Hi, friend,
Happy Autumn Equinox! I hope the turning of the season is treating you well. After a last blast of heat, we seem to have dived directly into the start of the rainy season. Bomb cyclone? Check. Atmospheric river? Check. The patter of raindrops on my chimney vent? Check.
Cat shenanigans about to happen? Always.
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind. My familial friends here in Portland (aka, my framily) have celebrated milestones: a wedding and two birthdays! The last two weeks have also marked the holiest holidays in Judaism, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the window in between, known as the Days of Awe.
As with the celebration of other types of New Years, I’ve been thinking a lot about my life over the past year, what no longer serves so that I might leave it behind, and what I would like to carry forward into the new year and what I want to call into my life.
We don’t need a New Year to wonder about those things.
The turning of the season, particularly the movement into autumn and towards the dark of the year, can encourage that sort of introspection. For me, it provides a fulcrum and an opportunity to make and embrace this sort of change.
I’m still working on my list of things to leave behind. For the calling in, I wish all of us more sweetness and beauty.
All my best,
Leslie
P.S. Good stuff coming soon!
The Soul Forge Series Kickstarter. Launching on Tuesday, October 3rd to celebrate the complete Soul Forge series (aka, the Night books). Six books wrapped into two exclusive special edition case laminate hardbacks or two exclusive special edition paperbacks with beautiful duplex covers. That's almost 1,200 pages of story.
If you’ve read the Soul Forge books and are interested in a special editions, these are for you. If you haven’t read the books, you are invited to meet the assassins, witches, angels, and faeries who fight for love, life, hope—and each other.
The designs are Kickstarter exclusives and will not be offered for sale anywhere else.
Gorgeous case laminate hardback and paperback omnibuses with specially designed covers
Exclusive bookplates printed directly into all books
Beautiful duplex covers—Paperbacks only
and more!Sneak peek of the paperback duplex interior art with bookplate: