Arrabella Candellabra

February 27, 2011

Arrabella Candellarbra & The Questy-Thing to end all questy-things.

Arrabella Candellarbra, a beautiful, flaxen-haired maiden trained in all things warrior-like by the most famous warriors of all – The Reginas – embarks on a quest to claim her birthright and to wield the power of all the lands. She is joined by the perfect specimen of manliness, the loin-cloth clad and well-oiled, Lord Langly Kilkenny.

The pair team with the very fey fairy Prince Jim of the pistachio tights and magic arrows, and the icicle-bearded Gary, the wisest of all wizards.

But what happens when the four are pitted against the evilest of evil beings in all of the lands – the terrifying Betty-Sue and her minions – the Saw-Toothed Bunnies, the Viscous Tongued Frogs and the Barella Monkeys?

What happens? Well, an epic fantasy quest that ensures no questy-thing will ever be the same again.

With a host of characters and creatures never before assembled in one story, there’ll be love and lust, action and inaction, battles, incantations, sexual shenanigans and high-kicking sing-a-longs.

What happens? Hilarity – that’s what!

Arrabella Candellarbra & The Questy-Thing will be released by Clan Destine Press in June, 2011.

Arrabella Candellarbra and the Questy-Thing (to end all questy-things) is the first book in a series of comic epic fantasies by Amanda Wrangles and Kylie Fox, writing under the pseudonym of AK Wrox.

Mandy and Kylie began writing the book as an exercise in stretching their imaginations, writing outside their own styles and tackling those scenes that they found most challenging – namely, the more “intimate” scenes of their characters.

They soon realised that what they were producing was unlike anything else they’d ever read, a book that took the classic elements of high fantasy and epic quests and turned them upside down, inside out and, occasionally, back to front.

Writing under a pseudonym gave them a sense of freedom to write those challenging scenes – because, they say, it’s not really them. And because it’s a collaboration, nobody ever has to know which of the pair created the more risqué scenes.