Wood Between Worlds Acquires The Dome-Singer of Falenda
Katherine Bolger Hyde’s The Dome-Singer of Falenda special edition to be released 2025
Do you love the magic of music? Do you believe in the redeeming power of friendships? Do you want to become more attuned to spiritual realities through a mirror universe where good and evil battle for power?
Wood Between Worlds Press has just signed
’s The Dome-Singer of Falenda to be released this year!Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time meets C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy in this fantasy story for all ages, middle-grade and up.
Prolific mystery writer Katherine Bolger Hyde delivers another page-turner in this story of Danny, a boy who finds solace from life with a missing mother, an alcoholic father, and a gang of bullies by singing in the cathedral choir. Then one day he finds himself transported to another world, where singing becomes a matter of life and death.
About The Dome-Singer of Falenda
People say Danny’s voice is heaven on Earth. But now he’s in a strange land, and his voice will have to save a world.
Danny thinks he has it hard enough on Earth: his mother disappeared when he was six, a gang of bullies torments him, and his alcoholic father is threatening to take him out of his beloved cathedral choir school. Then he finds himself in Falenda, where the people communicate telepathically and life is one continual, glorious song. But the harmonious life of the Falendans is threatened by an evil being who is enslaving the Citizens within a great crystal Dome.
Danny has never seen himself as a hero. But now, along with Meli, a Falendan girl his own age, he must save Falenda from destruction—and rescue his mother in the process—by climbing the dread Tower of Grozlukh and singing down the Dome.
About the Author
Katherine Bolger Hyde is the author of several Orthodox children’s books from Ancient Faith Publishing as well as a number of novels for adults, including the Crime with the Classics series of traditional mysteries plus the standalones After He’s Gone, Gina Washington Slept Here (Severn House), and The Vestibule of Heaven (AFP). She also works as an editor, layout artist, and writing coach. Katherine sang in church choirs for many years and shares Danny’s love of music along with Dostoevsky’s claim that beauty will save the world.
Fun facts about Katherine: Years ago, Katherine was one of the first writing mentors for Nicholas Kotar, our acquiring editor. She is also currently a teacher at
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What Readers Are Saying
“This book is filled with music and beauty, fraught with gripping adventure, and causes the reader to rethink the power of their thoughts. Themes include the power of familial love, the importance of discerning (and valuing) good over evil, and the importance of focus. People of a variety of ages and genders will be entranced by the characters’ journey and uplifted by this beautiful read.”
“Reminiscent of CS Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet, this story of faith, angels and demons, and life in communion with one's creator has a unique voice and is a page turner from beginning to end.”
“Probably intended for teenage readers, this delightful, gentle fantasy with mystical undertones had a certain sixty-eight-year-old riveted from beginning to end. Both the human and Falendan characters are entirely believable.”
Publisher
Wood Between Worlds Press is an independent press that publishes adult and young adult speculative fiction in the tradition of the Inklings.
The Kickstarter campaign for our first book, Cantos of Arcadia by Nicholas Kotar, was launched in September 2024 and will be delivered in May 2025. Our catalogue of books will be available for direct orders soon.
Release Date
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