PRESS KIT
Carli Rockell and the Fire Seed
K.S.R. Kingworth
Otherworld Entertainment
Publication Date: May 14, 2026
ISBN 9780980130324
Middle Grade Epic Fantasy — Ages 8 to 100
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THE BOOK
Gravity is failing. Hair is rising. Dogs are floating. A girl born in a tree — hidden for her mismatched eyes — is swept to a sanctuary where primørdial arts are taught. Her eyes aren’t a flaw. They’re the key to seeing what’s real before the cosmic Tree of Life falls. Something with metal feet is hunting her.
Carli Rockell and the Fire Seed is Book One of the Primørdiya trilogy.
For readers who grew up wanting to live inside a Miyazaki film. For every child who was told that the thing that made them strange was the thing that made them wrong. Carli Rockell was born necessary. Right now, so were you.
THE AUTHOR
K.S.R. Kingworth (Kare Parker-Pressman spent three years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, building a world by hand with its own language, scripting its orchestral soundtrack to match the scenes she saw in her mind’s eye. The first year she wrote in her kitchen at a horse ranch, the other two from her perch overlooking the city that some neighbor’s call, The Nosebleed. (Others, The Chicken Coop. Kingworth calls it a novel waiting to be written.) She is a multilingual author, philologist, and singer songwriter who taught herself to read Greek at fourteen for the pleasure of it. Carli Rockell and the Fire Seed is her second middle grade fantasy.
CREDENTIALS
K.S.R. Kingworth’s previous middle grade fantasy, Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador’s Gate, received a starred review from School Library Journal and a review from VOYA and the C.S. Lewis Society of California, narrated by Simon Vance, and sold out its first printing. It was compared to the works of Tolkien, Rowling, and C.S. Lewis. During Goodreads early days, the author’s profile appeared among the most visited alongside Otis Chandler, Neil Gaiman, and Stephenie Meyer. Otis Chandler III personally invited her to launch Oprah’s Book Club on the platform.
THE WORLD
Primørdiya was built from the ground up as a multimedia world. The trilogy features a language fully constructed by Kingworth — Primørdian — with its own grammar, root families, and verb conjugation, woven naturally into the story. Her original 22-track orchestral soundtrack, composed in the spirit of Joe Hisaishi and Studio Ghibli, accompanies the book and is available on all major streaming platforms. The book concludes with an illustrated in-world recipe collection from the Gustallini family — part cookbook, part love letter to the Flying Kitchen at the heart of the story. Primørdiya was conceived for the page and for the screen.
A NOTE ON THE HUMMINGBIRDS IN THE VIDEO BELOW
Kingworth describes, “A year ago, standing at my doorway overlooking San Miguel de Allende, I spoke into the air to my brother who had passed away. I said, if you are watching over me and you are okay, come sit on my finger as a hummingbird. Two weeks later a hummingbird flew into my apartment and sat on my finger. Two months after that, another one did the same. I had the presence of mind to film both tender visits. I later journaled song lyrics and put them to song, and uploaded my voice singing it on Suno (under my grandma nickname, Mimi.) I share this not as a curiosity but as context. This is the air the book was written in.”
THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
The following three conversations are available in full for press use and reprint with credit to Otherworld Entertainment.
Scout and Keeper — Interview One
[Full interviews available below or on request]
A conversation on the moment before the book. The whispered word on a street whose name translates to Souls. The completed puzzle hovering above a cat sitter’s head in San Miguel de Allende. The fourteen years of silence after a starred review. And a girl born necessary.
Scout and Keeper — Interview Two
[Full interviews available below or on request]
A conversation on neurodivergence, language, threshold, and the child who needed to draw every blade of grass before she could build the fort. On Lyme disease and waiting. On a life-changing event that made leaving the United States a life-saving necessity. On the egrets that fly toward the street the moment the sun clears the mountains and fly back the moment it begins to set.
PRESS ASSETS
All images on this page are available in high resolution for press use.
Book cover — high resolution download
Author photo — high resolution download
Interior illustrations — available on request
Primørdiya world map — available on request
Orchestral Soundtrack — Carli Rockell and the Fire Seed
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Soundtrack Link: Carli Rockell and the Fire Seed
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CONTACT
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