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"This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life."

~ Trick Weekes, lead writer for the Dragon Age series, author of "Feeder" and the "Rogues of the Republic" series

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jackscarab.bsky.social
AETHER TORRENT, my anti-capitalist LGBT-protags YA fantasy adventure novel, is now out in eBook and paperback!

At any moment of your choosing you can buy it from any of several vendors and then read it! Including right now! Exclamation point!

💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
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The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
September 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
The card art!

Working the one-sentence summary to be both legible and not cut off by the edge was difficult, but the final product made it fit.

Now to gradually distribute them starting in ten days, at which point I will be a published author and people can see my work.

Whew.
A business card sized ad for Aether Torrent, featuring the title logo and part of the book's cover art. The blurb at the top reads: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, DRAGON AGE lead writer, author of FEEDER and THE PALACE JOB The lettering at the bottom reads "A Young Adult Fantasy novel by Jack Duffe." The back of the same card, featuring art of protagonist Tori, a gray-eyed orange-haired young woman in blue and black with freckles and a ponytail, pointing a knife out as if in the direction of adventure. Above her, the card reads "eBook and Print links available at books2read.com/aethertorrent." To the right, in smaller text, the card reads: "AETHER TORRENT by Jack Duffe A story about the meaning of treasure. A professional thief, a religious fugitive, and a shape-shifting tiger woman join forces to abandon their terrible jobs and fight toward a brighter future." Below that are several words with illustrative emoji icons before each one. "ADVENTURE! MAGIC! MONSTERS! TREASURE! FIGHTING! ECOLOGY! AIRSHIPS! SHARK PEOPLE! LOVE! FOOD! RELIGION! LABOR! ANTI-CAPITALISM!" Below that, the card reads "in eBook or Print," above logos for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple's eBook reader.
August 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
What's in the box?

Oh, it's business card ads for the upcoming YA fantasy adventure novel AETHER TORRENT.

Oh, it's *my* business card ads for *my* upcoming YA fantasy adventure novel AETHER TORRENT!

The release date of September 2nd is just TEN DAYS away!

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💙📚 #booksky
August 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Three weeks! Three! That's 21 days! Until my book AETHER TORRENT is out! Exclamation point!

If you have a local library, tell them about it! If you have a local high school, tell them too! If you have a local book enjoyer, tell them while you're at it! If you have a local you, tell yourself!
jackscarab.bsky.social Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · Aug 2
ONE. MONTH.

My anti-capitalist LGBT-protags YA fantasy elemental adventure AETHER TORRENT is out in just one month!

You may have heard me yell about it here since April, covering this and that about it. This thread will be those threads!

💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
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The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
August 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
One may notice the abridged quote at the top of the cover:

"This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun... everything is bursting with life."

That's the assessment of none other than author and Dragon Age lead writer @trickweekes.bsky.social!

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💙📚 #booksky
The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
May 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Happy June, happy Pride, and happy three months until my young-adult fantasy adventure AETHER TORRENT is out to buy!

Given the month that it now is, I feel it's important to note that both ladies on the cover are queer.

But who are they? ...

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💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
June 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Main protagonists TORI and AVANI are both skilled in the magic of aether. Tori specializes in Water while Avani is devoted to Earth. Their skills get them into and out of various dramas.

To learn more, pre-order the book! It launches September 2nd, 2025!

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💙📚 #booksky
A black-and-white image of AETHER TORRENT protagonists Tori (left) and Avani (right). Tori, a freckled young woman in a ponytail and stylish jacket, makes impassioned argumentative gestures at Avani, who crosses her arms with a doubtful expression. Behind them, a wave crashes against a sea cliff, a metaphor for their argument. Art by Lalou Lauzon. A sepia-toned hand-drawn image of two young women: long-haired Tori (left), carrying a duffel bag on one shoulder and holding a knife by its point in her other hand, and short-haired Avani (right), carrying a hugely stuffed backpack. The ladies are currently walking through a forest, Tori giving Avani a smirk mid-conversation. Art by Stephstober (and the best commission I've ever gotten at Otakon).
July 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
As one might imagine, the production and sale of vessels is tightly regulated by those in power. This drives up their price enormously.

