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My Five Ravens Publishing launches with Permanent Scars, a novel about Bipolar 1, hospitalization, family, silence, and the question of what life can still become.
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Featured Work
Our debut novel
Permanent Scars follows Oto, a teenager living with Bipolar 1 disorder, through hospitalization, diagnosis, family trauma, and the difficult return to ordinary life. The book holds its center on what happens when a young person is asked to carry both crisis and calm—and what it means to keep showing up anyway.
A story from inside the diagnosis
The author writes from lived experience: 23 years of treatment, six psychiatric admissions, and a story drawn closely from real life. Nothing here is offered as easy explanation; the novel lives in the texture of days as they are actually lived.
Family, silence, and strain
The novel traces family tension, the weight of what goes unspoken, and the ordinary work of continuing after hospital corridors and closed doors. The tone stays steady—clear-eyed, specific, and unwilling to turn pain into spectacle.
What life can still become
The story follows life after diagnosis: returning to school, rebuilding friendships, and finding a way forward without pretending the past never happened.
Why My Five Ravens exists
My Five Ravens publishes human-written fiction with emotional weight: careful sentences, lived experience, imagination, and something worth saying out loud. We are interested in books that respect the reader’s intelligence—and leave room for what is still possible.