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Aurora in Four Voices Kickstarter
I’m excited to announce that my Kickstarter project is now live! I’m hoping to raise funds to record my anthology Aurora in Four Voices as an audiobook. I’ve been fortunate to find a fantastic narrator, Sylvia Roldán Dohi. You can hear a sample of her narration in the Kickstarter video, and be sure to check out her impressive bio further down on the Kickstarter page. Sylvia has already begun recording, but there are significant expenses to editing and producing the audiobook, and I’m hoping to raise enough funds through Kickstarter to finish it.Please consider pledging to back the project. You can pledge as little as $1, and every little bit helps. If you can pledge a little more, I have some fun rewards for you. As with all projects on Kickstarter, your pledged amount will only be billed if my project meets its goal. If the project doesn’t meet the goal, then all pledges are canceled, and I receive nothing.
If you can’t pledge now, you can click the “Remind Me” star on the project page, and Kickstarter will send you a reminder 48 hours before the end of the project.
Whether or not you pledge, please help me spread the word by sharing or retweeting. Thanks!
Here’s a link to the project. Be sure to watch the Kickstarter video to hear the excellent audiobook sample!
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The (new) Quantum Rose, Chapter Two
I've posted Chapter Two of The (new) Quantum Rose on my Patreon page:
www.patreon.com/posts/43137948
Art Credit: Elena Dudina, www.deviantart.com/elenadudina/art/Ro...
The original book won the Nebula Award for Best novel.
Again, I'd like to invite comments, suggestions, and general editorial input on the writing.
Here are the first few paragraphs of the chapter ...
II
The Offer
(Incoming Wave)
Jul, the sun, had sunk behind the trees by the time Kamoj and Lyode walked around the last bend of the road, into view of Argali House. Seeing her home, Kamoj’s spirits lifted.
Legend claimed the house had once been luminescent pearl, all one surface with no seams. According to the temple scholar, who could read bits of the ancient codices, the ancients had grown Argali House in a huge vat of liquid, on a framework of machines called nanobots, which supposedly were so tiny you couldn’t see them even with a magnifying glass. After these little machines completed the house, supposedly they simply swam away and fell apart.
Kamoj smiled. Absurdities filled the old scrolls. During one of her visits to Ironbridge about ten years ago, Jax had shown her one in his library. It stated Balumil, the world, went around Jul in an “elliptical orbit” and rotated around a tilted axis. This tilt, and their living here in the north, purportedly explained why the nights lasted such a short time in summer and went on for so long in winter, fifty-five hours of darkness at the solstice, leaving only five hours of sunlight ...
www.patreon.com/posts/43137948
Art Credit: Elena Dudina, www.deviantart.com/elenadudina/art/Ro...
The original book won the Nebula Award for Best novel.
Again, I'd like to invite comments, suggestions, and general editorial input on the writing.
Here are the first few paragraphs of the chapter ...
II
The Offer
(Incoming Wave)
Jul, the sun, had sunk behind the trees by the time Kamoj and Lyode walked around the last bend of the road, into view of Argali House. Seeing her home, Kamoj’s spirits lifted.
Legend claimed the house had once been luminescent pearl, all one surface with no seams. According to the temple scholar, who could read bits of the ancient codices, the ancients had grown Argali House in a huge vat of liquid, on a framework of machines called nanobots, which supposedly were so tiny you couldn’t see them even with a magnifying glass. After these little machines completed the house, supposedly they simply swam away and fell apart.
Kamoj smiled. Absurdities filled the old scrolls. During one of her visits to Ironbridge about ten years ago, Jax had shown her one in his library. It stated Balumil, the world, went around Jul in an “elliptical orbit” and rotated around a tilted axis. This tilt, and their living here in the north, purportedly explained why the nights lasted such a short time in summer and went on for so long in winter, fifty-five hours of darkness at the solstice, leaving only five hours of sunlight ...
First three Chapters of The Jigsaw Assassin available!
I've posted the first three chapters of the galleys for my next book, The Jigsaw Assassin, on my Patreon page. The book goes on sale July 5, 2022.
www.patreon.com/posts/64965631
I made this Patreon entry open to the public so anyone can read it. The see the other chapters I was working on, or the future chapters, please subscribe to my Patreon page. Any monthly amount works from $1 on up to whatever you wish.
www.patreon.com/posts/64965631
I made this Patreon entry open to the public so anyone can read it. The see the other chapters I was working on, or the future chapters, please subscribe to my Patreon page. Any monthly amount works from $1 on up to whatever you wish.
The Memories of Lyshriol
I've made the following post on my Patreon account free for everyone as part of a promotion. If you like what you see of my account, please consider subscribing. Thank you!
patreon.com/posts/132738258
The post is an in depth answer to a reader question about my Ruby Dynasty series. They asked how the Memories operate on the planet Lyshriol, home to the Valdoria branch of the Ruby Dynasty. The Memories are the enigmatic red-robed historians who store the memories of the Lyshrioli people. They work with the Bards to record their histories into ballads.
patreon.com/posts/132738258
The post is an in depth answer to a reader question about my Ruby Dynasty series. They asked how the Memories operate on the planet Lyshriol, home to the Valdoria branch of the Ruby Dynasty. The Memories are the enigmatic red-robed historians who store the memories of the Lyshrioli people. They work with the Bards to record their histories into ballads.
