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Equipoise Giveaway!
Taa-daah!!
I am very pleased to announce that Equipoise is now available in print and Kindle formats! In this conclusion to the Praesidium trilogy, Ennek and Miner continue their journeys and confront problems old and new.
As always, 100% of my royalties go to Doctors Without Borders. If you do read the new book, I’d really appreciate honest reviews on Amazon and Goodreads
Equipoise is almost here!
Equipoise will debut next week in print and Kindle formats! To celebrate, the second novel in the trilogy, Flux, will be available for *FREE* on Kindle for 5 days only–February 1 through 5.
Equipoise Back Blurb
Here’s another tease! It’s the back cover blurb for Equipoise:
Ennek, the son of the Chief, and Miner, a former slave, have escaped the totalitarian city-state of Praesidium and remain fugitives. Having defeated two mighty wizards, they begin to realize that complete freedom can be as dangerous as absolute power. In this final book in the trilogy that began with Stasis and continued with Flux, Ennek and Miner face battles, corruption, and further journeys through lands both new and familiar. As they grow more secure in their relationship with one other, they’re also learning that the greatest challenges sometimes come from very close to the heart and that everything of value has a price. With the help of a few allies, they seek equipoise—a balance for themselves and for their world.
Equipoise cover
Here’s a little tease; this is the front cover for the forthcoming conclusion to the Praesidium trilogy:
Lots of things going on
I have what I hope are several exciting new announcements.
First off, the sequel to Stasis and Flux should be available in Kindle and print formats within a few weeks. It’s called Equipoise and it brings the trilogy to its conclusion. I am feeling a little sad about it, because I’m going to miss Ennek and Miner, but I have other work to distract me now.
Second, Amazon Prime members can now borrow Flux for free. It’s part of Amazon’s new Kindle Lending Library. One of the nifty things about the program is I still get a small royalty for each person who borrows, which means more money for my continued donations to Doctors Without Borders. And it doesn’t cost the borrower a penny if he or she is already an Amazon Prime member.
Third, I recently made a nice donation to Doctors Without Borders, all due to roylaties from the first two novels.
Fourth, if you’re a Kindle reader in Europe you may be pleased to learn that both Stasis and Flux are available from Amazon’s European sites.
And finally, I learned today that one of my short stories has been accepted for an anthology by Dreamspinner Press. The anthology has a superhero theme and is titled Men of Steel. It’s due out in ebook and print formats in April; I’ll post more details when I have them.
I have several more projects currently in progress, including another novel and a novella. More information on those projects as they develop!
Sale!
Just in time for holiday giving–Stasis on Kindle is only 99 cents. And similarly discounted on European Amazon sites. I’m still donating 100% of royalties to Doctors Without Borders.
Climbing Out of the Cave
Two days ago I finished the first draft of my NaNo novel, which will be the third book in the Stasis trilogy. My word count is rougly 70,000. Not bad for three weeks. I read it over yesterday and didn’t hate it, which is good; now it’s in my wonderful editor’s hands and we’ll see what she thinks of it.
Last weekend my family paid a visit to Moaning Cavern, an enormous cave in the Sierra Nevada foothills. To explore the cave you walk down 234 steps. The topmost part of the stairway was blasted into the rock by miners who decided they could make more money off tourists than gold. But most of the steps are part of a narrow spiral stairway that was built in 1922 from the wreck of a WWI battleship. They don’t tell you that bit until you’re at the bottom, however; the only way out then is to climb back up those 234 steps.
It occurs to me that writing a novel is a lot like ascending that stairway. You begin energetically enough, but somewhere near the middle you’re getting more and more exhausted and it’s beginning to seem like you’ll never reach the top. To make things worse, people are already bounding ahead of you (in this case, those people were my daughters, who have lots more energy than I do). But you just continue to rise, step after step after step, because that’s the only way. And suddenly you realize that you’re almost there, and you haul yourself up those last bunch of feet. And then you’re at the top. Worn out, needing a break maybe, but you made it. And that’s a really exhilarating feeling.
I am pleased to be out in the sunlight once again. Now I can work on the edits for my m/m romance novel. I haven’t thought yet of a good metaphor for the revision process.
Welcome!
I am the author of the novel Stasis and the sequel, Flux. I am currently working on the third novel in this trilogy. These books are dark fantasy, set in an alternate universe not so very different from our own. Here’s the summary of the first novel:
These novels were written during consecutive NaNoWriMo years, so I plan on completing the first draft of the third novel by the end of November 2011. I donate 100% of my royalties from these books to Doctors Without Borders.
I am also working on an unrelated novel, a gay romance involving a supernatural element. The first draft is complete. More news on that project as it develops.