Hi everyone! Ready for our next tour sign ups? ✨
We are thrilled to announce that we are organizing a Bookstagram & Creative Tour for Non Serviam by Sfarda L. Gül! This tour will run from October 21st to October 30th, 2024 with a total of 10 stops.
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A wrathful woman scorned. A Machiavellian revolutionary. A tyrannical society where emotion is treason. NON SERVIAM is equal parts a revenge spree and a philosophical spiel.
The first in a grimdark political mystery duology with gothic fantasy undertones, NON SERVIAM is written with a unique, experimental style in the spirit of poetry, art cinema, and classics—suffused with visceral symbolism, lush, archaic-esque purple prose, and philosophical ponderings aimed at interrogating totalitarianism, colonial legacy, and state violence. Venice, Sardinia, and the Etruscan Civilisation inspire its vividly intricate, queernormative setting.
Out now from Lacrimosity and Righteous Rage Press!
Add it to your TBR if you love:
🐦⬛*very* very flowery poetic prose with an archaic-esque, classic type style
❤️🔥Revolution & revenge
🫀Female hysteria, dark femininity, complex womanhood
🦷Found family
🥀Slow burn yearning enemies to lovers
🕯️“Whimsical grimdark”
🏛️Philosophy
🩸Bløød & gûts
🧠Mad scïence
💐Fully LGBT cast~
🎭Baroque/Venetian setting
❤️🩹Tragedy & navigating tråuma
Make sure you read the full synopsis below & to sign up if you are interested. We cannot wait to tour this stunning book with you! 🥀
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Tour Details:
– We are looking for 10 Bookstagrammers to feature/review the book in their feeds + to share a second bookish post such as a Booktok, Book Reel or Creative Blog Post.
– Hosts will receive a physical copy of Non Serviam to read for the tour.
– As always, it is open internationally.
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Here’s more about the book:
Non Serviam (The Hypostasis of Dissent, #1) by Sfarda L. Gül
Series: The Hypostasis of Dissent #1
Published by Lacrimosity and Righteous Rage Press on May 7th, 2024
Genres: Gothic Fantasy, Grimdark
Pages: 448
Format: eBook, Paperback
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Expressing emotion is prohibited by law in the city state of Vencenza.
Beneath its tyrannical shadow, Giorgianna, a deranged former playwright turned political fugitive, flees a brothel to seek justice for the murder of a beloved friend.
When the last remnants of her bloodline are reaped by the incorrigible Minister of Dominion, Giorgianna’s crooked path to retribution crosses with Vencenza’s Machiavellian revolutionary hellbent on regime overturn.
All the while, the weight of unending tragedy erodes Giorgianna’s psyche into a vengeful bloodlust plagued by cabbalistic visions hinting at an ever-darker face of the violent Powers That Be.
The first in a grimdark political mystery duology with gothic fantasy undertones, NON SERVIAM is written with a unique, experimental style in the spirit of poetry, art cinema, and classics—suffused with visceral symbolism, lush, archaic-esque purple prose, and philosophical ponderings aimed at interrogating totalitarianism, colonial legacy, and state violence. Venice, Sardinia, and the Etruscan Civilisation inspire its vividly intricate, queernormative setting.
The paperback edition features 25 illustrations by the author, Sfarda L. Gül, as well as one illustration each by Ayşe-Mira Yaşın, Nadia Sampellegrini, and Sophia Arnaout.
Take note that this book is very heavy on worldbuilding and conlang (including footnotes and several POV types (1st person limited; 3rd person limited; 2nd person limited for the first ~10% of the book; all past tense).
Content Warnings: government oppression, death, graphic gore, self-injury, mental illness, sex trafficking, sexual harassment, police brutality, violence against women and trans-identifying peoples, birth-related trauma, gun violence, religion, classism, discussions of sexual violence (humans, minors, corpses), child abuse, workplace violence, divorce, smoking (tobacco and opium), alcohol, mention of intravenous drug abuse, surgical procedures and needles (singular instance), fires and burns, strong language.
ALL ROYALTIES earned from the title are donated to Doctors Without Borders, the Kurdish Red Crescent, and All for Armenia.
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About Sfarda L. Gül
An artist and writer since her early childhood brought up in a police state, Sfarda L. Gül’s (alias) creative focus hones in on the macabre and introspective, the grotesque and juxtaposing—a deconstruction of social ideology and human suffering influenced by her upbringing, queerness, historically persecuted mixed ethnicity, and dark-sided emotional disposition. Every story strives to be unapologetically anti-authoritarian, decolonial, anti-cop, anarchist, and pro-humanity.
When not engaging in art, Sfarda is enthralled in ethnography, linguistics, filmmaking, and social activism aiding to uplift ethnic and queer minorities of her native Eastern Europe, SWANA, and Central Asia. She is the curator of independent publication Lacrimosity and Righteous Rage which hosts a Substack newsletter, and a YouTube video essayist at Anarchy on Page.