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.

Appendix Complete!

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?

Yes.

Hardcover Series Art

Sticking with incredibly talented Seattle-based calligraphy painter Leo Shallat, a stunning trio of paintings has been selected for the hardcover editions of Bones of Starlight. Even more, there are already prints available of the original artwork! Get them while you can, links with images. Very honored to be graced by this world-class public-works artist.

Displaying as the new website banner is a detail shot of the artwork for Fire Within. The also-beautiful previous selection for Book 1, “Dragon”, is still viewable in the Paintings section of Leo’s online portfolio.

for Book 1: Fire Within
“Golden Compass”

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for Book 2: Abyss Surrounding
“Open Source”

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for Book 3: Greater Beyond
“Radiate”

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