Welcome, heretics and holy creatures. Dip your fingers in the perfumed oil, anoint each other with the sign of peace, and gather close to the fire. I’ve got a newsletter bursting with celebration and revelry for you today.
News
A DOWRY OF BLOOD is out in the world! My darkest, sexiest, most experimental book yet, this little gem holds a very special place in my heart. Grab your copy through the links below, or request it from your local indie bookstore or neighborhood library!
If you’d like to whet your appetite with the first few pages, the wonderful folks at Tor.com featured an excerpt on their website that you can read for free here!
This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. I suppose both are a sort of gentle violence, putting down in ink what scorches the air when spoken aloud.
If you can still hear me wherever you are, my love, my tormentor, hear this:
It was never my intention to murder you.
Not in the beginning, anyway.
If you intend to read, I invite you to check out the content warnings and proceed at your discretion. If this book is for you, I hope that it treats you so well!
Events
I’ll be hanging out on Instagram live tonight doing a little reading from DOWRY (maybe a sapphic ballroom dance scene), sipping wine, and answering questions from the audience. I would love to see you there! It’s going to be a celebratory affair with candles and velvet frocks and a charcuterie board. If you’d like to attend, just follow my Instagram @stgibsonauthor and tap the little circle around my profile picture when the clock strikes 8pm EST!
If you can’t make it tonight, I’ll be talking monsters and gothic reimaginings with Rose Szabo for the launch of WHAT BIG TEETH on February 2nd! You can sign up for the crowdcast right here.
Thank you so much for being with me on this long and winding journey to publication day. As of today, this story doesn’t belong to me anymore. It belongs to you, the readers. There’s a sort of transformative quality to publishing a work, an alchemy that happens when the manuscript passes from my hands to yours, and I’m excited for all the magic this book is going to make in the world.
As always, be safe and well until we two meet again!
-Saint