Janella Angeles

Janella Angeles is a Filipino American fantasy writer whose fiction draws on theatrical spectacle, ambitious performers, and magical competition. Where Dreams Descend opens the Kingdom of Cards duology with a contest among magicians in the mysterious city of Glorian. Wednesday Books, an imprint of Macmillan, published the novel as the first volume in the sequence. Stage magician Kallia challenges a field shaped by secrecy and rivalry, while a vanished circus deepens the atmosphere. Angeles has also worked in children's publishing, an experience aligned with her interest in visual storytelling and constructed fantasy worlds.