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Churros are better than boyfriends in Korea apparently

I've upped my signing game on this trip to Korea. 💪🏻💮

MUM: (to my brother) Trouble, you look like a local! MUM: (to me) You...do not.

There is a reason Liesl walks away at the end of Wintersong, which is to say that I think it's better to live for yourself than to die for love. But this is my belief, of course; yours may differ. In which case, feel free to write AU fanfiction to right my wrongs! I used to do that when I felt the author didn't end a book I loved properly. 😉

I'm not a very visual writer, so not really? I joke that all my first drafts could be titled Bodiless Voices in Featureless Rooms, even though I sketch and draw my characters a lot. I am, however, open to any and all fancasts!

As for Josef, well, we know he [redacted]. For François, I think he remained with the performance troupe that he and Käthe were traveling with during the events of Shadowsong, helping Liesl compose songs and becoming an impresario. Of them all, he has the most professional musical experience, and is also the most trained. There weren't a lot of opportunities for young men of color back then (although composers like Joseph Bologne, Chevalier Saint-Georges—who inspired François—found a good deal of professional musical success during his lifetime), but I like to think that the madcap world of actors and artisans would suit him.

And before you go searching for them, they are terrible and unfinished, so I advise you not to look.

HOWEVER, yes, Guardians of Dawn is still happening—in fact, the first book will be published August 2023! You can add it to Goodreads here.

@ Myeongdong, Seoul