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Hespira now in paperback
Hespira: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn, the third novel in the Hapthorn trilogy, is now available as a POD paperback.
Here's the blurb:
Hapthorn decides to leave Old Earth, seeking to solve the mystery of Hespira, an ungainly off-world woman who has lost her memory. The investigation takes him down The Spray to the rank-obsessed world of Ikkibal and the rustic Shannery, where he unravels Hespira's role in a deadly feud between aristocrats. But behind the scenes an unseen antagonist is plotting the discriminator's destruction.
At the moment, the paperback is only available in Amazon's CreateSpace estore, but in a week or so it will work its way through into the whole Amazon system. And at some point, probably weeks from now, you could actually walk into a bricks-and-mortar bookstore and order a copy.
I'd prefer it, though, if you bought it from CreateSpace, since they pay a far better royalty than I would receive after everybody else has taken a cut.
I want to thank my excellent book designer, Bradley W. Schenck, Hero of the Archonate, for producing such a fine piece of work.
Here's the blurb:
Hapthorn decides to leave Old Earth, seeking to solve the mystery of Hespira, an ungainly off-world woman who has lost her memory. The investigation takes him down The Spray to the rank-obsessed world of Ikkibal and the rustic Shannery, where he unravels Hespira's role in a deadly feud between aristocrats. But behind the scenes an unseen antagonist is plotting the discriminator's destruction.
At the moment, the paperback is only available in Amazon's CreateSpace estore, but in a week or so it will work its way through into the whole Amazon system. And at some point, probably weeks from now, you could actually walk into a bricks-and-mortar bookstore and order a copy.
I'd prefer it, though, if you bought it from CreateSpace, since they pay a far better royalty than I would receive after everybody else has taken a cut.
I want to thank my excellent book designer, Bradley W. Schenck, Hero of the Archonate, for producing such a fine piece of work.
Couple of good reviews
Always nice to start the day with people saying kind things.
In Tangent Online, Colleen Chen reviews "Prisoner of Pandarius," the latest Raffalon novelette in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She says, "My impressions are of an intricate plot, smart writing, and tongue-in-cheek humor throughout which tempers the tense scenes." It does get a little tense, especially when the blue imp . . . well, I won't spoil it.
And then the Off The Shelf blogger takes a look at HESPIRA, the third of the Henghis Hapthorn novels, and says, ". . . the book is a fine romp through a mostly stand-alone mystery . . . an enjoyable read, and would be a decent cap on the story if it ended here, though it certainly leaves enough room not to rule out a sequel."
I don't rule out a sequel, either, but it would probably depend on some publisher offering to pay me to write one. And they seem to be rather thin on the ground right now.
In Tangent Online, Colleen Chen reviews "Prisoner of Pandarius," the latest Raffalon novelette in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She says, "My impressions are of an intricate plot, smart writing, and tongue-in-cheek humor throughout which tempers the tense scenes." It does get a little tense, especially when the blue imp . . . well, I won't spoil it.
And then the Off The Shelf blogger takes a look at HESPIRA, the third of the Henghis Hapthorn novels, and says, ". . . the book is a fine romp through a mostly stand-alone mystery . . . an enjoyable read, and would be a decent cap on the story if it ended here, though it certainly leaves enough room not to rule out a sequel."
I don't rule out a sequel, either, but it would probably depend on some publisher offering to pay me to write one. And they seem to be rather thin on the ground right now.
