Oh, fantastic. Tochi Onyebuchi has a new novel coming out in 2025:
Nigerian-American author Tochi Onyebuchi is set to publish a new novel titled Harmattan Season in March 2025. The novel will be published by Tor Books and explores fantasy noir. Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath, a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist; YA novel Beasts Made of Night, which
#today I'm carrying on with the first edit pass through my WIP, and since it's the #wordWeavers day for discussing made-up words, conlanging, etc, I wanted to share one of those spooky coincidences that occasionally crop up when you do that.
Background 1:
UK tooters will be familiar with Gerald Ratner, who at one time headed up one of our largest high street jewellery retail companies. He's a funny story in his own right, and well worth a Google if you've not heard it.
Background 2:
One of today's tasks is completing the names of the seven ports my happy band of travellers encounter during this story. I've been using the merchandise that each port trades in as the "seed" for its name.
So here I am, inventing the name for port #5, which trades in gold and jewels. And entering "jewels" into Google Translate (see earlier link to my conlang process) throws up the Indonesian word... ratna.
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I have a prequel novella -- Berikatanyan Dawn -- that introduces several characters who appear in the trilogy. Free to download if you sign up to my mailing list at https://books.johnberesford.com/dawn
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On Earth a stranger is convicted of murder, though he has no memory of the crime. A young architect wins his Masters degree, but -- still battling his demons -- he makes a momentous decision. A young woman waits for her father to come home, but her troubles are only just beginning. These three people share a connection they have yet to discover. On the remote world of Berikatanya the people suffer the most cataclysmic failure of Elemental magic in their history. How will they deal with the loss of so many powerful magicians? Berikatanyan Dawn is a prequel novella that can be enjoyed on its own, and also sets the scene for my SF/Fantasy trilogy: The Berikatanyan Chronicles.
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