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Trace is now available for purchase! Colin Byrne is a pickpocket, an artist, and an occasional consultant for the police. He’s also an ex-felon, an initiate into the feral, unspoken magic that only prisoners know: how to vanish, how to tell fortunes, how to steal souls. Now the man who put him in prison wants him to return to Railburg State Correctional Facility to help investigate a case.
Colin has some allies at Railburg: his mentor Gutierrez, who talks to God, and his friend Noel, the best ink artist in the prison. But another powerful prisoner that Colin helped put away is slowly poisoning the food, and there’s impulsive young Laney to protect from the Aryan Brotherhood. With mysterious forces aiming to incite a riot that will wipe Railburg from the map and from human memory, Colin has bigger problems than the one he went to Railburg to solve...
This book was the product of an intense editing process conducted entirely online.
Trace is for sale through Lulu.com:
PAPERBACK EDITION | EPUB EDITION
The paper edition is available currently for $12, and the price will rise to $15 in February; the ePub edition is fixed at $3. It is also available for free as a PDF download.
If you are interested in a signed copy, please do not purchase a book! Peep behind the cut for instructions.
Signed Copies
Signed copies are available for $30 each on a first-come, first-served basis. If you know that you definitely want to purchase a $30 signed copy, please comment on this post. Here is what I need from you:
-- That you want a signed copy
-- A reliable contact email address for you
-- Whether you are located in the US (this helps me anticipate shipping costs; it does not affect where you are on the waitlist)
The $30 for the book is inclusive -- it covers the cost of the book plus shipping and handling, and all overage goes to charity. The charities I've chosen to support this time are the Innocence Project and Big Brothers, Big Sisters.
If you'd like to be placed on the waitlist but can't immediately afford a purchase, no sweat! Just let me know, and I'll put you at the end of the waitlist and check back in a month or two.
I also have a handful of leftover copies of Nameless and Charitable Getting, so if you're interested in picking up one of those, talk to me and we'll talk price.
Publicity and Reviews:
I am more than happy for you to publicise this book on your own journal if you want! You are of course welcome to do your own writeup, with your own opinion; if you review the book please send me a link! If you'd like to copy and paste a promo, you can use the text here:
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Sam/Copperbadge has just self-published Trace, his third novel, edited and designed with the help of LJ readers.
Colin Byrne is a pickpocket, an artist, and an occasional consultant for the police. He’s also an ex-felon, an initiate into the feral, unspoken magic that only prisoners know: how to vanish, how to tell fortunes, how to steal souls. Now the man who put him in prison wants him to return to Railburg State Correctional Facility to help investigate a case.
Colin has some allies at Railburg: his mentor Gutierrez, who talks to God, and his friend Noel, the best ink artist in the prison. But another powerful prisoner that Colin helped put away is slowly poisoning the food, and there’s impulsive young Laney to protect from the Aryan Brotherhood. With mysterious forces aiming to incite a riot that will wipe Railburg from the map and from human memory, Colin has bigger problems than the one he went to Railburg to solve...
You can check out more about Trace at http://www.extribulum.com, or buy Trace from Lulu here.
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Thank you for supporting your local independent author! You all know I couldn't do it without you.
Also bear in mind that Lulu bundles postage! :) If you're picking up a copy of Trace and don't yet have a copy of Nameless or Charitable Getting, now's the perfect time to save on shipping. And if you're looking for holiday gifts for high school seniors, you could do worse than Other People Can Smell You, my guide to surviving a university education.
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