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July 4, 2014

My "Daughter of the High LOrds and other Speculative Fiction Stories" just relaesed on Amazon

*NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON* My brand spanking new book “Daughter of the High Lords and other Speculative Fiction Stories” is showing on Amazon now as a paper back: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1499732627 Amazon have it on at the very reasonable price of $US8.50. In about a week or so the e-book version should also become available on Amazon.
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Published on July 04, 2014 17:04 Tags: amazon, daughter-of-the-high-lords, david-scholes, speculative-fiction

June 27, 2014

My new sci-fi book close to publication

Just signed off on the interior proof for my new book “Daughter of the High Lords and other Speculative Fiction Stories.” As I’ve already signed off on the cover proof I anticipate the paperback version of the book being available on Amazon early July and the e-book available (say) mid July or so. If you want a look at the cover art you can find it here on my sci-fi author face book page:
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The final 14 science fiction and science fantasy stories included in the book are: The Grief Counselors, Task Force to Earth XXX, Human Hunter, Search Mission, A Helping Hand, The Search for Humanity, Daughter of the High Lords, Under Attack, Past his Used by Date, Soldier of the Rorne, Broolt, Trathh – Return to Empire, Reality Check and Computer Audit
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Published on June 27, 2014 18:06 Tags: amazon, david-scholes, science-fiction

June 14, 2014

My "Soldier of the Brell" novella free on Amazon for 2 days

My “Soldier of the Brell” sci-fi novella is now available as a free download from Amazon for 2 days until 11.59pm 16 June (US Pacific Time): http://www.amazon.com/Soldier-of-the-... It’s had some good reviews: http://wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com.au/20... Also here is an excerpt published by the Bewildering Stories sci-fi site: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/iss...
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Published on June 14, 2014 23:46 Tags: amazon, david-scholes, free-e-book, science-fiction, soldier-of-the-brell

June 3, 2014

My "Essential Reading in Science Fiction" to be free on Amazon

Some advance notice that my “Essential Reading in Science Fiction” collection of sci-fi short stories will be available as a free download from Amazon for 5 days from 12.01am 7 June http://www.amazon.com:80/dp/B007KMDW9M
The Bewildering Stories sci-fi site published an excerpt from it: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/iss...
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Published on June 03, 2014 21:35 Tags: amazon, david-scholes, free-e-book, science-fiction

June 1, 2014

Flash Fiction sci-fi story of mine published on Antipodean SF

My flash fiction story “Soldier of the Rorne”: http://antisf.com/the-stories/soldier... is in the June issue # 192 of Antipodean SF. Also I’ve got another story “Too Old” coming up in the July issue of Antipodean SF.
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Published on June 01, 2014 16:33 Tags: antipodean-sf, david-scholes, soldier-of-the-rorne

May 29, 2014

Note on my next speculative fiction book

I’ve agreed to go with Amazon Create Space to have my new book published. The title will be “DAUGHTER OF THE HIGH LORDS and other Speculative Fiction Stories” I’ll use their custom cover and simple custom interior services. Length will be approx 55,000 words. The full list of stories will be: The Grief Counselors, Task Force to Earth XXX, Human Hunter, Search Mission, A Helping Hand, The Search for Humanity, Daughter of the High Lords, Under Attack, Past his Used by Date, Soldier of the Rorne, Broolt, Trathh – Return to Empire, Reality Check and Computer Audit. Have narrowed it down to two images from the fotolia image library. Will post more about it as things develop.
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Published on May 29, 2014 23:56 Tags: david-scholes, new-book, speculative-fiction

May 28, 2014

My "For Odin, for Thor, for Asgard" to be free on Amazon

My “For Odin for Thor for Asgard” collection of sci-fi/fantasy short stories about the gods of Asgard will be available as a free e-book download from Amazon from 12.01 am 29 May to 11.59pm 31 May (US Pacific Time): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AHNE27W
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Published on May 28, 2014 02:48 Tags: asgard, david-scholes, odin, science-fiction, thor

May 23, 2014

My "Speculative Fiction - The Ultimate Collection" now free on Amazon

My “Speculative Fiction – The Ultimate Collection” mixture of science fiction, science fantasy, and alternate history stories is now available as a free download on Amazon for the next 2 days: http://www.amazon.com/Speculative-Fic...
Here’s an excerpt from the book published on the Bewildering Stories site: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/iss...
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Published on May 23, 2014 15:44 Tags: amazon, david-scholes, free-e-book, speculative-fiction

May 16, 2014

My "TRATHH and other science fiction stories" to be free on Amazon

Just some advance notice that I’ll be making my sci-fi collection of short stories “TRATHH and other science fiction stories” available as a free download from Amazon from 18 to 22 May inclusive: http://www.amazon.com/TRATHH-other-sc...
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Published on May 16, 2014 19:02 Tags: david-scholes, free-e-book, science-fiction, trathh

May 12, 2014

First story in my new "Human Hunter" arc pod cast

The first story in my new “Human Hunter” story arc has just been pod cast on the Beam Me Up Pod Cast site. The story commences, with a bit of preamble, about 37 minutes into the pod cast: http://www.beammeuppodcast.com/beam-m... Well worth a listen as Paul is such a great narrator.
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Published on May 12, 2014 20:28 Tags: beam-me-up-podcast, david-scholes, human-hunter, paul-cole, science-fiction