Deborah's Journal

In a fit of benevolent insanity, or maybe just summer wanting-to-dosomething-cool, I'm offering my novel, Jaydium in free serialized chapters on my blog.

The first chapter is up now, and others will follow, most likely on Fridays. If you're coming in later, there's an index and links under "Read A Story" so you can catch up. Enjoy! (And of course if you simply cannot wait to find out what happens next, you can get your very own copy from Book View Cafe, in a format that will play nicely with your Nook or Kindle or whatever.)

To celebrate my 64th birthday, I offered Jaydium and Northlight as a free omnibus edition. I'd like to keep it available (at a price less than the two if bought separately) but I'm having a hard time coming up with a title. "Omnibus" is dreadfully uninformative, and I don't want to use "When I'm 64."

For those of you who've read them both, any ideas? I was stretching my fledgling literary wings, so they don't have much thematically in common. But maybe that's my limited hindsight.

I'll give away a free copy to the person who comes up with the title I use (multi-format, DRM-free ebook).

To coordinate with my Tuesday's Special (Chapter 8 of Jaydium) on Book View Cafe, I've blogged some thoughts on creating aliens that are not just human actors with funny noses.