#amiantsoul — Public Fediverse posts

"An epic fantasy without needing to be a trilogy. Every character is superbly written and I was totally invested in every one of them.... I gave this book 5 stars - I loved it to bits and I can see it being a constant reread in the future."
The Reading Ruru reviewing Amiant Soul
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #books #fantasy #review #CreativeCommons #PWYW

"An epic fantasy without needing to be a trilogy. Every character is superbly written and I was totally invested in every one of them.... I gave this book 5 stars - I loved it to bits and I can see it being a constant reread in the future."
The Reading Ruru reviewing Amiant Soul
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #books #fantasy #review #CreativeCommons #PWYW

"An epic fantasy without needing to be a trilogy. Every character is superbly written and I was totally invested in every one of them.... I gave this book 5 stars - I loved it to bits and I can see it being a constant reread in the future."
The Reading Ruru reviewing Amiant Soul
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #books #fantasy #review #CreativeCommons #PWYW

Those of you voting for chrysotile in the first round of the Mineral Cup 2025 may be interested in a fantasy novel in which asbestos - amiant, as it used to be known - plays a historic, symbolic, and legendary role: Amiant Soul.
(Those of you voting for pectolite are also welcome to take a look.)
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#chrysotile #MinCup25 #AmiantSoul #books #PWYW

"I came up with a jerk, practically nose to nose with this giant. Nose to collarbone, anyway. There was an unpleasant clammy sinking feeling at my belly, which might have been fear but was actually the fish sliding out from under my kamis.
We both looked down at it lying open-mouthed in the dust. There wasn't the shadow of a laugh, which worried me. People round here will laugh if their own grandmother falls flat on her face. A freak like me giving birth to a fish should have had them doubled up for days."
Amiant Soul
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #books #fantasy #CreativeCommons

"It was the first chill night in autumn, the night the dying man came in."
It's a year today since I published Amiant Soul (right around the autumn equinox here in the Southern Hemisphere).
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #autumn #fantasy #books

Have you read a great sci-fi, fantasy, or horror work by a Kiwi or NZ resident recently? One published in 2024?

If so, consider nominating the work for the 2025 Sir Julius Vogel awards. (Anyone can nominate, you don't have to be in or from NZ.)
https://sffanz.nz/the-sir-julius-vogel-awards/nominations-for-2025-sir-julius-vogel-awards-now-open/

If not, it's not too late! Amiant Soul meets the criteria and can be bought at a price of your choosing here:
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#books #NewZealand #fantasy #SJVAwards #AmiantSoul

"There didn't seem to be much point, with things the way they were, but you don't just lie down in the desert and wait to die. You keep going down the road ahead of you, even if you know the end that's waiting for you. You don't know why you keep going. You just do."
Amiant Soul
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #perseverance #persistence #fantasy #books

A SPFBO judge reviewed Amiant Soul as "An epic fantasy without needing to be a trilogy. Every character is superbly written and I was totally invested in every one of them.... I gave this book 5 stars - I loved it to bits and I can see it being a constant reread in the future."
Unfortunately that judge wasn't the judge who had Amiant Soul in their batch, and it's out of the running.
Best of luck to all the SPFBOX books - may they each find their readers, winner or not.
#SPFBO #SPFBOX #AmiantSoul #BookReview

"It was the first chill night in autumn, the night the dying man came in."
The first line of Amiant Soul, released around the autumn equinox here in the Southern Hemisphere.
Now that the Northern Hemisphere has reached the autumnal equinox, how about some seasonal reading for those of you on that side of the planet?
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #equinox #books

Someone on Facebook asked where they could find the eBook of Amiant Soul.
The three answers they got were:
a) it's on Kobo, but not Amazon (true)
b) it doesn't exist (false)
c) it's only available at https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/ (partially true. It is available there, but also in other places, excluding Amazon - though mobi for Kindle does exist, and is available).
Tbh I find it a bit depressing how quick some people are to assume that Amazon is the sole arbiter of existence for ebooks.
#books #ebooks #Amazon #AmiantSoul

@golgaloth @bookstodon
"It was the first chill night of autumn, the night the dying man came in."
First line of Amiant Soul - published in March, but the WIP is as yet too unformed to have a first line.
#WritersCoffeeClub #AmiantSoul

Stoked to read Dave Dobson's haiku inspired by chapter one of Amiant Soul:

Deathly pub patron

gets heave ho; heaver balks; fired.

