Another thing that’s great about the Storybundle promotions - besides getting lots of books for a very reasonable price - is that you have the option of donating 5% of your payment to one of three charities: Special Effect, Girls Write Now, and Mighty Writers.

SpecialEffect are putting fun and inclusion back into the lives of people with ( Read more... )

I have two books in the currently featured Cyberpunk Storybundle, Lost Things in the main bundle and the reissue of Dreamships in the bonus bundle! And I’m in very good company: Kevin J. Anderson, David Bischoff (offering a complete trilogy), Frank Herbert, Steven Saville, David Farland, Michael Bunker, Rob MacGregor and his writing partner Billie ( Read more... )

Silver Bullet is out in ebook (and at Amazon and B&N), and will soon be available in print - I'll post the exact date as soon as I have it.  Steel Blues is no longer on Kindle exclusive, and can be found in all formats through Crossroad or at your favorite online dealers.  And if you haven't tried the series, or if you want to start at the ( Read more... )

The audiobook version of Steel Blues is now available from audible.com!  John Lee, who read Lost Things, is back as narrator, and does his usual excellent job.  A stolen necklace that carries a curse, a cross-country air race, a stowaway Russian countess, and a series of unsolved murders - what more could go wrong ( Read more... )

    Jo and I just turned in the final draft for Steel Blues, the next book in our series the Order of the Air, following Lost Things.  The Depression has hit hard, and Gilchrist Aviation is struggling to survive: they’ve lost their mail contract, their charter and freight business is way down, and they’re faced with the choice of somehow bringing ( Read more... )

If you were waiting for a non-Nook format for the ebook of Lost Things, the Barnes & Noble exclusive has expired, and both the ebook and the paperback are now available from the usual sources.  You can order from the publisher here, or from Amazon and all the usual suspects - and if you were having problems with a non-North American credit card at ( Read more... )

If you were waiting for the paperback edition of Lost Things, it's now available on Amazon!  The Kindle edition should be available around the end of next, as soon as the Nook exclusive expires.  Any preorders made through Crossroad Press should ship August 1.

To celebrate, have another snippet!  This is from early in the book, after archeologist ( Read more... )

Lost Things has just completed its first weekend as a Nook First title on the Barnes & Noble website - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-things-melissa-scott/1110616995?ean=2940014734219&format=nook-book if you haven't already seen it* - and it's been really interesting to see how different some things are with an ebook. For one thing, it's ( Read more... )

Lost Things is now up on the B&N page as the front facing title for Nook First (scroll down), so I thought I'd post a quick excerpt.  This is from early in the story, as the team flies toward Chicago in pursuit of an ancient evil.  They need to create some sort of protection against it, however, and they're having a little trouble working out the ( Read more... )

In the wake of the lovely PW review, Barnes & Noble has decided to release Lost Things a couple of weeks early - today, in fact!  This is the exclusive ebook preview - it's formatted for Nook only, of course, but those of you with other platforms should be able to convert as needed.  The only downside is you need a US address to download; if that's ( Read more... )