Masquerade in Lodi is up

The new Penric & Desdemona novella; 9th written, but now 4th in internal chronology, which is going to engender the usual confusion among those who try to do numbered lists rather than more fungible title lists. I've tried to address this with both a note in the vendor copy and a frontnote in the e-text. We'll see.

Anyway. Vendor page copy reads:

"Bastard’s Eve is a night of celebration for most residents in the canal city of Lodi -- but not for sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona, who find themselves caught up in the affairs of a shiplost madman, a dangerous ascendant demon, and a very unexpected saint of the fifth god.

This novella falls between “Penric’s Fox” and “Penric’s Mission” in the internal chronology of the Penric & Desdemona tales."

May be found on:

iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/masqu...

Kindle store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L88PCTP/

Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/masq...




33,600 words, making it a mid-sized novella by the standard our-genre definition of "a story between 17,500 words and 40,000 - 45,000 words".

I'll set up a spoiler discussion space in a while in the next post; general discussion can go in the comments here.

PR side-note: these novellas always seem to get plenty of Amazon reviews, so mentions of their existence elsewhere-appropriate cast a wider net. (Somebody has to already have heard about a story to even be looking at a vendor page, after all.) As you are so moved...

Ta, Lois.