Kristina W KellyFinally getting my #coverart up on #goodreads for my #sciencefantasy novel releasing this year. It combines #scifi and #fantasy! If you feel like supporting my launch in May, please add Trials of the Innermost to your goodreads #tbr! More about the book below. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75858521-trials-of-the-innermost
Part of TOTI’s journey is that it’s #coauthored by me and my best friend! We first wanted to design an open world #videogame but then decided we wanted to write it as a #novel #series. The world of Etherea stopped spinning, leaving three distinct realms: one always in light (desert, hot, #petra like city), one always in dark (volcanic rifts, tundra, mushroom forest), and one in between (canal city, forests, mountains)
We first self-published then removed TOTI, rewrote it with an editor, and found an #indie #publisher that focuses on #queer stories and #authors that wanted it! Hansen House. We’ve since rewritten it again. It now has over 20 new chapters, countless modified scenes, and is double the length of the self-pub version. It’s like a whole new book!
It’s is written from 6 POVs (2 female and 4 male), has a wolf character with two tails, an owl-like character that fights in battles, and a life-sucking alien presence that’s hiding in one of them. While they try to maintain peace between their realms by learning to work together in the Trials of the Innermost, a larger threat has come to consume their world.
There’s #magic born of #music and exploding #crystals. A #bard who plays a #dulcimer and #ocarina.