I am working on growing my newsletter list–in which I let readers know of new releases and special offers–and have learned that the way to do it is to entice you with free stuff. Therefore, I now offer you free stuff.
First, I have a short story on Amazon available for free until Wednesday. Are you traveling for Thanksgiving? Rapunzel might be just the thing to read on an airplane. It’s got:
First contact.
First sacrifice.
First answers.
Rapunzel’s also got a link to a free novelette. When you sign up for my newsletter, you will get a free copy of Early Spaceports. If you’ve already read Rapunzel–or Early Spaceports looks more intriguing–you can go straight to sign-up to get your free copy. If it’s a long plane ride, you might want both.
Early Spaceports is a novelette set in the Ground Based Universe. In this one, Eli Fisher, a new lawyer, gets a very wealthy powersat billionaire as a client. It seems lucky, but is it?
In the late 21st century, orbital industry floods the world with riches, riches which can wash up against the unsuspecting just as readily as they accrue to those who reach for them.
With his love for his girlfriend, his passion for the law, and his situation in a good firm, Eli Fisher possesses all that a man could need at the start of his legal career. He doesn’t expect it to change when a billionaire who runs orbital powersats hires him for an art project.
But this art project comes with all kinds of strange, and it requires a pawn.
A novelette.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Laura, I really like your spirit and approach to relating to space in your writings. My own interest in space from a ground-based POV is much in the same vein as yours, with some plans to get involved in a very practical unique way in the near future. I look forward to reading your work, now that I just discovered you today!
Thanks, Richard! I hope you find it fun. If you are looking for more practical information, I write weekly over at GroundBasedSpaceMatters.com. (You may already know this, but just in case.)