I’ve always liked the feel of a book in my hand.
I’ve published two books on Kindle—soon to be three, but today was the first time I have been able to actually feel one of them.
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Through Many Fires, my third and latest novel, just moved one step closer to release.
I’ve been working with Micah Hansen, the graphic designer who has done all my artwork, since March. He is still working on the back and spine, but yesterday he sent me the cover that you see here.
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The old Beatles song, Paperback Writer, keeps running through my mind because Titan Encounter will soon be available in paperback.
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Often the hardest task for me is deciding the title of a new book.
For nearly a year I’ve been calling my latest writing project TEOTWAWKI “The End Of The World As We Know It.” That was never going to be the final title, but I needed to call it something. I don’t worry about the title of the book until I’m just about done. Well, I’m just about done.
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Unfortunately, art is one of those classes that we don’t often offer at Eek School.
We wish we could offer art more often, but reading, Writing and Math take priority and art teachers willing to come to the bush Alaska are hard to find. That doesn’t mean that our students are any less artistic. Art is very much a part of the Yup’ik culture. I wish the students would do more with traditional themes, but for some reason they often like to draw me.
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Here in Eek, Alaska snow still drifts several feet high and covers the ground as far as one can see. The river is still a frozen trail that zigzags by the village. You can still ice fish up here, but the days are getting longer. However, that doesn’t mean I have enough daylight to get everything done. Each day just seems longer and busier.
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Friday was Spring Break here in Eek, Alaska!
Okay, actually we had Friday and the weekend off for a grand total of three days! We don’t celebrate many of the holidays, like Veteran’s or President’s Day, in the village schools so three days off is actually nice.
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Today, Final Duty - The Alien War Anthology, my second book, appeared on both the Amazon.com Kindle Science Fiction anthology and the short story bestseller lists. Final Duty has been on the anthology bestseller list for four days.
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Final Duty - The Alien War Anthology, my second book has been on the Amazon.com Kindle Science Fiction anthology bestseller list for the last two days.
The top 100 books on any Amazon bestseller list are updated hourly and yesterday morning I spotted Final Duty at the number 93 spot. After that, I watched the book climb all day until it reached the number 50 spot.
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I hope you will join me on Goodreads. Amazon recently acquired this social media service where you can catalog and share book recommendations with over 12 million members
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As a new author what I need most of all is for people to read my stories. I’m confident that if they do read my work they will spread the word and buy later novels. So, this week I have been promoting Titan Encounter and Final Duty in various ways.—and it has paid off!
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Free on Kindle today--two of my ebooks!
If you have visited this website before you probably know that on social media I often list books that are being offered free. Well, for the next 24 hours my own books, Titan Encounter and Final Duty, will be free on Kindle.
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My second book, Final Duty, – the Alien War Anthology, is now available on Kindle.
The anthology takes its name from the novella, Final Duty, a 15,000-word story that leads off the book. In that story, Lieutenant Amy Palmer returns to the Altair star system as an officer aboard the reconnaissance ship Mirage twenty years after the death of her father during the Battle of Altair, Almost immediately disaster strikes, and Amy, along with the crew of the Mirage, must face the possibility of performing their final duties.
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The temperature was -20 as we waited for the plane to arrive in Eek.
That was last Thursday. The plane arrived on time, thankfully, for the flight to Bethel, Alaska. I stayed the night in Bethel and then caught the morning flight to Anchorage and another plane to Seattle. My youngest son was at the airport to pick me up for the hour and a half drive home. It was a long trip, but thankfully, I arrived home safely late on Friday.
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Leaving Eek during the winter is always an iffy proposition. Since we travel in small bush planes, if it is too foggy or windy we can’t fly, but, fortunately, the weather should be good on Thursday. However, the runway lights are broken at the airfield and no one seems to be able to fix them so we must leave during daylight. There isn’t a lot of daylight up here right now.
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Three stories, all separated by time, planets, and events, but tied together by war. I’ve been working on a novella and two short stories that I wrote long ago, but never released. I felt they were excellent stories, but I never knew what to do with them. In the end, I decided to publish the stories, totaling about 27,000 words, in a single volume. All are firmly set in the military science fiction subgenre. Here is a synopsis of each.
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