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This is no more trying than anything my forebears have committed. Missing the Ascendant; missing the scion. We have a succession, like we’ve always known to have. The Imperium is still the Imperium. I’ve made it as it is now – this is what we’ve all said.

I have made it as it is now, so it will continue. As it will, so shall I. All we have, our lives from beginning to end. All this I must.

I am the twenty-fourth ruler of this era. We have forged a memory, all our lives, from beginning to end. The way it could be, and the way it is – we all step upon this stone. It really is not so simple, and never has been. We are thus, and at times the grand total outweighs even a lifetime.

Unwearied, at full measure, equal to my greatest moment. I am always.

(from The Annals of Celeste, Magus the 24th)

Section Headings & Draconid Pronouns

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Informing as to method shifts.

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Section headings in The Enfolding Abyss will be jointly numbered: the first, greater number is its position in the entire cross-book storyline, the second smaller number is its position in its book.
e.g.
108 – 19
Bones of Starlight # – The Enfolding Abyss #

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Draconid Pronouns: Nonbinary
The dragon species in Bones of Starlight is not two-gendered, and during the first book I couldn’t figure out how to signify it well in writing, as the common ‘they’ creates a bit of a mess with multiple characters in a paragraph.

It takes eight to make an egg. Whichever eight dragons agree on this egg. Two genders, or gender at all, isn’t applicable to these elementally based beings. In an empire partially founded upon their integration, they would not be incorrectly signified, certainly not after twenty-four generations.

I am using the pronoun structure introduced to me by Bogi Takacs at Worldcon 74:
e / em / er / eir
singular / plural / singular possessive / plural possessive

Anyone familiar with English pronouns will be able to recognize them grammatically. Syntactically, I find it better to use ‘E with a prefacing apostrophe, so it doesn’t resemble an unknown character named E.

The Enfolding Abyss and further volumes will be written with this pronoun structure regarding the dragons. Fire On All Sides may be re-released in corrected form, probably upon trilogy completion or at whatever time it becomes pressing.

Redmond WA & Art Preview

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On Saturday December 3 from 2-4 pm, I’ll be at the magical SoulFood CoffeeHouse in Redmond, WA.  I’ll be signing and reading Fire On All Sides, Book 1 of Bones of Starlight.  Thenceforth and herewith, peek at the Local Authors shelf to find a copy.

“The Bones of Starlight” – A Book Signing with Eva L. Elasigue

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Art is still happening.  Preview of 10th Sequence underlying geometry (yes, bones) by ele:

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New Territory

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Thanks to the generosity of Con or Bust, I now have a sponsored visit to Arisia 2017 in Boston, January 13-16!  As an author, I’ve only gone as far east as Chicago, so I know there’s a whole new world of writers, fans, and culture to encounter there.  And it’s because of this great organization that I even considered this new frontier.  I’ll see what I can bring to the table, there ought to be something!  I’ve got a good feeling about this one.  There’s a secret library in Boston daring me to find it again.