New PDF release: Lily the Silent: The History of Arcadia

“Look within this international and locate wonder.” —KATE BERNHEIMER, editor of My mom She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and writer of The woman Who Wouldn’t Brush Her Hair

Lily leads a serene lifestyles in Arcadia until eventually the forces of Megalopolis invade. Rescued from slavery by means of a prince of Megalopolis, Lily is shipped to retrieve a vital key. Aided by means of her acquaintances, her puppy Rex, or even loss of life herself, Lily’s adventures take her from the Moons to the ground of the ocean, and at last again to Megalopolis, the place she faces the choice of her existence. Will she select real love and relinquish the major to these in energy or will she probability every little thing for who she is and go back the main to Arcadia?

Narrated by means of Lily's daughter, Sophia the clever, it is a tale a few woman who learns to dwell by way of her personal gentle and—no subject how reluctantly—become the queen her humans want. jam-packed with Arcadian legends, it's also a fairy story inside of a fairy story a few bothered global now not not like our personal, in addition to a fantastically illustrated sequel to Snotty Saves the Day, which critics and booksellers hailed as “Lewis Carroll with footnotes by way of Jonathan Swift,” whereas evaluating it to authors whose paintings will be savored by way of readers of every age: Susanna Clark, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, and L. Frank Baum.

The heritage of Arcadia sequence tells the tale of a global that used to be actually shaped through a narrative, by way of one individual researching and claiming who she particularly is . . . and of the next occasions that led first to a deceptively satisfied global, then to an unavoidably tragic final result, and at last to a gradual rebuilding of the realm on foundations extra deeply and thoughtfully laid. each one ebook contains bonus Arcadian legends and fairy stories, and relates how the manuscript crossed the limitations among Arcadia and our personal global to reach at Exterminating Angel Press. the 1st novels within the sequence are Snotty Saves the Day and Lily the Silent.

Tod Davies lives along with her husband and her canine on the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, Colorado and within the alpine valley of Colestin, Oregon, the place she came upon Snotty Saves the Day, the 1st Arcadian manuscript.

Illustrator Mike Madrid is the writer of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: misplaced Villainesses of Golden Age Comics; Divas, Dames & Daredevils: misplaced Heroines of Golden Age Comics, and The Supergirls: model, Feminism, myth, and the historical past of comedian publication Heroines.