Updates on My Kalikoi Novellas

Finding Refuge received a lovely review at Phoebe’s Randoms: “Janssen has laid the ground floor for what could be an exciting series about PTSD, life after war, human and non-human relations, and just personal relationships in general.”

Sapphic Book Club noted Finding Refuge “…portrays the hardest part of recovery, the one where you have to accept to be deserving of good things, to think of a future and even dream of a better one.” Also, “Finding Refuge was a really therapeutic read for me.”

Embracing Refuge: A Place of Refuge, part three, will be released in less than one month! The cover, seen in this post, is by Augusta Scarlett, who also made the previous two covers.

I’m currently working on supplemental materials to include in an eventual omnibus of all three novellas. I’m writing at least two additional short stories as well as preparing an extensive character list and a small glossary.

Cover of Embracing Refuge - a dark-skinned woman with short hair and cyborgian implants on her neck on a green background with planet and spaceship.

Retail links for Finding Refuge (Talia’s point of view) have been updated to include Google Play.
Retail links for Accepting Refuge (Miki’s point of view) have been updated to include Google Play.
Pre-order links for Embracing Refuge, releasing March 7, 2022 are starting to go live. (Faigin’s point of view). If you don’t see your favored ebook retailer, please check again closer to the release date. If I’ve missed a place, please let me know!

About Victoria Janssen

Victoria Janssen [she, her] currently writes cozy space opera for Kalikoi. The novella series A Place of Refuge begins with Finding Refuge: Telepathic warrior Talia Avi, genius engineer Miki Boudreaux, and augmented soldier Faigin Balfour fought the fascist Federated Colonies for ten years, following the charismatic dissenter Jon Churchill. Then Jon disappeared, Talia was thought dead, and Miki and Faigin struggled to take Jon’s place and stay alive. When the FC is unexpectedly upended, Talia is reunited with her friends and they are given sanctuary on the enigmatic planet Refuge. The trio of former guerillas strive to recover from lifetimes of trauma, build new lives on a planet with endless horizons, and forge tender new connections with each other.
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