I've got the first draft done for both In the Service of the Prince and another collection of essays, Worlds of Wonder. I'll probably draft the last of the In the Service trilogy before I get those two revised and published, though.
Parallel Worlds, and Skew
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Monday, February 12, 2024
Drafts Written
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
In the Service of the Queen - Free Ebook
In the Service of the Queen, the first novel in a trilogy, is out now, free to download, read or share, here. (You'll need to create an account to do more than look at the cover art, though.) (Don't let the "first in a trilogy" part deter you either; it does not end in a cliffhanger.)
A world of seven magical Talents, and a young man in a family of forester-beekeepers discovers he has one of them. Not only that, he is a Savant, who can pick up the thoughts of others if he is looking at their faces.
There is tension within the realm that he knows little of. What will he do with his Talent? Who can he help? Who will he serve?
Someone he never would have dreamed of.
In the Service of the Queen
Friday, November 17, 2023
Thresholds - Free Ebook
A world of heat and heavy storms. A depopulated North America, with no working government, and almost no employment. Too much technology long lost and unattainable. How can Dante and the few people he's acquainted with have a future? Where can they go? What can they do?
And can they do so in a hot, hot-tempered world, in the wake of the mysterious apparitions that have begun to appear?
A surprisingly heartwarming tale of surviving and surmounting difficulties in a frightening world.
Chapter Titles
1 "We Stand upon the Threshold
2 Of World Catastrophe"
3 But What Has Been So Foretold
4 Is Less than What Will Be
5 So Much Exists Beyond Our Ken
6 So Much We Cannot See
7 And Yet It Bides—The Way Opens—
8 And Comes, Despite Our Plea
9 Unseen, Yes, and Unforeseen
10 And Yet Their Presence Felt
11 While Lurking in a Space Between
12 Where They Have Always Dwelt
13 They Come upon Us Now, in Fact,
14 They Make Our World Their Own
15 And We Find Out What Does Attract
16 Them To Our Flesh And Bone
17 Upon the Last Day
18 When the Opening Yawns
19 Then Can We Say
20 What Lies Beyond
This free ebook is available here - but I have to warn you, as of sometime this month at least, to read or download books from Gutenberg's self-publishing site apparently requires logging into an account there. You can still see the excerpt from the novel without logging in.
I regret any inconvenience to you readers, since I want it as easy as possible for you to read my works; but if this protects the books on Gutenberg from piracy and AI training without permission, I cannot condemn it.