#syphoncontinuity

Magic is here, personal pools of energy ready to keep portable technology running endlessly. As the politicians, corporations, and criminal organizations of Tokyo jockey for control in the evolving landscape, a group of rivals and friends navigate dangerous boardrooms and back alleys to transform the locus of power.

And, because the most logical reaction to receiving your author copy is to take it on a walk, here are some more photos in the wild. Now that is a paperback that would love to spend the fall with you and a steaming cup of beverage!

The plan was just a little groundbreaking project to open up magic but things are about to get messy.

Available at Amazon (paperback and kindle), Barnes & Nobles, and Bookshop.org. Here are all the links if you’d like a messy set of friends for the fall:

Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose. 

(When you're too busy with hijinks to bother with this main character business.)

If you like contemporary fantasy, love complicated characters having hijinks, and hate late-stage capitalism, The Butterfly Koi might be for you!

For reference, here's that first cover:

Two of the covers I needed to make were to have parents for the world building materials and for the non-fiction essays we've been writing. I used the orange and a circle motif to try to keep that visual language, while also trying to capture the travel book and pontificating look you see with these kinds of books.

This is also an opportunity to start including periodic side stories, so I needed a parent there. For this one, I reworked one of the backgrounds that I'd made for the comic, trying to communicate the idea of discrete separate sections. Something inviting and warm, but without locking the stories too much into being about a specific person or time/place.

And lastly, well, moving to Ream means learning to speak the local language. I had to do some research to make this one accurate, but I think it came out okay. So, um, here, it's abs.