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I'm very pleased to announce that Through Immortal Shadows Singing, my epic novella in poetry, is now available for preorder from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and many other retailers!

And by epic, I do mean epic - the 170 pages do include a table of contents and things like that, but this is about 167 pages of poetry.

Here's the blurb:

Maligned for her beauty, cursed for her role in causing a war, she has rarely been given her chance to tell her tale. Now Helen of Troy's voice breaks free, offering a new vision in this epic lyrical sequence that follows her journey from Sparta to Troy, from earth to hell, and back. A stunning debut novella from Mari Ness, THROUGH IMMORTAL SHADOWS SINGING will transform your view of Helen and the Trojan War, in a soaring poem of love and war, healing and pain, hatred and triumph.

I had huge problems trying to pick a quote from the book, but here's two small tastes of the poetry inside:

I walk, knowing that the queen of death
may name me sister, that the
cry of the hunt
shares my blood, that I share a father
with the Fates.

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Bone on silver,
silver on bone,
the sound of a harp
the memory of dream.

Available April 25.

The always awesome Nicole Kornher-Stace is donating her royalty sales for one week to Doctors Without Borders.

I have, alas, not yet read The Winter Triptych, but I have read Desideria and can strongly recommend that. So, go! Buy! Read! (Bonus: with the first book, you're ALSO helping out small press Papaveria, which produces just gorgeous, gorgeous books and is well worth supporting. Yes, I'm biased since the publisher has occasionally published a couple of my tales in her Cabinet Des Fees/Scheherezade's Bequest, but go ahead and see for yourself.), and also published Berrien Henderson, rather well known and admired around these parts, so doing in general Good Things.