Blake Charlton is severely dyslexic and was unable to read fluently until age twelve. He learned to read through fantasy novels. Graduating from Yale University summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors, he is now a medical student at Stanford Medical School.
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SPELLWRIGHT trilogy
Tor, February 2010 (Book 1)
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Agent: Matt Bialer

Foreign Sales
France: Fleuve Noir
Germany: Klett-Cotta
Netherlands: Luitingh
Poland: Proszynski
Russia: AST
Spain: Versatil
UK: HarperCollins UK/Voyager

“Think that words can’t hurt you? Sometimes, they can kill. The spells of textual magic of this enthralling tale will demonstrate just how.”—Terry Brooks

Nicodemus Weal is a young wizard with a tremendous talent for spells. As a boy, he showed such great promise that he was rumored to be the Halcyon—a powerful mage prophesied to prevent the Disjunction, a magical apocalypse. There was only one problem: Nicodemus can’t spell. His touch turns any magical text into a dangerous misspell, and as an adult, his talents have been restricted to the humblest tasks. When a powerful wizard is murdered with a misspell and others die mysteriously, Nicodemus comes under suspicion and must flee in order to discover the truth about the killings, the nature of magic… and himself.