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[thesettingsun]

My first novel, A Relative Weight, is now in stores!

Consider picking up a copy from your local bookstore~ (You would be able to order it off Amazon except there are unreality shenanigans. Someday.)

If you were promised a signed copy, you should already have gotten one on your doorstep. Let me know if I missed anyone.

Thanks again to Chiyo Matsuoka for the cover art and to everyone who provided support during this process! I couldn't have reached here without you ♥

[A Relative Weight is indeed for sale! And getting pretty good reviews, at that.]

Comments

[thesettingsun]

I looked for published books about Retrospec stuff before and didn't find very much. Unpublished books would be harder.

[windeity]

great. sounds like a headache then.
then again i think if there were books people would write the whole thing off as a fantasy anyway which kind of sucks.
but maybe they'd make a movie adaption.

[thesettingsun]

It'd absolutely be categorized as urban fantasy at best. I was hoping that if someone had written about this before, it might be a hint about Retrospec's history before now...

[windeity]

it sounds like a thing that should be happening, you're right.
maybe there's a secret library somewhere we need to find or something.
at this rate the whole town is one big secret anyway.

[thesettingsun]

If we ever find a secret library, I'm going to spend an entire week reading everything in there. Classes, what classes?

[windeity]

write it off as independent study and i doubt anyone could blame you.

[thesettingsun]

I'd write a paper about it, but my teachers wouldn't believe a word in it was true.

[windeity]

then clearly the solution is take a creative writing class and write a paper there.
pretty much an easy a.

[thesettingsun]

Last year I would have, but I should be done with classes after this semester. Graduated. Totally done with college.

[windeity]

whoa. i had no idea. congrats preemptively.
but then what comes next?

[thesettingsun]

My plan for right after that is to keep my part-time jobs and spend the rest of my free time on therapy for this Retrospec stuff.

[windeity]

honestly? we could all probably use therapy after this so that wouldn't even be a bad idea.
but for now it's celebrating a victory. that's what counts.

[thesettingsun]

How many therapists are qualified to deal with Retrospec-related trauma? I know there's Fai, but we can't all have Fai as our therapist, he'd never have any free time.

[windeity]

one of him and hundreds of us? you're right, it'd be draining.
and other therapists wouldn't even believe half of this stuff anyway so maybe it will is up to us to figure it out.
therapy's just...kind of talking though, right? talking and figuring out how to cope with stuff.

[thesettingsun]

It is, but it's different than just talking to your friends about it. A therapist has more distance to be objective: normally, you don't know them outside of therapy, so your problems aren't directly affecting them.

That's going to be a problem with talking about Retrospec to any therapist who'd understand.

[windeity]

i didn't think about it like that either...
so it's kind of a catch 22. either you get someone who won't believe you at all, or you get someone you might accidentally trigger new memories for and stuff.
i want to think there is another answer, but if there is i have no idea what it is.

[thesettingsun]

I vote we get everyone those giant stuffed animals and hug them until we feel better.

[windeity]

i second the motion.
but until then, we'll just have to keep talking with people when we can, i guess. even if it is not a licensed professional.
either way, that's not a thing to worry about right now. i guess i have a book to check out.

[thesettingsun]

I hope you like the book! If you really like it, I don't mind signing your copy.

[windeity]

i appreciate that, haha. i will let you know when i finish it!

[thesettingsun]

Enjoy! And be prepared for me asking you about it next time I see you in person.