The second Earth Girl novella, Earth and Air, is now available worldwide in both ebook and paperback. Full details here.
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Paperback release of Earth and Air
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Scavenger Alliance has a new cover
I’ve put a new cover on the ebook of Scavenger Alliance, and polished up the book description a bit. I hope you think it’s an improvement.
Ebook Release of Earth and Air: An Earth Girl Novella
Earth and Air: An Earth Girl Novella is available now worldwide in Ebook
Paperback release expected August 2018
Set in the Portal Future of the Earth Girl trilogy
Don’t breathe!
2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else uses interstellar portals to travel between hundreds of colony worlds, 17-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, abandoned by her parents to be raised a ward of Hospital Earth, she lives a regimented life in one of their impersonal residences.
Jarra is spending the summer at New York Fringe Dig Site with her school history club. While her friends search for lost treasures on the ground, Jarra is airborne in a survey plane and hoping to become a qualified pilot, but the sprawling ancient ruins of New York contain the lethal legacies of the past as well as its treasures.
EARTH AND FIRE was the first of what is planned to be a sequence of three prequel novellas set in the distant future of the Earth Girl trilogy and featuring Jarra. EARTH AND AIR is the second in the sequence. At over 60,000 words it is actually longer than standard novella length.
Cover art (C) Janet Edwards 2018, Cover Design by The Cover Collection.
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Delay due to Amazon technical issue
I’m having to delay the release of the Earth and Air novella due to a technical issue at Amazon making some ebooks (particularly new and recent releases) either become invisible to buyers or visible with no buy button.
My deepest apologies about this. I hate having a last-minute delay, but I was caught up in a different issue with the paperback of Defender, which kept publishing and unpublishing for a week or so. Worse still, all the books affected had a recurrence of the problem a month or so later. I don’t want to risk something similar happening with the ebook of Earth and Air, and I can’t announce a release until the ebook is loading on all the main sales channels.
Amazon’s engineers are working to solve this issue so hopefully the delay won’t be long. I’m watching their announcement regularly for updates, and checking reports from other authors. I’ll get the release moving as soon as the situation is resolved.
Guest Post – The Worst Way To Read A Book
There’s a new guest post from me over at Author Allsorts. This time I’m talking about the horrors of studying a book at school.
Two weeks to go for the Earth and Air novella
I’ve had a few people asking me for news about Earth and Air, the second of the Earth Girl prequel novellas featuring Jarra. I expected this to be out in May, but it’s running a little behind schedule. I expect Earth and Air: An Earth Girl Novella will be published about two weeks from now, in early June. Anyone who has signed up for my newsletter will get an email alert when it starts appearing on Amazon and other sales sites.
The good news is that one of the reasons Earth and Air is running behind schedule is that it turned out to be longer than planned. For those of you who have read the first novella, Earth and Fire, I was originally planning for Earth and Air to be about the same length, but it’s actually 50% longer than that. I hope that 50% extra Jarra counts as good rather than bad news for most of you!
While I’m on the subject of novella lengths, I’ll grab my chance to explain that technically a novella is defined as a story that is between 17,500 words and 39,999, while over 40,000 words is a novel.
Since Earth and Fire is 42,000 words long, it’s technically a short novel. Frontier and Perilous are much longer at about 55,000 words, and Earth and Air is around 62,000 words, so these are definitely short novels. I’m still putting the novella label on them though, because I don’t want anyone to be confused between these shorter pieces and my full-length novels.
Guest speaker at Birmingham SF Group (UK)
On May 11th, I’ll be guest speaker at the Birmingham SF Group (UK). If you’re in the area, then please come along and join us. Full details here.
Guest Post – Sometimes You Need Magic
There’s a new guest post from me over at Author Allsorts. This is about the magic in books, and the magic of books.
Books briefly vanishing from Google Play, Overdrive and Playster
Due to an issue with one of my distributors, you may notice a hiatus with my books on Google Play, Overdrive and Playster. They should briefly be unavailable for purchase before reappearing via a different route. Defender should be fine since that is already on the new route.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!
Paperback release of Defender
Becoming a telepath was hard. Being a telepath is harder.
Defender, the second full-length book in the Hive Mind series, is now available worldwide in both ebook and paperback formats.
Full details are here.
