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Meeting The Morelli Upcoming Release
Have uploaded files for Meeting The Morelli to Amazon and Draft2Digital (aka Books2Read, which distributes to the rest of the book world). This is (thus far) a standalone set in the Empire of Humanity. I have the bare idea for a sequel. Amazon has files for kindle, paperback and hardcover. I’m not allowed to create…
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The Gates To Faerie
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBDL8QK Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/47xV9N Mark Jackson’s problems begin when he wakes up with his ex-wife’s mummified corpse. Seven years ago, she walked out on him and vanished. Now she’s back, and desperate for help. She claims a cult cured her cancer, but now they want to kill her. Sceptical, Mark agrees to help.…
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Meeting The Morelli (Progress Report)
Finally got the previous round of artist drama dealt with. One of the issues with Fiverr is that you have to be willing to deal with performance issues on the part of artists. Many of them are wonderful; some are … less wonderful. Had one try to put the Millennium Falcon on the proposed cover…
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Preparing The Ground
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E1PZL5S Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bPJxR7 It started innocently enough. Joe was the engineer on one of Earth’s first explorations beyond the Solar System, using borrowed Imperial technology. Captured on a hostile planet, he has to make a plan for his crew to escape – and then he discovers his real mistake! He becomes a…
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Excerpt from Measure of Adulthood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G I had basically no information on my other son beyond his name, identification number, and the fact he was operant. I was pretty sure he hadn’t been born operant, but I had no idea how long he’d been operant. The Empire was better equipped to recognize and enable it…
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Excerpt from The Invention of Motherhood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Residence security agreed that I was cleared for the Residence and admitted me. I got about two steps before my perception said someone was there and I was swept up in a big bear hug by Scimtar himself. “Welcome home, daughter!” Scimtar was the definition of larger than life…
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Sales on now:
Smashwords Christmas Sale. Man From Empire is free in e-book. Everything else is 50 or 75% off https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/DanMelson6839 If you’re wedded to Amazon, I have 99 cent sales going on all my first in series. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dan-Melson/author/B00FSDT1MC
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Excerpt from The Invention of Motherhood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Grace I would like to ask you about extending. The telepathic message was not unexpected. I had twelve days – three Imperial weeks – to go in my twenty year commitment to the Imperial military. In our capacity as Merlon’s Eyes, Asto and I had been all over the…
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Excerpt from SettingThe Board
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQGYK7L Books2Read link:https://books2read.com/b/3JDXpK Yalskarr was nothing impressive to look at – yet. Docks, blocky wooden warehouses, and the occasional stone or brick edifice rising three or four stories off the ground. It was Calmena’s answer to Houston at the dawn of the petrochemical age. This time, the hard work of setting up the…
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The Locale of Aescalon, the Connected Realms and Major Characters
Aescalon is the cavern linking the 165 major Connected Realms and all the trillions of lesser ones. It is also the portal by which mass-energy penetrates into them. One of the original titles I played with was “Blowing the Bubbles of Creation” (and I’ll likely use that title eventually) as that is what Aescalon is:…