

Excisioners are practitioners of the dark magic, the flesh magic. But everything goes up in flames one day when a horrible event happens. Even as she finds out how amazing paper magic is by bringing stories to life and reading fortunes, Ceony is already starting to find out that for every bit of ‘good’ magic there is also the magic that exists on the flipside– the forbidden and bad magic.Įverything seems to be going well, and Ceony is enjoying learning magic under the tutelage of the kind and strange Magician Thane. They bring elaborately folded creatures made out of paper to life and animate them so that they move all on their own. Together they can work all sorts of paper magic. She finds out that practicing paper magic can be fun and is enjoying learning spells under Thane more than she thought that she would initially before they got started.

But once she has been bonded to paper, she thinks that it will be her only magic that she ever practices forever. She has now been assigned to be an apprentice in paper magic under the tutelage of Emery Thane, a magician.Ĭeony dreams of practicing spells with metal. She graduated from her school for the magically inclined at the Tagis Praff School at the top of her class. When she first comes to the cottage of a master magician, she has a broken heart. The Paper Magician is where we meet the character of Ceony Twill. She lives with her family in Utah and you can find out more about her at her personal website (which is naturally at ). It ended up being nominated in 2016 for a RITA Award in the category of Best Young Adult Romance. Followed by Frost was her first stand-alone fiction novel and it came out in 2015. Some of her books are not part of the Paper Magician series. The series may be made into feature-length films or more as the series of novels have been optioned by the Walt Disney Company.

The fourth book was titled The Plastic Magician and it came out in 2018. It was followed by the sequel The Glass Magician and then the third book, The Master Magician. The first book in the series is The Paper Magician and it came out in 2o14. She is perhaps best known for her fantasy series of fictional novels, the Paper Magician series. At long last, she finally took a dog into her life and couldn’t be happier about it. She enjoys playing the ukulele and also has way too many pairs of spectacles. She attended BYU and is now proud to be an alumna. Holmberg says that all of her sisters were also given boy names. Along with her three sisters, she was raised to love the science fiction television series Star Trek and she and her sisters, as well as their whole family, are all proud to be Trekkies. Holmberg is an American author of fiction.
