I have no excuse other than: I locked in.

1000 Lotuses Part 2 - Seamstress out now!

Li Zanghong's investigation brings her to the home of Xia Chengyuan, a gifted artificer and a rising star in a cutthroat field. To learn more about her target, Li Zanghong becomes a guest at her manor, and she inadvertently stumbles into Xia Chengyuan's secret world of bondage and decadence.

In this installment of 1000 Lotuses, a bodhisattva reckons with treacherous new desires and prepares to advise the god of yao in her campaign to assassinate eight genocidal gods. Click here to purchase/download.

Chengyuan is too powerful for itch.io indexing, so your reviews and shares are especially impactful :)

And by the way, fresh files for Part 1 are now up! Much more thoroughly cleaned up, as they should have been from the beginning, but thank you all for bearing with me.

East Bay Alternative Book and Zinefest!!!

LotusCarp will be tabling at EBABZ for the first time! Most of what I had for BAQZF will return, and we’re also featuring prose/poetry from my dear friend Yarrun for the first time! Here’s a zine based on one of their text-based games:

That’s all for now. I had a couple of very bad flare-ups in the week leading up to the Part 2 launch, and I’m going to try to take it easy for a few days. I have to save my strength for zine folding :)