In the Stacks: Notes, New Release Updates

I have successfully wrestled Amazon’s bureaucracy into submission, so IN THE STACKS: AUTHOR’S ENHANCED EDITION is now available for Kindle:



https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GCSJ72W

Furthermore, it’s already up at Smashwords, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Kobo, Etc.

What’s changed with “In the Stacks?” Well, anyone who read it before will probably remember that the story required four students at a magical academy to return four books to a dangerously enchanted library. However, because of time and space constraints, I let them off the hook after three books. That situation has now been corrected. All four books go back on the shelves. Librarians everywhere can sleep peacefully again.



Some awkward writing was smoothed out, some new dialogue inserted. A couple passages that I now consider sorta reflexively heteronormative in a very boring and unexamined fashion have now been replaced with more broadly inclusive ribaldry.



Everything else is as it was– a (hopefully) kick-butt swords and sorcery tale featuring the most disorganized library in the known universe and the hard, scarred librarians who risk their lives to keep it running.



I’m setting up a release schedule for my next three digital book releases, which should all be available for pre-order at least a week prior to final release dates, now that I’ve kicked my way in to the systems at Amazon and Smashwords:



“The Effigy Engine” - August 21



“A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” - September 4

“The Smoke of Gold is Glory” - October 16

October 16th is also the release date for the BOOK OF MAGIC anthology, which contains a lot of great stuff including my latest fantasy novelette, “The Fall and Rise of the House of Malkuril.”

Other fun plans include the reinvigoration of my mailing list and a late September / early October rollout of a major website makeover.



Now why, you may ask yourself, is a writer who’s been in a frustrating shell for a while dealing with a long-term project suddenly busting his ass to spruce up his communications, online presence, neglected responsibilities, etc. in the next month or two? Heh. Interesting question.

