Hello, dear reader. I’ll be adding the appendix material to the online posting free version of Bones of Starlight on this website. This’ll be happening over the next couple of months.
In the popdown menu at the top, there’s the new Appendix page. There, the contents will be hotlinked as they’re added; though, they’ll be visible in the usual post scroll.
For those who want the hardcover appendix volume, it is available for $22 from new booksellers as:
Bones of Starlight, The Appendix: Learning Country by Eva L. Elasigue 9781944416188
– live on one planet, named Ombd, beneath the harsh surface in communities called Subterranea. – eat large succulent flowers grown in directed-light cavern fields – enjoy sporting, forging, farming, singing – names: nature+verb
– massive, the height of multiple stories – stony hides with patches of ropy fur, some with a bison hunch – collonade trunklike front limbs ending in padfooted dexterous opposable ironclaws, with back legs like backhoes – a capital plate ridge, possibly a resonance chamber beneath – four sensory pits below the bony capital ridge – mouths with masticating dental platform ridges, and a pointed chin
– agendered, with self-polarizing gametes – the young incubate each inside their own stone where different gametes have been placed on a favorite rock, and are raised tribally – the stone grows, and they crack out of geodes like eggs, the name of which is similar to their name for their planet (omba/Ombd). Some of the most beautiful and powerful gems are shards of omba. – they group-raise
– decorate with jeweled ornamentation when below ground; a teeny dreadlock-ring is the size of a human shoulder-torc – ornamentation is studded with set crystals and gems, made of unguessable metals with luminous crystals that may not even be recorded on the phronium spectrum
– communication happens below human frequency range – advanced awareness of emotion as a connective force of nature, able to balance to the exactitude of equation; with reverence, they both feel and understand the way it is, will be, can be, should be, could be; they feel the forces without forcing the feeling – aureny is the name of their practice of collective emotional resonance, same as the name for their people
This was a magnificent time, full of big vision and deeper understanding. I was thrilled to explore this community and place, and loved my author panels! Also new in was the Appendix volume to Bones of Starlight, Learning Country.
I recorded a workshop talk at Magikana Festival in Wales – From Within, From Without is a discourse on interdisciplinary creativity through the lens of writing and movement. It’ll come out in due time, but request it if you need it. There I also performed as a fire and flow dancer, with palm torches, staff, dragon staff, mini fans, and a copper disc bearing a triple knot. Here’s a moonrise from the farm, pre-festival:
Dear readers, a beautiful appendix has been fully crafted for us all to enjoy.
Coming in at a svelte yet well-built 70 pages, this contains all people, places, and terms present in the story dimension not exactly as in ours. It’s a little bit as though notes on these matters were gathered first-to-thirdhand from diverse perspectives and sources from within the chronology, possibly by Kao-Sidhe, and bundled into one organized trunk in the Vedani aetherscape, with an obvious multiplicity of contributors.
I am, in our world, the one who wrote it, yes. I took on this task because I myself have adored a fine appendix, and Bones of Starlight was built with a mountain of juicy tidbits.
This will be available to purchase on 7/14/24, July 14 Bastille Day, as it was with 3: Greater Beyond. Contact me personally via social media or through the site email form for a direct or autographed copy or set, or find it through your bookseller with the ISBN above via Ingram Distributors.
I once bought a chapbook Index for a work of fiction I hadn’t read, because it was intentionally artistically produced, and reading an out-of-context index to someone’s favorite work felt delightfully and poignantly non-sequitur. So if you ask, Does it stand on its own? my thought is, if you think it could. For Lovers of Worldbuilding.
I hope this will be a joyous addition to complete anyone’s individual volume trilogy set. It costs almost as much as a novel, but not quite. It’s a jacketed hardcover and will sit nicely next to the original full set of volumes. The cover art is also by the zesty trilogy cover art painter @leo.shallat (IG & TikTok).
Do I want to add the Appendix to the free version hosted on this website?
Bones of Starlight 3 : Greater Beyond 