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There are FOUR books now in the series Tales of Tasimu, by Celu Amberstone -- and look for TWO more to finish the series, in the new year. Read about them at http://books2read.com/b/taste, where you can order ebooks and paperbacks from your favourite online vendors.



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A moment from Taste of Memory

The new series from Kashallan Press is Tales of Tasimu . First in the series, Taste of Memory  can be found at our distributor at this link .  a revised and expanded edition of Celu Amberstone's out-of-print novel The Dreamer's Legacy .  Here's an image with a short moment from the book. The second book in the series is When Memory Dies . Both books are available now as ebooks, and soon will be paperbacks as well. Third in the series is Abandoning Memory , to be released in summer 2024. 
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Paperback covers adjusted

The series cover for Tales of the Kashallans is consistent for every title: there's a striking stylized image of an alien being called a khutani , which you could be forgiven for guessing was an image of some kind of dragon, if you hadn't read any of the books. Above this being appears the title for this volume in the series, such as Blood Magic's Snare , and Tales of the Kashallans Book 6 . Below the alien being is the author's name, Celu Amberstone. That pattern of words and stylized alien is consistent throughout the series Tales of the Kashallans , making them recognizable at a glance. But one thing is not so consistent for these cover images, and that's the colour. The shade of dark green used for book covers in this series appears very well on computer screens and cell phones or tablets. But when we released the first books in this series as paperbacks, it soon became apparent that this shade of dark green was almost black on a printed cover! Too dark, at any ...
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