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This blog has been moribund for a number of years. It’s time to let it go. 

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I just got a Paypal notice on a held order.

Yikes! Somebody wanted to buy a copy of Ravenwood at the beginning of September and I missed the Paypal notice (apparently).

I’m out of stock on the old covers so I couldn’t fill it anyway but I should have at LEAST told the reader.

Mea culpa.

That’s not something I ever want to be guilty of … and it looks like I need to not ever be guilty of it *again*.

If you ever order something from me and don’t get a response? Use the contact form and let me know. Please?

Thanks.

Yes, it’s true.

Podiobooks is down but this time, it’s not me.

Some of you have noted the problems with the Podiobooks site showing up as “at risk” on Google searches because of some slimy spammishness that got linked in. After months of trying to fix it piecemeal, Evo and his support staff has decided to bit the bullet and take the site down to metal and rebuilt from the disk up.

This is both good news and bad news.

The good news is that the new Podiobooks 2.0 that has been in development for at least three years is being rolled out. The bad news is that this could take a while…and we don’t exactly know how long.

In the meantime, the Community is still up and running. You can find news and information about the server and the progress there.

Patience is all we need at the moment, and I’ll try to come up with stuff to distract you in the coming days.

🙂

It’s been too long since I updated so let me try to rectify that now.

Comments

Sorry about the comments. I didn’t realize I had so many waiting in moderation. I’ll check more often.

Next Tanyth Fairport

Zypheria’s Call is in my word processor now while I wait for Ridan to return my edits for Captain’s Share. I’m working on a word spring with my online writer’s group and we’re working toward 15,000 words by the end of day Thursday, I’ve written 7,900 since Friday morning so I’m well on the pace. My goal is to have a full working draft for beta readers by the end of the week (June 8). Will I make it? I don’t know, but I’m working off a schedule that should help me get focused and stay there.

Trader’s Tales

The Ishmael Wang books are in production. Ridan has said both books will be out before Christmas. With a release in May and projected dates of Seaptember and November for the remaining two, that would be quite a feat. It’s not a prediction, just what the plan looks like now.

Web Work

All my websites are getting overhauled. I’ve hired it done because I need to get that fixed and I don’t want to take the time away from writing to do it. Allison Duncan of Get Found Consulting is doing the design work and we’ll probably be tweaking everything to make it easier to find what’s out there.

Podiobooks

If you subscribe through podiobooks.com you can find all the books that are available for free. Some of them are mine. The easiest way is to use the iTunes Music Store and plug “podiobooks.com” in the search bar. Podiobooks is a preferred provider to iTunes and, as such, has their own presence there. All my books are listed there as free downloads in audio (mp3) format. Click the “All Podcasts” link and you’ll have all the podiobooks available. Or you can just put my name in the search bar and see everything that’s got my name on it on iTunes. (I’m shocked at the size of that list.)

Thanks!

Please accept my heartfelt thanks for the support all of you have given my work over the years. Tanyth’s stories are some of my favorites because they’re so rich (and difficult). It means a great deal to me that they’re being so warmly recieved.

Until next time, blessed be.

The hits just keep on coming!

I just finished KC May’s “The Kinshield Legacy.”

KC is another person I met over on the Kindleboards and when her second book in this series came out last week, I went back and looked at the first one.

Wow.

Great story, fun characters, real villainy, and a magic based on gemstones to amplify human talents. This is a classic epic fantasy with a hidden king, evil wizards, and the whole bit. If that’s your thing, you should grab a sample and give it a try. It’s only 99 cents at the moment and a huge bargain.

Let her know if you like it. Tell her “Tanyth sent me.”

Blessed be.

I’m assuming that most readers here are also following along at the Trader’s Diary, but in case you’re not, Debora Geary has offered free copies of her novella Matchmaker 2.0 to up to three of my readers.

If you haven’t been following then you probably haven’t heard that I’m going to be filling in some of the gaps with some novella length pieces that we’re calling Novel Nibbles. These will be about 20k words long and offered for 99 cents on the kindle and smashwords stores and listed on the Novel Nibbles catalog site as well. I left a post over on the Trader’s Diary with more information but I’m really looking forward to getting more writing out faster than I can do in novel formats alone.

The Ravenwood sequel is on my plate for release in late summer of this year so watch for more stories about Tanyth coming soon.

Thanks again.

Merry meet and welcome to the new home of Tanyth Fairport and the stories from the Lammas Wood.

Most of you know me from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, but this foray into fantasy represents a new direction in my writing. My goal was to take the standard ideas in fantasy literature and give them my own twist. The result is the first book in what I anticipate will be an ongoing series of adventures with my heroine Tanyth Fairport.

The text itself was completed during the NaNoWriMo 2009 event and for the month of December I’m polishing and getting it ready for podcasting. Watch for the release on January 4th, 2010 and come back to visit occasionally. I’ll be adding new pages and supplemental content here as time allows. I’ve got maps, lists of the characters, and other background information that I used to create these stories and I’ll be adding here so you can pull back the curtain a bit and take a peek behind the scenes of Lammas Wood.