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I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books.  I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.

Complete novel:  Ventus

 

To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as a free eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this free version.

I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.

Book Excerpts:  Sun of Suns and Pirate Sun

I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available.  If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:

Short Stories

I'll be adding new stories here periodically.  First of all, you can try my Aurora-award nominated short story "Hopscotch."  The year this was nominated, another of my stories was also nominated:  "The Toy Mill," which I wrote with David Nickle.  "The Toy Mill" won the award; but I've always been fond of "Hopscotch."  Here it is, in its entirety excerpted from my collection The Engine of Recall.

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Is the first printed copy of Pirate Sun. Huzzah!

Oh, this is going to be fun. 

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Me too!

Posted by Fred Kiesche at Aug 04, 2008 11:54 AM
Saw two copies left in the bookstore, their usual stack is 6 copies, so you sold four there before I grabbed (yes, I paid for it) one!

Really?

Posted by Karl Schroeder at Aug 04, 2008 05:51 PM
This seems unlikely... the book's not supposed to hit the stands until tomorrow (the 5th). However, maybe somebody jumped the gun. Four copies sold, you say? Well, I know I'm starting things off with a bang!

Really!

Posted by Fred Kiesche at Aug 05, 2008 07:39 AM
Actually, that would be **five** copies, as the stack is usually six, there were only two, and I grabbed one of the two!

So in central New Jersey, looks like you're a bestselling author!

:)