The text of the Devil's Bible is a powerful weapon in the power struggle between Heaven and Hell, so it falls to the librarians to find a book with the power to reshape the boundaries between Heaven, Hell….and Earth. When a Hero escapes from his book and goes in search of his author, Claire must track and capture him with the help of former muse and current assistant Brevity and nervous demon courier Leto.īut what should have been a simple retrieval goes horrifyingly wrong when the terrifyingly angelic Ramiel attacks them, convinced that they hold the Devil's Bible. Her job consists mainly of repairing and organizing books, but also of keeping an eye on restless stories that risk materializing as characters and escaping the library. In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that arent.

It is a story’s natural ambition to wake up and start telling itself to the world. Hackwiths fantasy novel, it goes to the purgatory-like library in hell called the Unwritten Wing. Left abandoned too long and given the right stimulation, a book goes wrong in the head. What happens to a story when its abandoned by its writer In A.J.

No story, written or unwritten, is static. Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing- a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. The Unwritten Wing of the Library, for all its infinite magic and mystery, is in some ways a futile project. The Library of the Unwritten is a tiered dark chocolate cake of a book. In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.

The library of the unwritten series