First, and I should have done this sooner, here’s the cover reveal for the 46th novelette, June 24th:
Patreons and Comrades have seen it already; Patreons and Comrades have, in fact, already received their electronic copies, and paper copies are forthcoming. (A bit of a hitch in the mailing: turns out when you use padded envelopes, which is all I had in the moment, the post office won’t let you select First Class Mail, but requires a rather more expensive package rate. Re-enveloping will be necessary.)
Now that nos. 45 and 46 are complete and here in the world, a number of elements of this new season, Summer, the third season of the epic, might well be coming into focus. —Head over to Chapbooks, and scroll down to the brand new section where the third season chapbooks will be collected, and you’ll notice that no. 45 is the first installment of vol. 5, the Greene Chapel—and that no. 46 is the first installment of vol. 6, Eleleu Ie.
(I did mention that the structure of the third season would be the most complex, by far; that third movements of symphonies are, typically, dance movements.)
Summer will be leaning into the geographic separation of our two protagonists, Jo and Ysabel, that occurred at the end of Spring; Summer. Each novelette will focus particularly on the one, or the other, on Newport, or Portland, but there will be an epistolary component, as well, as they write letters to each other over the course of the season. (Thus, my peculiar difficulties in being unable to finish no. 45 until I’d written enough of no. 46 to have a feel for the letter Ysabel would send to be read in no. 45.) The season will alternate (mostly), but each volume will collect the novelettes particular to the one, or the other: thus, the Green Chapel is Jo’s volume, and Eleleu Ie is Ysabel’s, and when all is said and done, you’ll be able to read it whichever way you’d like.
Re-runs, meanwhile, have gotten through all of the first season, and have just begun the second, so it’ll be a while before any installments of the third season appear here, for free (September 14th, 2026, or thenabouts.) —Patreons and Comrades will get their copies as we go, as per usual; if you’re not yet either, you can order paper copies, or, we’ll try something, you can pick up electronic copies from itch.
Anyway. Here we go: Summer.
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