"Inanna"

Hello, my lovely duckies. If you are here, I thank you for taking the time to read this. It is with great pleasure, much fear, and thrill, I put into your hands for your reading pleasure the chapbook Inanna. You can set your own price, which means it is absolutely free as well. You just type in "0.00" when you go to check out. My body is not feeling up to too much chest puffing over this, as it's the cumulation of three months worth of writing and editing. I'm tired, and I will just let the synopsis and the book itself do the talking.

And yes, if you know what the cover art features, I salute you, you naughty kids. ;)

The mythos of Innana has enchanted readers for decades. After dreaming of the elusive sky goddess one evening, I found myself writing of her polarities, her anger, her grief, and wondering at what sort of voice is hiding in texts that are undoubtedly, like all religious scriptures, ensconced in a certain gendered ideology. "Inanna" is a chapbook filled with explorations of identity among sexual, spiritual, cosmic, and social axes. When the radiant goddess of the sky goes down to meet her cthonic bound sister, her body breaks as it is hung on a hook, and her whole life - from the establishment of her own godhood to the marriage of Demuzi - spins out before her. On Ereshkigal's meat hook she is doomed to rot, and in rotting, the Queen of Heaven fully blooms.

Click here to download it at smashwords.

P.S. If you want to know what covers I worked on didn't make the cut, check this out:

I ended up going with the unlayered image since I enjoyed it's simplicity and I felt like the one above is too busy and the effects take away from its meaning.