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

[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!