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IFWG is very pleased to announce the acquisition of Sarah Neilson’s fantasy novel, Singing Down the Sky.

“IFWG is particularly pleased to add a quality fantasy title to our forward catalogue, as it has been, of late, underrepresented,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director. “Without giving too much away, we are particularly fond of elements of classic gender roles being twisted and turned upside down in Singing Down the Sky. Neilson’s novel is unique and we very are proud to be her publisher.”

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Sarah Neilson’s writing is influenced by her experiences living and travelling in rural Australia.

Her themes explore animal behaviour and the human-animal bond, coming from 30 years’ experience working in the animal industry, and riding and owning horses.

She has an Advanced Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing, is an alumni of Bryce Courtenay and Fiona McIntosh’s masterclasses, and is a member of the Australian Society of Authors, and SA Writers. 

Her articles have appeared in the Australian Veterinary Nurses Journal. Writing as Faran Silverton, her short stories have been published by Deadset Press, and the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild.

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Eulo Juke’s gambling debts have cost him his weapons, his horses and his pride. He has forty days to pay what he owes the Scabmen soldiers in enchanted kilili silveriron, before they kill his brother.

Young Vernese matriarch Tali Sarsega dreams of breeding world-class horses and breaking free from her dysfunctional family’s demands. She offsets her struggling pastoral estate by smithing and trading kilili to the renegades overseas in Iskarlia. There, she offers Eulo a marriage of convenience, dragging him into an unfamiliar world where women rule politics, society, and commerce.

Tali sings magic out of her hidden kilili tattoo into the prized silveriron weapons – an inheritance the Scabmen will kill for if the kilili itself doesn’t consume her first.

Clueless to Tali’s secret, Eulo juggles the urgency to rescue his brother with a growing attraction to his temporary wife, and the looming threat of his former brothers-in-arms. The Vernese culture relies on wits and diplomacy, but the Scabmen are coming to take the kilili the Iskarlian way: with hard fists and sharp blades.

Singing Down the Sky will be released in the third quarter of 2025.