Starting a blog.
Hi, I'm Laurence (goes by Laury) Dahners and I write science fiction. I've mostly published on Amazon since I love the Kindle. A lot of readers communicated with me and other readers on the Amazon Author's Forums, but those don't seem to be getting much support any more and there have been a lot of complaints.
So I thought I'd start a blog here on GoodReads as well as responding to "Ask the Author" questions that are posted on this site.
I'm not sure how well this will work for those of you who like to have discussions that don't necessarily involve me? Let me know if you're aware of a way for me to facilitate such discussion that I may not be aware of.
Hope this works for at least some of you who like to express your opinions!
Laury Dahners
So I thought I'd start a blog here on GoodReads as well as responding to "Ask the Author" questions that are posted on this site.
I'm not sure how well this will work for those of you who like to have discussions that don't necessarily involve me? Let me know if you're aware of a way for me to facilitate such discussion that I may not be aware of.
Hope this works for at least some of you who like to express your opinions!
Laury Dahners
Thanks, it looks to me that you guys could have a discussion by making comments here on this blog? It's a little bit difficult for me to figure out what's possible for readers on goodreads to do on this site and what's only possible to me because I'm signed on as an author. However, if some of you'd like to carry out discussions here like you used to carry out on the Forums that'd be fine with me.Laury Dahners
I have the Godreads app on my iPad, but wasn't able to find this blog until I used Google.
Actually discussions are available through the Community menu option.
CGR, Thanks, I started a discussion at
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
in case folks would rather use that?
Laury Dahners
I guess we all have to learn new tricks. Thanks for creating a Donsaii discussion.
Love your Donsaii book series and I hoping a new one is on the way. Actually I have enjoyed the Bonesetter, Vaz, and Hyllis series. Just bought the Blindspot series. Is it too much to hope there will be a continuation to the Bonesetter series? Any new addition will be fine. Looking forward to out what Zage has gotten into.
So glad you enjoy what I like to write. I expect to write more books in all the series, but find that I kind of run out of ideas for a series if I don't stop and write something else for a while.
I'm really enjoying the new one I'm working on (Proton Field series) because I think it has so much potential for ofshoots like Ell's ports just kept suggesting more neat tech. However, I expect to write something in one of the other series next rather than just continuing on to another PF.
Laury Dahners.
Proton Field series sounds good. I had never even heard of entangled protons theory that you used in the Donzaii series. Good stuff. Thanks.
I'm also waiting for the book since from the description it seems like the proton fields would break the conservation of symmetry on which entanglement relies on! This will open a whole lot of new possibilities, so I can hardly wait to see it on Amazon...
Hi Laury,Are going to touch on topics such as possible relativistic Proton degenerate matter at some point!?
Mark in Blighty
Not for now at least. Focused on less extreme events.Laury Dahners
For those of you who like to pre-order, the new book "Discovery (Proton Field #1)" is available to be ordered on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/zqeomwf
It's the tale of Myr Sevii, a young woman who discovers a field that suppresses static electrical effects and warps space in a fashion to attract protons. It’s a hard Science Fiction exploration of what might happen if you were able to pull protons into a tiny volume and, having suppressed static repulsion, crush them together. The story examines how this new discovery affects Myr and will soon affect the world around her.
Changes abound, in the company Myr works for, in the people around her, and in her family. So many unexpected technological revolutions are happening at the same time that it’s hard for Myr and her friends to come to grips with them.
When word of the inventions gets out, vultures gather—wanting the tech for themselves.
Some of those people will kill to get what they want…
Hope you like reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Laury Dahners
The new book is coming out Saturday the 24th of June. For those of you who like to pre-order it's available on Amazon now.Lifter (Proton Field#2)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072N6C43S?...
This is the continuing tale of Myr Sevii, a young woman who discovers a field which suppresses static electrical effects and warps space in a fashion that attracts protons. In Proton Field #1, she and Vinn discovered they could fuse hydrogen. Now she’s exploring the warping of space and its effects on hydrogen containing molecules nearby. The story examines how this warping suddenly makes it possible to achieve reactionless thrust that can lift people… and move spacecraft.
