"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
— Gloria Steinem
Nobody starts with a book.
They start with a draft that embarrasses them, a folder of false starts, a query letter rewritten past the point of recognizing your own voice in it — and, somewhere in the middle of all that, a moment where quitting would have been the reasonable thing to do.
In this edition of The Lowkey Letter, we celebrate 5 authors like yourselves who passed through that moment and kept going anyway.
And for us, being even a small part of that has been a privilege we don't take lightly.
We're now a community of 147 authors with 211 titles listed, as of the day we're publishing this — and every one of them is because someone didn't stop.
A grounded memoir about my life, and the key discovery I have made: what in our lives is within our control, and what isn't. This book draws upon over six decades of meditation, spiritual study, and mentorship — it's the story of my life and everything I have learned about why life works the way it does, and how we can all reclaim the power to make our time here on Earth as fulfilling and positive an experience as possible.
Wisterly is a runaway Hearthkeeper fleeing a life of service. Mordred is a thief who sees her as the key to his final payday. But when their heist ends in a nobleman's blood and the awakening of a forgotten god, they'll have to outrun the law, the criminal underworld, and the demons of their past — if they don't get each other killed first.
In imperial China, a killer turns herself in, certain she was right. Judge Bao Zheng spares her and puts her to work. As Zhao investigates crimes the law won't touch—servants executed for their masters, relief silver that never reaches the starving—she uncovers a system built to protect the powerful and dares him to change it.
In Turbulences, set in Yugoslavia that survived the end of Cold War without breaking apart, an airline pilot Esad Kajan begins to suspect that the death of his best friend wasn't a simple car accident. What he uncovers will face him against a widespread conspiracy that threatens to throw the country into chaos. It combines equal parts recent world history, aviation, and intrigue into a tasty stew of adventure with a satisfying finish.
A compact philosophical thought experiment about perception, consciousness, choice, love, fear, pain, identity, and meaning. Its central question is simple: what if the reality available to us is only a lower-dimensional consequence — a shadow — of something greater? It does not present this as established science. Instead, it gives readers a framework for questioning what we can know, what our choices fix, and how our limited viewpoint shapes human life.
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147 authors, 211 titles, growing every day
Both numbers are higher than the last time we wrote to you — across 12 genres now, and counting. Browse the directory →
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Thanks for reading — and thanks to Steven, Zephyr, Ida, Edin, and NCRDM for letting us share their stories. If you're an author and would like to be featured in a future Lowkey Letter, reply to this email or reach out at hello@lowkeybooks.co.
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