Welcome!
Welcome to Gods and Magicians. A site dedicated to the works of Trudi Canavan. Here you will find pictures, art work, poems and a few words of love to show how much we love these books. Feel free to browse around but please ask permission if you wish to use any of the work on this site. We hope you enjoy your time here.
Trudi Canavan
Trudi was born in Kew (Melbourne Australia) on 23rd October 1969. Her early interests included art, writing and music. She chose art firstly as it had a more stable and likely income. She completed an Advanced Certificate in Promotional Display at the Melbourne College of Decoration. She also received an additional award for Highest Aggregate Mark. Her first employer was Lonely Planet Publications were she worked as a designer, illustrator and cartographer.
In 1995 she started a freelance business named Telltale Art. This offered illustration, cartography and graphic design services. She had numerous clients including Lonely Planet Publications and HarperCollins. She also joined Aurealis and worked as art editor for the magazine.
She could now write part time and her first book “Whispers of the Mist Children” received the ‘99 Aurealis award for best fantasy short story. In the same year she was granted a writers residency at Varuna Writers' Centre in Katoomba, New South Wales.
In 2001 HarperCollins Australia bought The Black Magician Trilogy, releasing the first book, The Magicians' Guild, in November of that year. The second book , The Novice, was published in June 2002 and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. The third book The High Lord was released in January 2003 and was nominated for the Best Novel Ditmar category. All three books entered Australian top ten sci-fi bestseller lists. BMT reached the international market in 2004, published by HarperCollins' EOS imprint in North America and Orbit Books in the UK. The trilogy is now rated by Neilsen Book Scan as the most successful debut fantasy series of the last 10 years, and in 2006 had sold over 275,000 copies in all editions. (Quite an achievement) Trudi's second trilogy, Age of the Five, has also enjoyed bestselling success. Priestess of the White reached No.3 in the Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller list, staying in the top ten for 6 weeks. In early 2006 Trudi signed a seven-figure contract with Orbit to write the prequel and sequel to The Black Magician Trilogy.
Forum Anniversary Contest Winner
We have decided on a winner for our Forum Anniversary Contest. Our winner is Lady Darkness and her uncolored verison of Sonea.
Quote by Little Raven: "The picture of Sonea covering her face is very well-done and also fitting for the series, both because it has the main character and because it could easily be the Sonea from each book. In the first, she could be hiding from the magicians, in the second, she could be trying to avoid the novices, and in the third, well, she could be hiding during the beginning or near the end"
