I Wrote Two More Books!

Epic news of the West African Flavor

Hey friends!

I’ve hinted in a previous newsletter about this but I’m thrilled to finally announce Guardian of the Gods, a brand new duology which opens with In the Shadow of the Fall! It’ll be out from Tordotcom in Spring/Summer 2024.

This idea is one that has been floating around my head for a while and last year I finally penned it.

It features:

• The claustrophobia of The Tombs of Atuan

• Silent Gods

• A faceless enemy who can appear as your loved one

• Secrets and lies and the explosion of revelations

• Magical Griots

A synopsis:

Ashâke is an acolyte in the temple of Ifa, waiting for the day she becomes a full priest and can go out into the world to serve her orisha. But there is just one problem.

The orisha have refused to speak to her. Not for lack of trying. She’s watched her peers enter the Inner Sanctum—where they’re chosen and bestowed favor by the orisha—and emerge as full priests. She’s endured the jeers and ridicule of younger acolytes, she’s suffered the pity of the senior priests, she’s wallowed in self-pity. No more.

In her desperation, Ashâke builds a device to trap an orisha—any orisha. But when she performs the Rite of Summoning, she experiences a vision so terrible it destroys the device in a blaze of fire, draws the attention of a powerful enemy sect, and thrusts Ashâke into the center of cascading events that will shatter the very foundations of her world.

If all this sounds like your jam then this duology is for you, and even better news, you won’t have to wait a year between both books; they’ll be released in quick succession in 2024!

More updates to come soon.

Head over here to read the full announcement.