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I'm pleased to announce that Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller was a Finalist in the Action/Adventure category for the 2025 Independent Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year Awards as well as a Finalist in the 2026 Indies Today Book Award Contest.

Offer! Between April 2 and 6, my 4 Kindle stand-alone short stories are free, marked down from $0.99 each. They are: a) Robert & Therese Guillard: Choices, b) A Time for Eating Wild Onions, c) Josh Rosen and Bubbe (I am especially fond of the ending of this one), & d) Incurable. Each tie into characters in the Lynn Dayton thriller series. Tell your friends. Links at my Amazon page.

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From Venezuela to the eastern Mediterranean to West Texas, the Lynn Dayton oil and gas thrillers are eerily prescient, informative about the global conflicts we face right now. AKA perhaps you've paid a higher gasoline price recently? Readers, see for yourself. Paper, e-book, and audio editions available. LAStarksBooks DOT com or Amazon DOT com /dp/B075TYB5B7

My semi-annual newsletter (Spring 2026), which includes recommendations for several of the books I've read in the last six months, is now live on my website: lastarksbooks DOT com. In the section on energy, I briefly review the key oil chokepoint influencing prices: the Strait of Hormuz. And for Oklahoma and mid-continent readers, yes, as in STRIKE PRICE, deadly tornadoes have popped in the last few days.

Super-excited to say that the audiobook edition of Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller is now available on Amazon! I had so much fun designing it with Virtual Voices--take a listen to hear the various dialects as chapter POVs vary! From British to Australian to, of course, American.

For readers on the go...

Three of my short stories are briefly free worldwide on Kindle. Pls see the Amazon Author page for L. A. Starks. They are a) Robert and Therese Guillard: Choices, b) Josh Rosen & Bubbe, and c) A Time for Eating Wild Onions.

Happy new year!

Called it! Problems from excess oilfield water in West Texas oilfields, per a WSJ story in the last few days? I called it over a year ago in prescient book Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller, highlighting intrigue around a valuable oilfield water recycle technology. Alas, still fictional but IRL quite important! Read it and be entertained by the characters and plot. And hope for a real-life breakthrough.

For those looking for the discounted Kindle edition (90% off through Dec 8 for just $0.99 US-equivalent), to locate it, the Amazon ASIN is B07JLDGTVL.

For bargain hunters: The Kindle edition of the award-winning thriller, The Second Law, Lynn Dayton Thriller #3, is briefly on sale at over 90% off ($0.99 in the US)!

Happy to announce the Winner's Curse is a finalist in the Action category for the 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award Winners!

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https://lastarksbooks.com/

Garland, TX Central Library
625 Austin St.

First-ever Curiosity Fest at Garland Library
All about writing and reading!

Please stop by if you're in the area --I'll be there 1-3 PM with the Lynn Dayton thrillers

My fall 2025 newsletter has just been published and is available by (free) subscription or online at my website. Since my last newsletter I've read 26 books and have many recommendations. https://lastarksbooks.com/2025/09/10/...

For fun entertainment: I've added updated short, punchy book trailer videos for all FOUR Lynn Dayton thrillers. You can see them at my GR profile.

https://www.goodreads.com/videos/list...

New video trailer (1 min) for Winner's Curse just dropped! You can see it here. https://youtu.be/K7oBmA7hpxs?si=4CzKJ...

90% discount on Kindle edition of Winner's Curse, A Lynn Dayton Thriller, from $9.98 US to $0.99 US for a few days only. Kindle Countdown deal.

https://www.amazon.com/Winners-Curse-...

0.99 Kindle Countdown deal today in US for Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton thriller! https://itswritenow.com/