King of the What Now?

It's only a new book, kittens.

YUP YUP. At the end of this year there will be a new Cat Hellisen on the shelves. I have been working a stack during this lovely pandemic *sigh*, the upside of which is that KING OF THE HOLLOW DARK will be releasing on 15 December 2020.

Currently the ebook is up for preorder, but the paperback will be added soon, so I am proper excited for the launch.

Georgina Skyler Carey is not a necromancer. She's the daughter of one.

And now she's dead.

George has grown up hidden away, trying to live a normal life after her mother was executed for a ghost uprising which killed millions. Every year, the Anti-Necromantic Unit drags her in for testing, while the Empress of Life watches. And every year; nothing.

Until she turns twenty, and the wards which were hiding her and binding her are finally erased, and Georgina discovers that she's still not a necromancer, just the immortal body designed to host the soul of an aeons-old goddess.

Ousted from her meatsuit and trapped in the afterlife, George is determined to get her body back.

It's not going to be that simple. George discovers that the afterlife is nothing like she could have imagined and the only people who might be able to help her have bigger issues to deal with. She's trapped in an afterworld that is slowly being consumed by the Hollow Dark which waits at the end of all things. There's a lot more at stake than one life - the entire realms of life and death will fall to the endless nothing of the Hollow Dark if the King of Death isn't returned to hold his throne. The worlds are crumbling all around her, and George is going to lose more than just her body if she doesn't find the King, and with him, the truth about her creation.

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In personal news, I 'm feeling pretty tired (isn't everyone?) and some days I wonder if we'll ever reach a semblance of normal ever again. I miss my friends, I miss a life that's more than just my house and the grocery shop and my job, and I really miss skating. I've been trying hard to keep my spirits up with creative stuff like my art and writing, but things are flagging a bit now. On the plus side, though people I know have been hospitalised (and are recovering) no one close to me has died, for which I am extremely thankful.

I've heard a rumour that a rink relatively near me might be opening within the next two weeks, so that gives me a little something to hold on to.

What's keeping you going?