In the midst of this excitement, Myr’s friend Ellen’s brother gets captured by Abu Sayyaf terrorists while on a charity mission in the Philippines. At first there doesn’t seem like there’s anything anyone can do, but gradually it becomes evident that the new technology might offer solutions for his situation as well.
Just as it seems that they might have solved Mark’s situation, Myr’s brother Connor, afflicted with muscular dystrophy, goes into heart failure. Myr had an idea for treatment of that problem too, but will she be allowed to try such a radical solution?
Laury Dahners
OK, so with Proton Field #2 out of the way, what's the next book going to be?
Getting geared up to do another Donsaii book. Hope it works out!Laury Dahners
I look forward to another Ell book. I find myself rereading all of your books.
Great to hear you like them that much!Laury
Hi, for those of you interested in the Ell Donsaii stories, the next one (Bioterror! An Ell Donsaii story #14) will be available on Amazon on October 6. If you like to preorder, that can be done at https://tinyurl.com/y8avhcmbHope you like it!
Laury Dahners
Great. I just ordered mine. Looking forward to it.
Hi, for those of you interested in the Blind Spot books, the next one "The Boy Who Couldn’t Miss (Blind Spot #2)" will be available on Amazon on January 19. If you like to preorder, that can be done at https://tinyurl.com/y9nea4bxHope you like it!
Also for those of you disenfranchised by the demise of Amazon Discussions, I've also started an Ell Donsaii books group here on Goodreads.
Go to Goodreads.com /community tab/groups/ search for Ell Donsaii
Laury Dahners
Just read "The Boy Who Couldn’t Miss (Blind Spot #2)". Great story. Easy to read. Keep up the good work.Looking forward to your next book whatever it is.
Hey, For those of you who liked the Bonesetter books, Bonesetter 3 -summer- will be available on April 13 on Amazon.
You can preorder on Amazon now if you like. https://tinyurl.com/y7sxa4qo
Hope you like it.
Laury Dahners
I'm looking forward to it Lawrence. I think I've read everything else you published.I'm going to tell you what I told the kids on the school bus I drove when they did something right, good job!
I'm looking forward to reading it...... This isnt a April fools prank, is it? :o You have to be careful today.
Ha, my daughter was born on April Fools, so I'm particularly sensitive.Laury
You know that the cover on Amazon reads "Bonesetter 3 -winter- " instead of summer...
Yeah, dumb mistake. Amazon says it takes three days to post corrections, even though they tell me it's already fixed and it only took a few hours to get it up in the first place.Sorry
So whats next in the que? Another Ell? one of your other fantastic series?
I've had an idea for a new story (unrelated to the others). I think it's cool, hope you guys do too.Laury
The new book "The Transmuter's Daughter" (separate from all the previous series) is up for pre-order on Amazon. Will be delivered on Saturday, June 30, 2018.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F1FDGXH?...
I had a lot of fun writing it - hope you guys like it
Here's the blurb-
The Transmuter’s Daughter is a near-future science-fiction thriller. Morgan Djai’s company’s been bought out, he’s been laid off, his wife wants a divorce, and his brilliant but estranged brother has just been murdered. As Morgan tries to assume his duties as guardian for his brother’s teenage children he’s confronted with the mystery of why his brother died carrying a $10,000 chunk of platinum in the pocket of his jeans.
Morgan’s fifteen year old niece is striking in appearance but hostile in attitude. His nephew’s pleasant but defers all questions about the platinum to his sister.
It slowly becomes evident that Morgan’s brother made the platinum. He was killed by people who wanted his secret. His niece knows how the platinum was created but doesn’t want to tell Morgan.
The people who killed his brother still want the platinum…
Damn…
Hey, I just recently got into your Ell Donsaii series and I Love them. I have already re read them 4 times. Do you plan to continue with the series? And are you planning to do the full series in audiobook? I am a truck driver and always look for them.
1000 X Awesome job on your books!
Planning another Donsaii book at present, hopefully that'll work out.Don't know about the audiobooks. In the past various audiobook publishers have paid to have them narrated. I'm paying for Smarter myself but I'm not sure sales will pay for the narration. We'll have to see.
