I’m pleased to announce that Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is the latest winner in the book giveaway.  He chose The Silver Ship and the Sea.

There are two more drawings left – one this Friday and one on the 10th which is the release date for the hardcover of Wings of Creation.  The release date drawing will be for all three books in a hardcover set (and the hardcovers of books one and two are getting rare, so this is an opportunity).

To enter:

Comment on this post on this website (www.brenda-cooper.com)

Go to www.thefiveworlds.com and send an email via the “contact us” form there

DM me at @brendacooper via Twitter

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I’m pleased to announce that Reading the Wind is out in paperback.  In honor of its release, I posted a new story on the Academy of New World Historians website.

The new story happens offstage to the action in the book, and is the first part of the overall story that has been narrated by Bryan. In the story, Bryan talks about what happens to him as he walks down the Street of All Designs.  If you then send me a comment from the Academy Site (or  comment on this post), I’ll enter you into a drawing for free books.  I’ve given away two so far, another one will be given away Friday, and one more every week up until November when Wings of Creation comes out.  On the Wings release day,  I’ll draw a name and send out a full hardcover set of the three books to someone.

Also, if you entered before, and you didn’t get a comment or a reply, then the spam filter ate it.  I have verified at least one case of the Internet eating comments meant to be entries, so if you’re not sure if you’re in, email me again.

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People ask me regularly if I have books available on the Kindle.  It’s possible that happens more to me than to other authors, since I live and work in Amazon’s home town and my friends are tech geeks.   I’m pretty sure that my novels will find their way there eventually through my publisher, Tor Books, but I decided to put a few short stories on the Kindle myself after hearing that other writer’s are having success.

So I enlisted my trusty and helpful web expert, Jeremy Tolbert, in the project, and within a week or so there were three stories up there.  Here’s what I chose:

“Savant Songs” which is about a brilliant autistic scientist and is my most commercially successful short story (It came out in Analog and in Year’s Best SF10)

“A Lingering Scent of Bacon,” which got me my best-ever acceptance letter fron editor Kerrie Hughes, and which came out in the anthology “Maiden, Matron, Crone.”

“The Licit Zone,”  which is a “Kindle Original.”

This is completely an experiment.  I don’t expect to get rich from it.  But I like the idea that it keep the first two stories available since they are otherwise pretty hard to find right now, and I like them both.   Maybe releasing one only on the Kindle will have interesting side-effects.  Who knows.

Each story is a $1.99.  From your Kindle, you can find them by searching for my name in the Kindle Store.  Just for fun, I want to encourage you to buy one of the stories, read it, and comment back here (good, bad, neutral…I’m open).  I’ll draw one to three names (depending on how many people try a story) and send each of you a free copy of “The Silver Ship and the Sea,” which is the beginning of my current series of books.

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