Some criminals make their living supplying them, not only to collectors but also people who just want to touch them at leisure and taste the pretty color-sounds.
A black-and-white image of a shark-like man in a pinstriped shirt, poking at a cash register while glaring at the viewer. Plates and things in the background suggest an antique shop. (Art by @preservedcucumbers.bsky.social )
July 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Each element has its own vessel, but touching one is only the first step. A vessel must be either made into the right shape or connected to something of the right shape: a tool or weapon called a conduit.

Ordinary tools like hammers and saws focus energy by their shape. Conduits are no different.
A flat-colors image of Aether Torrent protagonist Tori, a smirking orange-haired young woman in a blue and black jacket over a smaller button-up vest, wearing palmless and fingerless fishing gloves. Here she jauntily dangles a long knife from one hand. Art by Anushbanush. A much older image of the same character. Here Tori makes a battle stance without her jacket. Water swirls magically around her knife. Art by Irma "Aimo" Ahmed.
July 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
All magic is a physical expression of the natural elemental force called aether.

Access to it is by no means equal.

All monsters are born attuned to one element of aether or another – Water, Air, Fire, or Earth. Everyone else must draw it out with rare, expensive materials called vessels.
Water being poured bubbly into a blue plastic receptacle. Cirrus clouds in a blue sky. An energetically burning fire against a dark background. A photo from Flaming Gorge, Utah, depicting rocks and dirt with some scrub brush and evergreen trees.
July 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
“How does the magic work?” should never be the *most* important thing about a story, but it’s always a fun flavor.

And “flavor” is approaching the right word. Magic in AETHER TORRENT, to its users, evokes a synesthetic multi-sensory feeling, a fractal sense of tasting the smell of a color’s volume.
An abstract image of black, white, orange, and blue fractals curving forever into each other. Source: Shutterstock, to the best of my sleuthing ability.
July 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Two months.

Only two months until the self-published release of my young-adult fantasy adventure AETHER TORRENT!

There are many cool things about it -- the characters, the creatures, the endorsement by @trickweekes.bsky.social -- but there's also magic!

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💙📚 #booksky
The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
July 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
16 weeks until my YA novel AETHER TORRENT comes out!

Pre-order for:

🏃‍♀️Adventure!
🌬️Magic!
🦀Monsters!
🦈Shark people!
🗡️Fighting!
💰Treasure!
💘Love!
🍛Food!
🛐Religious arguments!
💼Bad jobs!
📈Capitalism!
💺Airships!
🐜Ecology!
🎒Camping!
🐘Consequences for the rich!

💙📚 #booksky
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The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
May 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
For more of Cirrus (and all the cast), pre-order the book!

AETHER TORRENT is out September 2nd, 2025! Don't miss it!

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💙📚 #booksky
The heroes of AETHER TORRENT, riding through a windy green flower-studded field in full color by Lalou Lauzon. At the left: Avani, a young brown woman in a green kurti shirt, looks down and aside while riding the very large kiwi bird Klauser. Avani seems to be looking at Tori, a young redheaded woman in blue, who is riding on the back of Cirrus, a blue-and-white tiger-like fantasy monster. Tori points up and away with a large knife, as if indicating the direction of adventure.
May 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Cirrus is on a years-long personal mission. She works for the violent people who can help her, but the goalposts just keep moving.

