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New Release: Candas Jane Dorsey’s “The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb”

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Cover of The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb

Congrats to SF Canada member Candas Jane Dorsey!

Her YA novel “The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb”  has just been released by Inanna Publications!

 

It’s not easy “choosing not to choose,” especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007.

Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn’t make a big deal about it. Then Corey’s dad dies suddenly. Now Corey’s disapproving mother wants Corey to “pick a side”. Corey’s old enough to say no to medical intervention—but not old enough to avoid being held in a youth psych ward when their mom makes an issue of Corey’s refusal to conform to the gender binary.

In the psych ward, Corey makes friends with Kim, a teen girl diagnosed as anorexic—or is she? As they work to unravel their pasts, they discover that Kim’s situation is even more dangerous than either of them had ever imagined.

“Thought provoking and innovative… this groundbreaking novel provides insight into the inner experiences and emotions of an often ignored and invisible gender… that of intersexuality. As an intersex person, I found myself reading and relating to Corey’s experiences living life in a world that exists on the binary when that binary clearly does not apply. It gave me comfort to know there was someone else out there in the pages of this book who understands how it was and how it is for intersex youth.”
—Quinn Wade

“A profound book every young person should read. Dorsey’s vivid characters serve as a powerful reminder that we are all different in unique ways. Ultimately, it is the courage to truly see and believe in ourselves that matters the most.”
—Dr. Kristopher Wells, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, MacEwan University

 

https://www.inanna.ca/product/the-story-of-my-life-ongoing-by-c-s-cobb/

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New Release: Celu Amberstone’s Tales of the Kashallans

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Cover of Celu Amberstone's The Dream-Chosen

Congrats to SF Canada member Celu Amberstone! The first & second novels in her exciting new fantasy series, Tales of the Kashallans, are now available in e-book format.
 
Paperbacks will be out in the new year!

Humans and aliens struggle to survive on a planet surface foreign to them both, which still suffers the aftermath of a past disaster. Dunnagh is responsible for his people, wanting to bring his soldiers and civilians to safety. The Khutani work to preserve not only their own people, but the races of this planet Timorna where they dwell. It takes all the Khutani mind powers, and those of Dunnagh, to bring them together for symbiosis.

 

The Dream-Chosen is the first book in the series Tales of the Kashallans, by celebrated author Celu Amberstone. Drawing on her Indigenous and Celtic heritage, Amberstone writes powerful fiction subtly different from the usual science fiction or fantasy adventures. For fans of the ‘Hundred Worlds’ approach used in Star Trek and in Golden Age magazines, there are diverse settings and cultures along the journey taken by these human and alien characters.