HeyJaredKelly Murashige's Book Updates
Weird animals. Weird stories. THE LOST SOULS OF BENZAITEN (Soho Teen, 2024), THE YOMIGAERI TUNNEL (Soho Teen, 2025), and MILKIVERSE (Soho, 2027). Stories in The Saturday Evening Post, phoebe, Thimble, MudRoom, and more.
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Very Nice People Saying Very Nice Things (opens the original)
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Milkiverse: Now with BlurbsSo. Milkiverse has received its first blurbs.The first is from Samantha Sotto Yambao, national bestselling author of Water Moon.… What?If The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once had a baby, Milkiverse would be their shining offspring. Murashige creates the best and most beautiful kind of strange, the kind that breaks your heart and puts its shards back together like a beautiful kintsugi cereal bowl. Weird, wonderful, and important, Muras
Happy Two Years to Benzaiten 🎋 (opens the original)
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On July 23, 2024, The Lost Souls of Benzaiten officially released. A part of me has still not processed this fact.From what I can find on my ancient laptop, I started the very, very early drafts of Benzaiten in late 2020. At the time, the main character was named Yukari and had an entirely different backstory. She did, however, still seem visually similar to Machi.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cujv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%
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