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Paperbacks now available! 🌍📘

Three good things about this moment:
1️⃣ Print on demand means sustainable production and global access.
2️⃣ Getting books to readers is the heart of independent publishing.
3️⃣ Readers! You make the whole ecosystem real.

Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now open for paperback presale worldwide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

About Rail:
Drawn into a globe‑spanning infrastructure proposal with uncertain motives, a designer confronts ecological ethics, corporate ambition, and the meaning of home as her past and future converge.

Words from Global architect Raya Ani:
"Building on The Erenwine Agenda, this work expands the conversation between architecture, environment, and responsibility — moving from personal conflict into global systems and their consequences."

Ebooks are available now, worldwide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

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I posted a new Medium piece about presales and how they shape an independent book rollout. Readers often see presales as a convenience, but they influence visibility, search behaviour, and how a book enters the market. I wanted to map out the mechanics from an indie author’s perspective.

The post is here:
https://maiakumari.medium.com/10-things-to-know-about-presales-an-indie-authors-perspective-0e4c3c14bc14

Posting the image here natively for clarity. It is one of my paintings, Intertidal Light.

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My new novel is here! Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now available in the US as an ebook, with worldwide presale open. Paperback presales will begin soon. Thank you for your support!

In the spirit of Mastodon and Three Good Things:
1. The time and space in which to write
2. The ability to connect with a flow of inspiration and to translate it into words
3. Indie publishing and readers who support

Rail is the third installment in a trilogy following architect Amalia Sengupta Erenwine across her professional arc — from intern architect, to studying for her exams, to becoming licensed and stepping into work that tests her skills, values, and sense of responsibility.

Global architect Raya Ani writes of Rail:
“Building on The Erenwine Agenda, this work expands the conversation between architecture, environment, and responsibility. The trilogy holds a consistent thread of care — for people, for place, and for the decisions that shape both.”

https://www.aseiarts.com/landing-rail
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I’m home recovering after a bug, post-finishing my doctorate, post-finishing-school-vacation-trip, and in that in‑between space where I’m figuring out how to bring my doctoral thesis into the world as a book while preparing to release the third ecofiction novel in my trilogy.

I’ll share the trilogy more on Instagram soon; but of course I’ll talk about it here too.

While I’m resting, I’ve been thinking about two things:

1. How to share what I’ve learned from writing visionary ecofiction; not as formal tutorials, but as small, generous micro‑snippets of thought.
2. How much I enjoy posting Three Good Things here on Mastodon.

This led me to realize that the micro‑tutorials can become Three Good Things. A small, informal, unstructured series about what I’ve learned so far.

Here we go.

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Three Good Things I’ve Learned About Writing Visionary Ecofiction

1. It brings community together; even when people disagree.
Across all three novels, I learned so much from people with different perspectives:
• fracking / hydraulic fracturing (Book 1)
• medical marijuana (Book 2)
• high‑speed rail (Book 3).
Ecofiction is a meeting place; not a consensus.

2. Writing is solitary; but you don’t have to be lonely in it.
Anything that helps you contextualize yourself in your larger community is healthy;
walks, cafés, writing groups, reading groups, sharing drafts.
People’s commentary is subjective but sharing your work is grounding.
Place yourself in your wider spheres; it helps.

3. Take joy in the finishing and sharing stages.
There’s real pleasure in thinking about the special parts of your process and how you want to share them.
I love outlining, first drafting, sculpting, revising, hearing the text read back to me, and working with an editor and designer, but also, imagining the visual vignettes that accompany the trilogy. I’m figuring out a visual narrative to share the trilogy on Instagram.
Finishing is its own creative act.

Working in a genre that’s still emerging (visionary ecology or visionary ecofiction) gives me freedom to genre‑bend fearlessly.
Book 1 is a love story (but not a romance).
Book 2 is a mystery (but not a cozy).
Book 3 is an adventure (but not Indiana Jones).
The elasticity is part of the joy.

These are my three good things today, the first in what I hope will become an informal series of micro‑tutorials on writing visionary ecofiction.

What lights are you up? When you write, how do you define yourself within your genre?

Keep writing and share!

PS, the photo was taken at Giverny, Monet’s Garden in France, on my recent trip.

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