Who’s the poisoned man?

You can read all 300 of his haiku inspired by the books in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO 10 or SPFBOX) here: https://davedobsonbooks.com/spfbox-haiku-project
and you can get Amiant Soul here:
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
and find out for yourself - who IS the poisoned man??
#SPFBO #SPFBOX #AmiantSoul #poetry #haiku #books

595 entries in 24 hours for the 300 places in SPFBOX!
I'm delighted and relieved to see that Amiant Soul is one of the 300.
May the best book win!
#SPFBO #fantasy #AmiantSoul

The SPFBOX (Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 10) entry form is open until 1pm Saturday GMT!

My previous novel The Wound of Words was a semifinalist for SPFBO 6 in 2020, which was a great experience, so I've entered Amiant Soul in the hope it will be among the 300 books randomly selected for this year's competition.
#SPFBO #AmiantSoul #TheWoundOfWords

Amiant Soul has been reviewed on Fantasy Book Critic! Review by Adam Weller.
https://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2024/04/book-review-amiant-soul-by-deborah.html?m=1
#AmiantSoul #books #review #fantasy

@threeofswords I agree!
I've been using it for signing copies of #AmiantSoul and it produces a lovely colour range which goes well with the cover (and the autumnal setting of the book).

Amiant Soul has its first review on Goodreads! Five stars 🤩
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209155684-amiant-soul
#AmiantSoul #BookReview

Who likes #freeCulture? I have good news!

@DMakarios's latest #fantasy novel, #AmiantSoul, was published today under a #CreativeCommons licence. While the paperbacks cost money to print, and therefore have specific prices, you can #payWhatYouWant for the #eBook on her website: https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/

"The Bentan dead lie in the sea,
the Selwan in the earth.
The Intikans are buried close
beneath their tree of birth.
The Kriu and the Tankilan
are rock-tombed when they die.
But Three Men rise on wings of fire
to star-home in the sky."

Amiant Soul is available now, in paperback and eBook editions! Check your usual retailer or buy ebooks direct from the author:
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#AmiantSoul #books #fantasy #CreativeCommons

Free eBook samples!
With one week to go until release day on the 21st, I'm delighted to announce that free samples of Amiant Soul - in epub, mobi, and PDF - are now available here:
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#books #FreeSamples #AmiantSoul #ebooks

"There's nothing quite as pathetic as a charmer whose charm has let him down, unless it's a charmer with hands like meat hooks trying to learn how to darn."
Amiant Soul
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#books #quote #AmiantSoul #mending #darning

Excitement!!!!
I've just ordered the proof copy for Amiant Soul - out March 21st, DV - and here is the cover!!!*
Cover image adapted by me from an illustration by CDD20 (Pixabay) and typography by the terrifyingly talented Evelyn Doyle.
*!!!!!!
#AmiantSoul #CoverReveal #books #fantasy

@georgepenney
I spent some time testing my image manipulation skills with the GIMP, to see what I could do for the cover of #AmiantSoul, then some time working on the plot and machinations for the next book on my TBW list, and finally some time being horrified following the realization that I've been working on Amiant Soul since October 2020. (Somehow them being the longest three years of my life didn't translate into getting more done.)
And, of course, I drank quantities of tea, stoked the fire, and scrubbed eight muddy paws sauntering across the carpet, my skirts, etc.

The short description for my upcoming novel #AmiantSoul:
"Ghost has no brother, no kin, no tribe. His only chance to find his own people is a trial mission with legendary adventurers the Three Men. But when their search for a vanished princess collides with his missing past, he must decide what price he’ll pay to belong. And his is not the only soul at stake…"
#fantasy #book #bookstodon

Read #fantasy? Like airing your opinions? We need YOU to judge the merits of rival short descriptions and cover copy for the upcoming novel #AmiantSoul. Follow the link and read on...
https://deborah.makarios.nz/blog/2023/07/06/cover-copy-choose-your-favourite/