Frustrated by her quest, she encounters co-protagonists TORI and AVANI on bad terms, but quickly learns that their eventful path is just what she needs to break free...
Cirrus, a white-haired tiger-like monsterwoman in a black tanktop with feather-like crests on her collarbones and ears, makes a playful finger-clawing pose. Art by Anushbanush. Cirrus endearingly rubs the heads of her co-protagonists Tori (left) and Avani (right), two young human women. Art by Anushbanush. Cirrus's true form, a bulky blue-on-white tiger-like creature, being ridden (with reluctance) by Avani. Art by Laura Duffe. Cirrus, in black and white ink, making a fist. Art by Ngozi Ukazu.
May 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
The world of Aether Torrent is full of elemental magic in the environment, which causes monsters to crop up.

One kind of monster is a wind tiger, exemplified by tertiary protagonist CIRRUS: a brawny forty-something mercenary with a casual demeanor and a direct-approach style of conflict resolution.
Four images of a humanoid fantasy-creature woman named Cirrus, with short white hair, sky-blue-on-white skin, and feather-like tendrils growing from her collarbones and ear positions. The fourth image is her true form, a large tiger-like creature with the same features. Art by Lalou Lauzon. Cirrus again, punching her palm with a grin. Art by Aimo Ahmed. Cirrus closer up, drawn in pencil by Lorraine Schleter. Cirrus perched on a lamppost, as drawn by Psudonym.
May 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
It's May 2nd, which means my Young Adult fantasy adventure novel AETHER TORRENT will be out in four months!

It's about three women on a journey out of bad jobs and towards a better future.

But there's only two on the cover. Who's the third? ...

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💙📚 #booksky
The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
May 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Know what you can read instead of Harry Potter?

My book, Aether Torrent! Coming September 2nd!

Pre-ordering it below doesn't fund a single yacht, mansion, cigar, theme park zone, anti-trans bill, conservative legislator, OR fascist-friendly aristocrat!

books2read.com/aethertorrent

#booksky
The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
April 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
In exactly 5 months, my YA Fantasy novel AETHER TORRENT will be out!

It's about three women and the meaning of treasure, but also -- always relevant -- rich villains suffering consequences!

(Old commission art by @anushbanush.bsky.social )

💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
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A flat-colors image of Aether Torrent protagonist Tori, a smirking orange-haired young woman in a blue and black jacket over a smaller button-up vest, wearing palmless and fingerless fishing gloves. Here she jauntily dangles a long knife from one hand. A flat-color image of Aether Torrent co-protagonist Avani, a short-haired brown-skinned young woman in a green shirt with a large square neckline. She's currently admiring a large green scarab beetle on her hand. A flat-color image of Aether Torrent tertiary protagonist Cirrus, a blue-on-white monster woman in a black tank top, with tiger stripes on her arms and short wing-like crests growing from her collarbones and where her ears would be. She's making a playful "rawr"-like motion with her clawed fingers. A flat-color image of the previous three characters getting along. Cirrus is patting Tori and Avani's heads, ruffling their hair endearingly.
April 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
It's certainly what I'm relying on with my self-published YA fantasy adventure novel Aether Torrent.

Will it get very far? That depends on other people! And also me. But mostly other people.

It's out there to be gotten for pre-order right now!

💙📚 #booksky
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April 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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AETHER TORRENT, 94,000 words of YA fantasy, launching September 2 and now open for pre-order! Starting on e-book with print-on-demand available!

Read it and enjoy LGBTQ-friendly epic-fantasy adventuring wherein rich people experience consequences.

#booksky
#coverreveal

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March 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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jackscarab.bsky.social
Oh hi, #booksky.

In exactly six months – September 2, 2025 – my young-adult fantasy adventure novel AETHER TORRENT will be out to buy. For now -- right now -- it's open to pre-order (at the link below).

Seems about time for a #CoverReveal!

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The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order. Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood. Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green. The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design. Above that are the words: "This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life." Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Hello there, Bluesky.

Do you like books?

Do you like adventure, elemental magic, and monsters of many kinds?

Are you interested in a young adult fantasy adventure about labor, family, religion, and the meaning of treasure?

Then you may enjoy some big news to come.

www.aethertorrent.com
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February 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM