Ask the Author: Lyn Gala
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Lyn Gala
That's a complex answer since the publication of Ends, Means, Laws and an Angry Ship finally revealed that Tap-Dancing is taking place in the Claimings universe. So technically, I have a lot of books in the universe and the ship from it appears in Ends, Means, Laws. However, I do plan on circling back around and writing more with those two leads once I have developed some of the ideas in the Ends, Means universe.
Lyn Gala
I am excited about Claimings being in audible. Unfortunately, that is an exceptionally expensive endeavor, so the only books I can afford to put into that format are the ones that have large sales numbers. Unfortunately, the only other book that qualifies is Earth Fathers. I'm sorry.
Lyn Gala
It should have been out early August, but my editor went to the hospital. I don't want to work with someone new and unknown, so I am waiting for her to recover and then we will go into high gear on Earth Husbands and on a new short story collection: Kensho and Other Tales and Tails from the Claimings Universe.
Lyn Gala
I do hope to write a sequel because there are too many unanswered questions, especially when you consider that the ship is the same in that and in Tap Dancing the Minefields. So there is more story to tell. However, the sales were not strong enough to warrant an audio version. I'm sorry.
Lyn Gala
Preludes is now part of the first Claiming book and has been for a number of years. Those stories were originally published separately because I wrote them after Claimings became so popular.
Lyn Gala
I'm so glad you like the short story. I actually have 110,000 words of pony play, drama, crazy family, and blackmail. I've sent it off to ManLoveRomance to see if they will publish. If they don't, then I might break it up into three or four novels and do a series. Or I may leave it as a bonus for my ka-ranked Patreon supporters ($10 level). I should have a better idea of the book's trajectory in the next couple of months. I have my fingers crossed for MLR.
Lyn Gala
There is not right now. That got some mixed reactions, and it was the first original story I ever wrote, so I retired it. I might some day go back and try to iron out the wrinkles, but for now, it's unavailable.
Lyn Gala
I don't come over here often, so I just saw your question. If you email me at litgal1@gmail.com, I can get you one.
Lyn Gala
Loose Id is going out of business, so books are slowly "unpublishing" and I have not been able to find a new home, so I put Claimings, Prelude to Claimings, and some extra tidbits together and put it up as Smashwords just today. I think I have the formatting glitches solved, and it's now available at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Lyn Gala
Loose Id closing is putting everything on hold. The original plan is for book 6 to focus on Art and Zach from El Paso (we met them in book three) with appearances by the pair. Books 7 and 8 would return to Kavon and Darren and introduce new team members as the Talent Unit split into two units and then book 9 would start with a new couple. At this point, I don't know what the plan is. Book 6 has been done for months, but I can't put it out through Loose Id, so I"m on hold as I wait for Loose Id to wrap up. I'll then put the first five books and book 6 on Smashwords. IF AM6 sells well enough to make up for the costs of my time, editing fees, and cover art fees, then I will consider following the rest of the plan
Lyn Gala
Loose Id is shutting down. Some time between now and May, all the books will be unpublished. As soon as they allow me to purchase the cover art, I will work to re-release the books through Smashwords. In the meantime, if you want, you can Paypal me $3.50 and give me your email and preferred formatting (pdf, epub, or lit). I'll send you one of my copies.
Lyn Gala
I specifically requested that the books going to paper back when the three-year contract expired and was up for renewal. Unfortunately, the sales have not been strong enough to warrant a paperback. I did a little shopping around and tried to find a new publisher, but I wasn’t able to. So I renewed the three-year contract with the current publisher, but that means no paperback
Lyn Gala
Talent is an allegory for any trait which makes a person different. Race, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion--these are all categories where it's easy to lump people into "us" and "them." Talent is one more, but this time the societal habit of denying the minority any power us undermined because those with Talent have their own power. Society can't ignore them or discriminate against them nearly as easily.
Lyn Gala
One of the goals of book four is to show how tangled cases and even lives get when the magical and mundane overlap. As more and more magic comes into the world, law enforcement struggles to figure out how to handle Talent. Quite often the Talent team is left out, when they should be included or they are asked to step in when it turns out that magic is not central to the case. This world is in flux. The fact that law enforcement jumped to the assumption that the shaman was the bad guy shows how this world has not found it's balance, even if Talent started seriously showing up almost two hundred years earlier.
Lyn Gala
I'm working on it now. I have a number of scenes written, but getting that to work into a coherent plot is difficult, especially since I have a whole new alien species to sketch out. But I do hope to get it to the publisher in the next few months.
Lyn Gala
I do want to write one. "Dilly" had his moment of falling apart, so I think it's only fair for Vin to have his issues. And of course Miss Dolphinia would make a grand comeback.
Lyn Gala
I am working on scenes from Claimings 4, so I hope that will come out some time next year. As far as whatever book to read next, it really depends on your preferences. I write a very large range of novels, even some m/f, so I would suggest you check out the descriptions and reviews. I marked what I think are my strongest books with five star ratings, so you can also look at which of my own books I marked with five stars. That's my way of telling people where they might want to start.
Lyn Gala
This is a big universe with a lot of moving pieces, but hopefully you'll be glad to hear that book five (which is going to the publisher in about a week) focuses on a rather non-traditional invocation user.
Lyn Gala
I really don't. I wrote that in a certain frame of mind, and I doubt that I will go that dark again.
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