I have a new free novel up on my ko-fi store. This is a novel mostly set in Gloucestershire, and in parallel words, and it gets increasingly bonkers as it goes along. This is an overtly queer book, there's a nonbinary character and the main character is both bisexual and polyamorous. It's not graphic on the sexual side, or in terms of violence but it does get decidedly peculiar at times.
We follow the main character - Kathleen - from the age of 14 onwards, checking in at seven year intervals. This structure enabled me to have a first person narrator who does not know the whole story for most of the book. It also allowed me to explore a person growing and changing over a much longer timeframe than I've previously tried in a novel. Without giving away too much of the plot, Kathleen ends up finding out what it means to become a sorcerer, and for this book, what that means is not what it usually means. This is a speculative story, heavy on the magic and poking around in ideas of identity and how we change over time. It's urban-ish fantasy in that much of it is set in a reality akin to our own, but it doesn't really follow the habits of that genre.
Here's a video of me talking about the book and reading the introduction -
You can pick up a free ebook version here - https://ko-fi.com/s/f312aa059a
There are no consequences to picking it up as a free ebook, the site does not add you to anything or add you to a mailing list or anything like that, so far as I know. So, it is genuinely free. If you want to pay for it, there's the option to pick your own amount. If you read it and like it enough to want to pay for it in retrospect, ko-fi donations are also an option. If you're on a tight budget and can't afford to buy books, please just take a free copy, along with anything else in my ko-fi store that appeals to you.
I'm able to do this sort of thing because people who can afford to buy books do so, and because there are some wonderfully generous people who support me on Patreon.
There is also a paperback version available from Amazon, for anyone who feels really keen.
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