The first three books in the Schattenreich series will be FREE on KOBO (only on KOBO!) for part of January and extending into mid-February. The sales will be staggered and will also overlap, so note the dates. They are part of scheduled KOBO promotions and therefore the spread. So grab them when they go free (as of today, Primary Fault is already free). I’ve never done a sale like this before…and may not again for some time. SO…. Primary Fault, Book 1 of the Schattenreich:free on KOBO from January 9 – February 9, 2017 Shaky Ground, Book 2 of the… Read More
Wishing everyone lots of new books to read and health and happiness for 2017! On a less than happy note: The sharonreamer.com website is down for a couple of days back up (currently – still haven’t identified the problem) after encountering a problem with the server update. I apologize for the inconvenience, even though it’s currently a static site. Just in case, I’ve posted universal links to my books below, you know, just in case you were looking for something to read. In the meantime. Just in case. And even better with blep. Primary Fault (The Schattenreich #1) Shaky Ground… Read More
I have read over 100 books this year — currently at 109 — (my Goodreads goal was 100 and I finished that just after Thanksgiving – woohoo!). Only a few of those books were published in 2016. The rest were older and many of them were ebooks I checked out of my ‘local’ (U.S. library). I enjoyed doing the Goodreads Reading Challenge (my second year – last year I committed to and finished 80 books, plus a few more) because it gives me a reference frame for viewing my addiction to books and also is – to me – interesting… Read More
This Triple Junction excerpt contains a Thanksgiving tale from Bertha von der Lahn, the Burg Lahn storyteller, par excellence. It is a reworking of one of the Breton tales collected and retold by Anatole Le Braz and contained in the collection Celtic Legends of the Beyond: A Celtic Book of the Dead; this version has an introduction by Derek Bryce. It’s available used in print and there might also be an older version downloadable from Gutenberg. As you might guess, Ankou, the Breton harvester of the dead appears more than once in these tales. Bertha’s tale focuses on the 99… Read More
Returning from a pleasant 19 degrees C in Barcelona to, oh, about 3 degrees in Cologne, I am finally adjusting. I brought a mild head cold back, lots of memories, and some books (see below). Thanks to everyone who came to my panels and to my co-panelists – who were awesome and fun to listen to. I particularly enjoyed talking about world-building with Aliette de Bodard, Charles Stross, Andrzej Sapkowski (‘the defense rests’), Concha Perea and successfully moderated by Haralambi Markov. I thought of all kinds of things I could have (and should have) said after the panel. This happens… Read More
