Manzieri Omnibus Edition 2/5

A variant cover edition of fantasy space opera trilogy Bones of Starlight is now out and available for purchase through fine booksellers! This commissioned cover is by the internationally awarded Hugo-nominated Maurizio Manzieri, who has digitally handpainted covers for Aliette de Bodard, Clive Cussler, and many others.

On the cover is Soleil, the Princess Magus, with multivariant Dragons in a moment that belongs to one of the final scenes in the entire epic.

This is the omnibus, containing all three volumes of the trilogy along with the appendix: Fire Within, Abyss Surrounding, Greater Beyond, plus Learning Country. This is another birthday release with my imprint Primal Spiral (me), and I am 43 as of the fifth. 42 was a majestic science fiction year in my life, and I’m feeling super duper, peachy keen.

The text has been improved further yet, for a smooth reading experience, with the continued radiance of brilliance of all which remains important, which one may be joyed of the expectation. The other, still-available cover is by calligraffiti artist Leo Shallat.

It’s got its own ISBN, so one may collect variants for a while:
978-1-944416-23-2
It might take a moment to percolate through the system, but it should soon be independently available.
For now, I am accepting orders! $72 + shipping.

BEHOLD.

Recent Recap: latter 2025

Equinox Watershed Seattle Georgetown Primal Spiral & Friday Harbor 1st Block
Primal Spiral creative studio evolved through its reactivation in 2025, starting up for a season and some at Make.Shift in Bellingham. I accepted an offer for studio space in Seattle Georgetown with the Equinox Collective Watershed arts neighborhood project, and transferred my Bellingham functions here. I also reopened in Friday Harbor, my island town address, on the first block from the ferry at [Parking Gate] 3. So now there’s Primal Spiral Seattle & Primal Spiral Friday Harbor, and at these places I can forge ahead with new writing, and receive creative company.

Seattle WorldCon 2025
Seattle WorldCon was a culmination of years of participation and contribution, and I’m so proud of my local SFF and writing community for hosting a world-class event that brought many of the amazing authors, artists, publishers, and fans that I’ve been hobnobbing with for the previous decade to our very own city neighborhood. Along with speaking on some fabulous panels, I hosted my first WorldCon dealer’s table, which was a cheery scene, and invited people to my Midnight Write-In Cacao & Tea Social Hour at Primal Spiral Georgetown.

Leagues Cup 2025
Sounders All-Win

There are some new poems just rolled out, a demiromantic 3-pack:
Let Me Be Your Ocean, Bold Sailor (after my Let Me Be Your Ocean, Bold Surfer)
When Search AI Has No Idea What You’re Talking About, on oKOMOn News
feminine ego grandiosity / this does not seem allowed (see above)

ELASIEL176CE: 12/21/25 print date
This story came together from ideas and processes that began some time ago, and was ready to step forth for publication after Bones of Starlight; I consider it part of a larger book, titled alwaysbeeneverwas, with other intertwined mythologies. In this separate photoessay-constructed form, it’s a Fantasy New Age Multiple Life Philosophy Erotica; for sale to ages 18+, only as an additional purchase to any other volume by the author, in print through limited in-person/author-direct distribution; with a look to a later-upcoming online release on: Only Fans.

I renewed with SFWA through 2026
I’m also renewed with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association through 2026! Cheers to my second year in the professionals’ formal league.

photo credits, top-bottom: 1. Jason Ruvelson; background painting wall treatment mural by ELE Eva L. Elasigue 2. Adrian 3. stadium neighbor 4. Myrrh Larsen 5. selfie by the author

Manzieri Cover

Feast your eyes: Maurizio Manzieri, the reknowned and 2025 Hugo-nominated artist, has created a cover version for Bones of Starlight! Featured is Princess Ascendant Soleil, piloting Moonshadow in her Vedani control suit, with Dragons in the air over Alisandre Capital. I’m truly honored.

We will both be at Seattle WorldCon this year, with panels and more. I invite expansive thinkers and magical potion drinkers, wisps and wonderers to the sea-sprayed woods wherein I create and dwell.

Audiobook Recording Residency

Okay me hearties, an audiobook recording has been accomplished and is now in production processing, however long that may take!

I sublet the house of artist friend Willow Woodsmith at The Shire near Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, BC Canada on Nitinaht land. There, I spent a month laying track.

It was an epic reading of the kind rumored in ancient legend, the 6-day tellings in the islands of Maharlika in a 30-day sprint of about 200,000 words. I enjoyed the waterside house to myself with the company of two cats. Will be seeing how its method of delivery develops.