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April 16, 2018
Copyright Office Requests Comments on Mandatory Deposits of E-Books
In my daily trawling of the Federal Register’s Table of Contents for matters related to space law, I came across the Copyright Office’s request for comment on mandatory deposits of electronic books. Here’s the summary:
Section 407 of the Copyright Act requires the mandatory deposit with the Copyright Office (‘‘Office’’) of all works published in the United States, within three months of publication, for use by the Library of Congress (‘‘Library’’). The Office is allowed to exclude certain cl...
April 5, 2018
Sleeping Duty is on Kindle Countdown for the Weekend
Check it out. Sleeping Duty is on sale for 99 cents until Monday.
Gilead Tan and Andrea Fielding survived their stint in the military, got married, signed up to emigrate to a terraformed colony world, and went into cold sleep for the journey from Earth. While they slept, the starship went through the wrong fold in space and settled for a different world, a wild world. Three centuries after the founding of a colony on the uncharted planet, Gilead awakens to find humanity slipped back to medie...
April 3, 2018
The Powers of the Earth
Note to readers of my space law blog, GroundBasedSpaceMatters.com: You have already read most of this post. Waste not, want not, and all that. I believe in recycling. As for the rest of you, this is for those of you who like a lot of space law with your science fiction book reviews.
A few years ago I came across a book whose title I don’t recall. I read the first few pages and bought it on the spot. It had beautifully written prose about a guy on another planet doing something mundane. ...
March 15, 2018
The Sky Suspended is on Sale
THE SKY SUSPENDED is on sale for $0.99, marked down from its usual price of $3.99. If you’ve read MERCENARY CALLING, this book comes right before it. The two books are stand alones but feature the same main characters.
A novel of asteroids past, crowds, lawyers and a starship.
It is the 22nd century and a generation has passed since asteroid scares led to the creation and launch of a single interstellar starship. Calvin Tondini is a new attorney with the government, and has no intention of...
March 3, 2018
New Release: Early Spaceports
In the late 21st century, orbital industry floods the world with riches, and those riches can wash up against the unsuspecting just as readily as they accrue to those who reach for them.
With his love for his girlfriend, his passion for the law, and his situation in a good firm, Eli Fisher possesses all that a man could need at the start of his legal career. He doesn’t expect it to change when a billionaire who runs orbital powersats hires him for an art project.
But this art...
February 28, 2018
Podcast on Lawyer Writers
February 18, 2018
The Sky Suspended is in Kindle Unlimited
THE SKY SUSPENDED, the precursor to the newly released Mercenary Calling, is now in Kindle Unlimited.
Both books can stand alone, but this one comes right before Mercenary Calling. It’s the first book I ever wrote, finished, and published. I used one of my sons as a cover model, so I feel a certain amount of affection for that cover. We went down to the Lincoln Memorial and he stood between various pillars looking heroic. I sat on the ground with my camera so he’d loom even more (I learne...
February 13, 2018
Tipping the Writer
No, this is not to be confused (accidentally or deliberately) with cow tipping. It’s totally different.
I learned of tipping the writer several years ago from fantasy and science fiction writer Cedar Sanderson, who noted that you could tip a writer by leaving a review of the book or story you read. The review constitutes the tip. Neat, huh?
Thank you to everyone who bought or borrowed Mercenary Calling. I hope you are enjoying the tale. If you are, and want other people to know about it,...
January 28, 2018
MERCENARY CALLING!
It’s up! It’s done. It’s published, and it’s in print and on Kindle.
Exoplanets. Terrorists. Lawyers…
Calvin Tondini has his first client, but he may be in over his head.
It’s the twenty-second century. Humanity’s first and only interstellar starship returns safely. Its mission to discover a habitable planet succeeded beyond all hopes, but there’s one problem. Captain Paolina Nigmatullin of the USS Aeneid left an unsanctioned human colony behind and now stands charged with mutiny.
Despite a...
January 24, 2018
Snippet from MERCENARY CALLING
MERCENARY CALLING will be out sometime in the next week. Because I’m so excited about it, I thought I’d share the beginning here.
MERCENARY CALLING
Chapter 1
Calvin Tondini had to squint against the glare to see the motorcade of starship captains exiting the spaceport gates. With not just the sun and the water, but the air itself blindingly bright in the Florida afternoon, the world felt hot and alien for a January day. Coming to Canaveral Port from Washington, DC in winter he had almost for...
