Stone

Hi! Naomi here, just wanted to let anyone reading this know that Stone is now out! If you happened to catch this in the New Decameron on Patreon a couple years back, this is the same story, just cleaned up a bit, but if you didn’t (or if you just want a more cleaned up copy), you can get it now.

I didn’t co-write this one, I just edited it, so let me tell you a little bit about why it’s so great.

• Do you like gender-nonconforming heroines? Do you like gender-nonconforming heroines who aren’t fighters? Who are physically and visibly big and strong? Who exist alongside other more feminine women without the narrative implying that they’re better because they’re gender-nonconforming? Of course you do.
• The material culture is so good. The material culture and the sense of place–I know that’s not what people usually mean when they talk about worldbuilding, but the setting feels so real and solid and specific, like you could just walk into it.
• The religion! Sometimes religion in fantasy feels kind of superficial and pasted on, but like, what if people actually took it seriously? What if it permeated the way they thought and felt about everything? Relatedly, this isn’t an explicitly Jewish book because it takes place in a secondary world, but oh boy is it Jewish.