I’m publishing a book (surprise?)

You can find where to buy the book here: https://books2read.com/u/mKB09B

Graveyard of Lullabies will soon be available to pre-order on several additional platforms (including Amazon/Kindle), hopefully within the next few days.

Unfortunately, Amazon’s a special case… the distributor I’m using doesn’t do pre-orders on Amazon, so I’m aiming just to have it available to buy starting on October 2nd.

With that PSA out of the way…

I have massive autistic PDA (or, Persistent Drive for Autonomy/Pathological Demand Avoidance), meaning I really hate it when people tell me to do things. So I’m not going to tell you that you have to go buy my book. I’m just going to tell you about it, and you get to decide if it sounds like a thing you want to own or not.

So. The main character is a trans woman necromancer, who lives in an Arctic tundra. She lives alone, until this magic egg appears in her garden, then she’s like, “Oh no, what’s this thing, I better ask someone who might know what it is” and then, ta-da, she meets new people and goes on an adventure with a mythical creature.

There’s also a queen. She’s basically a prisoner in her palace. She’s fighting to take it back.

There’s a Skeleton Cook who likes to dance while doing dishes (because doing dishes is terrible for your skin).

There’s a mystical orchard in the frozen tundra.

And there’s with a whole helping of “trying to recover from trauma.” Because why would there not be?

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You know that thing some musicians do, leading up to an album release, where they release the track list of their album? Well, this book has “Lullabies” in the title and that’s a music thing, so I figure, why not include a track list (aka, table of contents)?

part 1: alive

1-her, alone

2-him, remembered

3-body in the bath

4-brain at the table

5-summer merchants

6-seasons’ diseases

7-Kolariq

8-Tulimaq

9-stranger

10-know you best

11-history

12-future

13-living

(ps, the plot really picks up in in chapter 7. Prepare for the scenic route to get there–or just skip the scenery and go straight to chapter 7. You might feel a little lost though?)

part 2: queen

14-dead

15-light

16-dark

17-death day

18-birth day

19-intercut

20-_hold

21-these flickering insects

22-steady

23-how a battlefield

24-comes to pieces

(pps, the chapter titles are often thematic pairs. Like, “history” and “future.” Or “stranger” and “know you best.”)

part 3: lullaby

25-days

26-moments

27-purposeless

28-definition of desire

29-stasis

30-metamorphosis

31-kin

32-nicked skin

33-talk

34-coda

35-which quiet fear

36-awakes at midnight

(part 4 is the most intense part of the book…I mean, it’s the climax, of course it’s the most intense part, right?)

part 4: army

37-festival

38-after party

39-feetstep

40-I-self

41-they

42-you

43-figures in a flame

44-circles of a palace

45-rivulets

part 5: graveyard

46-where water incoheres

47-welcome

48-to the dawn

(“I think dawn is a time of killing, because the stars are where dead people go and every morning the stars disintegrate to a red sun. Strange color for blood, that.”)