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I’m The BBESP Volume 1 is up!

After much chewing of nails on my part, Amazon finally deigned to let this novel go live.

I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!, or “I’m the BBESP” for short, is first in a series of three (at least) light novels about the far, far future of the Timelines universe.  Because it’s so far in the future and mostly disconnected from the events being written about in the Timelines universe, it’s its own series.  So let us start with Volume 1:

Alice is the Imperial Princess Regnant of the Galactic Empire. At 22, she has been thrust into power after her father (the Emperor) and her two older brothers have all died in various ways. Her Imperial Chancellor, Lord Rupert, does everything he can to support her, but has somewhat different ideas about how the Empire should be run than did his late Emperor.

Alice has one major problem: She cannot be crowned Empress Regnant until she marries and produces an heir. (In fairness, it’s the same way for the male heirs who succeed the throne while unmarried; they remain Princes Regnant until they marry and produce heirs.)

But Alice, being kept busy three days a week by interminable audiences with petitioners, and the rest of the week with what she terms “mostly busy work”, has no real way to meet boys — well, reasonably eligible boys, anyway, and of her own age — with whom she might eventually take up and form a household. And she chafes at the necessity of trying to rule, hands-on, an Empire so huge it cannot be truly ruled by any one person to begin with.

Literally, she just wants to leave people alone, as her father and his predecessors did for centuries.

Then, into her life walks the Crown Prince of a planet many, many parsecs away from the Capital Planet…and her life begins to take on a life of its own…

Available for free reading via KU, or purchase the e-book for $5.99. There’s also going to be a paperback edition, it’s just waiting for me to review the proof that’s supposed to arrive today. I don’t know if there will be hardbacks or not.

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I’m really tired but here’s a new book

Book is finally up, as of 18 Nov 2025 00:07 EST.  Yay.  See link in next post.

Note:  Amazon KDP has really screwed the pooch on this release.  The e-book is still sitting in “Publishing” status, as it has been since Friday.  When it actually goes “Live” — if ever — I will update this page again.  — 17 Nov 2025 17:30 EST

I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules a Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone! — Volume 1.  Publishing right now on Amazon KDP.  (I’ll put up a link later when it finishes going through the clusterfuck known as Amazon Publishing.)

[Update: The clusterfuck continues, it’s now 4PM on 11/15.  Oy.  And continues to continue at 4PM on 11/16.]

This is what I’ve been working on for the last bit of a while.  Eventually there will be three volumes and it’s all one novel — like what the Japanese do with light novels.  Each volume will be about 50,000 words, so the finished product will be the equivalent of a 150,000 word novel.

I hesitate to say it’s part of the Timelines universe.  Technically it is, but it’s 20,000 years in the future of that universe.  So the world it builds on is the world long after the Darkness Fleet is destroyed, and also long after a series of wars between human worlds over how they will be governed going forward.  The answer for most of the past 20,000 years has been an Empire that is primarily a clearinghouse for disputes between the worlds, with an Emperor who is legally in charge of it all, but who leaves most of the work to a professional bureaucracy.

At any rate I had a lot of fun writing it and the folks who watched it grow from an idea to a finished book generally seem to have thought well of it, and I hope my other readers do, as well.

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All Precious Stones and Peoples is released!

Once, a million years ago, a water world populated with dolphin-like beings, the product of gene-alteration by their Progenitors on the Earth-like world one orbit closer to the sun, was flung into the cold and dark of interstellar space by the passage of a rogue star.

And four thousand years ago, its engineers were awakened from suspended animation to bring the world into a new orbit around a giant, blue-white star, where the waters of the World Ocean could thaw and life could continue to flourish.

This is the story of the A’ka’pa’i’ka’ti, and their Foretold Saintess, Speaker to the Dry Ones, born to communicate with the Progenitors when they finally arrived to reclaim the lost . . .

This book carries on from an incident in my earlier novella, A Huntress on the Rocks.

And the prologue is from my novel The Lion and the Lizard.

It is not absolutely necessary to read either of those books before you read this one; though if you are a reader of my Timelines and Timelines Universe series, you will certainly be a step ahead of those who haven’t done.

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So there’s this site/service called Suno…

OK, so there’s a song, a church hymn more or less, in Chapter 2 of The Lion and the Darkness, right?  (Chapter 2 of the first half of the book, “The Martyr of Sardristra”.)

And there’s this new AI songwriting service called Suno.

And I might have fed the lyrics to it.

This can be blamed on Sarah Hoyt, who’s using Suno to do all kinds of songs for her new series (for which see below).

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Please go take a look at this.

