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The Curse of Steel is Released!

The Curse of Steel is Released!

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As of this evening, The Curse of Steel is available as an e-book for Amazon Kindle. Here’s a link to the book’s page on Amazon US, but it’s also available on all of the overseas Amazon sites.

The catalog description:

A woman who shares the blood of the gods. A cursed sword that has ruined kingdoms.

In a single fateful day, Krava the Swift learns of her divine ancestry and gains possession of a weapon of formidable power. Suddenly raised to prominence among her Iron Age tribe, at first she enjoys her new life as a god-touched hero. She quickly learns that a hero’s life may be glorious but it’s also complicated – and possibly quite short.

Krava and her friends soon find themselves caught up in a deadly game of gods and kings. If she refuses to be a pawn, she may be forced to become a queen . . . or a curse upon all her people.

Time for some celebration: this is my first original published novel, after twenty-plus years of being a freelance writer. Hopefully not my last!

My patrons at the $2 level and up will soon be getting a code for a free copy in email.

“A Fire in Winter” Now Available

“A Fire in Winter” Now Available

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I’ve just finished placing another of my old short stories under the “Free Articles and Fiction” tab in the sidebar.

This story is “A Fire in Winter,” a story set in the early stages of an American Revolution that is not going as well as the one in our history. As for what other differences there may be between that world and our own . . . well, better you see for yourself.

“A Fire in Winter” has also been released to my patrons, free of charge.

Short Story Now Available: “Landfall”

Short Story Now Available: “Landfall”

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I’ve posted “Landfall,” a short story that I wrote a few years back, to the Free Articles and Fiction section.

“Landfall” is a tale about a slower-than-light interstellar expedition, which runs into trouble when it finally encounters a hospitable, Earthlike world after a thousand years of voyaging. What does a society organized around an eternal voyage do, when it becomes possible for the voyage to end?

The story should be linked from the sidebar, but here’s a link as well.

“Pilgrimage” Now Available

“Pilgrimage” Now Available

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After a long delay, the first story in my “Human Destiny” setting is now available as an e-book on Amazon:

“Pilgrimage” is a 14700-word novelette, telling the story of how sixteen-year-old Aminata Ndoye first came to the attention of the alien interstellar empire that rules Earth. After Aminata is granted an unexpected degree of privilege by the imperial government, she is unsure as to whether to accept – unsure as to whether she can trust the aliens at all. She embarks on a journey of discovery, and what she learns may determine the path of her life . . . but first she has to survive the experience.

I first wrote “Pilgrimage” a couple of years ago, while taking an online seminar on the art of writing from diverse perspectives. The character of Aminata Ndoye had been in the back of my mind for a while – at the time, I had already written a novella about her and was shopping it around to markets – but I was inspired to write her “origin story” as an exercise for the seminar. Since then the story has seen quite a bit of revision, and I’ve decided to quit sitting on it and get it published.

Next up is the novella, which I hope to have available sometime next week, and then it’s on to a new story based on my world-building project from last month.