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Flaming Dove by Daniel Arenson

I just finished a huge project in my day job. By "huge" I mean it will pay enough so that I can take the next few weeks off work entirely to finish Spiderwork!

For everyone waiting impatiently, here is a treat -- Daniel Arenson's Flaming Dove might be just the thing for you.

I hate pitches that start with "what if" -- but for this book, it's perfect: What if the battle of Armageddon came and nobody won?

Laila's mother is an angel. Her father is a demon. As the war between angels and demons endures, the external conflict matches the one raging in Laila's mixed blood.

Divine or damned? Soldier or spy? If Armageddon couldn't end the struggle, what can?

I haven't read Flaming Dove yet -- though it's in my Kindle -- because it feels too close to the world of In Flagrante Apocalypto and I fear cross-pollination, ha. But it's getting great reviews.

From Amazon:

This was an absolutely fantastic book. I really really enjoyed it. I loved it so much I kept quoting it to my wife. Beelzebub was one of my favorite characters.

Beelzebub! Man, if I weren't deep in Spiderwork I'd be all over this one!

Red Adept Reads Space Junque!

Now this is very cool. Red Adept, one of the premier review sites for ebooks, is starting a new feature, presenting the opening of books in audio form -- and Red read Space Junque as her first book!

Space Junque Goes To 100 Stars Or Less

What a lovely surprise! Being an obsessive author, I check SJ's reviews over at Goodreads from time to time. Today I came upon a review which is cross-posted at 100 Stars Or Less.

She liked the book, but again the complaint that Space Junque isn't long enough. It's a novella! (to quote Zoe Winters, ha)

But now I'm wondering if it shouldn't have been. Maybe someday I'll put out an extended version, a second edition.

When I can find the time. (

Vote at Red Adept

Red Adept is having a contest over at her fantastic review blog.

Don't know about Red Adept? Read this interview with Simon Royle for the story!

But back to ME.

There's a fun contest going on among authors and readers over at Red's site. The entrants have posted eulogies and obituaries of characters from their books or books they like, and we need you to vote on the best one.

Personally, I thought #2 was lovely. I've actually started on DA Boulter's Courtesan (promise to self: As soon as Spiderwork is out, take a week to read some books!) and it's great!

However! It's war now with another contestant, Jason Letts, a/k/a foreverjuly, putative "king of the internet". Boo!  Vote for #5, not #3!

Space Junque Goes To Indie Paranormal Book Reviews

Space Junque received a lovely review from Indie Paranormal Book Reviews. Michelle is a close and careful reader, and I was so pleased that she enjoyed the novella. From the review:

Space Junque is action-packed from the beginning. There is always something going on to keep your interest.  The paranormal aspect starts to come in about halfway through the book when we meet the goddess Asherah and this is where my interest definitely picked up. I still enjoyed it up until that point, but what can I say?  I like my paranormal. Did I get my shapeshifter? Yeah, sort of, just not quite what I expected. I'm still trying to figure them out.

Heh-heh.

This is the problem and the prize with Space Junque. The series, In Flagrante Apocalypto, is about the world after everything changes, but Space Junque happens during the change, when things go from normal to paranormal. Though Space Junque's central events happen while the main characters are in orbit, the series doesn't go to space again.

Spiderwork, Bleeder, and the two novels I've planned after Bleeder take place in the changed world after the apocalypse. The people remember the old world inundated with technology and things like space flight, but that world exists only in memory. In the new reality, the veil between physical and metaphysical is tenuous. Things cross over.

Especially the shapeshifters.

Becoming an Indie Author by Zoe Winters

I bought Zoe Winters's new guide to independent publishing because I buy all her books. I thought I'd pick up a few tips -- after all, Zoe is among the most successful indies today. She must be doing something right!

I was wrong. I picked up way more than a "few" tips.

This won't be a long review. It's an easy decision to make: If you want to publish independently, buy this book. The $2.99 you spend will save you an exponential amount in mistakes avoided, even if you never sell a book.

But the thing is, if you read this guide it's more likely that you will sell books. Zoe shows you how to ensure that you have a book worth buying in the first place, and then how to let people know about it.

Part motivational, part practical, and all necessary. Though I've already published one book I'll be referring to it again when Spiderwork comes out. I'm glad I bought Becoming an Indie Author.

Ode to 99 cents

Space Junque's 99 cent sale ends today -- though Amazon usually takes some time to put the change through, so it might be 99 cents tomorrow too. But B&N will end after today, and it's already back up to $2.99 at Smashwords.

99 cents was fun, but it cannot pay for contests, which are funner.

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Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Spiderwork work continues apace...

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Space Junque -- Now Available

Kindle --oOo--   Smashwords --oOo-- Nook

Kindle UK

Ode to Iain Glen

Oh, my.

- who I adored in Wives and Daughters and is wonderful in anything and everything -- is going to be in Game of Thrones.

Now, I will admit that I have never read the Martin opus. That doesn't mean I'm not going to drool over the HBO production coming up. I have no idea if the character Iain plays (Ser Jorah Mormont) gets killed off right away. Hope not!

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Winner of Space Junque

The Romance Reviews gave away a copy of Space Junque, and Dawn Judd won!

Dawn happens to be an author too.

Reining In is about a 5,000-year-old vampire torn between protecting herself or the human family she has come to love.