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Closed Circle is the brainchild of three authors, multiple Hugo award winner, C.J. Cherryh, Best-selling co-creator of Thieves’ World, Lynn Abbey, and critically acclaimed Jane Fancher. Collectively, we have 150 (and counting) published novels from major New York publishing houses, and at least that many short stories, dating from the mid 1970s.

With that many books involved, you can imagine the sad state of our backlist. Add to that the increasingly conservative New York publishers and their less than sterling attempts in the ebook realm and we just decided to take our creative future into our own hands. We all have series fallowing because New York has moved in another direction, but our readers still want to know what happens to the characters they know and love. And there are more stories. Stories we want to write rather than the stories New York wants us to write.

Thus was Closed Circle born. Ebooks have given us a whole new option and we plan to take full advantage of it. We’re still in the early stages…three months ago, we were still refining our ebook conversion processes…but we’re working on getting samples of all the books up and we have at least twenty more books just waiting for covers and conversions…not to mention the new stories we have sitting in our heads.

We’re still far from perfect, but we’re doing our best to bring you a quality, DRM-free product, in as user friendly an environment as we can manage.
There’s much more to the story. Poke around the tabs at the top and you’ll find comments on the books, guides to ebook files and (free) readers, samples, free downloads and more. When you’re done here, check out our goodies at the Closed Circle Bazaar on Café Press.

July 30, 2010 | JSF1000 |

Another title on the virtual shelves!

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
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
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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

July 6, 2010 | Lynn |