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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 )

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 ( behind the cut: )

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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You know, usually I have the nervous fits before the book goes up. Apparently now I'm on a time-delay, since I just stopped in the middle of making spaghetti and asked myself, what did you just do?

I'll calm down in an hour or two. I did finish putting the spaghetti in the crockpot. And made cookies! STRESS COOK? NOT ME.

I have been getting notifications about the signed-copy requests, but processing them involves copying and pasting a lot of emails and making a lot of notes, so I probably won't be doing all that until tomorrow. Still, rest assured, your comments are noted :)

It's a good thing I didn't take the blanket fort down...