The Francesians Published


The sequel to Green Comet and Parasite Puppeteers – The Francesians – is now finished and available for download. It’s on this site in ePub, PDF and ODT formats, so download one of them, or download them all. It’s also available, along with the rest of the trilogy, at the Unglue.it and Pronoun links in the sidebar to the right.

Blurb

After their conflict with the deadly Visitor, and their expedition to the moon of the ones who sent it, Elgin and Frances leave the Makers — the violently primitive species that created the apocalyptic Visitor — and head back to Green Comet, only to discover that dark forces have been active in their absence. They can turn away and avoid a confrontation with the Francesians, if they want. They don’t have to take on the responsibility of freeing Green Comet from the Francesians’ reign of repression. The people let it happen and maybe they should be allowed to get themselves out of it. They don’t have to take on the responsibility, but they will, because they didn’t save their people from annihilation only to let them live in darkness.

Those of you who have been following Elgin and Frances will find the whole story, all together and polished up at last. If you’re new to this and haven’t read Green Comet and Parasite Puppeteers yet, take all three books and get it all at once.

I’m moving on to the audio recording now and it will be out before too long. Then it’s on to another story. See you there.

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Francesians Ready

All three versions of the book are in their final form and ready to go. I’ve also edited the other two novels, Green Comet and Parasite Puppeteers, to give the whole series a unified look. The front matter and back matter have been brought up to date in all three books to reflect the fact that the trilogy is now complete. It actually looks as if someone had a plan.-)

I’ve done the conversions and everything is now available in all three formats — text, PDF and ePub. I’m now in the process of uploading The Francesians to my distribution repositories. When that is done I will put it up here and announce its release.

Thank you for your patience, and wish me luck.

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Francesians Finished

As I predicted, I finished proofreading and revising The Francesians by the end of the month. Now I get into the mechanical processes of bringing it into a publishable state. That means things like a title page, a table of contents and back matter. Then we come to the conversions to PDF and ePub so people can read them in the readers of their choice. PDF is pretty straightforward since LibreOffice can export directly to that format, and I don’t feel obliged to provide a “cover” for it. All I have to do is make sure it looks good and is formatted correctly. The ePub is a little trickier. There are many little details in the process that have to be just so to get the desired result. It’s finicky but we’re still on track to have it published before the end of summer, and that will be that for the Green Comet trilogy.

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