Alas, I don’t have magical powers although I truly wish I did. So, instead I created characters who do in The Twin Jinn and the Alchemy Machine. I want to share the magic by making the Kindle version free Saturday, Nov. 8 and Sunday, Nov. 9. No strings attached. No tricks up my sleeve.
The Twin Jinn and the Alchemy Machine is the second in my Twin Jinn Series. The first is The Twin Jinn at Happy Jack’s Carnival of Mysteries. The third, The Twin Jinn in the Land of Enchantment should be out soon.
The series is technically for middle grade readers, but I believe those who like magical realism involving a family of jinn or genies will enjoy it no matter their age. It features Jute and Fina Jinn, brother and sister who are twins (11 by jinn years but 111 by human), and their parents Elwin and Mira Jinn.
As a child, I longed to be invisible, fly, walk through walls, shrink, and cast spells. Alas, that wasn’t meant to be although I certainly had fun pretending. And as an adult, I can write books about a family whocan do such things.
In some stories, jinn are made of fire and smoke or they are evil. But my jinn are good beings, actually better than most humans.
Unless they’ve been freed, jinn are the servants of humans. The Jinn family’s master was Dann, an evil man who felt powerful because he had a family of four jinn in his control. But that’s not what Elwin and Mira Jinn wanted for their children. So, they figured a way to trick Dann and escaped. After that, he lost all of his wealth and power, so he is desperate to find them.
The Jinn family finds ways to live among humans. The twins are supposed to keep their powers a secret but they sometimes get carried away.
In The Twin Jinn at Happy Jack’s Carnival of Mysteries, the first in the series, the Jinn family hides out at a traveling carnival, where they perform a magic act. People believe they are doing tricks, but it’s real magic. But the fun ends when Dann discovers their whereabouts, so the family must flee with the help of human friends.
In The Twin Jinn and the Alchemy Machine, the family moves to a small rural town where they live and work in an apple orchard. Jute and Fina attend the local school where their parents hope they will learn more about the human world but keep their identity a secret. Ah, but Jute and Fina are mischievous and a bit naïve. They create an alchemy machine that actually produces gold for their science fair project.
This series has a lot of what entertained me as a book-reading child: genies, magic, and family. Now, I offer it free for two days to middle grade readers, those who read to children, and perhaps adults who want a little magical realism in their lives.
Here’s the link again: The Twin Jinn and the Alchemy Machine.