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![[ALT TEXT: THE PHOENIX FEATHER OMNIBUS, four complete novels. FLEDGLINGS * REDBARK * FIREBOLT * DRAGON AND PHOENIX. By Sherwood Smith. ]
[ALT IMAGE: A simple book cover of matte gold, with black text and white blossoms that may be cherry blossoms, along with a circle of black and white patterned tiles and within the circle a glorious phoenix drawn in back and white.]
Sherwood Smith’s media happy place tends toward braided tales, with characters growing and changing in a world both breathtaking and strange, where striving to become the best one can be matters. She found that in Chinese and Korean historical dramas, which kicked off years of immersion in East Asian history, literature, art, and language.
In 2020 when the world hibernated from the pandemic, she began writing The Phoenix Feather quartet, drawing on all those influences, and throwing in all the tropes she liked best—disguises and secret identities, cultivation arcs, big tropes such as family sagas, and little ones such as “there was just one bed!”
Premise: Twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities—and found themselves blessed by an omen promising great things, a single golden phoenix feather.
Then their three children were born, and found themselves cast out into the world. . . .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreib6pt74zafedpg22rfqczxfu4xcftvweev3kdg63rbbbsk3akwxh4@jpeg)
Reposted by Pat Rice
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![[ALT TEXT: THE TIME MACHINE GENE, a Peter August Mystery by Anthony Frangione & New York Times Bestselling Author Maya Kathryn Bohnhoff ]
[ALT IMAGE: On a cover of vivid orange and gold clouds and light, layered on castles and Victorian buildings of deep russet brown, a similarly painted coffin of a pharaoh of all Egypt faces the reader. The eyes are very natural and seem to be contemplating the viewer. In the lower left hand corner next to the words "a Peter August Mystery" is a tiny white silhouette of a Pony Express rider.]
Writers Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff & Anthony Frangione are about to take you on a claustrophobic, mind-expanding trip through time and space using THE TIME MACHINE GENE. An original SF mystery from Book View Cafe.
"Dreams, delusions, hallucinations--past lives? Whatever they are, I want them to stop."
Peter August is a puzzle piece in a mystery that could change how humans perceive reality. He has the ability to track a missing artifact through time, and he has to figure out why others are willing to kill for it. Because the answer might change everything. . .and not in a good way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreihdvvgjasxvntt5ctboeyqsr6gcav27ttgimknlqf57bl372aquti@jpeg)
Pat Rice
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· Sep 3
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