Tag: releases

Books, Updates, Writing

The Last Link (and Wingborn Shorts)

Becca Lusher

Blazing Dawn Cover 2

Barnes and Noble have finally joined the Blazing Dawn party. Yay!

I’ve had a pretty busy week in which I managed to write about 700 words of Storm Rising before my brain shut down mid-sentence. Next week looks to be pretty busy too, but hopefully I can get back to it after that and finally make some sense out of it. Thus far this seems to be a flying book. I have three and a half chapters and it’s all flying, all the time. I’m hoping to change that in the next chapter, because I have some pretty amazing locations that need exploring. There may also be a baby dragon… called Rhiddyl. (If you one of the few who read the original Rift Riders back on Elfwood, yes, that Rhiddyl. As a baby!)

As for Wingborn news, well, I need to carve out some time for edits, but so far I have three requests for short stories and, me being me, I want to write all of them. I’ve already finished one and have little doubt I’ll throw over all the other things I’m supposed to be doing and scribble down the other two soon. I’m still open to requests, if anyone desperately wants to know something about the Wingborn bunch.

So far, the ones I have are:

  • Cumulo and Hurricane’s first meeting (written – about 3.5K)
  • A survival lesson with Stirla
  • When Stirla met Lyrai (done – about 3.5 K)
  • Milli and Stirla romance (old tale – about 5.5K)

When they’re done I’ll post them in various places for people to read, hopefully before the start of Rift Riders. Although that’s creeping up on me quite quickly, so I might not manage it. Nevertheless, they will appear.

In the meantime, merry Sunday, everyone!

 

Books, Overworld, Updates

Blazing Dawn is Coming

Becca Lusher

I’m currently coaxing it along through KDP, which seems to be grumbling over the cover for some reason. It’s already up on Smashwords, but if you want a mobi version, please wait until the Kindle version is available. I could wrangle with the Smashwords file to sort it out (it’s uglified the headings and is weirdly huge for some reason), but at the moment it all looks so pretty and neat on the epub and pdf files that I don’t want to ruin them, when I’m pretty sure mobi downloads through Smashwords are minimal at best. Why can’t everything always look as pretty as my pdfs?

I’m actually using Calibre for the first time to create my kindle file. Before I’ve been good and followed all of Amazon’s guidelines, but the prospect of having to put the NCX manually in HTML makes my eyes cross. I’m not sure whether it’ll work or not, but I’m fed up of having no NCX navigation in my kindle books, so *fingers crossed*. If it does work all right without any major hiccups, I guess I’ll have to update my other books at some point. We shall see. (Kindle spell checker is weird. It has problems with wingling, dragonling, kinlands and skysailors, but there’s nary a peep over miryhls.)

Oh, yay, Kindle version looks perfect :) True, I now have two ToCs, but I don’t care. I have working NCX! Now to submit it.

So long jabber short, book is slowly making itself available in various places. As per usual, this one will be available at the 0.99 early bird deal for the first month or so, then it’ll rise to 2.99.

I’ll do a proper post later today/tomorrow with blurb, cover and (hopefully) links. I also hope at some point to post some photos, because the sunrise this morning was incredible, but right now I’m off to download Two Steps from Hell’s Battlecry, which I’ve been saving for a while and plan to use to help me write Storm Rising. Expect epicness! (Although you’ll probably get tea drinking dragons talking about the difficulties of crotchet when one has claws, because that’s how my brain works.)

Aekhartain, Books, Updates

Icarus Child is Out!

Becca Lusher

Well, I made it *collapse*

Cover_3 Icarus Child

Once there was an island and on that island there lived a boy…

 Britain 135 BC

Orphaned at birth and raised by his aunt on an isolated island, Icastar has led a far from normal life. His body is misshapen, his days are tormented by whispering winds and demanding ghosts, and he only has seals for friends.

But there is more to this boy than his physical hardships and lonely location. The island and his own body might try to hold him down, caging him inside a world of pain, but he is the Icarus Child.

One day he will fly – or die trying.

Available Now from Smashwords!

All other retailers are currently pending, but it should be available everywhere soon.

I’ll put up a proper book page soon as well as the appropriate links as and when they come in. For now, I don’t want to look at another keyboard for the next 12 hours – or more if I can swing it.

Why is it that every time I upload a book to Smashwords it finds a new and even more irritating bug to plague me with? Today it was the .EPUB version, which I’ve never had much bother with before. Ah well, such is life.

