Closed Circle

Lynn’s “The Wooden Sword” is now available in the eStore.

(7-6-10 — Well, isn’t this embarrassing.  Apparently I bundled a 0-length pdf file into the downloads.  It’s been fixed, but don’t hesitate to let me know if something’s not working.)

The Wooden Sword
Volume 1 of the Walensor Chronicles. After a terrible war and an almost unexpected victory, peace has come to Walensor, even to the tiny village of Gorse on the verge of the ancient Weychawood. A young shepherd, for whom the new peace will be a decidedly mixed blessing, tends her flock beside the stream that separates Gorse from the forest. She prays for something--anything--to rescue her from a marriage, contracted before she was born, to a man she both loathes and fears. Then, as if in answer to those prayers, a fire-eyed fetch appears on the far side of the stream... Sample here
Price: $5.00

Considering the subject matter — the journeys, both internal and external, of a forest-goddess’s champion and the shepherd who befriends him as a way to escape a backward village and a very bad marriage — it’s probably not surprising that Lynn’s original “dead tree” publisher judged The Wooden Sword too realistic to be good fantasy.

Now, you can judge for yourself…and without harming a tree!

There’s a downloadable sample that includes pdf, epub, and mobi versions of the first two chapters here

Now available in the Store!

My first dead-tree book has become my first eBook!

At long last Daughter of the Bright Moon is available for purchase and download in the store.

Nothing’s quite as humbling as re-editing your first book.  The whole time I was working on it, I kept thinking of a remark, attributed to Robert Browning when he was asked the meaning of a line in one of his poems:

‘Madam, when I wrote that only God and I knew what it meant. Now only God knows.’

Still, it’s my firstborn, and I’m delighted to make it available again.

Daughter of the Bright Moon
Born in a lightstorm, trained as a healer and a warrior, Rifkind has never been on good terms with her clan, but when they are massacred she faces a dire choice: join them in death or leave the steppes forever. She chooses exile and heads for the fertile wetlands, hoping to find gold and adventure. Instead, she will find her destiny. Sample here
Price: $5.00

I (Jane) finally got the first of the Ring books ready to go. I tried some new stuff on this…formatting for LRF, RB and a couple of others, Table of Contents…stuff like that, so please, please, please, check out all the files you can on whatever dedicated readers you’ve got and let me know if you have any problems so I can fix them before a million people rush to download!

Here’s a pdf sample of the book: Ring of Lightning: Section One

Have fun:

Ring of Lightning
Wherein a simple case of arranged marriages for our three heroes has (literally) earth-shattering consequences. Dancer, a human child reared by the mysterious ley-creatures, struggles for the right to compete for the coveted title of RingDancer of Khoratum.
Price: $5.00

Congratulations Closed Circle from Book View Café .

We at Book View Café are excited for you Lynn, CJ, and Jane in your new Internet endeavor! There’s a lot to take advantage of in the Internet world and a lot of wonderful places to go. And now there’s one more: Closed Circle.

Although BVC has been around just over a year ourselves, we feel like we’re still very much learning the ropes. No day goes by without discovering new possibilities across the breadth of the internet. If it’s not a new ebook reader, it’s a new website willing to help sell our books. New avenues for spreading the word about our site and our writing appear with amazing speed.

We’re excited to hear about your new online experiment and wish you every success. There is no denying that the challenges can be daunting and it can take time and patience to build success.  Internet entities come and go daily. As the webmasters discover just how much work can go into keeping a site vital, they lose faith and energy.  However, it is vital for authors and readers that we all be out in this wider world, sharing our work and our news.

Here’s wishing you patience, determination and success.  We very much look forward to fresh news of your site and work and look forward to helping you celebrate future anniversaries.

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