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Book Signing in the Philippines?
I am exploring the possibility of holding a large, combined, author’s book signing event in Province of Pangasinan on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines in late July if I find sufficient writers interested in it. To attend, you would need to agree to provide your own book, and to sell them on consignment through the group I find that will sponsor the event who will charge a 15% markup on all…
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In the Service of Evil update
Book one, A Fall of Ashes, is now up on Reamstoreies, joining the ongoing story of Wind Blown Ashes. Both stories have updated covers and are also available on Kindle Vella. You can follow Ashes story as she struggles to learn not to be a victim and tries to balance her scales, so she done not end up following the Dark Path. https://reamstories.com/jamesrsteinhaus The Fall of Ashes After being…
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The Tomlin of Kara
This is an image that mage.space generated when I gave it my description of a Tomlin. I have no idea why it gave the spear such a ridiculous head on it. Other than that, it isn’t too far off from what I was envisioning when I started writing about Kara all those years ago. Tomlins are green bipedal reptiles with large T-Rex style heads, roughly 1.4 meter tall and were the first outside race that…
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World-building: Kara
Spoiler alert. This contains some information that hasn’t come out on the Kindle Vella, or Ream versions of the Kara stories, though I have avoided disclosing major things. I began the first Kara story back in the late nineties. It was originally just titled Kara, though I changed it to Kara Discovered when I expanded my focus. It started out as a story merging two ideas in science fiction. What…
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Renegade on Kara on Ream
Set more than a thousand years after Kara Discovered mankind has built cities on Kara far larger than they have on any planet. Roger is a college kid that broke the law and now need to flee beyond the reach of Civilization. https://reamstories.com/jamesrsteinhaus
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An Ancient World Found
10,000 year into our future, a fourth universe that people can survive in is discovered. Technology doesn’t work there. Most modern material can’t exist there. It is infinite. It is 10^63 years old. It is artificial. Lieutenant Peter Jeffries has to take his platoon there. Read about it and other of my stories on Ream or Kindle…
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My work is now available on Ream
This ongoing story, and many of my other works are now available on Ream and have more content I am constantly adding. https://reamstories.com/jamesrsteinhaus. With the Story Donald of Mars, I have used fiction to try to give people a more realistic idea of what living on Mars would be like. I hope you will read that and my other works there.
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New Cover Image to Mercenary Captain Kerric
I used the Ai image generator at 123 to get this image and have put it up as a cover image. To get closer to the mark, I need a better generator, preferably one where you an take on such and this and tell it what modification to make to it such a making the cat larger and dark brown with black stripes.
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Merry Christmas
Here is an old story from when I was just learning how to tell stories, (but thought I knew what I was doing, and didn’t understand why I could not sell it). I dug it out, fixed the bad grammar mistakes but otherwise left it as is. It is free and has under 1000 words all as a single episode on Kindle Vella. I hope you enjoy it. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0CPSPTY62
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99 cent Short Story: I Took A Walk
You would think being able to walk through walls would be great. In this science Fiction Short story, I explore a few of the problems with doing that. $0.99 or free to Kindle Unlimited users. Buy Now
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A Fall of Ashes
Ashes, an ignorant peasant farm girl with no hope of a dowry, just wanted a husband. That made her an easy victim and easily tricked. There was no shortage of men and boys willing to trick, use and abuse her. Her only hope out of slavey is magic that she hadn’t even known she had. But evil and evil-doers hunt her at every turn. E book/ Kindle Unlimited Paperback Hard Cover Kindle…
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Koradonda Is Live on Kindle Vella
When Patrolman Ann Donaldson was called in to sit with an abused teenaged girl, She had no idea that she would become involved with an ancient race of powerful shape-changing creatures and her actions could lead to a war of extinction for either or even both races. Join her as she faces the good and evil of those creatures and comes face to face with the evils of humanity in ways no street cop…
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Donald of Mars Chapter 26 is Live on Kindle Vella
When a few of robotic ships carrying non-critical cargo fail, a scramble begins that affects every person on Mars. Read about it and all the previous episodes on Kindle Vella. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BRG5CG3Q
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Fall of Ashes: Now available on Kindle Unlimited
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I Took a Walk: 4 Episodes Up
The fourth episode of my newest story I Took a Walk on Kindle Vella is now live. Join Jimmy as he finds out sometimes easy money isn’t so easy.
