To Shape a Dragon’s Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit by Moniqu

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Fiction – Fantasy – Dragons amp; Mythical Creatures\nRELEASE DATE: 5\/9\/2023(WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)\nA young, indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchlingand quickly finds herself at odds with the approved way of doing thingsin the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series.The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generationsuntil fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragons egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisita person in a unique relationship with a dragon.Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions. They have a very specific idea on how a dragon should be raisedand who should be doing the raisingand Anequs does not meet any of their requirements. Only with great reluctance do they allow Anequs to enroll in a proper Anglish dragon school on the mainland. If she cannot succeed there, then her dragon will be killed.For a girl with no formal schooling, a non-Anglish upbringing, anda very different understanding of the history of her land, challenges aboundboth socially and academically. But Anequs smart, determined, and resolved to learn what she needs to help her dragon, even if it means teaching herself. The one thing she refuses to do, however, is become the meek Anglish miss that everyone expects.Anequs and her dragon may be coming of age, but theyre also coming to power, and that brings an important realization: the world needs changingand they might just be the ones to do it.\nAuthor Bio:\nMoniquill Blackgoosebegan writing science fiction and fantasy when she was twelve and hasn’t stopped writing since. She is an enrolled member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, and a lineal descendant of Ousamequin Massasoit. She is an avid costumer, and an active member of the steampunk community. She has blogged, essayed, and discussed extensively across many platforms the depictions of Indigenous and Indigenous-coded characters in sci-fi and fantasy. Her works often explore themes of inequality in social and political power, consent, agency, and social revolution.