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Sci-Fi Explorations Bundle

Last few days of the Sci-Fi Explorations Bundle! Thirteen authors coming together to offer their books in a themed collection. Includes my futuristic mystery/thriller All the Whys of Delilah’s Demise. Find all the details here.

The Sci-Fi Explorations Bundle expires on midnight ET on Thursday, January 30th.

What Have I Been Reading?

I’ve got a couple of books to recommend:

Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility. Science fiction. I flew through this one. The past, the future, pandemics, time travel. A beautiful and unsettling read.

I’ve also been enjoying Joe Moran’s First You Write a Sentence. Non-fiction. This is not exactly a craft book, more of an ode to the beauty of the written word. A book best read at an easy pace and savored.

Social Media Update

I’ve been poking my head out of my hobbit hole to check out the new social media options. I tried Threads for about 5 seconds, but there’s no way to turn off autoplay for videos, so that’s an automatic no from me. I do like Bluesky, and it’s becoming livelier, with a robust and growing book community, so much that I keep wanting to call it Booksky. It has the feel of Twitter before it was X, with a similar interface and a 300-character limit for posts. Like Mastodon, there are no ads on Bluesky (though that may change down the road) and it has some cool, unique features like Starter Packs.

If you’re on Bluesky, you can find me here.

Thanks for reading!

Neve

December News

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, or a great week if Thanksgiving isn’t a thing where you are. December here in Minnesota has rolled in with frigid temperatures. No snow yet, just bare trees and nightfall arriving early.

Book Cover Update

My thanks to everyone who voted last month on the two options for the new cover of All the Whys of Delilah’s Demise. I decided to go with #2, which ended up with a slight lead over #1. We did, however, incorporate elements of #1 into #2, by tweaking the structure and look of the eye. (Incidentally, I’ve always wanted an eye on the cover, but not a horror-style, disturbing one. I think this one strikes that balance just right!)

Drumroll, please… The final cover! The designers at Miblart knocked this one out of the park.

I’m in the process of uploading the new cover for the ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, at the bottom of this email, and wherever else the cover makes an appearance. The print book will take a a little longer, as it requires waiting for a test copy to arrive in the mail.

To celebrate the new cover, I’m putting the book on sale for $0.99 across all retailers until the end of the year. If you haven’t read it yet and are in the mood for a dystopian murder mystery, now is a great time to pick it up! The full list of retailers can be found here: All the Whys of Delilah’s Demise.

What Have I Been Reading?

Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect. This classic-style mystery takes place on the Ghan, a passenger train that crosses central Australia in a 1,850-mile journey, sort of like an Australian version of the Orient Express. This is the second book in the series and it’s just as witty and entertaining as the first one.

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. Nonfiction. This was written in 2010 and focuses on the pre-Space-X era, but if you’re interested in the history of space exploration, it’s well worth a read. Funny, candid, and entertaining.

Social Media Update

Not counting this newsletter and the Monday evening writers’ chat on Mastodon, I’ve been taking a brief social media break. Five stars, would recommend. I’ll jump back in after New Year’s, but for now it makes for a quieter world, at least temporarily, and we could all use some of that.

Thanks for reading,

Neve