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A Plethora of Deities - Book VII:  Inspiring the Muses

Teen-aged Fury, Evrona is ready to go to college. Enki, the ancient god of water, magic and inventions wants to own a college. Convenient? Not hardly! Enki assembles the usual suspects and turns them into a faculty and the school year begins, but nothing is ever so simple when gods are involved!

With a killer asteroid headed toward Earth and the nations of the world on the brink of a nuclear war, several thousand volunteers are selected for the audacious Project Van Winkle to provide the seed for a new civilization should the worst happen. Unfortunately, someone forgot to set the alarm and they wake up two hundred and fifty million years later, still on Earth, but in a world entirely alien to anything they knew.

Available for free download at My e-books site

 

 

Ars Nova Magica Book Four - The Book of Candle

Dry Dock: A Story of Maiyim

A Plethora of Deities V:    Tempting the Fates

 

 

 By the  Light of the Silvery Moons- Book Two of The Terralano Venture. The excitement may have calmed down on Earth, but it is just getting started on the Lano home world, Treloi.  Captains Susan Ho and Eesai di Sonea and their crew bring Meriwether II  to Treloi to sell a precious cargo of monopoles and get swept up in a clash between tolerance and bigotry. The discovery of a new and possibly hostile alien race only exacerbates the situation!

 

 

 

 

Five Stories of Maiyim A collection of shorter stories involving the world and characters of The Maiyim Tetralogy and Ars Nova Magica.

 

The Maiyim Bourne Doctor Oceanvine left the Lady Elinor Jenynges a legacy aboard the yacht "Maiyim Bourne." Elie thinks it's just some small trinket, but instead she discovers a whole new direction for her life as apprentice to Candle, the last remaining wizard on all Maiyim. Fantasy in a Mid-20th Century millieu.

        A World Without a Name - Book Two of The Wayfarers. Raff and Em Cawlens are taking their young charge, Kaz, back to the Green Lands, but when two great Powers go to war, they must negotiate a fair and equitable peace between them. However, they must travel thousands of miles to accomplish that and someone is not playing fair! 
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    My two latest e-books are now available for free download at www.sc2.com/e-books

 

The Tears of Methis - Book Three of Ars Nova Magica. When the king requests their services, Candle, Oceanvine and Sextant race off to begin their deadliest adventure yet. Fantasy Adventure in a 1970's millieu.

 

Freshman Orientation - A Story of Maiyim. Sally Candleson is anxious to begin her first semester at the University at Randona, but it's the extracurricular activities that can get you in trouble. Warning: Please read The Tears of Methis first.

               

Hi. My name is Jonathan and I'm an author...

I'm not making fun of various Twelve Step programs. Writing is addictive, for me at least, and I'm always careful to take at least a month off between projects to give me time to pursue other interests. However, by the end of these brief hiatuses I'm generally itching to get back to stringing words together. It's something I enjoy doing and I do it fairly rapidly so that I generally am writing only an average of seven months out of each year.

However what I really want to discuss in this post is how I rate my books at Lulu.com ( www.lulu.com/jonathan27 ): When I published my first book in print I was forced to consider what audience they were appropriate for. I don't swear very often and when I do, there's generally someone around who is shocked because they've never heard me talk that way. Most of my characters are the same. Most of them do not swear at all and the few who do do so only in times of stress. None of them use the "F" word in every breath even when in situations where people really do speak that way. I just don't feel the need to use the language that way, but I have occasionally had characters swear by excrement or tell someone to go the opposite direction of Heaven. It doesn't happen often or gratuitously but it does happen.

Consequently, I have chosen to rate my stories at 13 and above for the simple reason that some people are more sensitive about language than I am when it comes to what children should be exposed to. I respect that. As it happens, I personally believe that anyone who can read at a sixth grade level can handle anything I've written regardless of age, but that's me. I don't have children so it's really not an issue for me. I do have friends with children and someof their children have read my books. No complaints so far, but each parent really has to make that decission for him or herself.

Parents: you really should read what your children are reading for the same reason you should take a look at the television they watch. All my stories are available for free download in electronic form at www.sc2.com/e-books . You can read them on your computer or PDA so it only costs your time to make sure my stories are acceptable. And for those of us who really do prefer to read a real book in "dead tree" format with pages and paper and everything, I am gradually making them available in both paperback and hardcover at www.lulu.com/jonathan27

 

In the future I expect this blog will mostly announce the publication of new books both electronically and in traditional format, although I may also use it to answer those questions that come up frequently. Subscribing to the RSS feed for this blog will give you automatic announcements that I have something new available and I promise to try and not fill your feed readers with a lot of useless drivel.

 

Peace,

Jonathan Feinstein