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Excerpt from Preparing The Ground
(This book is part of the First In Series sale, 99 cents e-book through Christmas Day 2024) https://danmelson.com/first-in-series-sale/ The view inside a time-jammer bubble is pretty. Not that the Imperials built ships with windows. It almost defeated the purpose of having a hull, to leave a hole in it where radiation could get in or…
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My Author’s Brand
One thing I should try and make clear to you, the reader, is what my author’s brand is about. First and foremost, I want to entertain you. I will happily give up everything else in order to entertain. If you don’t come away from the book with a sense of “That was fun!” and wanting…
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Excerpt from The Man From Empire
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDLKNXU Books2Read: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxJ No matter what the song says, it does rain in southern California. All the damn time in March of El Nino years. The most recent storm had finished blowing through earlier that evening. I didn’t like working after dark, but the compliance reports just couldn’t wait any longer. My boss, “Call…
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First in Series Sale
Now through Christmas, the first in each of my five fiction series is on sale for 99 cents in e-book! A duel in the shadows as echoes of an ancient war wash up onto a new planet! Life in the Empire has finally settled down. The last of the ston rebels have taken amnesty, and…
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The Connected Worlds and Bubbles of Creation
Connected Worlds is an intentional riff on Zelazny’s Amber, Michael Moorcock’s Tanelorn, Brian Daley’s Cinnabar, and others. It is the setting for my current primary work in progress, working title “Bubbles Of Creation” It’s been several years since I worked in the setting, so I’ll describe it for you. The first book is “The Fountains…
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First Draft opening for Bubbles Of Creation
This will be the third Connected Worlds story, after Fountains of Aescalon (Amazon link Books2Read link) and The Monad Trap (Amazon link Books2Read link), and is my main project at the moment. Progress has been slower than I would like; Alexan is difficult to write. ****** The ground shivered beneath our feet. “Husband, did’s’t thee…
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Excerpt from Gifts Of The Mother
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSLPC8GQ Books2Read: https://books2read.com/b/mqeV66 Chapter Two The tank was an open area separated into cells by bars and not much else. Each had four bunks attached to the ‘walls’ two sets each of above and below. There were already three occupied bunks so I simply climbed into the fourth, the upper bunk on the right,…
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Excerpt from The Gates To Faerie
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBDL8QK Books2Read: https://books2read.com/b/47xV9N Prologue: I was fourteen the first time I saw someone vanish. It was a girl, of course. I remember her as being tall and thin, her skin the rich dark brown of fertile soil, with tightly curled black hair, falling in clumps to her shoulders. Her bathing suit was lighter brown,…
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Politics Of Empire Series Overview
With the release of Measure Of Adulthood, Politics Of Empire is complete as a series. It was written loosely in parallel with the Preparations For War series, in that they both take place in the same setting and at about the same time. The differences are that while Joe and his wife Asina in the…
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Cooking Bacon
World’s Only Perfect Woman is generally a much better cook than I am. But for some reason, I usually end up cooking when we’re having bacon. I have evidence that there are people who cook bacon better than I do. But here’s the easy stuff for people who’ve never had someone to get them started.…