Lagoonfire cover

[asakiyume]

Lagoonfire, the sequel to The Inconvenient God--or shall we say, the second in the Tales of the Polity--has a cover!



Art this time by Susan Lavoie.

And it has a back blurb for the paperback edition:

The past can be a difficult thing to escape…

Decommissioner Thirty-Seven is not the most conventional decommissioner at the Ministry of Divinities, but she takes her role of helping fading gods to retire seriously—and feels bad when things go wrong. Take the decommissioning of Laloran-morna, former god of warm ocean waves: she botched that, somehow, and now he spurts saltwater when upset. When seawater invades a development project in Laloran-morna’s old haunts, suspicion naturally falls on him. But is the retired god the source of the problem? Or is it the work of a mortal saboteur? Searching for the answer to these questions brings Thirty-Seven face-to-face with a past she’d rather forget.

Soon it'll be available for preorder! It's long enough--a novella rather than a novelette--that the publisher can send it to places like Publisher's Weekly to review... I am dying of hope and anxiety!

Comments

[sovay]

Take the decommissioning of Laloran-morna, former god of warm ocean waves: she botched that, somehow, and now he spurts saltwater when upset. When seawater invades a development project in Laloran-morna’s old haunts, suspicion naturally falls on him. But is the retired god the source of the problem? Or is it the work of a mortal saboteur?

*prepares to hit the preorder button the second it exists*

Same publisher?

[asakiyume]

Yes, same publisher: Annorlunda Books (or Annorlunda Enterprises)

[sovay]

Yes, same publisher: Annorlunda Books (or Annorlunda Enterprises)

Nice.

I hope you get rave reviews.

[asakiyume]

Thank you for this good wish! From your lips to the hearts of readers!

[mount_oregano]

This sounds like such a FUN book!

[asakiyume]

Well if you try it I hope it proves to be so! I enjoyed writing it :-)

[osprey_archer]

the second in the Tales of the Polity

OMG it has a SERIES NAME I'm so excited!!! (And also just excited for the book itself, of course! Do you know about when the preorder will go up?)

[asakiyume]

The publisher said soon? But what *is* time? First will be ebook preorder, then paperback, I think.

(And I like the series title--it got the vote of our focus group, which consisted of the publisher's thirteen-year-old daughter!)

[osprey_archer]

But what *is* time?

That's such a 2020 mood.

And the daughter is clearly an excellent focus group! Having a title makes the series sound so official.

gotta give the other icon some use too...

[asakiyume]

I have so many ideas! Maybe it's not wise of me to jam them all into one book the way I currently seem to be doing but--SO MANY IDEAS.

Re: gotta give the other icon some use too...

[osprey_archer]

If there are any that won't fit, you can always break them out into separate novellas! Think Murderbot.

Re: gotta give the other icon some use too...

[asakiyume]

I am--I am looking at Murderbot and literally thinking, Guide me! (And Murderbot is thinking, UGH, humans. Just leave me alone, all right?)

[gwynnega]

What a beautiful cover!

[asakiyume]

I'm delighted with it!

[queenoftheskies]

That is such a beautiful cover!

I can't wait to pre-order.

And I am praying hard that the publisher sends it to Publisher's Weekly to review!!!

[asakiyume]

I really love the cover!

Thank you for your support--I couldn't have written it without you.

[amaebi]

I can't wait to read it. Well, I can, and must, but you know.

[asakiyume]

Thank you 💕 I really hope you'll like it. It's-- I don't want to queer the pitch by saying anything! I just really hope you'll like it.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Color me excited. Have I ever told you that I adore sparkles? How could I not be intrigued by a such a cover. :D

This time I will be prepared for a "short" book, which I wasn't with Inconvenient Gods. :P

[asakiyume]

This one is three times as long as that one! Which still doesn't make it novel length, but well into novella territory (between 30,000 and 40,000 words).

[wayfaringwordhack]

You're getting there then; you'll be able to offer me a tome in no time. Or maybe a decade or so. ;)

[asakiyume]

I'm writing the next one, and if I keep all the plot threads in, it will be a proper novel for sure!

[wayfaringwordhack]

"Yeah, Baby!" as Ti'Loup would say. Keep them, keep them!

[rimturse]

It looks and sounds great! :)

[asakiyume]

I, of course, can't judge at all, but I'm very glad you think so!

[http://lotuslandfineart.com/velvetrope/]

Oooooooo, a sequel, yay! I enjoy TIG, so I look forward to reading this one.

[asakiyume]

Oh hurray! I'm really glad you liked the first, and I hope this one will please as well.