Many of you know I get quite excited around Christmastime (I even wrote a Christmas short story a few years ago).

I hope you are all feeling the holiday spirit. I’ve got my office pretty decked out and the house is all ready to go. Here’s the shelf right next to my desk:

The book has been laid out and is almost ready to submit to Amazon. I’m waiting on both the cover artist and the map artist (they are both working on their pieces right now.) Here’s a sneak preview of a portion of the map!

When I was young and on holiday break, I would spend a LOT of time reading. Like many people do, I always wondered what it would be like to visit the favorite worlds of my favorite books.

That got me thinking - what worlds do people most fancy visiting?

So I created a short poll with science fiction and fantasy worlds. Head over and tell me -- which world would YOU visit? I’ll share the consensus next time!

Promotion

From time to time I’ll swap promotions with other science fiction authors if they have a book I think you might be interested in. They’ll always be listed here, last, under promotion.

She’s many things. A foundling, a princess, the last of her line, the first of the nameless order. She’s an orphan and grew up in a jungle. She’s homeless because a royal palace doesn’t fit. She’s trained to be a crack trooper, but she’s an even better friend. You could spend eternity reading a list of what she is. What she’s not, is an average human. After all, she was brought up by hundreds of mothers…and they’re all frontier gods.

Travel the invisible yet dangerous road to the Rim