An Omnibus of Seasons paperback-only release

Because I am almost fatally writer’s-blocked at the moment, I put together something I’ve wanted to do for a while — a paperback release of the three Seasons stories I’ve written since 2020.

(Sorry, since this isn’t an e-book, the “preview” button doesn’t actually work.)

This edition contains no new material; it’s basically a vanity paperback release for myself, a couple of my friends, and anyone else who would like to have those stories in paperback.  I think at $6.99* it’s pretty doggone cheap for an Amazon KDP POD release.  Anyway, the cover is The Queen of Spring, and the back cover (not shown here) is The Queen of Autumn, whom we know as Joelle and Sarah, respectively.

The direct Amazon link is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C9SJJP59 .

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* Sorry, it was originally $5.99, it’s now $6.99, which is STILL cheap for a POD release.  And I fixed the cover because it was misaligned.

LibertyCon and books

I will be at LibertyCon 35 in Chattanooga this coming weekend.  I don’t have a table and I’m not a guest, but I will have paperback books (in the new covers) if anyone wants them.  See the price list below.  However, I will have only a LIMITED number of copies, and these prices are good until I run out of them.  The four “short story” book special at the bottom is good only until I don’t have all four in hand anymore.

Also, note that the four “shorts” are priced at Amazon with a minimal royalty to me.  So yeah, I charge a little more for them than Amazon.  Sorry about that.

I’ll also have a few of the books in their original covers — same prices.  Though in those covers all I have are The Lion of God, The Lion and The Lizard, and The Cross-Time Kamaitachi.  (Left over from last year before I finished the others.)

Autographs are always free, whether it’s a copy I sold you or a copy you bought from Amazon.

Major credit cards accepted with Square.  Or cash money of the United States is always good…until suddenly it isn’t, but that’s a government problem, not a personal problem.

Price list Amazon Price
My Price
The Lion of God $15.22 $8.00
The Lion and The Lizard $15.22 $8.00
The Lion in Paradise $18.22 $10.00
The Cross-Time Kamaitachi $22.24 $12.00
The Tale of the Crane Princess $15.22 $8.00
The Reason* $4.75 $5.00
A Fox in the Henhouse* $4.75 $5.00
A Dragon in the Foie Gras* $5.75 $5.00
A Huntress on the Rocks* $4.75 $5.00
Set of the four shorts (books marked with *) $20.00 $15.00

Just look for the old fat guy in an aloha shirt who looks like that guy with an HBO series who can’t finish the books.  Yeah, cruel, but I am a curmudgeon.

Note about new covers and Kindle for iPad/iPhone (and maybe others)

Something I’ve noticed for a while is that Amazon doesn’t automatically update your already-owned books if a small change is made (like typo fixes).  The same is true of cover updates.  You can get the covers to update inside the books themselves if you tap and hold the book cover in the library to get the menu, then “Remove Download”, then tap and hold again for the menu and hit “Download”.  This shouldn’t break your notes or set you back to the beginning of the book, but it will pull down the latest version of the book, which should have the new cover at the beginning.

Unfortunately this does not update the cover shown in your library.

The only way to update the library listing covers is apparently to clear the Kindle app’s cache.  This can’t be done by simply terminating the application and restarting it.  And at least in current (16.x) iPadOS or iPhoneOS, there is no method provided in the Kindle app’s settings to clear the app’s cache, neither in the app itself or in the iOS settings app (Settings/General/i(Pad or Phone) Storage).  (Couldn’t tell you about Android.  Don’t use Android.  Google is evil.)

No, to get the new covers to appear in the app’s library listings, you must remove the app from the phone or pad (which deletes all of its cached data) and then reinstall it.  Which works and doesn’t seem to break anything since most of the data concerning which books you read last and where you were in those books is kept in the Whispersync cloud.

But it’s a pain in the ass to have to delete the app and reinstall it to do something that ought to be handled with a button in the app’s settings to clear the cache on demand.

I did find, at least for the Kindle Oasis (which I own), you can get the library covers to update by removing the download, re-downloading the book, and then opening the book.  This apparently convinces the Kindle device to re-cache the cover.  Which begs the question of why the same isn’t true of the iThing Kindle apps.

New covers for the Timelines Universe shorts

I have been busy with Midjourney and have updated covers for the four Timelines Universe shorts:

All of them should be reflected on Amazon at this point, though The Reason may take a little longer since I just uploaded it about an hour ago.  There are also 5″x8″ paperbacks available for anyone interested in a complete set to go along with the novels.

At some point, I’ll update the thumbnails on the sidebar and elsewhere on the site.

Working on: The Dragon’s Sister

The Dragon’s Sister will be a little story about the Chinese “direct action” agent rescued from a failing stasis chamber in my previous short novel in the Timelines Universe series, A Dragon In The Foie Gras. It’s got a way to go yet, so look for it sometime in May-ish.

New Cover Project

I’m in the process of re-releasing the Timelines books with new covers that aren’t Daz3D creations.  For instance, the first novel, The Lion of God, is going to look like this:

I think we can all agree that’s a much better cover 🙂

New Release: The Tale of the Crane Princess (Updated!)

This took far too long but finally the sequel (sort of) to The Cross-Time Kamaitachi has been posted to Amazon for your reading pleasure.

Ordinary, everyday shopkeeper Horiuchi Tsurue is running a little general store and mini-café on a small island in Japan’s inland sea, two centuries after mankind was nearly wiped out by a virus.

One day, Yamaguchi Yukiko, the kamaitachi of legend (The Cross-Time Kamaitachi), and her daughter Mikoko, appear in front of Tsurue’s shop, and she invites them in for tea.

That’s when Tsurue discovers she is anything but ordinary. And in the end, the island she is sworn to protect will depend upon it.


E-book only for the moment; $2.99 to purchase, or read for free on Kindle Unlimited.

UPDATE, 31 Jan 2023: Amazon KDP Paperback is now available, $14.97. Also, The Tale of the Crane Princess was featured on Instapundit this morning — Thank you, Sarah Hoyt!