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Iago's Penumbra Spiral-Bound | 2023-05-28

Rose Guildenstern

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Iago's Penumbra is a metaphysical visionary novel that takes the reader on a spiritual journey seen through the lens of a paranormal romance between a ghost and a clairvoyant.

IPPY AWARDS GOLD WINNER, VISIONARY/NEW AGE FICTON

COVR AWARDS SILVER WINNER, VISIONARY FICTION

2024 AMERICAN BOOK FEST BEST BOOK AWARDS FINALIST, VISIONARY FICTION

A metaphysical visionary novel that takes readers on a spiritual journey seen through the lens of a paranormal romance between a ghost and a clairvoyant.

Everybody loves a good ghost story, yet poor dead Vee feels anything but "good" being stuck upstage in the heavens of her own afterlife. She can peek in on Val, who's "downstage" with the living but haunted by ghosts. Then there's Julie, stubbornly stage left but longing to be downstage with Val. And finally, poor Peter remains solitary in his stage-rightness with the sneaking suspicion he might be dead wrong.

Trapped at center stage lurks the demon Iago, willing to bridge heaven and hell to exit this cursed performance once and for all.

Just as Good Omens revamped the book of Revelation and His Dark Materials reimagined Milton's Paradise Lost, Iago's Penumbra is a modern love story about the darkness that redeems us, rooted in the works of William Shakespeare--with a little philosophy, physics, and cosmic horror thrown in, just for fun.

PRAISE FOR IAGO'S PENUMBRA...

"I don't think it would be possible to expect anything quite so entirely creative, clever and consuming, full of surprises, romance, drama and, of course, magic... No doubt Will[iam Shakespeare] himself would be proud."
--Emily Carding, author of So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0764366327
Item Weight: 0.1 lbs
Dimensions: 5.0 x 1.02 x 8.0 inches
"One of the most unusual books I have read in recent years. To begin with most of the characters are dead right from the start, thus allowing an exploration of life-after-death, the Otherworld, and all points between. Part love story, part metaphysical exploration of loss, desire and wisdom, part occult novel, the author has created an original and at times deeply unsettling account of what it means to be human, what it means to lose humanity, and what it means to discover something beyond the physical, time-bound world in which we live. Rose Guilderstern is an exciting new voice which we will most certainly be hearing from again." -John Matthews, author of Taliesin the Last Celtic Shaman
Rose Guildenstern writes fiction teetering on the edge between eerie and enlightening in the penumbral woods of Pennsylvania, where anything can happen (and probably does). Sometimes she publishes truth through Tarot as Juno Lucina. Find out more about Rose (& Juno), with all her disturbing creations, at roseguildenstern.com.