel that braids together the stories of daughter, mother, and grandmother.
© JM Landels 2022, Pulp Literature Press
ISBN: 978-1-988865-41-6 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-988865-42-3 (eBook)
Allaigna’s Song: Aria
The eagerly anticipated sequel to Overture!
At the end of Allaigna’s Song: Overture, Allaigna discovered that her family had lied to about her parentage all her life. Fueled by anger and spurred by her betrothal to a neighbouring lord, Allaigna packed her saddle bags and stole away in the night, turning her horse’s nose to the road her mother had taken so many years before.
Allaigna’s Song: Aria picks up three days after Overture leaves off. Allaigna’s ire hasn’t cooled, but the perils of the road provide more than a distraction. An encounter with a wild boar escalates to a run-in with poachers, leading to unlikely allies, subterfuge, captivity, and assault, which changes Allaigna’s status from mere runaway to fugitive.
© JM Landels 2020, Pulp Literature Press
ISBN: 978-1-988865-25-6 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-988865-26-3 (eBook)
Allaigna’s Song: Overture
You can’t hide from magic when it’s in your blood …
When Allaigna was seven she almost sang her baby brother to sleep — forever. She may not be heir to her mother’s t
itles and secrets, but she has inherited her grandmother’s dangerous talent for singing music into magic. As her education proceeds from nursery to weapons ground to the rank of royal page, it becomes increasingly hard to keep her heritage and abilities hidden.
Secrets, it seems, are stock-in-trade for her family, and as Allaigna works to keep her own, she uncovers two that will affect both her life and the unstable peace of the Ilmar nations. One is the fate of her grandmother, who married a prince, turning the gift of the Sight into a double-edged weapon of state. The other is the truth behind her mother’s two-week disappearance following an ambush by outlaws en route to her wedding.
As she discovers who she is, Allaigna must decide what to become: the skilled courtier her mother wants her to be, the political chess piece her father bargained on, or the hero her grandmother foresaw.
Allaigna’s Song: Overture is a love story, a family saga, and a coming-of-age novel that braids together the stories of daughter, mother, and grandmother. 6.99 ebook / 17.95 print
© JM Landels 2017, Pulp Literature Press
ISBN: 978-0-9949565-9-0 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-98886500-3 (eBook)