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Ben Spencer

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Ben Spencer is the author of The Prophecy of the Yubriy Tree, Book One in the The Song of the Burning Heart universe. Ben writes character-driven fantasy full of style and heart.

Ben's fiction has appeared in Literary Orphans, Corner Bar Magazine, and Scholars & Rogues. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Please visit his newsletter at benspencer.substack.com and/or his website, benspencerwrites.com for more information.
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The Prophecy of the Yubriy Tree is out!

Hi everyone,

Quick blog post for goodreads. The Prophecy of the Yubriy Tree, Book One in The Song of the Burning Heart series is out now. The ebook and hardcover editions are available over at Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Prophecy-Yubri...

Thanks to everyone who has read the book already. There are quite a few ARC reviews on goodreads. I hope you'll check them out!

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Ben Ben said: " 100 reviews on Goodreads! Woohoo!

Thank you to everyone who has read the book and left a review, starred or written. I'm deep into writing Book Two and can't wait to share it with you.

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“Usually, she existed for him as a celestial body hanging from the heavens, bright but stationary, too distant to truly be known. But all at once she was burning across the frame. He watched her approach with a reverent awe. Her hair, still cosmic black, looked like a waterfall poured from the night sky.”
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“Death was desperately wanting to say good-bye, only to find the god damning you to die disobliging. Death was the hot bite of cold steel. Death was the distance from the moon to the earth. Death was the waiting. The wondering.
Life was waking in your own bed.”
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“He thought that she looked like Winter; meaning both the girl he had once known and the season. He had always believed that winter's beauty deepened further into the season, when the memory of fall and the promise of spring were stripped away and there was nothing to do but accept the day-in, day-out reality of what winter entailed. This was what he thought when he looked at her: that the embattled woman before him was a wonder to behold, and, as much as he wished he might have spared her the pain of the last eleven years, it contributed to her spellbinding presence.”
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