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In the Service of Evil 2: Wind Blown Ashes now live.
The last of A Fall of Ashes goes live today but the saga continues with Wind Blown Ashes and her struggle to leave her past behind her. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0C1XJSXK1
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In the Service of Evil
On Wednesday, April 19, the final episode of A Fall of Ashes will be published on Kindle Vella and the frist three episodes of the next book will be published. Join Ashes in the second part of her story as she discovers that having killed, getting back to the grey path isn’t so easy.
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A Fall of Ashes Chapter 11 now up
Life isn’t fair. Ashes has known that since Hammer took her clothes. Ending up a wench in a tavern to escape a sorceress, was coming just what Ashes was learning to expect fate to dish out to her. Chapter 11 of A Fall of Ashes, Tavern Wench, is now available on Kindle Vella and Patreon.
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A Fall of Ashes chapter 10 now live
One of the reasons for their slow pace is the joint pains of one of their group members. It is curable but will require a place and time to work as well as more herbs than she has all being done while people still hunt her. Read Chapter 10 of A Fall of Ashes on Kindle Vella or Patron.
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Chapter 22 of Vikings of Asgard is now live.
While Don is off to his own barony, Bob is keeping an eye on the newest baron, a ruthless man from the Philippines, with hopes of having an ally. Read it on Kindle Vella or patreon.
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A Fall of Ashes Chapter 9, Now Available
The reward for Ashes is high, so is the fear of displeasing the mysterious Mistress Gru. Ashes’ best chance isn’t avoiding the searcher but being someone they would never suspect of being the young sorceress they seek. available on Kindle Vella and Patreon.
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Chapter 8 of Donald of Mars is now live.
I have the next installment of Donald of Mars now available on Kindle Vella and Patreon Donald has taken a job fixing the aquaponics based environmental system of a couple of adult film actress that didn’t take the time to keep it up.
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New Chapter of A Fall of Ashes is up
It hadn’t taken long for Ashes to get into deep trouble after becoming a full sorceress. It had been trouble of the type she either killed, or suffered badly. Now she and the two men she used as cover to escape the guard have to flee. Now available on Kindle Vella or Pateron.
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Coming in April to Kindle Vella
Renegade on Kara: The Great Basin Roger was the gifted top student at a university dedicated to magic so large it took up several continents of the infinite universe known as Kara. That prestigious university was simply called The University. But not all the students accepted that the AIs rated him higher than they. One managed to goad him into an illegal duel. In winning, he loses everything,…
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New Web site is up.
I have a new website. It is still under construction, but I have the basics in place now. My author site https://wordpress.com/home/jamesrsteinhausauthor.wordpress.com is still active. But most of my updates will be taking place here from now on. Vella Links
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Preorder now: A Fall of Ashes
It is finally happening. After a lot of effort, my Dark Fantasy novel, A Fall of Ashes, is now available for preorder on Amazon for $2.99. The novel is scheduled for release in June. Ashes just wanted a husband, but she went too far, and in the wrong place. In order to escape being a tavern slave, she must serve the old witch that lives alone in the gorge. But old mistakes continue to haunt her…
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Donald of Mars: Chapter 6, Home is now available
I use this chapter to introduce people to more of the unusual things one might see in a Mars colony and some attitudes that might result from living there. I hope you find it useful, and the topics get further explored in later chapters. It is available on Kindle Vella or Patron.
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A Fall of Ashes: Chapter VI, Sorceress now available
Now in her early twenties, Ashes has become comfortable as an apprentice studying healing, when her mistress sends her on an errand in a far distant town. Little does she realize it is a one-way trip and she will lose everything but what she is carrying. She is a sorceress and has her freedom now, but at a terrible cost. Read chapter IV of A Fall of Ashes, Sorceress, on Kindle Vella or…
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Fifth Chapter of A Fall of Ashes is now live
Ashes hated being sent to heal the very people that had raped her and wanted her for their slave, but accepted that it was something she had to do. She was in no way ready for the surprises that awaited her. Chapter 5 Apprentice Healer is now available on Kindle Vella and Patron
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Donald of Mars: Chapter 4 Stein and Schmidt Construction, now available.
Having received his bonus, Donald makes payments to schedule his use of the construction equipment he needs to build his home. This is the fourth chapter in my effort to show a realistic version of what being a Mars colonist might be like. It is available on Kindle Vella and Patron. I hope you enjoy it.
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