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ALT A very kind pass on a full that says my writing is fantastic 😭
ALT Pictures of a cold, wet, island kingdom full of dragons, betrayal, and love.
ALT Artwork for Aaron’s YA fantasy novel, SOULCAST. In the image, the main character is in the midst of a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld. Next to him, the prince and his love interest is his prey.
ALT Editor Guide: Body Insurance by Judah Mahay. A fragile utopia that depends upon the deplorable. Retelling Frankenstein. Comps Never Let Me Go and Station Eleven. Mock book cover to the right.
ALT "A moving, disturbing science fiction tale, as if Frankenstein met Flowers for Algernon and explored the continually evolving possibilities of what life can be in the 21st century." - Jason Sanford, Nebula Award Finalist, Philip K. Dick Award Finalist, and Nominee for the BSFA Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Pushcart Prize
ALT "Body Insurance is an express train of a science fiction novel, equally thrilling and scary. Judah Mahay does a beautiful job in making us believe the unbelievable. A book for and about the troubling future, which is already here." - Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times Bestseller
ALT First Lines of Body Insurance by Juda Mahay: "Behind the viewing glass, half-assembled, the biopod twitches with the promise of life unintended, twisted into this manifested vulgarity. Baked as such in fluorescent glare, the white cloaks knit a handless arm to the torso. The myriad of hunched surgeons and medical techs plucks and prods the splayed skin that pretends to human—a grotesque facsimile at best. Overhead, a web of thin crimson tubes snake down from the ceiling interconnected, pumping life into a cadre of yet-to-be-assembled organs, limbs, and digits as if this flesh hopes to be made whole."
ALT Background is a brilliant image of space depicting many stars against a dark blue sky with orange and red toned galactic clouds from the Webb telescope. Images of the three main characters are drawn using glowing yellow to mimic constellations. Text reads: An Agent’s Guide to The Promise of Darkness.
ALT Background image is of stars against a black, blue, and orange space courtesy of the Webb telescope. The slide is titled, “The Plot.” Text reads: The planet of Promethea was plunged into darkness over two centuries ago when a collective of zealous pyromancers known as The Order of the Hearth extinguished its star and overthrew the ruling monarchy. Eighteen-year-old Ballad Draper is The Order’s lead astronomer and the first male heir of the old monarchy’s line. Lauryl Astralys has been captured by The Order after hiding her abilities for seventeen years. Her fire is that of starlight, and the pyromancers plan to make her a martyr under the guise of relighting Promethea’s star to further their hold on the planet. Despite Lauryl’s reluctance, she teams up with Ballad and his lovable alchemist, Calx Corona, on their own mission to bring Promethea back into the light.
ALT Background image is of stars against a black, blue, and orange space courtesy of the Webb telescope. Title says, “Excerpt.” Text reads: He could almost see it. The star shone like a small golden marble through the lens of a pristine telescope he’d nicknamed “The Eye.” Three more clicks of movement and the sphere came into focus with an explosion of color which took Ballad’s breath away. It was a distant star to the planet Kellum, an inhabitable world described in texts as lush and green. These were words he knew, yet even as paintings of Promethea in its prime hung on the walls of The Institute, Ballad couldn’t conceptualize what it meant for a planet to be so colored. The aurora of flares coming off the star were in shades of green too, with pink and orange and blue flickering like flaming gemstones across his vision. The star reached out to him, called to him, like blood to the heart.
ALT Background image is of stars against a black, blue, and orange space courtesy of the Webb telescope. Title says, “Vibes and Comps.” A lists of themes in the novel reads: fibro and chronic pain rep, queer as the norm, found family, soulmates, destiny vs choice. A shot of the playlist for the novel includes the songs Rise Up O Flame by Kiki Rockwell, Arsonist’s Lullaby by Hozier, Starboy by The Weeknd, and Euclid by Sleep Token. Comp titles for the novel are Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer and the TV show ARCANE.