Cover Reveal: Tesla’s Stepdaughters

Here is the new cover for Tesla’s Stepdaughters.  It should be gracing the ebooks within a few weeks and the paperbacks shortly thereafter.

I actually purchased the art for this cover some time ago, originally for use on the cover of a sequel.  I have a couple of chapters of it written and may well get back to it in the future, but decided, as part of my generally sprucing up of my books, that I would go ahead and use it.  I can always find new art if and when I get the second book finished.

If you haven’t read Tesla’s Stepdaughers, it is a rock and roll, steampunk, detective story.

In an alternate 1975, where men are almost extinct due to germ warfare, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band.  It falls to Science Police Agent John Andrews, only recently arrived from the distant male enclaves, to protect them.   As the band continues their come-back tour across North America, Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.               

Motivations: Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike

One day I was standing in my living room looking at the row of yellow spines on my collection of Tom Swift Jr. books.

In the summer of 1969, I discovered Tom Swift Jr. among the possessions of my Uncle George, who had died the year before in Viet Nam.  I started reading them and was hooked.  I was hooked on Tom Swift, on science fiction, and on reading.

So that day, looking at Tom Swift, I thought, “that’s the type of book I should write next.”  I wanted to capture the same feeling of excitement and innocence that I found when I read Tom Swift Jr., but I wanted to update the stories and make them my own.  I sat down and created the setting and the characters, and made a list of inventions that stories could be built around.

Two things that I always had trouble with as a reader of Tom Swift.  First, time never passed.  Tom was always 18.  The second, his inventions never seemed to change the world, no matter how innovative and revolutionary they were.  I decided that Astrid’s would.  I still plan to write one Astrid book a year for the next few years.  After that, well, we’ll see.

The Young Sorceress and The Two Dragons Now at Sony & iBooks

Well, it’s taken a while, but The Young Sorceress and The Two Dragons have finally found their way into the Sony ebook Store.  You can find a link to all my books for the Sony Reader here.

In a related event, The Two Dragons has finally arrived at Apple’s iBook Store.  You can find a link to it here.  I am especially happy about this because Apple has been my single biggest retailer for most of my books, and especially for Senta and the Steel Dragon.

If you are a Sony Reader reader 🙂 and you were waiting to complete your series, now you can.  And thanks to all of you who purchased my books.

Smashwords Summer Winter Sale

It is that time of year again– time for the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale.  All through the month of July, there are great deals on ebooks at Smashwords.  Some of my books are there on sale and some are free, so if your collection isn’t complete, now is the time to stop by.  Here’s what is on special this month.

Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike (Reg. $.99) Free

Princess of Amathar (Reg. $2.99) Free

Voyage of the Minotaur (Reg. $2.99) Free

The Dark and Forbidding Land (Reg. $2.99) $1.50

The Drache Girl (Reg. $2.99) $2.24

And as always His Robot Girlfriend, Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess, Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress, and Brechalon are free.

Find links to all these books here.

The Young Sorceress and The Two Dragons Now at Kobo

Senta and the Steel Dragon book 4: The Young Sorceress and Senta and the Steel Dragon book 5: The Two Dragons are now both available at Kobo books for $2.99 each.

Follow this link for The Young Sorceress: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Young-Sorceress/book-xxtvjfcm-UWX_NskPJtNJg/page1.html?s=vVGPorR3jkOO_TC8o6gR8g&r=5

Follow this link for The Two Dragons: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Two-Dragons/book-S3R6DJ5ycESsibnXK5cXiQ/page1.html?s=vVGPorR3jkOO_TC8o6gR8g&r=4

Thanks.

The Young Sorceress Now Available

Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 4: The Young Sorceress is now available for $2.99 at Amazon for the Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007QYA2P6

and at Smashwords for every other device.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/147884

You should see it appearing at Barnes & Noble, Kobo Books, iBooks, Diesel eBooks, Sony Bookstore, and other fine ebook sellers within the next two weeks.

Movie Books: A Princess of Mars (John Carter)

There are about a thousand different paper editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter series and there are almost as many ebook editions.  Probably the best was put together with loving care by ebook lover HarryT at Mobile Read Forums.  He has painstaikingly crafted a single volume with all eleven Barsoom novels together.  You don’t have to be a Mobile Read member to get it, but Mobile Read is definitely worth your time.  Here is a link to the ebook:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=34895&d=1251219101

Read an Ebook Week/Month is Coming

There you go.  Read an Ebook month is March and Read an Ebook Week is March 4-10.  I’ll let you know when it gets here and I’ll be offereing some coupons to celebrate.  Watch this space.

Get Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike on your Nook!

You can now pick up Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike for your Nook by following the link below.  Just as at Amazon, Kobo, and iBooks, it is just 99 cents.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1107759360?ean=2940032863465&itm=1&usri=astrid+maxxim

Kindle Fire

A few days ago, Amazon announced its new Kindle Fire tablet.  It looks pretty amazing, especially for the price of $199.  I suppos the real test of how great a buy it is will be how easy it is to add content that doesn’t come from Amazon.  It only has 8g of storage vs. unlimited cloud storage for your Amazon purchases.

It’s all up-side for me though.  The more people who have Amazon ereaders, the more potential customers that are out there.  If you get yourself a new Kindle Fire, check out one of my books from the Kindle Store.  I think the cover of Blood Trade will look particularly good on this device with its black border.