TO TUNE THE BEAST
It's 1928, the eve of the Bicentennial of Coruscar, a multi-species nation founded by the Cores, crystalline creatures of music and magic whose original vision of an empathic utopia has been warped by a tyrannical Human elite. Many forces seek to direct the future of Coruscar—dead as well as living. In the midst of these volatile political times, the lives of Mica Kalekai, a rakish but earnest young aristocrat whose privilege as a Tuner of the Cores depends on her renunciation of all emotional attachment, and Chalcy Greenglass, a commoner determined to possess, at any cost, the music that's been forbidden to her, are transformed by the rebellion of the Beasts everyone has taken for granted.
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“The level of care and planning in mapping Coruscar and her people is evident. Not least in the humor, plethora of destinations, internal conflicts, elaborate detailing of costume and personhood. You will smile, gnash your teeth, flinch, and feel guilty shame entering Hesper Jansen’s hybrid brain, where a unique countercurrent of modern and otherworldly harmonize around a deep love of music and its potential for everything.” —Candice Louisa Daquin, author of The Cruelty
FAIRY OF DISENCHANTMENT
The poems in Fairy of Disenchantment represent Sun Hesper Jansen's passage through the underworld that is life with Multiple Sclerosis. Because MS never resolves, the journey is circular, a process of constant adaptation and transcendence that draws on personal histories, science and mythology, nature and magic, and above all, imagination.
AWAY FROM THE MACHINE
Lio gave up a lucrative tech career to become a barista in a quiet Midwestern town, hoping to heal from a failed relationship and a mental breakdown. When she befriends Nadiya, a patron at the café who recently went missing after suffering a mysterious form of blindness, she learns that her illness is a trap created by 'the Sublime', a host of legendary beings who have altered Nadiya to serve at Ji Wai, a tea house with a magical but cruel clientele. But is Nadiya truly in need of being rescued, or is there something in Lio's own repressed past and hidden nature that will give her the purpose she's been missing and a home at last?