To Dream, Perchance To Soar: a new otherkin novel

[avianthrophile.livejournal.com]

Trigger warnings: none.

Guest reporter Avia/Tsu here, updating with a couple of news posts with waywind's permission.

To Dream, Perchance To Soar is the first published novel by Ashlyn Nafina, known to the otherkin community as ccfeathers. Ashlyn has been writing since childhood, creating a number of stories for her friends inside the community, and this was not her first long story, but, it is her first that had been written and edited for publishing, with the hope that it will reach the otherkin community as well as others who might identify with the metaphor of the story.

Set in an alternate France, the story stars Parisian girl Aile Molyneaux, who has always known she was not complete without wings. When a strange aurora opens in the sky above her home city, and alien visitors, nicknamed les volants ("the flying ones") by the local people, arrive bringing tales of another world, all she can think about is the possibility that magic is really real... and that means she might too be able to become one of les volants.

But transformation is just the beginning of her story, because les volants, known as Ka'aulele in their own musical and magical language, see transformation as more than just a one-time thing. It shapes you and changes you in spiritual ways. And though Aile does not realise it, her desire to transform placed her in the center of a much bigger quest for change... maybe, related to the reason the Ka'aulele are there at all.

The story is deliberately designed to be sympathetic to the feelings of otherkin, while being at the same time an enjoyable spiritual adventure story for young adults and older.

To Dream, Perchance to Soar, nicknamed by its author as "Soar", is 412 pages long and $14.99 in print, available from Lulu (see Sources). An ebook version should be available in about one week from the author's website (see Sources).

Sources

1. http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/to-dream-perchance-to-soar/18725370
2. http://nafina.com/soar/

Comments

[citrakayah.livejournal.com]

That sounds most interesting. You know, there should be a list of books by therians and otherkin or deliberately made to appeal to therians and otherkin.

[avianthrophile.livejournal.com]

Actually I can recommend a couple of lists like that!

booksofafeather of Dreamwidth (http://booksofafeather.dreamwidth.org), it's my reviews of about 40 books with themes of wings and flying, reviewed to standards of whether they are good for therians/otherkin.

My Librarything (http://www.librarything.com/catalog/booksofafeather/booksofafeather) has more that I collected and didn't read/review yet, on the theme of flying again.

This (http://swanblood.tumblr.com/post/13574075762/nonhuman-book-list) is a long book list collected by me and autisticwolfgirl on Tumblr, of recommended books by otherkin and therians. If you check the notes as well, you can see other people's recommend.

Also, I mostly am on Dreamwidth, I am avia, it seems like you are mostly on Dreamwidth too? Your journal seems interesting, I hope you don't mind if I follow you~

[citrakayah.livejournal.com]

I'd feel rather honored.