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Free Ebook and Sample

*I've collected all my Elizabethan Era short stories into a short book called The Private Wound. The title story is an alternate history with Queen Elizabeth. The book also contains two mysteries and (I'm sorry!) a vampire story. About half of the stories are unpublished.  One way or another, it is rather Marlowe Infested. If you like these stories, consider taking a look at my book No Will But His, the story of Kathryn Howard. sarahahoyt.com/nwbh-excerpt.html*
 

The ebook is available in...

Because this is ebook week

I've established a site, that I promise will link to my own site soon! with links and offerings of (my) free downloadable stuff.

Right now there's a link to my first collection, in the Baen Free Library, as well as downloadable versions of a short story, Sweet Alice, set in my Shifter's world. Keep the link and check back often, though, there WILL be more.

http://sites.google.com/site/sarahscornerbooth/home

Sarah

I think this might be a totally new art form

Seriously, I think my boy is doing something new with the way he uses his LJ.

Maybe we should get him a tip jar. I mean, he needs to pay for premed and eventually for med school. Besides, let's face it, sooner or later, he'll have to pay for med... potent, probably: http://robertahoyt.livejournal.com/4938.html

By Their Cats Thou Shalt Know Them

By Their Cats Thou Shalt Know Them

Mumble years ago, my husband and I were sitting in a comedy club in Charlotte NC when the poor visiting comedian decided to make a riff on common cats’ names versus common dogs’ names, or such. He started by saying that dogs were given manly names – I don’t remember the examples he gave – while cats got names... and here he made the mistake of pausing and asking who in the audience had cats. Our entire table raised their hands.

The comedian might still have ...

An mp3 reading

The three chapters are below, but this is an mp3 of me reading the first two chapters. YES that IS my real accent. (I was born and raised abroad.) No, I don't normally sound like that. Athena made me!

http://darkshipthieves.com/audio/darkship1-2.mp3 (warning: 27MB).

A Sample of Darkship Thieves

*I know I've done this before, but now that DST is actually shipping from Amazon, here is the opening. And happy New Year, everyone.*

One



I never wanted to go to space. Never wanted see the eerie glow of the Powerpods. Never wanted to visit Circum Terra. Never had any interest in discovering the truth about the darkships. You always get what you don’t ask for.

Which was why I woke up in the dark of shipnight, within the greater night of space in my father’s space cruiser.

Before full consciou...

Naming the names -- D'Artagnan Hoyt

A post by D'Artagnan Hoyt, the bestest cat in the world (Mommy says so.)

She doesn't like it when I call her mommy. Says she'd remember if she'd given birth to me, which is silly, because I don't remember being born, so no reason why she should. The thing is, I'm probably adopted, because I'm handsome and fuzzy and not a pink blob on two legs, like Mommy and Daddy and the sad, deformed bigger-kittens they have. But, you know, they're still the only family I gots. And they feed me and pet m...

Euclid talks about books and tail and stuff

(A guest post by Euclid Hoyt, the patriarch of the Hoyts' tame pride and known in the family as Neurotalon.)


Hi to everyone out there. My human, Sarah, says that there are many many people you can reach through this computer thing. I don't know what she means, because I've walked up behind this computer thing -- and coughed a hairball or two on top of it, and let me tell you, it's not touching anyone. But then humans are weird that way. I mean, it's like the whole thing with water. what s...

When the Chickens Roamed The Earth

I won't even go into how I got into this, but it started with talking about a chicken's eyes.  Then looking at chickens online.  (Hey, like you don't look at stuff on line.  First stone, buddy, first stone.)  Of course, I didn't need to look at chickens.  I grew up with them (around.  I mean, I wasn't literally in the hen house.)  But the kids didn't and I wanted to show them the expression in chicken's eyes.

Why, you ask?  Oh, surely you can understand.  If you've ever looked into a chicken's...

Sarah Book Comes Out And Various

Various first -- I have posted the winners of the last giveaway and I haven't familed the previous one, yet, because I was traveling.  Workshop in Texas was lots of fun, but why didn't anyone tell me teaching took it out of you.  I mean teaching writing.  I've taught other stuff and it's not THAT bad.  Anyway, more or less recovered now and back to work.

Came back to my contributor copies of Dipped, Stripped and Dead under nom de guerre (feels like it) of Elise Hyatt.  In case no one remembers...