Tesla’s Stepdaughters for Kindle

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Tesla's StepdaughtersIn a world where men are almost extinct, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band. Science Police Agent John 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.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters is available at Amazon for the Kindle and all Kindle apps for just 99 cents.  Follow the link to Amazon.

Princess of Amathar at the Sony Reader Store

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Princess of AmatharMysteriously transported to the artificial hollow world of Ecos, Earth man Alexander Ashton finds himself in the middle of a millennium-long war between the reptilian Zoasians and the humanoid Amatharians.  Adopted by the Amatharians, Ashton must conform to a society based on honor and altruism, ruled by Knights whose power comes from the curious energy forms known as “souls” which inhabit their supernaturally powerful swords, and rife with its own peculiarities and prejudices.  When the Princess of Amathar, whom Ashton has longed for since first seeing her, is captured by the Zoasians, he must cross an alien world, battle monstrous creatures, and face unknown dangers to save her.  Princess of Amathar is a sword-swinging novel of high adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs.  It is the story a strange world filled with alien races, aerial battleships, swords and energy weapons, amazing adventures and horrible dangers, and the man who must face them all for the love of a woman he has never met.

Princess of Amathar is available at the Sony Ebook Store for $2.99.  Sony ebooks are epub format, suitable for Sony Readers and other digital book readers that use epub.

The Indie Book Movement

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Saffina Desforges is a writing team that I have been following for a while; a pair of now successful indie authors.  Follow the link to the Saffina Desforges website to read the story of how indie authors (or any authors) are treated by traditional publishers and agents.  You will quickly see why the indie author movement has been gaining steam.

And here is a link to the UK’s Register, describing how in indie books account for 12% of the ebook market.  It goes on to say that most are rubbish.  I would not dispute that there is a lot of crap in the indie book market.  On the other hand, traditional publishers have given us (at least) three books about Snookie.  Well done indeed!

Details and Layers

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The Sorceress and her LoversOne of the things I’m doing this summer is going back through the Senta and the Steel Dragon series and creating an encyclopedia of the world.  I’m going to include this as an appendix in future editions, and I’ll post it here too.

While doing that today, I discovered something in Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur that I had forgotten.  Senta (the nine year old sorceress’s apprentice) appears in two scenes with Lieutenant Baxter (young naval officer).  I had remembered one of them and used it in a flashback scene in Book 4: The Young Sorceress.  The other, I had completely forgotten about.

Why is it important?  In The Sorceress and her Lovers, Senta ( the 21 year old sorceress) is involved in a sexual relationship with Baxter (the thirty something former naval officer).  Plenty of women in their twenties are married or engaged to men in their thirties, but it adds a different (uncomfortable) element, when they knew each other when she was 8 and 9.  That’s something worth exploring.

Update: Patience is a Virtue

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PatienceOkay, so at the pace I’m writing now, it’s five days to finish a chapter.  I just finished chapter twelve.

The funny thing (maybe) is that after I finished chapter 11, I looked at my outline and found that I hadn’t included anything that was supposed to happen in chapter 11.  So that means they happen in chapter 12, along with what was already going to happen in chapter twelve.  This is actually a good thing for me.  I sometimes feel that I don’t have enough going on in the story.  So, this next part should be good.

I’ll post an update when I finish chapter 12– hopefully in 5 days or less.

You can also see that I’ve tweaked the cover a bit, with a new font and by increasing the size of my Patience model.

150 Followers

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I let an anniversary slip by me recently.  Back in April, was my one year anniversary on WordPress.  My original blog (on Blogger) was almost exactly 4 years old when I switched here.

I was pretty happy back on blogger when I had 10 and then 20 followers.  Today I passed the 150 followers mark on City of Amathar here at WordPress.  Thanks to all of you who were interested enough to press the “follow” button.

Senta and the God of the Sky?

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The Sorceress and her Lovers

I’ve been thinking about the next Senta book.  All right, I’ve even got a few chapters written, though I’m trying to get Patience done before I get sidetracked.  But I’ve been thinking about the series name.

As you know, if you’re reading this, Senta and the Steel Dragon is a five book series (plus a novella book 0).  It tells the story of Senta Bly, a girl who grows up to be a powerful sorceress and the steel dragon who grows up to be a powerful… you know, dragon.

I’ve plotted out a new series of five books.  I’m still playing with the individual titles, but the first will be The Sorceress and her Lovers.  This new series tells about the next phase of both Senta’s and the steel dragon’s lives.  Therefore I came up with the series title Senta and the God of the Sky.  I’ve been having second thoughts about the title though, not because it’s not a good or appropriate title, but because readers might be more likely to read the book if I just made it Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 6.

So what do you think?

Brechalon at Kobo Books

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Brechalon: Nils Chapman & Karl DrurySenta and the Steel Dragon Book 0: Brechalon is the novella-length preview to The Voyage of the Minotaur, The Dark and Forbidding Land, The Drache Girl, and the other books which make up the Senta and the Steel Dragon series. Set two years before the events in The Voyage of the Minotaur, Brechalon tells the story of the Kingdom of Greater Brechalon in a world that is not quite like our own Victorian Age. The Dechantagne siblings; Iolanthe, Augie, and Terrence plan an expedition to a distant land, hoping the colony they build will restore their family to the position of wealth and power it once had. Meanwhile the powerful sorceress Zurfina rots in an anti-magic prison, guilty of not serving the interests of the kingdom, and the orphan girl Senta Bly lives her life without the knowledge that she will one day grow up to be the sorceress’s apprentice. Senta and the Steel Dragon is a tale of adventure in a world of rifles and steam power, where magic and dragons have not been forgotten.

Brechalon is free wherever fine ebooks can be found, including Kobo Books.  Follow the link here.

Update: Patience is a Virtue

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Patience is a VirtueI finished chapter ten of His Robot Wife: Patience is a Virtue today.  It’s plotted out at 17 chapters, so I’m well past the halfway mark of the draft.  I mentioned the other day that if I continue working at the present pace, I’d have it done near the end of August.  I certainly don’t expect to take that long.  I really want to kick it into gear.

I’m getting up each morning and getting some writing done.  Then during the day, I’m trying to get something else done each day– like work on cleaning my garage  or exercising.  Then at night, I do a bit more writing.  It seems to be working pretty good so far.  I’ll update again when I get to the end of chapter eleven and we can all see how long it took.

Of course, after I finish the draft, there is the inevitable editing, revision, and rewrite.  Still, it’s all good.

More Scammers Promising Free Ebooks

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There is another fake site out there promising free ebooks and I am sad to say that at least one of my books appears on it.  It is pdfebookds.com.  Don’t go there.  It will try to take take control of your computer through dropbox or evernote and probably other programs in an attempt to steel your identity.

It looks like a legitimate site, but there are some clues that it wasn’t put together with too much care.  Read this little blurb about getting free ebooks.

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I’ve said it before and I say it again– get virus/internet protection on your computer.  And it is worth remembering whenever something is too good to be true, it usually is.