A pulpy lesbian romance between an elven thief from another world and a corporate princess whose company is built on her clones. 300,000 and counting, and the woman they're made from wishes they didn't exist. Danger, spice, and everything not-nice.
“Are you ready?” The thief asked, with the wryest, most shit-eating smirk Sook had ever seen. The thief was smaller than her by far, a wee elven dame with black and blue hair, bright blue eyes shadowed by borderline emo wings. Her form screamed petite from pointy nose to slender thighs. Sook should have been able to punch her into space. Yet the thief exuded an aura of power, of danger. Of, quite frankly, terror. There was something sinister behind that black-lipped smile and winged eyes. A reason for the dark exterior. For the shadows and the skills. Sook couldn’t shake the feeling that there was a spark of divinity before her. Whether it was of the fell, ascendant, or eldritch kind was something she’d just have to find out.
BOOM goes the Bride is your ticket to the revenge arc of your dreams! (at least, the start of one…)
BOOM goes the Brideis a pulse-pounding epic cyberfantasy lesbian romance. If that sounds like too many genres, don't worry, there's more. It has the humour and worldbuilding of Iain M Banks mixed with the style of Into the Spiderverse, except it’s all women, all the time.
When the twice-dead thief Nil steals a magical dagger from one of the world's angriest trillionaires, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with his daughter Sook, the so-called Mother of a Million Clones. But the heart wants what the heart wants, and in this case the heart wants to be chased, shot at, and possibly exploded.
Til death do us part is gonna need a bit of an extension...
This book will be printed by Houghton Boston Printers located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. They're a family owned and operated business established in 1919 and they know what they're doing. They've been friendly and helpful and they're going to make this book look great.
If we get to 1,000 books, the print quality will be drastically improved, as they'll be able to do the printing and binding traditionally with custom ink mixes. This is a tall order for a crowdfund of this size, I'm not going to lie. But it's something to aim for, and I think it's something you deserve. So let's give it a shot!
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It's Nil! Your favorite damned elf, and her soon-to-be-gf Sook! She's not having a great time tbh. Good thing Nil's here!
Nil is an elf who is working off a thousand-year debt to the goddess of liminal spaces. She's been brought to our universe against her will, but she's making the most of it. She’s got a few friends, a teenage boy to mentor, and an autistic phoenix forced to wear the body of a jetbike so he doesn’t explode. She might not remember her real name but she knows what she's about: stealing from rich people and flirting with beautiful women.
Sook Kingdom is the definition of a beautiful woman. She's the most cloned woman in history, with over three hundred thousand active clones on the market. From teacher to servant to the brand new prostitute line, Sook's copies are here to serve. It's a point of pride for her father's company Kingdom Corp, and a source of infinite shame for her. She’d rather be ripped than racy, but she’s not a bodybuilder influencer. She’s whatever her dad wants her to be, and that’s a demure little lady, happy to serve, happy to be observed, happy to be passive.
Take Shadowrun and put it in a planetary colonization setting without FTL. Ships arrive by the thousands every year, sometimes dozens in the same day. People wake up as fantastical creatures, with powers, or just as captives in pirate militias. Or worse, in debt to the corps. Then there’s the fact that our universe is merging with another. Sometimes you wake up with a castle next door.
But that’s just the backdrop (for now). For most people, life is about making ends meet, whether that’s living a billionaire influencer lifestyle to keep the brand valuable, or stealing from megacorporations on behalf of a forgotten and mysterious deity. Or selling bugrittos on the corner. Those move.
Val is a genderqueer trans lesbian who lives in the lower mainland of British Columbia with her brilliant wife and equally brilliant almost-four-year old (he can read!). Some people might be finding out that she’s trans RIGHT NOW AS THEY READ THIS. Isn’t that fun? Anyways, Val likes outer space, lesbians, dinosaurs, and [censored] and not necessarily in that order. She is currently a stay at home parent, registrar on the local preschool board, and well, obviously, writer. Possibly cool too. That’s up for debate.
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