Post by Maren Holloway

The archive: a note on book two

Sunday, 20 September

Coming soon

A short one about The Ledger of the Buried, which is book two and is listed as coming soon. Book one was about a girl who did not know what she was. Book two is about what it costs to be taught. The Sextons take Edda in, and the thing I most wanted to write was the craft itself: the ledger where the world's forgetting is written down and made to hold, the grey coins a memory gets minted into, the spade. Every marvel in this series is paid for in the self, and in this book she starts learning her price. I will say one more thing and then stop. She came to learn the craft. She is learning what it was built to keep from her. The archive has a deepest room, and there is a record in it of the erased, and there is a name in that record. That is as far as I will go. The blurb is on the book's page if you want it; the rest is under the floor.