Reaching For the Sky

Sunflower: Yes, It Really Is That Huge

As I was settling in to compose this week’s Wandering, a message popped into my inbox notifying me that from now through August 8, 2024, Trantor Media is offering the audiobook of my novel Library of the Sapphire Wind for a walloping 60% off.  Even better (from my point of view), I’ll be paid my full royalty.  Here’s a link to Trantor’s dedicated page.

This means you can get a fun and exciting book to amuse you while you’re on the road for your summer holiday or, maybe even better, to distract you if you’re not on holiday, but want to feel you are.  Library of the Sapphire Wind is the first book in a series that now stands at three books, and I hope to continue on with.

If you haven’t heard about Library of the Sapphire Wind, it’s a very unusual portal fantasy.  For once magic and adventure in other worlds isn’t reserved for tweenies and teens.  Instead, someone actually has the sense to summon adults to help solve world shattering problems.  You can read more about the novel here here, and read my interview with Elizabeth Ashby, the audiobook’s reader, here.

Otherwise, I’m doing okay as I continue with PT following rotor cuff surgery on my right shoulder.  I’m still not writing much more than little fragments, but rumor has it that Toni will have her edits on Friends Indeed, aka Star Kingdom 5, to me and Weber before too long.

The featured photo is of one of the sunflowers in our garden at its prime.  It seems to have been hit by the increasing heat (we’ve been over 107 since the weekend) and we’ll probably be cutting it down soon, but right now we’re letting the birds enjoy it.

Oh!  And I wanted to thank those of you who stepped in to support DreamForge Magazine, which made it’s Kickstarter bid and is reaching toward stretch goals, even as I type.

Take care.  Stay cool and enjoy the summer.