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Now in print!

Front cover of print edition.
Front cover of print edition.

I've had the e-book edition of my novel, Of Fish and Swimming Swords, available for Kindle and Smashwords for two years. Now, I have a print edition.

You can order a print copy from CreateSpace. Use the discount code XMXXKGKU to get 25% off.

The print cover is different from the digital, but I still tried to put together a cover that was somewhat connected to the novel. The digital cover reflects the role of fours and a virtual world tree. In the case of the print edition, the artifacts resemble meshing gears, cycles enmeshed with cycles, and discarded materials half buried in the sand, similar to the layers of conspiracy in the story feeding off of each other and only half emerging from the text.

The next step is to match up the print and digital editions on Amazon so that you can get a copy of the digital edition when you buy a copy of the print through Amazon's Kindle Matchbook program.

Some Writing Observations

The working title for my new novel is Silent Rain. When the novel opens, it's already been raining non-stop for a week or two. The reservoir up river from Sherman's family is overflowing and the dam is showing signs that it might go at any time. Pretty soon, it does collapse and all the water races downstream to wipe out the town below it. This sets off a series of events that finds Sherman searching for his family after he sees them get taken by an armed gang.

At this point, I have almost 31,000 words. Sherman hasn't found his family yet, but he has an idea of where they might be. He's run into a monster, scavenged for food, and escaped from someone. I think he'll eventually meet up with the rest of his family, but it may be a little while. Or it might not. He's about to open a door and explore a place where he might find them, eventually.

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