What's With the World of Without Words?
Alliteration, ho!
Last week I announced the title of my next book is going to be Without Words, and that it's set in the same world as Midnight Magic. This week I would like to expand on that a little bit for you.
Midnight Magic and Without Words now comprise the first two books in a whole fantasy lesbian romance anthology series! They will all be thematically and tonally similar, all taking place in the same world, but can be read in any order, without knowing anything about the other books.
I have a lot of ideas for smaller romances like Midnight, books that are shorter and less hefty than the Ashes books. Books you can read in your garden or on the beach in an afternoon that make you feel good about things!
Now they all have a home. Same magic rules, same world, just over wildly different eras and locations. My intent isn't to create a dense, interconnected universe of sticky canon questions, just a safe, familiar setting that lets the characters and the story come first. Hopefully, these books eventually become as comfortable as the blanket or the PJs you're swaddled in when you read them.
Will there be overlap? Well, I can't ruin all the fun by answering that definitively, but just because stories are separated by millennia doesn't mean they can't answer questions (or raise them!), at least. Who knows who or what might show up when, or what stray line of exposition might spin off a story of its own?
The one bit of consistency I want you to be able to count on is heart. Positivity and sincerity are sorely lacking in a lot of modern storytelling, and these books are going to provide both of those in spades. They're the kind of books that I have needed over the last year or so especially, so I hope they provide refuge from whatever storms befall us in the future for you, as well.
That's the general overview! More info to come (including the name!) as the release date for Without Words creeps ever closer. It's in final edits now, so not much longer.
Last week I announced the title of my next book is going to be Without Words, and that it's set in the same world as Midnight Magic. This week I would like to expand on that a little bit for you.
Midnight Magic and Without Words now comprise the first two books in a whole fantasy lesbian romance anthology series! They will all be thematically and tonally similar, all taking place in the same world, but can be read in any order, without knowing anything about the other books.
I have a lot of ideas for smaller romances like Midnight, books that are shorter and less hefty than the Ashes books. Books you can read in your garden or on the beach in an afternoon that make you feel good about things!
Now they all have a home. Same magic rules, same world, just over wildly different eras and locations. My intent isn't to create a dense, interconnected universe of sticky canon questions, just a safe, familiar setting that lets the characters and the story come first. Hopefully, these books eventually become as comfortable as the blanket or the PJs you're swaddled in when you read them.
Will there be overlap? Well, I can't ruin all the fun by answering that definitively, but just because stories are separated by millennia doesn't mean they can't answer questions (or raise them!), at least. Who knows who or what might show up when, or what stray line of exposition might spin off a story of its own?
The one bit of consistency I want you to be able to count on is heart. Positivity and sincerity are sorely lacking in a lot of modern storytelling, and these books are going to provide both of those in spades. They're the kind of books that I have needed over the last year or so especially, so I hope they provide refuge from whatever storms befall us in the future for you, as well.
That's the general overview! More info to come (including the name!) as the release date for Without Words creeps ever closer. It's in final edits now, so not much longer.
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