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Journey to the Crossroads of the Galaxy
(7/7/2010)
Crosseoads of the Galaxy is a book
I originally wrote as the pilot for a series of science fiction for teenagers.
Set on a collection of artificial space colonies at a juncture where many
star paths cross, it's a tribute to the young-adult noels of Robert A.
Heinlein and Andre Norton that I so adored when I was growing up. I'm
sorry the series never took off, but this newly reissued edition will
give you some idea of what I had in mind. I hope you'll enjoy it.
And Not Make Dreams Your Master reissued
(6/27/2010)
My novel about what happens when the entertainment industry can broadcast
dreams right into your mind while you sleep--and what happens when one
mad genius snaps during a transmission and threatens to take the entire
audience into insanity with him--is back in print after too long a time
away. Check out a sample of And Not
Make Dreams Your Master for yourself.
Agents of ISIS now appearing in paperback editions
(6/10/2010) The Agents of ISIS series of space opera adventures, previously only available as electronic books, has now started appearing in trade paperback editions as well. First up are Tsar Wars, Tracherous Moon. Robot Mountain and Sanctuary Planet . The plan is to have two more appear each month until the entire 10-volume set is available in print. Please stay tuned.
Updated excerpts from The Business of Being a Writer now available
(6/6/2010) My classic reference book The Business of Being a Writer, one of my most widely-praised works, is now being excerpted. Updated chapters are being published independently in multiple electronic formats. The first four excerpts are:
- A Career in Writing, which discusses such topics as finances, work habits, and pen names.
- The Mechanics of Submission, which discusses proper manuscript format, and how to submit your writing to an editor/publisher.
- Marketing Your Work, which discusses how an author should narrow the field of potential markets, and the criteria to use when making his submission list for each work.
- Dealing with Editors, which discusses the jobs of magazine and book editors, how to maintain good author-editor relations, and how to go about negotiating the terms of sales to your publisher.
- Rights and Copyrights, which discusses subsidiary rights and the ins and outs of copyright law in the U.S.
Other excerpts will follow shortly, so please stay tuned.
Parsina Saga now complete in trade paperback
(5/10/2010) My Arabian Nights-style fantasy, The Parsina Saga, has had a mixed publication history. When it first came into being in the 1980s, Bantam Books published the first three volumes but, because of delays, the fourth book never appeared. More recently, E-Reads took over publication; all four volumes have been available as e-books, but only volumes 1 and 4 were published in paper editions. Now, for the first time, there's a complete, uniform set of printed books of the series. Sorry they won't have the beautiful Richard Bober covers, but you can't have everything. In the meantime, bon appetit!
The Eternity Brigade, Final Edition, now available as ebook
(5/2/2010) The final, thoroughly-revised edition of The Eternity Brigade, is now available as an ebook through Parsina Press. Fans who go through the Parsina Press site can download up to 50% of the book free before deciding whether to buy it, and also get a coupon code that gives them a $2.00 discount off the book's retail list price.
Angel
in Black collects hard-to-find fantasy stories
(4/11/2010) Five of my early, hard-to-find fantasy stories have been collected in one e-book volume called Angel in Black. The stories center about the Shop, which is where people can go for help when they face supernatural difficulties, The Shop's mysterious proprietor is there to help them out--but there is always a price.
Goldin eBooks at Apple's iBookstore
(4/2/2010) All 18 of my titles currently available through Smashwords are now on sale (or should be, barring glitches) as electronic books at Apple's iBookstore for reading on the new iPad. These titles include:
- All 10 books in the Agents of ISIS space operaseries
- Caravan
- Herds
- Alien Murders
- The Djinn Garden
- Haunted Houses
- Painting the Roses Red (Star Rooks #1)
- The Devil Behind the Leaves (Star Rooks #2)
- But As A Soldier, For His Country (the original story on which The Eternity Brigade is based)
They're still also available for purchase, of course, through Parsina Press for those of you who don't have iPads.
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The
Eternity Brigade, Final Edition, now available in paperback
(3/10/2010) The final, thoroughly-revised edition of the book many people consider my greatest stand-alone science fiction novel, The Eternity Brigade, is now available in a paperback version through Parsina Press. The story of soldiers being reincarnated to fight in war after war through all eternity takes on revitalized meaning in today's world, as Ivan G. Goldman's new Introduction makes chillingly clear. I'm proud to offer this book to a new generation of readers. Fans who buy the book through the Parsina Press site can also get a coupon code that gives them a $2.00 discount off the book's retail list price.
