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I absolutely adore this book and we are all so excited to share it with other folks. I've been wanting to reread it since literally the day I finished it last year, and doing it in a group setting just sounds incredible. Hopefully we get some more readers addicted to your work too 😅💖

It's also u/sarahlynngrey and u/fuckit_sowhat . We love your book and are looking forward to the readalong!

#TSOTD_note Nothing

- underwent half a dozen revisions

- including expanding the poem considerably following an excellent suggestion from @lisarodgers.bsky.social

- the first draft had more emphasis on Hana's sister

- I think there's an echo of something I read by Mary Renault in the poem

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#TSOTD_note Fraught

- I love Gary McCluskey's art :-)

- Fergus, now Donal's chief of guards, was originally Connol's guard + friend. He's one of the background figures whose doings are mostly left to the reader's imagination.

- call back to earlier "A horse ride. Fresh air. Nothing better."

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#TSOTD_note Dark Arrow

- added late, based on a suggestion from @lisarodgers.bsky.social, to clarify that Fian's suicide does indeed accomplish a dark purpose

- the initial supernatural evil in the book is the demon, whose power is claimed by Fian after the demon dies, and is now passed on again.

#TSOTD_note Diplomatic Communiqué

- as with the previous poem, this one was added based on a suggestion from @lisarodgers.bsky.social to clarify that Fian committed suicide with an ulterior motive

- I love how Donal and Xau are now close enough friends that when Donal wants help, he asks Xau

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