Laury
I just preordered The Transmuter’s Daughter on amazon. The first time I've ever preordered a book. I usyally just wait to buy it.Oh and last time I read the Donsaii books, i saw a math mistake in either book 2 or 3 (I believe it was book 3). When she first makes mircoscopic ports successfully between two tanks containing a high pressure and normal pressure. I dont remember the numbers but i remember when the pressure equlized, you got the pressure wrong.
Anyway, I can't wait for the next Donsaii book. I would personally love to see Zage get a sibling or two in the future. Maybe its because I have 7 siblings myself.
How much does it cost to get narrated?
Tyson,Thanks for ordering. I think somebody already pointed out a math mistake in that book and it's been corrected. If you can send me a specific quote I can check. Unfortunately, Amazon won't send out "minor corrections" to people who already own the books. I can send you a Word.doc that you can upload to your Kindle if you like - email me at ldahners@gmail.com.
Wicked,
$800-900 estimated for Smarter.
I loved the Quicker audio book.. Always hoped the rest would be available but I understand the costs cant stop things like that. I've reread the books so many times im glad they're on kindle or i'd be losing pages out of the paperbacks. *laugh*
Ell finished assembling the energizing circuit for the second chamber which had what she thought of as the “receiving ring” inside it, even though either ring should be able to both send andreceive. The pressure gauge attached to it read one atmosphere. She went over to the other chamber on her main lab table. The gauge on that chamber also measured one atmosphere but she opened the valve and pressurized it to five atmospheres, sealed the valve and watched the gauge a moment to make sure it was holding stable......
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When Ell got home she turned off the energizing circuits on her ports and was pleased to note that the two chambers now read nearly the same at just over 2.5 atmospheres pressure, suggesting that the pressure had in fact equalized in the two chambers—through the port!
Here are the quotes, they are a few pages apart , but don't worry about sending me a corrected document. I can deal with typo's but when I see one, I usually like to inform the author about it.
Tyson, Thanks. Someone else had pointed that out and it'd been corrected to say "the two chambers now read nearly the same at just over three atmospheres pressure."
I hate mistakes, so I'm glad you let me double check.
Laury
Finished The Transmuter’s Daughter!! Another absolutely brilliant book! I will be looking forward to a possible book 2 for sure. It almost seems like all the books you write are tailor made for me. I love the science, I love the characters, I love the plot, and so on! I can't really find much to complain about except that there were a few loose ends that I'm assuming you are leaving for the next book. It still seemed like a lot more could have been written and I like it when stories seem complete when you finish reading them. Of course, if I would be reading this in a few years when a hypothetical second book was already available for me to jump into, you wouldn't be hearing any complaints from me.
I just went to rate The Transmuter’s Daughter and saw that its on goodreads twice. If there is a moderator here who can fix that......
Tyson,One version of the book's for the paperback the other for the kindle. Amazon doesn't merge them into a single sales page until I tell them they're the same book, which I can't do until I find them both completely up on separate Amazon pages. I'm assuming that, now that Amazon's merged them, Goodreads eventually will too since none of the older books still have two versions.
I'd note that, so far, those two Goodreads pages also don't know know that I've written any other books, suggesting that things still have to happen.
Read The Transmuter’s Daughter and one thing still bugs me: why Daryn went to pawn shop and showed that chunk of platinum? He didn't need money, he could find it's price in internet and he knew it was platinum.
Ah, yes, he'd know the price and what it was. But what he wanted was someone who'd buy it locally so he wouldn't have to find a distant buyer and send it through the mail/FedEx/UPS. Turns out it would've been safer to send it somewhere...
Laury
Pro:
1. Shows the different series better than Amazon. Since I read all that you have written at least once and listened to Quicker twice, it is more useful to new readers.
2. More info available than on Amazon.
Con:
1. No discussions. How will I know what others are thinking. Also, sometimes, someone tells the author of a problem.
2. New; Different Us old people sometimes don't take to changes.
So now I know where to check if you have something to tell us.
I like all the series. Different ways at looking at things. Also keeps your interest so that we can be sure to have more of your books to read.