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(3/22/03) JADE DARCY AND THE ZEN PIRATES has at last been reissued in a paperback as well as in electronic format. For those of you who don't want to read books on computer screens, or whose original editions are lost or falling apart, here's your chance to get a new paper copy.
This new edition has only a few minor changes from the original (unlike AFFAIR OF HONOR, which had an entire scene restored). Most notably, the coded message Louis sends to Earth has been somewhat changed, (As in the original we don't decode it for you; that, as they say in text books, is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Work proceeds, albeit slowly, on RUN OUT OF WEST. Be prepared to learn a lot more about Cablans.
(5/9/02) At last!!!TREACHERY OF THE DEMON KING has just been published in paperback as well as electronically, completing the Parsina Saga after so many years of waiting. I apologize for the long delay, and I sincerely hope you'll enjoy this book and decide the wait was worthwhile after all. If you want to start a discussion with other fans about it, please visit my Discusson Group.
By the way, I'd like to say a public thank-you to European fan Basile Grammaticos for pointing out to me that there are no tides in the Mediterranean (and thus the "Central") Sea. This fact has been corrected in the newer editions of all the books.
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LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES Published
(3/21/02) The collection of my short work, THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES, is now out in print-on-demand paperback as well as electronic formats. This is the most definitive collection of my work that ever has been published (or likely ever will be; I'm not writing a lot of short stories these days).The book contains my Nebula finalist "The Last Ghost"; my most anthologized story, "Sweet Dreams, Melissa"; the 5 never-before-collected "Angel in Black" fantasy stories; the previously unpublished "Haunted Houses"; and a host of other surprises. Roughly half the stories are humorous, the rest serious. It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine which are which.
Click here to see the beautiful cover by science fiction artist Don Simpson and to view the entire Table of Contents. Then click here if you want to buy a copy.
AFFAIR OF HONOR Now in Paperback Edition
(12/7/01) Some of you may remember that E-Reads had republished JADE DARCY AND THE AFFAIR OF HONOR in an electronic edition several months ago. Now there's good news for those of you who don't want to sit reading a novel on a computer screen. E-Reads has issued the book in a trade paperback edition as well. Those of you whose old copies were lost (or borrowed by friends who never returned them) or are falling apart from rereading can now replace them with brand new copies.Remember, these copies have the "restored" opening chapter with the nightmare scene the original editor made us water down. Get a copy of the book the way it was meant to be read.
This means, too, that with any luck we may soon see a paperback reissue of JADE DARCY AND THE ZEN PIRATES as well.
ETERNITY BRIGADE Now in Print-on-Demand Edition
(10/1/01) E-Reads has just published The Eternity Brigade in print-on-demand format as well as electronic formats. It is trade paperback size, and it means that those readers who were unwilling to commit to reading books on computer screens will now be able to purchase ink-and-wood-pulp copies. (It's more expensive in this format, but there are manufacturing costs involved.)I'm doubly thrilled at this because it means my other books from E-Reads (A World Called Solitude, Scavenger Hunt, the collection The Last Ghost and Other Stories, Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor and (soon, I hope) Jade Darcy and the Zen Pirates) will eventually be published on paper as well.
SCAVENGER HUNT Reissued in 1-Volume Edition
(9/27/01) Scavenger Hunt, an adventurous romp around the Galaxy, has been reissued by E-Reads in various electronic formats. While it might not be my greatest opus, I think that pound for pound it contains more fun than any other book I've done, and it holds a special spot in my heartOne thing that makes this version special is that it has been recombined into one volume. The version previously published in the U.S. was artificially broken in two for reasons that had nothing to do with the story. Now, for the first time in English, you can read it the way I originally intended. I hope you enjoy it.
(5/27/01) Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor has been republishedelectronically. As an extra temptation for Jade fans, this new edition of Affair contains the original nightmare scene in Chapter 1 that the first publisher made us tone down for publication, saying it was too graphic. (Is it really too graphic to start with the line, "He came at her, naked and erect"?) No more wishy-washy, namby-pamby scenes for us.In less-good news, Mary will shortly be going into the hospital to have her gall bladder removed. She's actually been looking forward to it, though. For the past several years she's been having abdominal pains that drained most of the energy out of her, and her doctor refused to do anything. (Male doctors often think female patients are being hysterical when they report pain.) Finally she got some tests that showed her mysterious symptoms are due to simple gall stones, and there's a straightforward cure. She'll be in the hospital about a week, then 4-12 weeks recuperating at home. Looking on the positive side, she expects to be able to finish "training" her voice recognition software and start dictating on Jade while she's reclining, so this time won't be a total loss.