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The True Adventurer by Robyn Singer ~ Spotlight, Excerpt, $10 Gift Card #ScienceFiction #SciFi @GoddessFish @CinnabarMoth

In The True Adventurer by Robyn Singer, Layla N’gwa is finally free to chase her dreams, studying art and protesting a brutal war that threatens countless lives. But her past collides with her new life when Kaya, her former friend and a cyborg princess, becomes her enemy. As Kaya fights for her mother’s empire, Layla is drawn into the battle for freedom, putting their friendship—and the fate of the universe—on the line.

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The True Adventurer by Robyn Singer ~ Spotlight, Excerpt, $10 Gift Card #ScienceFiction #SciFi @GoddessFish @CinnabarMoth

The True Adventurer by Robyn Singer
Series: The Ricochet Trilogy #3
Published by Cinnabar Moth Publishing LLC on November 5, 2024
Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera
Format: eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Pages: 264

Layla N'gwa is finally free to attend art school and live a life of peace. She's sipping spinach smoothies in the quad with her new friends, attending protests against the ongoing war, and studying to fulfill her dream of becoming a great glassblower.

Layla's former friend, Kaya Langstone Bythora-the boy-band-loving cyborg princess of the Cykebian Empire-has embraced being evil since killing Yael, and now acts as the ultimate sword of her mother, Empress Molina. With Kaya's help, her mother will become the absolute ruler of the universe by winning the war with the Utozin Authority. Kaya wishes she wasn't doomed to be a monster but feels resigned to her fate and just seeks acceptance from her only friend, Layla.

Layla loves her new life, but she can't stand back and watch as Kaya is used as a weapon and her old professor conquers planet after planet. As a war rages with the fate of all life in the balance, Layla and Kaya find themselves on opposite sides. Kaya may be the most powerful cyborg ever designed, but Layla has some new tricks up her sleeve. Has absolute order snuffed out all freedom, or is there still room among the stars for a little chaos? Only together can Layla and Kaya find the answer.

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Excerpt from The True Adventurer

Good morning, human!

I yawned as I sat up in my bed and stretched my arms out, reaching for the sun. “Good morning, Juri.”

Leaping out of bed and greeting the day, I pulled my curtains open to reveal the beautiful sky. It was a perfect, light shade of magenta that made the stunning cobalt sun stand out even more than it usually did as it rose.

Proquenna was a beautiful world, with fabulous flora and adorable fauna, and Fexxa University’s campus was the prettiest spot on the whole planet. Every student here was an elite artist, and we were all permitted to put up our pieces wherever we wanted. The shelves in my own dorm room were, of course, filled exclusively with some of my awesome creations, but once I stepped out into the dormitory halls, and especially once I stepped outside the building, I couldn’t turn around without seeing a masterpiece of a painting or sculpture created by one of my peers or instructors.

It had been the perfect environment for me to study and truly hone my craft. Thanks to the instruction of Ms. Bunny, the reading assignments others might have skimmed through, and the vast resources offered by the school, I wasn’t the same glassblower I’d been a year ago.

This school was everything I’d always dreamed of. By the time I graduated in three years, I was going to be renowned as one of the best glassblowers in the universe. I may have valued the craft over gidgits, but if I did get super rich off of my work, I’d be able to rub it in g-gma’s face. Hopefully, she’d gotten over the whole blackmail thing and wasn’t plotting to kill me.

What are you standing around for? Juri asked. Get dressed and go get us some foooooood!

I nodded. Under different circumstances, I might have.

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The True Adventurer

Amazon Kindle Edition
Singer, Robyn (Author)
English (Publication Language)
273 Pages - 11/05/2024 (Publication Date) - Cinnabar Moth Publishing LLC (Publisher)

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About Robyn Singer

Robyn Singer is a lifelong New Yorker, and since she was a kid playing with her action figures, all she’s wanted to do is tell stories. She went to SUNY Purchase to get a degree in Playwriting & Screenwriting with a minor in Film and has produced several comic books, but she’s always had her eye on becoming a published novelist.

As an Autistic, bisexual trans woman, diversity and inclusion in stories are vitally important to her, and she seeks to represent as many groups as possible in her work. While she wants to show characters of marginalized groups experiencing joy, she also draws inspiration from real-world problems which bother her.

The Sunrisers (Cinnabar Moth Publishing, November 2022) is her debut novel. She writes novels and short stories of all genres and for all ages, and she continues to produce comic books. Her ongoing series, Final Gamble, will begin publication by Band of Bards in 2022.

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Guest Post by the Author of The True Adventurer

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“The True Adventurer” is the culmination of three years of my life, and over twenty years of media consumption. It’s a space opera and war story that concludes the story which began in “The Sunrisers” and continued in “The Order of the Banshee.” It takes influence from TV series like Doctor Who and Killing Eve, comics like Star Wars: Doctor Aphra and One Piece, and anime like Digimon, and that’s thematically driven by, what I feel, are the relatable mental issues that plagued me as I was writing it. The result is a surreal and emotional experience that no other book is like, and a story that’s the most ambitious thing I’ve ever written.

“The True Adventurer” is the third part in a trilogy, and it is meant to be read as such. It’s my belief that a well-executed series has far more potential than a standalone novel, because a series allows readers to spend more time with the characters, and to watch them grow and change over time.

This story is about loss, grief, corruption, war, the power of stories, and the effect a single person can have on the lives around them. “The Order of the Banshee” ended with the death of the series’ original protagonist, Yael Pavnick, and “The True Adventurer” sees every major character changed by this tragedy, for better or for worse, as they all aim to fulfill her will, but with vastly different ideas of what that means.

From Layla N’gwa, the granola crunching girl genius, to Kaya Bythora-Langstone, the cruel warrior princess who wishes she could just be a normal teenage girl, to Molina Bythora-Langstone, the heartbroken empress who’s taking out her pain on the entire universe, “The True Adventurer’s” cast is complex, diverse, and as perfect for fans of messy relationships as the book as a whole is for fans of dark sci-fi.