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The Dead Isle is now available for purchase!

The year is 1880, and Jack Baker is a young, driven student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" magic rather than machines, and most engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even his Creationist friend Clare thinks Jack's genius is going to waste at Harvard.

There is one man who knows how to put Jack to use, however: famous novelist and sometimes spy Ellis Graveworthy, who wants Jack to come with him to England and build him a flying ship. Graveworthy has been ordered to cross the heavily-guarded coast of Australia, the "Dead Isle" which has no Creation, and which sealed itself off from the outside world more than twenty years before. Rumors abound that Australia is building a war fleet, intent on conquest, and it's Graveworthy's job to stop it.

Clare, exiled from Australia as a child because of her ability to Create, is determined to return to her homeland with Graveworthy and Jack, but their journey is not easy. Along the way the three of them will encounter the pirate Purva de la Fitte, con the wealthiest robber barons in Australia, meet surprising allies, and possibly touch off a long-awaited revolution.

Join Jack, Clare, Ellis, and Purva in an adventure spanning half the globe, in search of the answer to a centuries-old question: Why is there no magic in the Dead Isle?

This book was the product of an intense editing process conducted entirely online.

The Dead Isle is for sale through Lulu.com:

PAPERBACK EDITION | EPUB EDITION

Use the promocode SEPBOOKS12 and get 20% off! (Lulu pays the difference; I make the same profit.)

The paper edition is available currently for $18.99; the ePub edition is $4.99. It is also available for free as a PDF download from Project Gutenberg. (Or will be -- it hasn't been approved yet but bookmark that page, it'll be there when it is.)

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 The Dead Isle and don't yet have a copy of Nameless, Charitable Getting, or Trace, 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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So my morning went like this:

Wake up
Eat cereal
FREAK OUT
Make tea
SELL A MOTHER EFFIN BOOK
Lunch

I've had worse mornings. :D

I'm still deciding whether I want to cook all the stuff I said I would cook today. It's so hot, and my kitchen has no fans or windows. I already did some prep cooking in anticipation of Monday, when I am attending A Function with some friends and promised to bring food.

On the other hand, collapsing like a wet noodle and watching mindless television seems like such a good idea.

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HEY GUYS I SAW DOCTOR WHO THE SAME DAY IT AIRED

It's a September miracle!

And now it's time for Sam's Three Things About Doctor Who, 7.01: ( Asylum Of The Daleks )

3a. My entire reaction to this episode could basically be summed up as OH RORY.

In all, the second half of last season was fairly bland. I was hoping this would knock it out of the park, and it...didn't. Still, if it's not a stellar episode it's at least a solid one.