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Commit to the Kick is the first book of the Twinned trilogy. The whole trilogy is funding NOW on Kickstarter! CHECK IT OUT!

Kickstarter campaigns ends Jan 28 2026.

Our Kickstarter has one week left, and we’re less than $400 from our first stretch goal!

The third and finally book of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence is Into the Split, showing us a very different world than the one that the Pine Hills University students are used to. In this world, Nikolai – a young queer man with Dream powers – and his boyfriend/life partner/lover Seth – an Empath – are on the run from the Shadows, and it takes a magical mishap that threatens multiple worlds to bring them and the PHU crew into contact. However, from that risk is also opportunity: by combining their knowledge, skill, and Talent, they may just have what it takes to save everyone!

Blurb:

Watch out.
Don’t fall into the Split.

Nikolai is a Dreamwalker born into a family of Weather Witches. His boyfriend, Seth, is an Empath, anchoring him so that Nikolai won’t accidentally open a pathway between the physical world and the Dreamscape.

But Dreams are slippery things: they can attack, and they can trap, and Shadows live in the dark spaces between worlds. Shadows escaped the Dreamscape and came to Nikolai’s world when he was a child. They fed hungrily, drawn to those of strong Talent, killing Nikolai’s family and destroying his home.

Nikolai and Seth have have been on the run ever since.

When the veil between the Dreamscape and his world cracks open again, Nikolai is shocked to meet his doppelganger from another world, Nikita. Claiming that Nikolai’s life has been in her nightmares for months, Nikita promises to save him, but the actions of her and her friends draw the Shadows to them wherever they go. And worse yet, they quickly realize that their worlds are linked: if Nikita cannot save Nikolai, her own world may be lost as well…

Learn more about the whole trilogy, and the merch we’ve created, by visiting Kickstarter today!

Three books are included in our current Kickstarter, the three combined telling the full story of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence. The first book is Commit to the Kick; the second is Missed Fortunes, starring Carolyn, a young woman with predictive Talent that works through Tarot readings, and who is biromantic and asexual! She’s not entirely sure what Serina has in mind, or if she’ll be comfortable accepting it, but she’s definitely open to the possibility. And meanwhile, her Talent is changing in unexpected ways…

Blurb:

To solve the problem of now…
Remember what lies behind…
Pass through your hopes and fears…
…to the final outcome.

Carolyn knows the Emergence brought her a new community, but it also revealed the existence of people with magical Talent to the scrutiny of the world. Her high school life ended on a tumultuous note, but now that she’s a junior at Pine Hills University, her life has become stable. She has her twin Kit. She has her sorority sisters. She has her Talent and her Tarot cards.

But when the Tower appears in a reading, the world shatters and changes. Kit has left his predictive Talent behind, and Carolyn’s own predictive Talent is changing decidedly unpredictably. She’s seeing visions of fire and destruction, of Shadows moving in the darkness and intruding into the light. And her sorority sister Drea and Drea’s brother Alaric have returned from winter break, warning of looming dangers and the risk of Clan going to war.

Carolyn shouldn’t get involved—doesn’t want to get involved—but with the world crumbling around her and her predictions hinting at worse to come, she can’t imagine not doing what she can. To make matters worse, the only way forward is to reconcile with her past, but Carolyn isn’t sure how to do that nor why it seems so important to the world that she does.

Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes have both been released previously in print through Duck Prints Press; the third book of the trilogy, Into the Split, is coming out for the first time using funds from this crowdfunding campaign.

Learn more about all three books, and buy one, two, or all three of them, by supporting our Kickstarter campaign today!

(we hit our base funding goal yesterday, but we’ve got lots of great stretch goals for bonus content, and funding above our base helps raise the amount Tris Lawrence earns for her efforts in writing this awesome series of modern-with-magic books!)

I had a really busy weekend (vending 4 days, Friday to Monday, in a city 3+ hrs drive away) so my reading was relatively sparse, especially on graphic novels/manga.

1. What are you currently reading?

• The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin: so far I'm a little iffier on this one than on the first, but I'm still enjoying it.
• 盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔: ugggh I hardly made any progress at all, sigh.

2. What have you recently finished reading?

• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin: a lovely book that had, for me, a couple wrong notes that dimmed it a little. Specifically: 1. did not hate Robert Moses enough and 2. no Jewish or East Asian city avatars. It feels a bit of a slap in the face for the importance of those groups in the fabric of the city. I've decided that, lacking canon to the contrary, Brooklyn is Jewish because I Said So. (I am a native New Yorker and have lived in Manhattan - 18 years total - and the Bronx - 5 years total - so that influences my views a lot.)
• Fragtime omnibus by Sato: modern GL with sort of super powers. I'd have liked it better if the characters hadn't been so... how they are.
• Kase-san and Yamada vol. 3 by Hiromi Takashima: more jealousy stuff. what a drag.
• That Times I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 6 by Fuse
• How Do We Relationship? vol. 1 by Tamifull: modern GL. I appreciate the bit at the beginning making clear that whatever bumps they hit, that's where they end up, cause it made Teh Dramz feel lower stakes.

3. What will you read next?

Novels: my reading club is starting Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell, and my Libby hold on Apothecary Diaries vol. 2 by Natsu Hyuuga came through, so. those.

Physical Graphic Novels: I don't expect to read any this week.

Libby Graphic Novels: My Libby isn't loading right now, somethings wrong with it, but I know my loan of Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 1 by Tsumuji Yoshimura is due within the next couple days, so definitely that. I can't remember what else off hand. I've got around 10 loans rn tho... wait, there it goes, finally! Okay, that's the only one due imminently. I got a copy of Cherry Magic vol. 15 through yesterday so I expect to be on that basically immediately, too. The only reason I didn't read it yesterday was I ran out of time.