Appendix development continues apace for Bones of Starlight. Other things that have happened along the way:

– mentoring workshop at Summer Night Moon Bloom Festival

– art showing at BloomDance

– midnight reading & talk on the All Things Mystical virtual speaker marathon by Entheo Society

– Primal Spiral Open Hours

– reading & presentation for the September Salon hosted by University of Washington with graduate Meshell Sturgis of Black Girl Magic

– reading & talk: Permaculture Aspects of a Personal Creative Network at The HeART of Organizing: Arts & Social Change, by Blue Heart Foundation

– Panel (Races in Fantasy & Racism) & poetry reading at World Fantasy Convention 2023 Kansas City

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BOOK 2: ABYSS SURROUNDING, variant cover alert

The corrected 2nd printing of Abyss Surrounding has a cover flaw that’s being fixed: rasterized artwork. Apologies to Leo Shallat, the artist of the painting “Open Source.” It’s at least a semi-referential flaw; when the Kao-Sidhe appear at the beginning of that volume, they cause a series of technoglitches in Soleil’s computing. Consider it a character-author prank made visible. If you happen to receive one of those, consider it limited edition with a fine interior – get it while you can? If you’re sure you’d also like a copy with fully intact artwork, I can be contacted at primal.spiral@gmail.com, and we can figure out how to level up your library.

The difference is as follows: