The Willful Instruments is Coming

A promotional campaign will launch in September and the full series is set to release October of 2023!

It’s rather silly that I ever imagined completing this series without rewriting the first two novels. A lot changes in fifteen years—too much. So, in January I undertook reworking this series as a whole, to tell a stronger, more cohesive story that better represents who I am today as an artist and as a person.

The rewrite was a success. I now have in my possession a completed trilogy. It’s emotional, subversive, epic, intimate, and gutsy (in more than one sense of the word.) I am so very proud and deeply in love with this story. Now the journey to publication has begun.

In September, I will be launching a promotional campaign with the opportunity to purchase advanced copies, Soolie swag, limited edition signed copies, and even custom art inspired by the series. Each purchase will come with a bonus content PDF of world-building definitions, character lists, artwork, and notes from the author—that will only be available to folx who participate in the campaign.

In October (spooky reading month!) the series goes live. For real, for good, for better or worse. 

It’s happening.

I hope my heart can take it. 

See you there,

Skel

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Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light – RELEASED

The 2nd edition of “Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light” is now available for purchase on Amazon for print and Kindle. This edition features a forward by the author, new edits, and their true name on the cover.

Book two in “The Dead Souls Trilogy” is set to release later in 2022!

A note from Skelly Harrington:

Hi Friends,

When I changed my name from Gypsie Raleigh, I amputated a wealth of online currency, press, and global traction that my book and art had been fortunate enough to garner. It was an incredibly painful—but necessary—decision. At the time, the name Gypsie was the only name I felt I had ever had friends under. The name Skelly, however, has come to mean even more.

I chose the name ‘Skelly’ for myself. It is Irish and Gaelic for ‘storyteller,’ which is what I both compulsively and intentionally strive to be in all of my passions. It is a gender neutral name that is not associated with any people group to which I do not belong, it is without any religious baggage, and it abbreviates to ‘Skel,’ the name I am known by to my friends.

It is also the name under which I met my wives and became legally and joyously married. It is a name of love and self love, of renewal, and of my future.

And now it is the name under which I proudly release The Dead Souls Trilogy.

I hope that you read “Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light” if you haven’t read it before, and consider rereading it in anticipation of the second book “Soolie Beetch and the Hungry Souls” coming soon! And if you are able to review it to help rebuild some of that currency that has been lost, it would mean the world to this earnest devoted storyteller.

Thank you for reading,

Skelly

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“Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light” 2nd Edition

The 2nd Edition of “Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light” is on its way!

This Edition will feature a forward and new revisions by the author. As well as their *true name.*

Many of you know that Skelly Harrington published their first book under their dead name, so it was important—now with the second book in the pipeline—to re-release the original.

Revisit the start of the trilogy just in time before Soolie Beetch comes back in “Soolie Beetch and the Hungry Souls” later this year, 2022!

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“Soolie Beetch” on “Cracking the Spine!”

“Soolie Beetch and the Dying Light” has been featured on literary podcast, “Cracking the Spine!”

“Not what I expected…30 or 40 pages in, in my head, I was like, ‘I can kind of see where this is going,’ and I was wrong…It does not read like a first novel, it reads like someone who is accomplished. ”

This is such a fantastic mention. Thanks to the crew of “Cracking the Spine” for reading and supporting independent authors. Check it out.

 

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