five minutes at hotel stormcove

Ebook Sale

1 July 2025 Minerva Cerridwen

Hi!

As the one thing that can make the summer heat a little more bearable is, of course, a book, I have good news: the 2025 Summer Sale at Smashwords has begun! My publisher Atthis Arts is participating, which means that the ebook for The Dragon of Ynys is currently at 50% off, as well as all other Atthis Arts ebooks, including some of my favourites Alia Terra, Be the Sea, Pluralities, One Arm Shorter Than The Other, duology Just Bart & Just Chad, short story collection Awkward Tomatoes, and anthologies Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove and Community of Magic Pens. Enjoy!

Atthis Arts will also be present at Seattle WorldCon 2025, August 13-17. If you’re going, they’d love for you to pay them a visit and say hi. And of course there will be books to buy at their table!

Finally, it’s the first of July, so here’s the 405th edition of Paranatellonta. Thank you for reading!

Stay hydrated!

Minerva

Hotel Stormcove, Projects by Friends

Watch the recorded Atthis Arts reading!

12 September 2022 Minerva Cerridwen

Hi!

Did you miss our celebration of storytelling and joy yesterday? Or did you enjoy it so much that you want to experience it again? (You might!)

Then watch the recorded Atthis Arts reading here!

LS and I start reading around 1:18:50, but if you have the time, I absolutely recommend watching the whole video. And if you want to read a background story for E.D.E. Bell’s own reading, check out this hilarious Twitter thread.

Enjoy!

Minerva

Hotel Stormcove, Projects by Friends

Reading Tomorrow!

10 September 2022 Minerva Cerridwen

Hi!

Just a quick reminder that LS Reinholt and I will be reading a fragment from “Dragon in the Cove” at the Atthis Arts Author Reading on Sunday September 11 – that’s tomorrow, or perhaps even today depending on when and where you are reading this!*

Register for free HERE to attend the event, which will take about 90 minutes, starting at 2:00 PM EDT or 8:00 PM CEST (= 20:00 for the people in and around Belgium, for example).

Aside from our fragment, there will be lots of cool authors presenting their stories the way they sound in their own mind, AND Gregory A. Wilson will be reading the intro to The Gray Assassin Book TWO: Renegade, AND there will be a special announcement at the end! Not a moment you want to miss, is it?

See you then, hopefully!

Minerva

*If you are reading this later than September 11, don’t be absolutely devastated that you missed it! Do check my blog again soon, as I will post the recorded YouTube link when it’s up.

Hotel Stormcove, Projects by Friends

Atthis Reading: September 11

21 August 2022 Minerva Cerridwen

Hello!

On September 11, 2022, you can attend the first Atthis Arts Author Reading, live at 2:00 PM EDT or 8:00 PM CEST. In other words, it’s at 20:00 that Sunday evening in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the rest of the Central European timezone. And for my frequent Australian reader (hi Nala!), I’m afraid it’ll be 3:30 AM for you, but there will be a recording afterwards!

This will be the first time LS Reinholt and I are doing an author reading together and I think it will be so much fun! We’ll pick a fragment from our short story “Dragon in the Cove” from Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove. Every author (or, in our case, author team) will have 5 minutes to read, making the whole event last 90 minutes. And there’ll be a lot you’ll want to hear: the authors include E.D.E. Bell emself, Ava Kelly, Ether Nepenthes, Gigi Ganguly, Gregory A. Wilson… I’m excited about every single name on the list, but I suggest you check the link here to find out which part of the Atthis family you’re about to meet! With 14 authors from 3 continents, you’re bound to discover some great new writing.

See you there!

Better put the tea and the towels ready.

Love,

Minerva