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When Kali learns a shocking secret about her family, she must fight to stop dark forces from destroying her world, even if that means sacrificing everything. But will it be so easy to fight the darkness when it lives within her, too?
About
Incipience
Incipience is the debut novel by author L. Gourley. The first in a series, this fantasy novel follows Kali as she learns the hidden truth of her family history and fights against the evil set on destroying everything she loves.
This story channels the feelings of the author’s lifelong experience with chronic mental illness, acting as a metaphor for many of the elements associated with mental ill-health.
Trigger Warnings: Incipience
A detailed list of common triggers for Incipience: may contain spoilers. Please note this list is not exhaustive. To submit a suggestion please contact the author.
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Author Blog
The Mental Health Themes in Incipience
TW // General discussions of mental illness, self harm, and suicide. This post contains spoilers for Incipience. If you have spent any time at all with me on your timeline, you will know by now that Incipience is one large metaphor for my experience with lifelong mental illness and the crisis I had in 2019/2020…
Why Trigger Warnings in Books are Essential
TW // References suicide, self-harm, trauma in context of trigger warnings. It feels like every other month there’s new (and by “new” I mean exactly the same just re-hashed) discourse on social media about books and trigger warnings. Bafflingly, despite being incredibly helpful to readers and taking almost zero effort for authors, there are still…
Anniversary Re-Release
Together with A. Roberts (Pigletish) we have relaunched Incipience with a brand new cover to celebrate the first anniversary of it’s release. As part of this, there’s also a giveaway running until 29th July to win a paperback of the newly released cover: Thank you to everyone who has supported Incipience so far, making my…
Character Playlists
Get in the mood by listening to these character-specific playlists, curated by the author.
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