Lisa Mason's Blog, page 150
October 10, 2012
Paranormal Erotic Romance, Free on Kindle!
Eon’s Kiss, an erotic paranormal romance by Suzanna Moore free on Kindle
On the eve of what Jenna Coltrane believes will be Brett Becker’s marriage proposal, tragedy strikes her life again—not just once, but twice.
In the midst of trouble, she encounters Eon, a regal young man unlike anyone she’s ever met before.
With him, she enters the magical world of the Arbor, discovering love, erotic passion, and beauty beyond her wildest dreams.
Jenna is swept up in a struggle for survival between human greed and the Arbor, a struggle in which her love for Eon and her own life are at stake.
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Eons-Kiss-ebook/dp/B00578UTQ0
Eon’s Kiss, art by Suzanna Moore
Fast, Fun, Free on Kindle Select, U F uh-O
Fast, Fun, and Free on Kindle Select!
U F uh-O, A Sci Fi Comedy
Knocked Up meets E.T.
Nikki and Josh really want a child but have infertility issues. Gretchen and Mike have the same problem. When Nikki meets Gretchen at the Happy Daze Family Clinic in Pasadena, they discover that they share a love of music and have asked for a donor with musical talent.
Nine months later, they give birth to very unusual babies and, seeking an answer to why the kids are so special, they meet again at a pediatrician’s office.
And the search is on: who—and what—is Donor Number 333?
U F uh-O, A Sci Fi Comedy started out as a script for a producer looking for a science fiction comedy like Galaxy Quest or Men in Black and became a novella.
Prose writing is so much more fun than scriptwriting!
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055HYRZW
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U F uh-O, A Sci Fi Comedy
Tesla, A Worthy of His Time, A Screenplay
Tesla, A Worthy of His Time, A Screenplay
Genius. Visionary. Madman.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was the pioneering genius who invented the AC electrical system that powers our world to this day, as well as radio, remote control, the automobile speedometer, X-ray photography, the AND logic gate that drives all our computer systems, and countless other devices and precursors to devices such as cell phones, television, and the Internet that we so effortlessly use today.
Strikingly handsome and charismatic, fluent in half a dozen languages, mathematics savant and master machinist, a reed-thin perfectionist who quoted poetry like a Victorian rapper, Tesla became one of the most famous men of his day. Friend of tycoons like John Jacob Astor and Stanford White and celebrities like Mark Twain and Sarah Bernhardt.
Yet Tesla was an intensely driven and lonely man, beset by inner demons, and cursed with a protean inventive imagination a century ahead of his time. He died in obscurity and poverty and, to this day, his name is not widely known. How did that happen?
Blending historical fact with speculative imagination, Lisa Mason explores the secrets of the Inventor’s inner life and his obsession with Goethe’s Faust set against the backdrop of sweeping technological changes at the turn of the twentieth century that have forever changed the world.
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
Tesla, A Worthy of His Time was read by the producer of “Aliens,” “The Abyss,” and “The Hulk.” A List of Sources follows the Screenplay.
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005ZWJJHI
On Nook: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/2940013236523
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Tesla, A Worthy of His Time, A Screenplay
The Garden of Abracadabra
The Garden of Abracadabra is on Nook and Kindle
At her mother’s urgent deathbed plea, Abby Teller enrolls at the Berkeley College of Magical Arts and Crafts to learn Real Magic. To support herself through school, she signs on as the superintendent of the Garden of Abracadabra, a mysterious, magical apartment building on campus. She discovers that her tenants are witches, shapeshifters, vampires, and wizards and each apartment is a fairyland or hell. On her first day in Berkeley, she stumbles upon a supernatural multiple murder scene. One of the victims is a man she picked up hitchhiking the day before.
Compelled into a dangerous murder investigation, Abby will discover the first secrets of an ancient and ongoing war between good and evil, uncover mysteries of her own troubled past, and learn that the lessons of Real Magic may spell the difference between her own life or death.
“So refreshing. . . .This is Stephanie Plum in the world of Harry Potter”
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006R35608
On Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-garden-of-abracadabra-lisa-mason/1037524057?ean=2940013808232
From the author of Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
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The Garden of Abracadabra
Daughter of the Tao
Daughter of the Tao is on Nook and Kindle
Published in Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn anthology (HarperPrism), which also included stories by Charles de Lint, Karen Joy Fowler, Robert Sheckley, and Ellen Kushner.
Sing Lin is a mooie jai, a girl sold into slavery at the age of five to a wealthy merchant in Tangrenbu, the ghetto of her people in the new country across the sea. One lucky day, while she is out shopping by herself, she meets another mooie jai, Kwai Yin, a bossy, beautiful girl two years older. Kwai has a secret. Before she was sold into slavery, she had a Teacher who taught her about Tao Magic.
But Sing watches Kwai succumb to the terrifying fate of all slave girls in Tangrenbu.
Soon Sing is destined to go to the same fate. But will her invocation of Tao Magic save her?
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007TTNQPQ
On Nook: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/2940014473804
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Daughter of the Tao
5.0 out of 5 stars
a beautiful novella! April 23, 2012
By Mark Abrams
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The characters in this little book jumped off the page and you really cared what happened to them. It is a rare talent that can do that so well! This was a compelling tale of a girl sold into slavery as her culture allowed. I found myself hooked from the very first page as I followed her through the twists and turns of her life. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a character-based story with a touch of magic and fantasy to it!
