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Overview: Matthew Travagline was born and raised in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. He likes to think that the odd assortment of jobs he has worked during his tenure as a human (including: on a farm, in retail, as a park ranger, and in cybersecurity) has prepared him for writing about fantastical settings and futuristic quandaries.

Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy

1. Gleeman's Tales
Gnochi Gleeman is not like other entertainers.

Because of his expansive knowledge of pre-apocalyptic Earth, the stories he tells are valued well beyond the flashes of an illuminator, or the spheres of a juggler. Gnochi spent the first decade of his career telling stories while traveling between taverns, inns, and any hole-in-the-wall which would feed him.

Cleo, a young teen from across the ocean, flees from her chaperone into the woods of an unknown land. During her first months journeying through eastern Lyrinth, she discovers something life-changing about herself. With that discovery comes the knowledge that her life is in grave danger.

Despite a love for the open road and a thrill for telling new audiences about the lost age, Gnochi chooses to retire and focus on curating his family’s hidden library of first-age texts. But the fates would not grant Gnochi the boon of a peaceful retirement. Not long after settling down, he learns that his sister and niece have been kidnapped, and in order to free them, he must assassinate the land’s ruling monarch.

On the path to murder, Gnochi runs into Cleo and the unlikely duo seek safe passage to the Lyrinth’s capital among the dilapidated tents of a traveling menagerie.

All the while, people across the world are beginning to prepare for the once-in-a-decade winteryear. These winteryears, one of the echoes of the first age still present in the current world, have been ravaging the Earth since it awoke from its eternal winter and recovered from its near destruction thousands of years ago. Will proper preparations be taken before the Earth is blanketed in its yearlong snow?

2. The Harbinger of Change
The bard, Gnochi Gleeman is unlike other entertainers. Not only because he has an expansive knowledge of pre-apocalyptic Earth, but because he successfully assassinated Lyrinth’s ruling monarch. When he finally wakes from an accidental poisoning, a block that was put on his memory dissolves and he remembers burying his niece and sister after they died in a fire.

Cleo is traveling with Aarez, a ventriloquist from the entertainer’s guild. Their goal is to outrun the fallout of the assassination. By the time they arrive at a safehouse in the woods outside the small town of Mirr, the two learn that Gnochi has been imprisoned, awaiting execution.

The arrival of an eastern army off the coast of Lyrinth spurs Gnochi’s captors into transferring him away from the capital. When they learn of this movement, Cleo and her friends use the coming battle as an opportunity to rescue him from his impending execution. What they do not know is that Gnochi has already undergone life-changing torture designed to tear at the fabric of his identity, and a formal execution would only kill his physical body.

Complicating the plans of Cleo and her friends is the prolonged winter which has just begun its year-long reign. Dangers presented from the frozen-over oceans and endless storms of snow complicate the path and challenge the nerve of the young storyteller on her quest to save her teacher.

Product details
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0841BK3T7
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1412 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 429 pages

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Gleemans-Tales-Duology-Book-ebook/dp/B0841BK3T7/