Recovering techie with an MFA, working on like a kajillion writing projects at once. Check out the Post-Self cycle, Restless Town, A Wildness of the Heart, ally, and a whole lot of others.
Trans/nb, queer, polyam, median, constantly overwhelmed.
Current hyperfixation: SS14
Icon by Mot, header by @cupsofjade
An epistolary novella seemed like a good idea until I remembered transmission delays. Sigh, math~
"Selected Letters", an extended epilogue to the Post-Self cycle arrives with Mitzvot on January 21!
Pre-order here or bookmark to read in the browser: https://mitzvot.post-self.ink
So much to remember, so much to process.
Fantastic interior illustration by @irisjaycomics!
Mitzvot is available for pre-order now as paperback and ebook! https://mitzvot.post-self.ink
One month until Mitzvot arrives! To celebrate, please enjoy 50% off all four Post-Self ebooks, and as an added bonus, a remaster of one of the first pieces of Post-Self writing, Gallery Exhibition!
If you'd like to play through Gallery Exhibition on its own, you can do so here.
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Hey! I have a new book coming out on January 21st, Mitzvot! It's book 4 in the Post-Self cycle, but this snippet stands on its own reasonably well, so I figured I'd post it as a bit of a teaser.
Mitzvot won't be a standalone story, and relies on context from the first three books in the tetralogy. You can find all of those at the link above, where you can get paperbacks, ebooks, or read for free in the browser.
For context, the setting is a future of uploaded consciousnesses. This comes with pros and some cons. For instance, one is functionally immortal and can create copies of oneself at whim, and later merge them back in to have memories of their experiences. However, the complete inability to forget combined with that same immortality can be a little crazy-making.
"To be built to love is to be built to dissolve. It is to be built to unbecome. It is to have the sole purpose in life of falling apart all in the name of someone else.
"We all have a bit of that in us, do we not? You find yourself at a bar or maybe in some class somewhere, you look over, and there they are, right? You look over and you maybe catch their eye and you come undone at the seams. You fall into those big, beautiful eyes --- for when you are built to love, every eye that catches yours is the most beautiful thing of all time --- and you begin to flake away at the edges.