Book Launch: Major Pieces, a Princes’ Game Collection (Peltedverse)

Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten  children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress  hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an  alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in  the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor  characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation.  Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even  the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee  Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog  over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important  events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak  to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and  many, reader-suggested.
You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

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What could I say about this collection to explain the many reasons it breaks my brain? Can we start with a ridiculously awesome Kickstarter  that overfunded by over 8000%, charging over the five-figure line? How  about the fact that I started out with a handful of ideas for these  vignettes and got the chance to brainstorm the remainder with my  readers, who requested and then voted on which ones should go into the  collection? Let’s top that off with the fact that each of these  ‘vignettes,’ which were intended to be short scenes, ended up running  long… some to the tune of 40,000-ish words? This is the largest volume  in the Princes’ Game series, at 620-ish pages!

I can confidently state that I had no idea what I was getting into  when I said, ‘hey, would you all like to see some ancillary material  from this series.’ But what I ended up getting into was a really  exciting volume of stories that significantly add to the canon of the  Peltedverse. Some of it fills in scenes from the series from other  viewpoints (like Jahir and Vasiht’h communicating incognito with  Lisinthir during Wingless) or that we didn’t get time to see (like  Hirianthial meeting Jahir and Lisinthir and Vasiht’h for the first time  over Sediryl’s sickbed). Others explore minor characters, like Laniis,  the Attendant, or Oviin’s friend Everdawn. And some delve into important  events that happened off camera between the conclusion of this series  and the beginning of the Summer Jubilee duology, like Vasiht’h’s family  moving to Escutcheon, and Lisinthir getting married. And that’s not even  half the total. There are 21 “shorts” in this volume, and you’ll have a  chance to revisit many of your favorite characters (yes, Uuvek fans, I  see you!) and meet new ones.

Writing this book was an adventure, and I loved every moment of it. I  hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! (And when you’re  done, you should absolutely go take my three-question survey  and tell me which of the characters you want to see more of. Because if  this worked once… well… Reese hasn’t had her collection of interstitial  moments written yet…