When you’re writing a book series that’s heavy on lore, sometimes you can fail to see the forest for the trees… and I was definitely guilty of this when I was developing the Iamoi language for the Iamos Trilogy. Since Iamos is (in the continuity of the series) supposed to be the origin of the Atlantis myth, which is primarily associated with ancient Greece, the Greek language played a heavy…
Writing
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Today’s the day!
It seems almost impossible to believe, but today’s the day: One World, the last book of the Iamos Trilogy, is available now! It’s been a long (looong) time coming, but I’m so excited that fans of the series will finally be able to read the conclusion—and that new fans will now be able to binge read from start to finish! One World: The Iamos Trilogy, Book 3 One choice was…
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Finding balance with chronic illness
Is it time for one of Lyssa’s semiannual life posts? I guess so! I blogged previously about what set off the major symptom flare I went through from late 2020 through 2021. And in this post I alluded to the fact that that self-analysis helped me identify what sets major symptom flares off. Basically, it’s pretty much the simple formula of too much work and/or too much stress. It’s something…
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Discussion guide for The Iamos Trilogy now available!
Over at Snowy Wings Publishing we’ve been putting together resources for librarians and educators, including discussion guides for any teacher who may want to use a book in their classroom or librarian who may be hosting a teen book club. To that end, I’ve just released a discussion guide for The Iamos Trilogy, which includes questions related to both Fourth World and New World. Upon release, the guide will also…
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It won’t be 2022
Let’s get right to the point. I started to write you all a long, blathery blog post about it, but it got really rambly and made no sense, so here’s the very cut and dried version: I am very sick. I set off another symptom flare. Because of previous self-analysis and paying closer attention to what I was doing, I do know what I did to set it off this…
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My somewhat unusual proof process
My first proof for One World has arrived! Note that I said my first proof—there will be more. Several years ago (back in 2017, when I was writing Cheerleaders from Planet X), I figured out a handy little writing hack for myself. I’ve mentioned in various places (such as in the podcast I recently recorded with Jewel Riders Archive, which will be available for you to listen to soon) that I…
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The anatomy of a symptom flare
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been active on this blog, or sent out my newsletter, or posted anything decent on social media. My amazing assistant, Esther Hadassah, had been doggedly continuing to post content on Facebook like a trouper. I appreciate her keeping it going even as I’ve given her nothing new to post about in well over a year. I’ve discovered that when you get out…
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The Martian calendar system in The Iamos Trilogy
In preparation for the last book in the Iamos series finally? coming out?? soon??? (we can all hope and pray), I am getting together some supplementary material for the series to help readers out, especially those who want to be able to jump into the final book as soon as One World is out without having to start over from the beginning. Right now I’m working on detailed recaps for…