Norees Gasper
Norees was born and raised in Canada, settling on the West Coast with her many books and plants. Named after the one and only Kira Nerys from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, her love of fantasy started early and drove her to start writing stories as soon as she could pick up a pen. Norees holds a BA in history and religious studies, an MA in public policy, and an MA in library and information studies.When she’s not writing, you can find her probably watching too much TV, buying herself a little sweet treat, or escaping to the forest. She is represented by Hayley Steed at Janklow and Nesbit UK. Her debut novel, The Arcane Archives, is coming from Doubleday CA and Gollancz in spring 2027.
The Arcane Archives
A librarian tasked with protecting the Archive of magical life books must team up with a man who has no book to find her missing brother in this dark academia fantasy, for fans of Ninth House and The Atlas Six.
Every soul that has ever existed has a life book.
Astra is an Archivist, tasked with keeping the life books safe in the Arcane Archives. When her twin brother Orion goes missing, Astra is desperate for clues so she does the only thing she can think she breaks her oath as an Archivist and steals his life book from the Archives. Faced with an ominous blacked-out page blocking her brother's recent memories, she catches only fragments of a clue - a vision of a green-eyed man she's never seen before and Orion's last location, the Isle of Skye.
When the mysterious man, Castor, appears at her place of work the next day, with no memory of ever meeting Orion, Astra is desperate for answers and delves into the Archives for this stranger's life book. Only there isn't one. Everyone has a life book - why doesn't he?
Together with her friends - a banshee, demon cat and a bartender - they set off to find her brother and discover Castor's true identity, but quickly find themselves unravelling deep conspiracies and dark secrets that change everything she thought she knew about the life books and the Archives.
Publication
CA: Penguin Random House (Double Day CA)
UK: Hachette (Gollancz)
Release date: March 2027
