This is my news, and I still can't quite believe it's real:

✨ WE SOLD MY SPACE OPERA TRILOGY TO @DelReyBooks ✨

It's Star Wars meets The Road to El Dorado. It's star pilots and space princes and sick stunts and slick tricks. It's everything I love, and it's coming Spring 2020

It has been a long-ass journey for these books. I mean, two and a half years doesn't seem THAT long comparatively, but... I started working on this project at the beginning of 2016.

And a LOT has happened since then. 🙃
In these books, I carved a joyous space for myself that carried me through the past two years. They're ambitious, rambunctious tricksters, all of them, and I love them dearly.
And then there's sub. Which for this book was a few weeks shy of a yearlong process. I've talked a little about this before, but nearly every rejection we got went like "This is an amazing book! I love everything about it! But YA sci-fi just doesn't do well, so it's a pass."
It was crushing - I tried not to let it be crushing, I didn't need any more crushing in 2017/2018 - but it was, nevertheless, to be reminded that the kind of work you love so dearly won't ever have value in the eyes of "the market."
And then after nearly a year of that, we tried submitting to a few adult imprints.

And oh.

Oh my GOD.

WE GOT SNAPPED. THE FUCK. UP. 😍
It's a head trip and a half to be told your work has so much value after so long believing otherwise. And I'm so, so grateful I get to tell this whole damn story that has brought me so much joy when I needed it most.

I can't wait to share it with you. ♥️
Thank you @ThaoLe8 for the relentless determination ♥️

Thank you to @speed317 and the whole team at @DelReyBooks for matching my ambition and seeing a place for all of these troublemakers ♥️

And thank you everyone for sticking with me, even when it takes this long ♥️

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अस्य श्री गायत्री ध्यान श्लोक:
(gAyatri dhyAna shlOka)
• This shloka to meditate personified form of वेदमाता गायत्री was given by Bhagwaan Brahma to Sage yAgnavalkya (याज्ञवल्क्य).

• 14th shloka of गायत्री कवचम् which is taken from वशिष्ठ संहिता, goes as follows..


• मुक्ता-विद्रुम-हेम-नील धवलच्छायैर्मुखस्त्रीक्षणै:।
muktA vidruma hEma nIla dhavalachhAyaiH mukhaistrlkShaNaiH.

• युक्तामिन्दुकला-निबद्धमुकुटां तत्वार्थवर्णात्मिकाम्॥
yuktAmindukalA nibaddha makutAm tatvArtha varNAtmikam.

• गायत्रीं वरदाभयाङ्कुश कशां शुभ्रं कपालं गदाम्।
gAyatrIm vardAbhayANkusha kashAm shubhram kapAlam gadAm.

• शंखं चक्रमथारविन्दयुगलं हस्तैर्वहन्ती भजै॥
shankham chakramathArvinda yugalam hastairvahantIm bhajE.

This shloka describes the form of वेदमाता गायत्री.

• It says, "She has five faces which shine with the colours of a Pearl 'मुक्ता', Coral 'विद्रुम', Gold 'हेम्', Sapphire 'नील्', & a Diamond 'धवलम्'.

• These five faces are symbolic of the five primordial elements called पञ्चमहाभूत:' which makes up the entire existence.

• These are the elements of SPACE, FIRE, WIND, EARTH & WATER.

• All these five faces shine with three eyes 'त्रिक्षणै:'.

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