Daughter of the Tao
Hummers with, yes, a cover!
HUMMERS is on Nook and Kindle
Laurel, in the terminal stages of cancer, is obsessed with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Jerry, her homecare nurse whose lover is dying of AIDS, gives her a surprising gift. A hummingbird feeder. As Laurel comes to grips with her own death, she learns powerful and redeeming lessons about Egyptian Magic from the hummingbirds that visit her.
HUMMERS, published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, chosen for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 5th Annual Collection (St. Martin’s Press), and nominated for the Nebula Award. 99 cents on Nook and Kindle.
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00877DGL8
On Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hummers-lisa-mason/1111302606?ean=2940014355988
Terri Windling received the World Fantasy Award for her tremendous contributions to the fantasy field and her editing of anthologies, including Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, the Fifth Annual Collection (St. Martin’s Press). Here’s her introduction to Hummers from Year’s Best:
Ursula Le Guin has described fantasy as ‘a different approach to reality, an alternate technique for apprehending and coping with existence.’
Fantasy, like myth and legend, provides a means of storytelling that at its best goes beyond entertainment to travel the inner roads of the human soul. The following story does this beautifully, using the form of fantasy fiction and the symbols of Egyptian mythology to enter one of the most mysterious lands of all: the one that lies at the threshold of death. Readers who have experienced the loss of loved ones to cancer or AIDS will find this story cuts particularly close to the bone, but the fear of death is universal, and Mason’s exploration of this fear is both unsentimental and compassionate.
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Hummers
Every Mystery Unexplained with cover!
Every Mystery Unexplained is on Nook and Kindle!
The year is 1895, and Danny Flint is a young man living in the shadow of his father, a famous stage magician whose fortunes are fading. Danny is grieving over his mother’s recent accidental death, for which he feels he is to blame.
He learns to reconcile himself with his grief and guilt and to assume his own place at center stage as a magician in his own right with the help of a mysterious beautiful lady.
Every Mystery Unexplained was published in David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible (HarperPrism), an anthology including stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Kevin J. Anderson, and F. Paul Wilson.
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007OR6EUW
On Nook: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/2940014131278
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
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Every Mystery Unexplained
Shaken! Can U tell I got the graphics to work?
Shaken, a science fiction thriller, is on Nook and Kindle
An ebook adaptation of Deus Ex Machina, published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, republished in the anthology Transcendental Tales From Asimov’s (Donning Press), and translated and republished in Europe and South America.
Emma J for Joy Pearce is at her editorial offices on the twenty-second floor of Three Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco when the long-dreaded next Great Earthquake devastates the Bay area. Amid horrific destruction, she rescues a man trapped in the rubble. In the heat of survival, she swiftly bonds with him, causing her to question her possible marriage to her long-time boyfriend.
But Jason Gibb is not the charming photojournalist he pretends to be. As Emma discovers his true identity, his mission in the city, and the dark secrets behind the catastrophe, she finds the choices she makes may mean the difference between her own life or death.
A list of Sources is included in the ebook.
On Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shaken-lisa-mason/1110600964?ean=2940014482240
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007ZZIRTE
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
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Shaken
The Gilded Age with cover!
The Gilded Age, A Time Travel is on Nook and Kindle.
A New York Times Notable Book. A New York Public Library Recommended Book. The sequel to Summer of Love, A Time Travel, A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book.
“Rollicking. . . .Dazzling.” Locus
The year is 1895 and immigrants the world over are flocking to California on the transcontinental railroad and on transoceanic steamships. The Zoetrope demonstrates the persistence of vision, patent medicines addict children to morphine, and women are rallying for the vote. In San Francisco, saloons are the booming business, followed by brothels, and the Barbary Coast is a dangerous sink of iniquity. Atop Telegraph Hill bloody jousting tournaments are held and in Chinatown the tongs deal in opium, murder-for-hire, and slave girls.
Zhu Wong, a prisoner in twenty-fifth century China, is given a choice–stand trial for murder or go on a risky time-travel project to the San Francisco of 1895 to rescue a slave girl and take her to safety. Charmed by the city’s opulent glamour, Zhu will discover the city’s darkest secrets. A fervent population control activist in a world of twelve billion people, she will become an indentured servant to the city’s most notorious madam. Fiercely disciplined, she will fall desperately in love with the troubled self-destructive heir to a fading fortune.
And when the careful plans of the Gilded Age Project start unraveling, Zhu will discover that her choices not only affect the future but mean the difference between her own life or death.
“A winning mixture of intelligence and passion.” The New York Times Book Review
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005QUIWDQ
On Nook: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/2940013350977
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
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The Gilded Age, A Time Travel
Tomorrow’s Child with cover!
The Story That Sold To The Movies, Tomorrow’s Child, is on Nook and Kindle!
A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life.
Tomorrow’s Child started out as a medical documentary for the 3M Company, transformed into a lead story published in Omni magazine, then sold to Universal Studios where the story is presently in development.
The ebook includes the blog, “The Story Behind The Story That Sold To The Movies,” describing the twists and turns the story took from concept to movie sale.
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) and The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book).
On Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073EJ8YU
On Nook: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/2940014075091
Visit Lisa Mason at http://www.lisamason.com for books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, forthcoming projects and more.
Tomorrow’s Child
