Awesome! This is an exciting surprise!
I read a preprint of this, and I really loved it. Everyone should check this book out!
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Awesome! This is an exciting surprise!
I read a preprint of this, and I really loved it. Everyone should check this book out!
Thanks for beta reading. That is essential to the writing process.
It was genuinely my pleasure.
Illustrator Bochica uses knowledge to make the world a better place, to help people express the utopia inside them. He is a social muralist, who supports war-victims communities in Colombia. Concerning the cover art, he wrote the following:
*The technique used was mixed, acrylic and ink on canvas. Painting this piece was a real challenge—synthesizing and imagining a culture made of many ancestral cultures. The arch was inspired by art nouveau but also by Hindu art, while the figures reference both southern and northern Native American cultures. The pillars are like “totems” of Native American origin, but the figures are inspired by Indigenous peoples of South America and the South Pacific, from Easter Island, the Maori, through the Incas to the Mayans and Aztecs. These columns also reference the legend of “Huitaca” from the muysca people, which speaks of a demon who ascended and became the owl—a symbol of wisdom and knowledge in many cultures. In this case, I wanted to refer to the novel’s great library. The circles are inspired by the sun but are also inspired by speakers, referencing the “voice of the people” and social organization within solarpunk.
At the top, there’s a kind of staircase inspired by the “chakana,” an Incan symbol representing the connection between the human world and higher realms.
The mermaid is inspired by “Yemaya,” who is an Orisha or goddess in the Yoruba culture from Haiti.*
Love this cover!
Just wanted to drop a note and say I binged this and then Murder in the Tool Library in 2 days. What a nice little universe you've built! I had never even heard of smashwords before your mention, but I've made a couple of other purchases in the last few days and will certainly use it to try and build a big enough library to distract me for the next 4 or 5 years :)
Out of curiosity, do you have any recommendations for other solarpunk or similarly utopian indie fiction?
I’m delighted you enjoyed your visit to New Tollan. I recommend Solarpunk Creatures and Solarpunk Summers anthologies.
@will_a113 @AEMarling I finally started reading Missing Mermaid today. Grabbed me right away, AE. (btw, my solarpunk, cli-fi book The Working is also on smashwords... and elsewhere)
Congratulations!
Thank you! Will get to work on the next story soon.
Her big snake bottom makes my snake bottom big