Dear reader who likes their characters sharp and prickly,
I am excited to announce that Lullaby is now on pre-order as an ebook (here and here) and live as a paperback (here and here).
This is what comes after Hunters Unlucky. It leads into two more novels, but they won't make sense without Lullaby. Here's what the book includes:
On the eve of Charder’s age-related death, ten years after the events in the Hunters Unlucky novel, Arcove comes to tell Charder goodbye. Their conversation sparks a chain of events that will have a profound impact on the rest of the island, as well as on Arcove personally. "Lullaby" appears for the first time in this collection.
The collection also includes two other Hunters Universe stories, which were previously published individually. "Awake" occurs two years after the end of the novel. Keesha is roused from his winter torpor by a surprise visitor to the Dreaming Sea. Arcove has a problem, and he needs Keesha’s help.
"Water in the Desert" occurs seven years after the events in novel. Sauny is leading her own herd of ferryshaft with Valla as her beta. When a creasia from Treace’s old clutter carries away a live foal, Sauny and Valla chase after him through the arid wastes and slot canyons of the Southern Mountains. Their task seems relatively simple. However, dark secrets lurk in those hills, and the price of rescuing one foal may be higher than anyone imagined.
Magnificent cover art by Iben Krutt, lovely design by Jeff McDowall.
If you get the book directly from me, you'll also get a novella's worth of notes from the original Hunters Unlucky rewrite - all kinds of comments about the process of writing that novel, how the characters evolved over time, the names I chose, and just generally why I wrote what I wrote.
If you're holding out for the audiobook, that should be along shortly, and I'll probably bundle the ebook with it. I'm also doing a Hunters Unlucky Marathon over on the Patreon right now, so that's another way to listen. We'll go through all the stories in order. You can listen to the first 2 parts without subscribing. That's quite a chunk.
I leave you with an image of Taro in his favorite chair. He knows he looks good on red.
Yours,
An author still trying to finish Bright Side
