Untitled (Weatherers)
I’ve trapped you in an elevator and now you’re going to learn what the deal is with this whole novel thing.
In the summer of 2013, I started writing what would turn into the first draft of my as-yet untitled novel (working title: Weatherers). A decade, a degree, a stint in journalism, a cross-country move, and a mortgage later, the story has grown and changed as I have—and I couldn’t be prouder of it.
This story belongs to Jute, a former child messiah and veteran weatherer, who’s forced by loss and circumstance to return to her childhood home on a last-ditch humanitarian mission. It belongs to Shallcross, one of Jute’s partners and the self-exiled scion of a fading dynasty, who died and was remade as an unwilling ghost after the explosion that also took the life of the pair’s third partner. It’s the story of Dumuzi, an ancient fish android resigned to preparing his friends for an afterlife he’ll never reach; of Haia, failed revolutionary, ambivalent archivist, and fierce protector of both living and dead; and of Willaumez, Shallcross’s young sister, who’s being borne across the world by adults who don’t agree on anything—except that if anyone deserves to survive the cataclysmic Turning of the Year, it’s her.
I’ll be independently publishing Untitled (Weatherers) in spring 2023, in two formats: as a serial story delivered to your inbox weekly, and as a softcover book available once the digital story has concluded. If you subscribe today, you’ll get full access to the website, where chapters will be posted—as well as special behind-the-scenes material like art, maps, playlists, deleted scenes, and more. Subscribers also receive email newsletters about new chapters (and other content) as they’re available.
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