In other news – Merry Imbolc, to those in the Northern Hemisphere who celebrate such things! (And Merry Lammas/Lughnasa/Lughnasadh to those in the Southern half.)

Welcome back, Spring – and happy birthday, Icastar/Shaiel!

All right, so it might be a bit early to declare the return of spring just yet, but at least it’s been a beautiful day here. I might just find a patch of sunlight to curl up in and fall asleep. My brain hurts.

Merry Tuesday, everyone.

Books, Updates, Writing

The Crying Child is Coming!

Becca Lusher

Though I have been quiet, I have been working hard (promise) and The Crying Child is on its way.

Cover_2 Crying Child

Once there was an island, and on that island there lived three cousins…

Britain 142 BC

The Sisters of Icarus may all be gone, but the next generation remains. Bitter, half-selkie and broken, the three women are different in many ways, yet one thing connects them: the island and its quest for a new Icarus.

Ghosts and family, selkies and betrayal, love and loss, these cousins are on a journey that will change all of their lives. And when the stars fall nothing will ever be the same again.

For there will be a new Icarus – the island will accept nothing less.

No matter what the cost.

At this precise moment in time it’s working its way through the mysterious KDP and Smashwords distribution/checking systems so as yet it’s only available from Smashwords, but hopefully within the next day or two all the links will be up and I can post them all.

Also within the next few days I’ll be making Sisters of Icarus FREE! More details on that when I’ve sorted out a few Smashwords related issues.

In the meantime, The Crying Child is coming!

Books, Updates, Writing

Sisters is Out!

Becca Lusher

Cover_1 Sisters of Icarus
The first in the Icarus Child Trilogy is available now!

Amazon: US || UK || AUS || CAN || DE
Smashwords || B&N || iBooks || Kobo ||

Actually it’s been out for over a week, but in my rush to get it ready on time I overloaded my brain and have been useless for anything else since. Oops. Still, better late than never, right?

Cover_2 Crying ChildIn the meantime I’m back at work on the next one – The Crying Child – and I hope to offer both excerpts from Sisters and a few chapter previews from The Crying Child over the next few weeks until it’s ready to be released, which will probably be November now. But as this year seems determined to teach me, the even the best laid plans are prone to going astray…

I’ll try my best to keep on track. Until then – don’t let the island eat you!

Aekhartain, Books

The Rebel is Coming!

Becca Lusher

He’s back!

The Rebel Returns

The shadows are stirring, a tower will rise,
and thoughts of revenge are sweet.
It’s time to fear the darkness.

Nawaquí Caligo may have fallen, but his struggle goes on. Stranded on a remote world with only loyal Noctis for company, Caligo is changed but not defeated.

The road ahead is long, full of shadows and loss and regret. Can he find a way to free himself from thoughts of blood and revenge, or is he doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?

The darkness is coming and this rebel’s fight is far from over yet.

The Rebel Returns

Get it now:
Smashwords
Other retailers coming soon!

Aekhartain, Books

Dark Rebel is Out Now!

Becca Lusher

Dark Rebel 9
Dark Rebel is finally out!

This is part one of Caligo’s two-part tale, Dark Rebellion, the second of which will be coming soon.

It’s also on special offer until April 1st.

Buy it now at Amazon |US|UK|AUS|| Smashwords || iBooks

More links to come when they reach me.

In Other News…

Unbound and Free has been updated and the price has increased. I’ll be posting a deleted short story from that soon.

Spot-the-Aekh and other Dark Rebel related goodies will also be coming soon.

Aekhartain, Books, Free Fiction, Writing

Sing to Me is Out!

Becca Lusher

Tales of the Aekhartain
Vol. 1.5 – An Aekhartain Romance

 

An Aekhartain Romance

Now available for FREE at:

Smashwords || B&N
Amazon: US || UK || Australia || Canada || Germany
It should also be free on Kobo and it’s distributors, but it won’t show up for me.

Dóma has always liked welcoming newcomers to the Shadow Garden, but there’s something different about the newest arrival. Freyda’s life was hard before she joined the Aekhartain, but that’s not it. No, for the first time in over a hundred years, Dóma might just be falling in love.

But does Freyda feel the same? And if she does, how will this most restrained pair ever admit their feelings for each other?

Luckily they’re in the Shadow Garden and they have one or two friends around to help them out.

This novella is a sweet little F/F romance about wings, hope, love and gossip. There is a little magic here, but it’s mostly what Freyda and Dóma can make between themselves.

For more information and an extract go to the Sing to Me page,

or Click a Link and download it now!