LAURA MONTGOMERY

I’m looking forward to LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN this weekend.  It’ll be fun to see old friends and meet new ones! I wanted to let you all know about a temporary–and very brief–price drop for the paperback version of SLEEPING DUTY. I had to order author copies for LibertyCon , but left it too late,…

Clients never provided their lawyers enough time, and this was one of those times. Joseph Stern walked as fast as Yoel Aronson, first mate on the Copernicus, not only because he could but because he had to. Aronson, who seldom saw cause for formalities, had come and fetched the lawyer himself. There was only one…

I have never entered a shoe-buying, jeans-bingeing, on-line procuring fugue state, where I’m surprised later by my acquisitions.  I did, however, worry last week that I’d gone around the bend with the on-line plant purchasing when a large Izel box arrived that I didn’t remember ordering.  It was full of stonecrop–fifty plugs of stonecrop, to…

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  Working Loose is a prequel to Martha’s Sons, and it’s free!  I think of it as Edward’s story.  If you’ve read Long in the Land, you know what I’m talking about, and you can get it through Book Funnel when you sign up for my newsletter. The planet Nwwwlf—so named by the starship’s crew…

I’m looking forward to participating in the University of Arizona’s inaugural space law and policy forum on October 12.  It will be a day of discussions on property rights in space, crowded orbits, responsible stewardship of the moon, and national security.  I’ll be on the property rights panel. If you wish to attend, it’s here…

  On a lost and stranded colony world, with his brother’s family at risk, Peter Dawe will do what he must to protect them. A lost starship’s settlers turn one valley on an alien planet into a terraformed replica of Earth. The rest of the planet offers only hardship and madness. Despite the oasis First…

I managed to get another awesome Tom Edwards cover for the fifth book in my Martha’s Sons series.  Peter Dawe is back! Just FYI, I’ll be putting the short stories, Transport and Deliver and Relief Afar, into a related category when I publish His Terrible Stall so that the numbering is correct.  Stall is the…

Thinking about terraforming barren, alien rock worlds has made me a tad obsessive about the lessons we can learn from remediation and restoration of the native terrain here on Earth.  Native plant popularizers like Douglas Tallamy or wilding proponents like Isabella Tree may not be thinking about space settlement, but I am.  So I’m reading…