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Ventus - Complete novel

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 an 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 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:

Major Foresight Project: Crisis in Zefra

In spring 2005, the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts of National Defense Canada (that is to say, the army) hired me to write a dramatized future military scenario. The book-length work, Crisis in Zefra, was set in a mythical African city-state, about 20 years in the future, and concerned a group of Canadian peacekeepers who are trying to ready the city for its first democratic vote while fighting an insurgency. The project ran to 27,000 words and was published by the army as a bound paperback book.

If you'd like to read Crisis in Zefra, you can download it in PDF form.

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.

Hopscotch

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Jan 27, 2010

Yikes! Do I have to sign up right now?

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Short answer: no. I'll be writer in residence until the end of May

Due to the last-minute dogpile of publicity about my writer in residence tenure, it may look as though you'll have to scramble to participate. After all, the program starts in just a few days.

Not to worry. I'll be accepting manuscripts for critique and discussion for the next several months. Obviously, if you hand me something on the last day of my appointment, I may not be able to give you the time you deserve, so the sooner the better. But don't panic if you're not ready this week.

I'll continue to post information and links about how to join the program, and I'll also be blogging about it all over at the TPL website (link and more details forthcoming).

Now, the workshops are a little more time-constrained. The sooner you tell TPL if you want to attend those, the easier our organization of the events will be. But I'm not expecting to have gone through a reading/critiquing cycle with you before the workshops. We may not get to meet at all before they happen, but they're different from the one-on-one meetings, so that's fine.

Does this all make sense? If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to contact the library, or me at karl(at)kschroeder.com

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