Flyleaf Books

Hey so I got a commission for THE ARCHIVE UNDYING and it has straight-up killed me. The unsettling fleshy hue of the coral that melds perfectly into the luminous flowers... The serrated teeth on the cogs... The hands, the grasping hands... Can't fucking wait for people to read the book and indulge in the details!!

But also, pease please please go check out the artist @drawingkit and her print store, where you can buy a print! Of this piece! (but also may i recommend LITERALLY ANY OF HER OTHER PIECES, they are BREATHTAKING)

This advertisement is for The Archive Undying—a debut science fantasy epic from Emma Mieko Candon, and book one in their Downworld Sequence.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

Plugged into his AI god when its corruption renders him unfortunately immortal, sad gay disaster Sunai takes a die-again-or-die-trying approach to his tragically unending life. Despotic police states want to leash him and giant robots want to eat him, but reuniting with the small handful of people he cares about is what’s actually horrifying.

Adrift in the wilds, Sunai makes several unwise decisions such as:

Scavenging old ruins haunted by hostile fragments of another shattered technological deity

Allowing his mind to become further compromised

Sleeping with his mysterious employer for information and fun

Joining a haphazard crew of pirates who all have different motives for hunting a feral remnant of the same god that cursed him, all those years ago

Are you in North Carolina? Do you like good books and people talking to each other about good books? Do you enjoy air conditioning or the sound of a sharpie scratching across paper? Are you looking for a place to sit down and talk about good dogs?

All of these are good reasons to join me and Ursula Vernon for the launch event for The Dog Knight on 5/16 at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill! It’s literally five minutes down the road from UNC where I went to college and met my wife!