Get Started On The Spindle Of Necessity (A Dirge For Prester John, #3) Brought To You By Catherynne M. Valente Released As Paper Edition

the proposed publish date is just next month, I did a bit of research to see why there's still no cover art,

Valente wrote a blog post in May of this year stating that she'd broken ties with Night Shade Books and is looking for alternative publishing methods for Spindle of Necessity.
It looks like it's going to be awhile before this one is released, Darn it, I was really looking forward to it!

sitelink catherynnemvalente. com/whe The story is built through the parallel love stories of Anglitora and her affair with a Chinese cartographer, ShunYuan, on the one hand, and the older, sadder, more complex love of Prester John and Hagia on the other.
We follow the slow encroachment of reality on the fantastic inhabitants of the kingdom and the narrowing of the unmeasured spaces they survived in, We also read the cartographer's tale, and come to understand the impulse to know the truth, even at the cost of wonders, Prester John and Hagia reconcile as the creatures of the Kingdom prepare to leave the world, When the time comes, Hagia and her stepdaughter leave their lovers behind, Prester John's faith in Christ and love of the human world cost him his kingdom and his love, but the parting is bittersweet, The halfbird daughter leaves behind a child for the cartographer to raise in his world of maps and certainty, and that child

is the manytimesgreat grandmother of the monk's guide.
The tree of books and the downy hair of the native guide are the only remaining signs that once the Kingdom was more than a story, Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo,in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California, She graduated from high school at age, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B, A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics, She then drifted away from her M, A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan, She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest, .