In the Land of Five Hundred Kingdoms magic is very real and very important. No one knows this better than Elena Klovis. Once the only beloved child of a noble family, she is forced into servitude in her own home by her wicked stepmother and two simpering stepsisters. She dreams for the day that she will be able to escape, but she never imagines that her chance will come when she is approached by a cheerful older woman who offers her a job as a very special sort of apprentice. For the old woman is not what she appears to be. She is in fact the Godmother to Elena's kingdom. She tells Elena that she was to be her kingdom's Cinderella, but her destined prince was no more than an infant. Stunned and elated by this Elena becomes her apprentice and learns of The Tradition, the force that tries to shape people's lives to fit Fairy Tales in all the kingdoms. It is the job of the Godmothers to use the magic of The Tradition to give the people it is acting upon their Happily Ever Afters, but as Elena soon finds out this is a much more varied and complicated task than she has ever faced before. Especially when she encounters Alexander, the spoiled and haughty middle prince, while guiding three princes on a Quest.

Today we welcome Kody Boye to That Book Place for an interview.

That Book Place: Did you always want to be an author?

Kody Boye: I've wanted to be an author since I was seven, after a teacher assigned the class a creative writing assignment. I knew it was something I wanted to do after I wrote ten pages of a story in one sitting.