Darkmatter, my newest novel, has just been released.
Set in an alternate history London, in a 1961 nobody's ever been to, Darkmatter is a re-imagined cold war in which there never was a second world war, and as such, no Manhattan Project, no atomic weapons and no Soviet Union to steal them. Actually, there's still a Soviet Union, but they're busy stealing something much more dangerous.
The physicists who brought us "the bomb" have brought this lot "the project," a barely understood, barely working technology to project things through time.
You don't want to think about what the KGB has in mind to project through time if they manage to pinch it.
LizardLand was something of a "lost" novel for a time — I knew exactly where it was, but several literary agents and publishers made a point of pretending they didn't. One of them said with considerable weight of authority that satires just don't sell. I asked him what does sell, and after some consideration he suggested a book having to do with teenage vampires. No doubt he was right, but that was a manuscript I could have lost with real enthusiasm.
After almost a decade of pondering over it, we decided to do LizardLand as an electronically-published work through Amazon Kindle. Aside from being state-of-the-art and massively cool, Kindle represents something of a proving ground for speculative books. Publishing a book to Kindle doesn't involve sinking a big blue barrel of money into a press run, and then potentially having stacks of unsold books hanging around for the rest of time to embarrass everyone involved in the project.
Cat lovers are going to go ballistic over this one. So will parents, orthodontists, psychiatrists, documentary film-makers, paleontologists, gif-shop owners, natives of Alabama of German decent... the list is extensive. With a bit of luck, they'll all want to buy a copy of it so they can become outraged and delete it in protest.
My first four novels — Coven, The Order, Wyccad and Eye of the Dawn — are now available as a bundle for $29.99, with discounted shipping as well. This will save anyone who wants to read them fifteen dollars or more, depending upon where you live.
If you buy the book bundle, you'll also receive no-cost registrations for a number of Alchemy Mindworks' software products — The Ultimate Screen Clock, Pagan Daybook II, Spies: A Cold War Daybook, Calendar Wizard and Font Wrangler. The book bundle includes a copy of the current Alchemy Mindworks install CD-ROM, which includes evaluation and registerable copies of all the Alchemy Mindworks software, and eleven seconds of my alto saxophone. Finally, you'll receive the current ancientmusick.com music CD, which features considerably more than eleven seconds of my alto saxophone, and numerous other instruments of various durations.
This is a limited-time offer. In that copies of several of these books are running out in their current mass market printings, and they're due to be reprinted as somewhat more expensive trade-size books, the price of this book bundle will increase in the near future.
You can order Book Bundle One at the e-commerce page or by calling 1-800-263-1138. All major credit cards and PayPal on line are cheerfully accepted — they'd probably accept cash and bartered chickens if there was a way to download them.