Proto Zoa gets a facelift

My collection of very early short stories was among our first indie e-publications, back when we were feeling our way into the new world. That would have been around the end of 2011 - beginning of 2012. The promotional experts say one should put new covers on old work from time to time, every five or ten years. Five years seems a bit short to me, but then I'm frugal. Eight years splits a difference.




Available, as usual, on Kindle, Nook, and iBooks.

The five stories are three little Twilight-Zone-ish fantasies, from back when I was hearing that one should write short stories to practice for novels (which turns out to be not quite true), the original "Aftermaths" also placed as a coda at the end of Shards of Honor, and, for Vorkosigan completists, the very first story I wrote that began the evolution of what was not yet "the Vorkosiverse", mentioning Beta Colony but before Barrayar was invented (or rediscovered, for that matter.)

Ta, L.

(On that "write short stories first" dictum, Pat Wrede has these useful words: https://www.pcwrede.com/worst-and-bes... )


Later: Poking around, I find that some early Barnes & Noble Nook reviews from several years ago reporting formatting problems, which as far as I know have been long resolved, are still up and making people veer away from purchasing the ebook. If anyone has bought and read it in the Nook format recently, and could report there that all is well now (assuming it is, or someone ought to have said something to me), to reassure prospective new purchasers, it would be a big help. L.