(3/3/2010) Announcing the arrival of the exciting Agents of ISIS series, the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century. Starting off with the original novel Tsar Wars, it chronicles the adventures of agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service as they strive to protect the government of humanity's interstellar Empire against the forces of chaos and darkness. While it will take several months for the books to start appearing in print format, they're available now as ebooks if you just can't wait to read them. Visit Parsina Press for more details.
(8/19/2009) The two books in the Mindsaga series, MINDFLIGHT and MINDSEARCH, have now been published by Midnight Showcase Fiction.
Both were out of print for many years--and, while MINDFLIGHT was originally published in paperback, the second book MINDSEARCH had only ever been published before electronically. Now for the first time, both books are simultaneously available in paperback and multiple electronic editions.
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SCAVENGER
HUNT now in paperback!
(7/21/2009) For the first time in recorded history, the full story of SCAVENGER HUNT is available in a one-volume paperback edition. The 1976 Laser Books edition had to be split into two parts (Scavenger Hunt and Finish Line) and altered so each part would look like an independent book. The original story was published in one paperback volume in Germany, but never in English. In 1999, the story was completely revisedand reunited for the electronic E-Reads edition...but not until now has the complete story been available in one English-language paperback volume. If you enjoy a rollicking space adventure, racing across the galaxy to find mysterious treasures, this book is right up your alley.
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(6/16/09) Assault on the Gods has just been reissued in paperback and electronic formats by Midnight Showcase Fiction (also publishers of my novel Polly!) Hardcover copies are also available (though with a hideously ugly cover) at Parsina Press.
Star Rooks stories available again
(6/12/09) The diMedici family of interstellar swindlers is back in action with the electronic re-release of the two stories by Kathleen Sky and me: Painting the Roses Red and The Devil Behind the Leaves. If you enjoy a good caper story, these might be just up your alley--plus you can read up to 50%of them for free before deciding whether to buy them!
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CARAVAN and the Deborah Rabinowitz mysteries reissued!
(6/3/09) My Laser Books novel Caravan has been reissued in multiple e-book formats. While it was originally intended as an "if this goes on" story...well, the world went on, but not quite in that direction. You can think of it now as an alternate-world story.
Also out now is Alien Murders, a collection of the Deborah Rabinowitz mysteries--"The Height of Intrigue" and "The Sword Unswayed." Both these novelettes originally appeared in Analog magazine, and have seen limited distribution since. Many fans of my work may not even know they exist.
These works are economically priced--and you can read up to 50% of Caravan and 25% of Alien Murders for free before deciding whether to buy them!
(12/2/08) My first new book in a decade, POLLY!, has finally been published by Midnight Showcase Fiction. The book is mainstream... or fantasy, depending on whom you choose to believe, since there's often a very tenuous difference between the two. It's totally independent of all my other work, and concerns... well, a lady named Polly, strangely enough. Polly is smart, talented, beautiful, self-assured and all sorts of other adjectives it takes an entire book to describe. I think you'll like her.
POLLY! is available in a print edition or in electronic formats.
(3/22/03) JADE DARCY AND THE ZEN PIRATES has at last been reissued in a paperback as well as in electronic format. For those of you who don't want to read books on computer screens, or whose original editions are lost or falling apart, here's your chance to get a new paper copy.
This new edition has only a few minor changes from the original (unlike AFFAIR OF HONOR, which had an entire scene restored). Most notably, the coded message Louis sends to Earth has been somewhat changed, (As in the original we don't decode it for you; that, as they say in text books, is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Work proceeds, albeit slowly, on RUN OUT OF WEST. Be prepared to learn a lot more about Cablans.
(5/9/02) At last!!!TREACHERY OF THE DEMON KING has just been published electronically, completing the Parsina Saga after so many years of waiting. I apologize for the long delay, and I sincerely hope you'll enjoy this book and decide the wait was worthwhile after all. If you want to start a discussion with other fans about it, please visit my Discusson Group.
By the way, I'd like to say a public thank-you to European fan Basile Grammaticos for pointing out to me that there are no tides in the Mediterranean (and thus the "Central") Sea. This fact has been corrected in the newer editions of all the books.
THE
LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES Published
(3/21/02) The collection of my short work, THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES, is now out in print-on-demand paperback as well as electronic formats. This is the most definitive collection of my work that ever has been published (or likely ever will be; I'm not writing a lot of short stories these days).The book contains my Nebula finalist "The Last Ghost"; my most anthologized story, "Sweet Dreams, Melissa"; the 5 never-before-collected "Angel in Black" fantasy stories; the previously unpublished "Haunted Houses"; and a host of other surprises. Roughly half the stories are humorous, the rest serious. It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine which are which.
Click here to see the beautiful cover by science fiction artist Don Simpson and to view the entire Table of Contents. Then click here if you want to buy a copy.
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