Sugar Time (time travel tales with Sugar Sweet and her companions) is on sale for 50% off as part of the Smashwords Summer/Winter sales event: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/567992

Sugar Time is spotlighted on Cover me it's Monday: http://www.michelprincebooks.com/the-little-people-in-my-head/cover-me-its-monday-with-sugar-time-by-joy-smith

Sugar Time, my Sugar Sweet time travel tales collection, is on sale this month--half price--at Smashwords. The code is SSW50: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/567992

Thanks to Astounding Books for including Sugar Time in their Astounding Authors spotlight: https://astoundingbooks.wordpress.com/

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I have a collection of some of my published stories in Aliens, Animals and Adventure. You can order it (trade paperback) at the Anthology Builder library:

AnthologyBuilder: Aliens, Animals, and Adventure by Joy V. Smith

It includes three pairs of stories and sequels: The Doorway and Guard Dog, Pretty Pink Planet and Hot Yellow Planet, and Lost in ( Read more... )

I've written a variety of books and stories so there's something here for everyone:

My non-fiction primer for home building is Building a Cool House for Hot Times without Scorching the Pocketbook (the new edition has color photos); the ISBN number on that edition is 978-1-60749-562-8: Online Bookstore Or you can order it from amazon:http://www. ( Read more... )

I've started writing my next novel for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month); that starts in November, and I've written my first 4000 words. (I try to write 2000 words a day so I don't fall behind.)

The novel I worte last year (also SF) is waiting for a decision by an editor...

And if anyone is going to TusCon in Tucson this month, Sugar Time, my ( Read more... )

I recommend these books which I've bought recently (some were pre-ordered): I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett, Cryoburn (Miles Vorkosigan) by Lois McMaster Bujold, Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster, and two Modesty Blaise short story collections: Cobra Trap and Pieces of Modesty.  (I recommend the ones I haven't read yet based on their  ( Read more... )

I recently submitted my second rewrite of my SF novel, Strike Three; and one of my short stories made the short list of an anthology, while I'm waiting to hear back from other editors about some other stories.

Meanwhile, you can check out:

Some of my short stories in my reprint collection--Aliens, Animals, and Adventure: http://www.anthologybuilder. ( Read more... )