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ALT A cover with a cybernoir brightly coloured futuristic scene featuring three hologram ghosts looking at a headless figure. Text reads: My book is OUT in November! Murderbot x Beetlejuice x Ministry of Time in a Queer Blender It’s the future, we cured death and resurrected 10,000 people into technologically-advanced holographic bodies! Now begins the administrative process of integrating ghosts from throughout history into the future… The genre is bubblegum noir: A noirish aesthetic that tackles some heavier topics with black humour, culminating in an ultimate sense of hope that things may not always work but they can always get better. Somehow these ghosts find time to fall in love, work their dead-end jobs, stop a virtual ghost kidnapper, and confront the unfinished business of their lives.
ALT Three hologram ghosts: a nonbinary black-haired guy with a star face tattoo, a short-haired beret-wearing woman wearing bonnie parker's sweater, and a high-ponytail sharp cheekboned woman with movie star vibes. Their descriptions read: WHO ARE THE CHARACTERS? Eyvind Eto 2nd Most Requested House Ghost Eyvind is a musician who drowned before composing anything of note. He’s been chasing an absent muse ever since his resurrection, worried that he has no greater emotional and artistic depth than a thimble. Hildy Doval Least Requested House Ghost Hildy is an ex-librarian obsessed with books about lost, forgotten, or doomed things. Hildy works at a grief call center where she lies about death from nine to five. Anjali Winter Most Requested House Ghost Anjali’s postmortem life is defined by a single neo-silent film that became famous after she died. Brilliant but allergic to vulnerability, Anjali has been nursing a giant chip on her shoulder for Yemi Callo, her “creator.”
ALT ARE THERE SHIPS? A picture of a holographic woman in a beret holding a floating cup, alongside her gangster-ish boyfriend as they wander around a cybernoir city together. TEXT: Jack & Hildy Demi/Demi, Human/Ghost, Mystery-Solving Couple Jack is Hildy’s chaperone, escorting her to and from her ghost gigs. A former gangster, he lost his taste for violence and corruption once he got into watercolor painting. She reads, he’s defiantly “going soft,” they both have trauma but the exact same sense of humour. Another picture of a polar explorer covered in show and a nonbinary man in a white shirt with a star face tattoo. They look at each other in a dark underground place, both holographic ghosts, slightly suspicious. Hector & Eyvind Enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, Orpheus/Eurydice remix A 19th-Century polar explorer and ghost rights radical, Hector has a holographic glitch resulting in a constant snowstorm surrounding him. Valuing efficiency over all else, Hector has probably never
ALT Text reads: Where Can I Read Dead New World? Links for pre-ordering are in my bio, but you can find Dead New World in most ebook, audiobook and physical retailers just by searching “Lin Darrow.” Pre-ordering a book helps debut authors a lot because it encourages the algorithm to pay attention to it! So does word of mouth – so please let your friends know if this sounds like something they’d be interested in!
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ALT Review of Beauty and the Beast at link.
