The Art of Becoming a God

Raised on a small farm by her loving parents in the middle of nowhere, Lynnex has no experience with the wider world. When her whole life dissolves into hay before her eyes—literally—she’s left homeless, destitute, and pissed off. Knowing the Gods Above wouldn’t trifle with the likes of Lynnex, she reasons that it must be the lesser gods below who have ruined her life, as they are the only beings with both the power and the pettiness to do something like that to a nobody like her. Quite logically, Lynnex resolves to kill them. Conveniently, the gods are hosting a worldwide competition, offering the winner the chance to join their ranks! 

It is here that Lynnex meets Raiden, a man possessing in equal weight both cosmic good luck and bad luck, and his two tagalongs: Peter, a religious outcast who worries the competition might be blasphemous; and Marylin, a gardening enthusiast dedicated to helping all creatures by, ahem, ending their suffering.

Featuring an ensemble cast of charming idiots on an important quest reminiscent of Guardians of the Galaxy, with notes of T. Kingfisher’s irreverent humor balanced with shocking brutality, James’s The Art of Becoming a God will leave you wiping away tears of laughter, and maybe a few regular tears, too.