BOOKS | INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOPS

Like you needed one, right?! Get thee to an indie bookseller today — because I have a new book coming out, and they can help you get it the coolest way possible ☀️

You’ve always suspected the Universe is stranger, wilder, and more on your side than anyone’s told you.

Swimming Pool Inside the Sun is a collection of poems and stories that work like sublime spells, validating those suspicions.

It’s brand new, available for pre-order and that means right now is the best time to order it through your favorite local bookshop.

Yes, you can also pre-order it online (Barnes, Amazon, Kobo, Fable, Waterstones, Foyles, etc.) and that makes me super happy! But if you order it through an indie brick and mortar bookseller, you’ll be doing something cool on multiple levels.

The whole book-loving, book-addicted, beautifully bookish ecosystem gets a bit of uplift when you show up.

The shop. The author (me). And you and/or the friend or loved one you want to give the book to as a gift. It’s a triple win you don’t need my eloquence to explain.

Which is good, because I’m far from eloquent this morning. I’m just excited.

Find it worldwide either online or through the order desk at your local bookstore. Ask them to order Swimming Pool Inside the Sun by Laurie Perez, ISBN 9798256022051.

It’s available for special order now, with official release on June 16, 2026. That’s five days before Solstice ☀️ Help me celebrate this book coming to light after eight years of writing and sharing much of it here on Medium.

Today I am carbon, compressed dark in kimberlite matrix. Tomorrow I am the one who digs through fire — full-on believing light persists.

I am humanity in a nutshell. I am the Star delivering plasma streams, proton storms and flux loops. I am sunlight ablaze, decocting tried-and-tested love into bone and breath.

There’s not one single reason we are alive, cells aligned to touch inside a surging stream of consciousness. Not one reason, but a million times a million causes course us right together.

By sunrise, in a stream of photons, guidance evolves and expands exponentially. Today arrives my chariot and with it comes another. Faster horses. Lightning speed. I am voltaic. I am prolific (more-so when I’m silent, listening).

Is a comet speeding toward the Sun fatally doomed and tragic? Or could it be the sungrazer is finally arriving — not bounced off by gravity to swing back out into the void, but merging with the flame and fusion it’s been hustling toward for eons… What will its icy matter now become?

Sungrazer, excerpt from a chapter in the new book, Swimming Pool Inside the Sun by Laurie Perez, ISBN 9798256022051