As a relatively new writer (well, published writer; I’ve been writing since I was in my teens, just never put anything out there for sale till the WuFlu in ’20), I have Sarah A. Hoyt to thank for plugging my books on occasion; usually on her blog (where she does a weekly promo post mostly for indies) and occasionally on Instapundit, where she handles the swing shift posts most nights when she’s not exhausted/unwell.  (She has most recently had my latest book, Footprints, in her promo, just this past Sunday.)

Now, Mrs. Hoyt has a new novel out — a novel in the true sense, that is, it’s in multiple parts because it’s too long for a single volume.  (Actually, it’s not quite out; it’s up for pre-order, but some folks, including yours truly, have been watching it grow in snippets and bursts over the last year or so, and have read the first two volumes in eARC form — the third one is supposed to be available shortly, once it gets back from the editor.)

It’s called No Man’s Land.

Go here for full details:  https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/08/05/a-writers-bleg/

Or to go straight to the books to pre-order:

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

I assure you, this novel is the real deal.  It will be a science-fiction classic and you will be glad to have read it.  If you’ve read Mrs. Hoyt’s books before, believe me, you’ll want to buckle in tighter, because this is a master work.

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So I did a thing.

There was this discussion I was in about old fanfic we’d written.  Which made me think of all the old stuff I have stuck away on my hard drive.  And then I got to thinking this one story might not be as bad as I thought it was.  It’s not fanfic, it’s something I came up with on my own…in 1984.

Humanity has worked its painful way up the technological ladder and is ready to go to the moon.  But surprises await our intrepid explorers, who have differing reasons for their presence on the mission.  Will the agent of an oppressive government do the will of his masters, or will the revolutionary-in-secret win out and spark a revolution among the people back home?  And what does an ancient artifact protected by a mysterious voice have to do with any of this?

It wasn’t really intended to be a standalone, but rather, a prequel or prologue for a novel I was writing at the time.  The novel…well, it’s pretty bad.  But this story has always stuck in my head, and when I re-read it yesterday, I decided it isn’t really that awful.  So I edited it a bit, reformatted it, made a cover that looks like something I might have come up with in the 1980’s, and it’s currently publishing as an e-book on Amazon.  When it’s done, hopefully no later than overnight tonight, it should be available here:

It’s available in KU or for purchase ($5.99).  And it is a novella, not a full-length novel, but it should be a one- or one and a half-hour read.  It will also be available in paperback, but that will be $9.99 because of the way Amazon recently screwed authors on royalties for any PoD book priced less than that.

I have a new contact form in the Contact page linked above in the menu; if you read it, let me know what you think, and/or please give it a star rating or a review on Amazon, too.

Oh, and the back cover is cool, too; it’s not my usual “mirror image in greyscale”, but a completely separate image.  Here’s the paperback cover:

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This sort of thing is bullshit.

This site needs to be nuked from orbit.

As an aside, it was my pleasure to share a reading slot with Amy DuBoff at LibertyCon, a week ago last Saturday. She’s a very pleasant person (her husband is, too!) and from what she read of her work at that time, she seems to be an excellent writer. She doesn’t deserve this sort of treatment.

All you indies out there, be warned off The Book Boost Architect site.

(Original X link is https://x.com/RickPartlow66/status/1939513509106286827 ).

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I hate when I predict the future and don’t know it.

I wrote this as a retrospective comment about NYC in my previous novella, which is set in the 2120s and is something of a noir detective story. I didn’t figure I was writing 2025 news when I wrote it in 2024.

For all the City is a swingin’ place, law enforcement is pretty bad. Most of the cops are on the take (what else is new), and the few who actually try to do their jobs aren’t in a position to change that. The red-light districts are nearly as packed as the convention and music venues, and since that’s about all keeping the City from being a ghost town after the corporate and financial districts packed up and moved out, a century ago, that’s all the cops care about policing. Live on the West Side, or Uptown? Or in one of the outlying boroughs? You’re on your own, boys and girls. Call the mayor if you think he should spend more money on cops. If you can get through all the calls from his cronies and pals.

From On Account of a Dame, by me, available on Amazon.

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So, Liberty Con.

As intimated in another post down below somewhere, I’m attending Liberty Con 37 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from June 20-22, 2025, as a pro guest.  (NOT a guest of honor or anything like that; just a pro guest.)

As such, I have been asked to be on a panel and show up at a few other things during the weekend.  If you’re going to LC, you can see my schedule at https://www.libertycon.org/lc37pros/nathan-brindle, or you can take a look below; clicking anywhere on that schedule image takes you to my guest page on the LC website, where you can click around in the actual schedule to see what the events are and who else will be involved.

If you’re an attendee, it will be a pleasure to meet you there!

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