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Parsec Finalist

For the fourth year in a row, I’ve got a novel in the finals of the Parsec Awards. This is the Sixth Annual award ceremony so that’s a pretty good average. I don’t think anybody else has had that many finalists*.

To recap:

2008: Full Share and South Coast.
2009: Double Share
2010: Captain’s Share (Won!)

This year, I’m honored to have two nominations in the finalist lists.

  • Owner’s Share is on the short list for Best Speculative Fiction (Long Form)
  • The Amazing Amulet of Amenartas is on the short list for Best Speculative Fiction (Short Form)

The ceremony and awards will begin at 4:30pm EDT, Sept 3, 2011. I won’t be able to attend (drat) but I’m sure there’ll be plenty of live tweeting and we’ll undoubtedly have a Parsec Panel following along at Dragon*Cant this year, as well.

For the full list of finalists, visit the Parsec Awards web site.

Thanks to everybody who nominated and supported these two works. Special thanks to Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine for inviting me to play in their sandbox by contributing a steampunk story to the Tales From the Archives anthology, and for the superb post-production work.

We’ll know in a month …

* As Mainframe pointed out in the comments, I’m certainly not the top dog in “most finalists” overall. I was thinking *Long Form* and mis-spoke in my excitement.

A Light In The Dark

Here’s what I got so far, crew. The story is complete and this is my draft cover art along with the “blurb” that will go along with it. I suspect we’ll clean up the blurb as it gets closer but I wanted to give you all a sneak peak at what’s coming. I’m contemplating the podcast idea but I think this is too short for Podiobooks–it would barely fill the required five episodes unless I made them REALLY short episodes. Someone made the suggestion that I offer it to Tony C. Smith over at StarShipSofa and I think that might work out quite nicely if Tony wants it.

UPDATE: Wow! That was fast!! A Light In The Dark seems to be available on Kindle already. I messed up the blurb, and it won’t let me fix it yet, but apparently the book is for sale.

UPDATE (Again): Barnes and Noble and Smashwords now available. (Note: The Smashwords meatgrinder put some bullets in front of the chapter headings for some of the formats. I’m working on fixing it.)

When Captain Bjorn Gunderson docks with what he thinks is routine cargo, he embarks on a very different voyage. On a milk run from Welliver to Breakall, a tiny rock punctures his ship, The Wanderer, and leaves the crew adrift twenty-thousand years from home. With food, water, and air running out, a desperate crewman takes a reckless gamble, risking his life in a daring bid to find safety. What he finds instead puts them all at risk.

Join Captain Gunderson and his crew on the final voyage of the Solar Clipper Wanderer in book one of Tales from the Deep Dark — A Light in the Dark.
An award winning producer of science fiction and fantasy podcasts, Nathan Lowell has produced eight novels totaling over 160 episodes and 70 hours of podcast fiction. Since 2008, four of his productions have been finalists in the Parsec Awards and his book–Captain’s Share–won the 2010 Parsec Award for Best Podcast Fiction (Long Form). In 2010, Ridan Publishing began producing his work in paper and ebook formats. Those books are available online from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, the iBook Store, and from Ridan Publishing.

A Light In the Dark is the first of a series of novellas set in the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. The series focuses on the happenings in and around a renegade outpost, a place outside the jurisdiction of the Confederated Planets–a place where the normal rules don’t apply and where anything might happen.

For more information about the books and author, visit the Trader’s Diary at http://www.solarclipper.com.

Novel Nibbles are a series of shorter works offered in ebook only format for those who would like something to read on their phones and other small screen mobile devices. Coming in at around 20,000 words, they’re shorter works for smaller screens. See http://novelnibbles.com for more information and other titles in the Novel Nibbles family.

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