June 29th, 2023
Hey, all!
I shared a video yesterday with a nut-ton of updates on Brushfire, so check it out if you haven’t already; less than a week until Brushfire is out digitally, and you can pre-order it on Amazon now!
(Check out that new-and-improved [a term that actually makes sense here] cover!)
The oversized paperback and hardcover Amazon editions will be available to order soon, as well, and the official graphic novels are in production and will be sent out to supporters in July, hopefully on or shortly after the July 4th release date!
On top of all that, I’ll have both Waves available to read FOR FREE on my website on the 4th, so you can scroll while sucking on chili dogs and Crystal Pepsi.
Now here’s the official description of Wave 2 if you want a peek at what’s in store for Bay and the rest of the FLARE:
“Brushfire exists to reveal and respect the truths of the universe, and to protect and provide for all of its inhabitants.”
The mission statement may be too much for any one animal to live up to.
Brushfire is an advanced society of wildlife who live in the Burrow, a sprawling subterranean city built deep under Faribault’s Central Park.
Squirrels Bay and Elle, along with Elle’s brothers Dur and Donnie and new mouse recruit Erwin, are members of FLARE: Fair Leaders in Action, Relief, and Exploration. To be a part of FLARE is to be the best of what Brushfire represents, and they are respected and admired throughout the community for their work, their honesty, and their bravery.
In Wave 1, we were introduced to a group of elite scientists called the Ekpyrotic Ensemble, who were lost overnight while trying to tap into a vast source of mysterious power. In the present, a strange visitor lit a spark under the FLARE team to revisit that tragic event, as they discovered there was more to that power than even they knew: the energy may come from another universe, called the Flip Side by the Ensemble.
In Wave 2, FLARE visits River Bend, a forest community on the edge of town, to ask their leader Estelle for permission to take a power source that could reopen the doorway to the Flip Side and possibly bring the Ekpyrotic Ensemble home.
The complicated and fractured relationship between the two communities, however, may not be so easily repaired.
Brushfire is from the mind of acclaimed Minnesota writer and artist Dennis Vogen, creator of beloved books like Cold World, Theia, and graphic novel series The Weirdos.
(I wrote that last part so take “acclaimed” and “beloved” with the most giant grain of salt.)
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