Spotted Part 5: Far Arena on the new arrivals shelf of the Prince George Public Library on the weekend, standing out from its darker neighbors in a way that sort of justifies Brian's "brighten it up" cover. Sorry Angie. :-( I know you liked the original, darker one.

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Catherine liked Part 5: Far Arena even better the second time around. She also reports the ORU's "Finnish Ambassador" - an exchange student who has since returned home - is enthusiastic about Part 2: Righteous Anger and as excited about Part 6: Avim's Oath coming out in August as we are. :-) Catherine extended hugs to Amel and Erien. I warned her Erien is a bit stand-offish about such things, but I think she knows him well enough to forgive him for that. Amel, of course, is a hug-addict where women are concerned.

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Pile of books from recent VCON features on the book spotting blog of CNC Librarian Kathy Plett.

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Discovered a sampler chapter of Part 6: Avim's Oath up on docs.google.com

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Part 2: Righteous Anger appears on the "Outer Limits" page of the Vancouver Public Library, a list of "Contemporary works of science fiction created by the Popular Reading Library." Way to go Horth. :-)

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Krysia Anderson, author of Misfit Leaves Home, forthcoming from the Okal Rel Legacies series in the summer of 2010, answers questions from creative writing students in Dr. Dee Horne's class, March 11, at the University of Northern B.C. Krysia teamed up with Lynda Williams for a one hour presentation on the Okal Rel Universe. Her novella features a half-Vrellish/half-Demish character named Victoria who first appeared in the Opus 2 anthology in a story called "Ladylike".

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Wrote up the synopsis of Healer's Sword, below, as an intro to a sample chapter I am sending to a travel-grant opportunity, and rather liked it so I thought I'd share it here as a sneak preview to Part 7: Healer's Sword which is awaiting editing by editor Richard Janzen for release no later than 2011. (Next book out is Part 6: Avim's Oath - Aug 2010 from Edge.) I don't include the unedited chapter, below, just the synopsis introducing it.

Synopsis introducing sample chapter

In Part 7: Healer’s Sword, middle-class Ilse Marin gets embroiled in the reforms of military genius Horth Nersal in an attempt to solve her financial problems back home. Against her better judgment, since Horth is not only her social superior by birth rank but belongs to an incompatible sub-species of human with respect to male/female behavior, Ilse falls for him very hard in a lustful sort of way that she has never expected to experience. Sevolites, like Horth and Ilse, are bio-engineered humans designed for the faster-than-light mode of travel called reality skimming which is too taxing for most ordinary humans (a.k.a. commoners). However, the bio-engineering took place on Earth a thousand years ago. Sevolites have since rejected their origins to evolve a neo-feudal culture with two distinct sub-species: the Demish, like Ilse, who believe in treating men and women differently; and the Vrellish, like Horth, who are all male in terms of their behavior from the Demish standpoint. Both the Demish and the Vrellish are leery of bio-sciences due to bad past experiences with a third kind of Sevolite called Lorels, but Horth’s friend Erien is trying to revive bio-science which is where Ilse got her training from a medic Erien employs named Mira. In the excerpt below we see Ilse doing a work stint on one of Horth’s battlewheels — a kind of flying space-station shaped like a torus that acts as an carrier for spherical rel-fighters. But in this scene the pilots, or relsha, haven’t been fighting other Sevolites. Instead, they’ve been doing the necessary but menial work of sweeping space lanes free of dust using their skim-intrusion fields. Reality skimming requires hard vacuum to be safe.

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Always pleased to hear about a new reader about to embark on the ORU adventure ...

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