Author: lmontgomery

THE SKY SUSPENDED, the precursor to the newly released Mercenary Calling, is now in Kindle Unlimited. Both books can stand alone, but this one comes right before Mercenary Calling.  It’s the first book I ever wrote, finished, and published.  I used one of my sons as a cover model, so I feel a certain amount…

No, this is not to be confused (accidentally or deliberately) with cow tipping.  It’s totally different. I learned of tipping the writer several years ago from fantasy and science fiction writer Cedar Sanderson, who noted that you could tip a writer by leaving a review of the book or story you read.  The review constitutes…

It’s up!  It’s done.  It’s published, and it’s in print and on Kindle. Exoplanets. Terrorists. Lawyers… Calvin Tondini has his first client, but he may be in over his head. It’s the twenty-second century. Humanity’s first and only interstellar starship returns safely. Its mission to discover a habitable planet succeeded beyond all hopes, but there’s…

MERCENARY CALLING will be out sometime in the next week.  Because I’m so excited about it, I thought I’d share the beginning here. MERCENARY CALLING Chapter 1 Calvin Tondini had to squint against the glare to see the motorcade of starship captains exiting the spaceport gates. With not just the sun and the water, but…

EXOPLANETS! TERRORISTS! LAWYERS…. MERCENARY CALLING is coming soon!  It is undergoing print formatting, but the cover is ready.  Streetlight Graphics did a great job with the cover, and I couldn’t be happier. There’s a lot involved in getting a new book out into the world.   Fortunately, today’s markets and technology make that so much easier. …

and went visiting at Mad Genius Club.  It’s about topic sentences.  I know, you’re all, like, “Topic sentences!  Wow.  Let me rush over.” So, go on. by

I am super excited to announce that Sleeping Duty is now available in print.  The book has been available as an ebook for over two years now, but it was still weirdly thrilling to hold a proof copy in my hands.  I’ve been reading books since I was very young, and, although I love my…

Wearing my space lawyer hat, I got to be on Erika Nesvold’s Making New Worlds again.  This week she addresses matters of governance with an anthropologist, a historian, and a couple of space lawyers, one of whom is me.   So, go check out Episode 6:  Who’s In Charge.  If you want to keep up with…

My husband and I drove by a house awash in Christmas lights the other night.  It was a corner house, and the yard facing the side street held inflatable Christmas icons.  The corner itself housed behemoth elves that were two stories high.  But the front.  The front had all the action.  Lit arches, knee-high, flowed…

I’m very excited.  Although I have published four novels and a handful of short stories, I haven’t yet put any of my work into print.  That’s about to change.  As we speak, a proof copy of Sleeping Duty is making its way through the postal system to my waiting hands. Plenty of other independent writers…