Sounds fascinating Kathe! A journey for readers and the author, together.

I’m ecstatic Kathe Koja is writing a new novel.
I’ve very recently read her first four and they are great! The blurb from the Washington Post on “Strange Angels” dustjacket compares Ms Koja’s work to “hokey Steven King” but uses a stupid rock music analogy. I detest rock music and resent the boyhood years I wasted listening to it. My analogy would be Kathe’s Bela Bartok to hokey Steven King’s Sir Arthur Sullivan. It should be said that occasionally Steven King turns out something superb like “Desperation” but he hasn’t been worth following for longer than Kathe’s young readers have been alive. A couple of months ago I was turned on to the 90s Abyss line of Horror novels and I’ve read dozens of them and except for two duds they’ve run from pretty darn good to really great and I think Kathe’s first three novels are the three best in the whole Abyss line. “The Cipher” was to me the most terrifying, “Bad Brains” the most horrifying, and “Skin” the overall best. Strange Angels, while excellent, ranked a little lower in my firmament. Im schizoaffective myself and the idea of somebody finding a bodhisattva among the ranks of the schizophrenics didn’t ring true. All the other illness related background was pretty accurate except for the color coded doors in the halfway house. Before I reconciled with my parents I lived in a number of boarding homes and even the worst weren’t that cold. I just found out on Wikipedia that KK has a fifth novel from 1996.
I’ll be ordering that from my library. I also wrote a little article on “Strange Angels” for Wikipedia. I love bizarre novels and that’s mostly what I read and I wish Ms Koja and made a career of them. But alas. Thank you, Kathe Koja, for the enjoyment and fulfillment you’ve provided me with your novels, and best wishes on your new project.