bloodmad zombies and magical theocratic panopticons: A cover reveal

Daughter of Flood and Fury is coming soon! As in, January the 18th. But in the meantime, you can scope the new cover as well as learn a few interesting tidbits in my interview over at Fantasy Book Critic! Like this one:

Fantasy Book Critic: How do you select the names of your characters? 

Levi: I have two answers to this. The first is through true philosophical geekery, like Aletheia--a Greek word often translated as ‘truth,’ but what the phenomenologists (whose work is kinda esoteric, but had a big impact on later thinkers whose theories have mattered, like Foucault and Agamben) translated as ‘disconcealment.’ Making knowledge and truth an action felt right for this character, so I stole it (though she usually shortens it to Theia). That, and the name sounded cool. 

Which is the second answer: in crafting peoples and cultures I usually combine sounds from a few different languages to make theirs, then once I get a feel for it just riff on them with whatever comes into my head in the moment. Which is where most of the other names in the book come from--Gaxna, Dashan, Urte, etc. 

TLDR: either esoteric nerdery or straight make-believe. 

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