Shadowscent Updates: The Darkest Bloom in many languages, Crown of Smoke pre-order, map and... a perfume
So much exciting news for PM Freestone’s Shadowscent duology! Here’s an update on what’s been happening.
The Darkest Bloom translated into four languages and counting
The Darkest Bloom, the first book in the series is now available in German (with a beautiful new cover), French, Spanish and Russian, with Hungarian, Czech and Polish to come. I am very excited to see how Aramteskan words have been given grammatical gender and case markers across the different translations! I’m possibly even more excited to see how things got transliterated into Cyrillic for the Russian.
Crown of Smoke pre-orders for 2nd of April 2020
The Shadowscent story is wrapping up with book two Crown of Smoke out on the 2nd of April. US readers can order from the UK, as UK Scholastic will be handling all orders. It’s a fun and face-paced adventure with the future of the empire at stake and I’m looking forward to holding this beauty:
Map of Aramtesh from Virginia Allyn
Crown of Smoke readers will get to see Virginia Allyn‘s map of Aramtesh. This map featured in the US print of The Darkest Bloom (’Shadowscent’ in the US). It’s full of so much wonderful detail.
The Darkest Bloom... as a fragrance!
Finally, 4160 Tuesdays is a small perfume house in the UK and they have teamed up with P.M. Freestone to create The Darkest Bloom, a fragrance inspired by the world of Shadowscent. I’m beyond excited to smell this. This must be the first fantasy world with its own scent-based conlang, map and fragrance.
image: 4160 Tuesdays Instagram
