GUEST BLOG: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Rasta Musick Plus Giveaway!

1. Rasta can dance salsa and other Latin dances and did so regularly before quarantine.
2. Rasta’s favorite food is Japanese style curry (which is actually quite different from Indian curry).
3. Every time Rasta travels to a new place, he visits the local aquarium if there is one. Every. Time.
4. When he was 8, Rasta went to nationals for chess and placed top ten in his elo bracket.
5. Rasta loves spiders and always enjoys finding out new things about them.
6. Rasta is left-handed for writing, but he primarily uses his right hand for basically everything else.
7. Some of the concepts in Pixies in the Mist take inspiration from ideas shown in the Laundry Files by Charles Stross.
8. As a kid, Rasta’s parents motivated him to learn how to read via video games.
9. Pixies in the Mist was originally going to be a story focused on Jake without Kenneth, but it evolved into a two-perspective narrative.
10. Rasta’s dream is to be able to visit the friends he’s made all around the world.

Publication Date: October 12, 2021

Jake had drifted to Japan without any serious intent, and it was going… okay. He had made friends in the local Salsa community, his Japanese was improving, but for Jake the familiar feeling that had dogged him most of his life—that something special should be happening—had struck again.

Kenneth had been assigned to Japan by the pixie queen years ago, which is just enough time for a pixie to get bored and complacent while keeping tabs on the local talent. Most humans had no magic, and most magical humans didn’t know it was their power that made their food taste better, their paintings more vibrant, or people like them more.

When the two met, the spark in Jake gave Kenneth’s role a new urgency. Jake didn’t just have magic, he had a wild and unpredictable kind seen only once in a generation. How could Kenneth keep Jake’s magic from falling into enemy hands? Kill him? Recruit him? Somehow keep him ignorant?

Jake’s magic had quietly led him to Japan, subtly influencing every choice in his life. That something special Jake had been waiting for was about to happen, ensuring his and Kenneth’s lives would never be boring again.

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Rasta Musick spent the first 12 years of his life in California before moving to Japan with his family. After graduating from college with a Bachelor’s in economics at the age of 16, he spent the years after learning Japanese and working. Having spent more than half his life in Japan, he’s confident that it’s his home.

With many different hobbies, chief of them being Latin dance, he keeps himself physically active as well as mentally active as much as he can. The Latin dance community in Japan is alive and, surprisingly, quite large.

Rasta has lupus and hereditary coproporphyria. Given their complicated nature, he’s had to learn a lot to adapt and manage them. The process also taught him a lot about managing other aspects of his life, and all of this influences his writing.

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