It’s publication day! The Origin Stone is here!

Hello everyone, as you probably guessed from the title, my first young adult book, The Origin Stone, was released today!

After some hassle with Youtube, I managed to upload the Q&A video I promised, which also contains a bit of background info on how the book came to be, and a reading of the first chapter.

I’d be thrilled if you could check it out and share it with anyone you think might enjoy the book.

Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is0-mc8O5Sk&t=1s

The book is available in paperback and as an ebook from the following:

Book Depository

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Foyles

 

Happy reading!

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Take off

My wings spread, feathers brushing the dust away from the flight path. Goggles down, I cast my gaze ahead and jump. Wind tears at me; a gale. It flurries up, causing my momentum to surge off course. The tick of the second hand on my pocket watch counts the moments I plunge down — the sound a boom, cannon blasts in my head. The updraft catches me in her firm hold, clasping me tight against her bosom, correcting my flight. She deposits me on the take off platform where I started, urging me to try again. We all have to fly by ourselves at some point.

Frosted energy

Sweet stop, sugar cane,

endorphine burst,

tooth curse.

 

Charging through the night, running high,

if I must drop,

I’ll only do it after my work is let fly.

 

Berry pillows, minty breath,

super charge,

recovery large.

Superstition

Magpie darts across,

wives’ tale appears in my mind.

Wave away; hearsay.

 

The Origin Stone giveaway reminder

Hi everyone!

As The Origin Stone’s release is nearly here, I just thought I’d remind you all that I’m holding a giveaway and Q&A on my twitter and facebook pages.

Ask me a question on writing, life, the universe and share/retweet to be in for a chance of winning a paperback copy of the book.

Here’re the links if you want to take part:

https://twitter.com/KaptainKat90/status/1106861778112311296

https://www.facebook.com/authorKathrynRossati/

Have fun (and yes, you can be creative with your questions, as long as they’re PG13)

Kate out!

Scrabble tale

The nexus lay between ego and heat,

focusing on sweet nougats resembling gold.

The age of trees hidden, wars wiping it

from memory,

ending in a draw that caused piles of wilted tulips

to stand as wards against any

trying to re-open the door.

Shock Waves

My body charges, electric triggers,

kinetic activity without consciousness.

A way to handle it all, a dance

both natural and strange. Magic to me,

psychotic to others, turning, winding, spinning.

 

Should I stop? Can I stop?

 

The energy might come out

as fire or lightning

if I force myself to slow.

After a meeting

My bones are rock, the act of talking

leeching the energy from my mind

even though I know I look completely comfortable.

I get home, in my own space;

that’s when it comes out. Materialises.

The heaviness. The weight.

I deaden, yet laugh maniacally

as it rains from my body.

I’m tired.

Bellyache

The water cuts off suddenly; the spark died in an instant,

burnt out by the dragon’s unhurried burp.

He dams himself, lets it all build up around him

to cool the molten heat of his belly. Indigestion

from feasting on too many words of men,

paper crafted into delectable prey

that he swallowed too quickly, without taking

time to enjoy each morsel.

Green behind eyes

You can speak any incantation you like,

the words cannot misdirect me

from the green I see hungering behind your eyes.

 

Swallow them back down and take a breath.

Drink in the rain, drink in the air, drink in yourself

and see how it feels to be you.

 

Because no one else can.