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The GoodReads giveaway for The Aurora's Pale Light has concluded and the response to the giveaway was overwhelming. 5,157 people entered and most of those added The Aurora's Pale Light to their TBR lists. So thanks to all who entered. If you won, GoodReads will have let you know by now and your books will be on their way to you shortly.

If you didn't win, well you still win because the Kindle Edition of The Aurora's Pale Light is available for preorder now! Both Kindle and Paperback Editions will be available exclusively on Amazon beginning November 29th, 2024 (Black Friday)!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D...

So congratulations to the winners and congratulations to the rest of you other winners.

Spread the word! #TeamWalrus4Ever

Doc

The GoodReads giveaway for The Dent in the Universe has concluded and I've just finished signing, packaging, and posting the paperbacks for the 10 winners. The response to the giveaway was overwhelming with 5,000 people entering and most of those adding The Dent in the Universe to their TBR lists. So thanks to all who entered. If you won, GoodReads will have let you know by now. If you didn't win, well you still win because The Dent in the Universe is available free all summer long through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited all you can read smörgåsbord plan. After August passes it will be available only as a Kindle Edition ($8.99) or a paperback ($13.99) but you'll also be able to buy it from more booksellers as Magic Genius Books will be "going wide" with the eBook to all the other vendors you love.

So congratulations to the winners and congratulations to the rest of you other winners.

Spread the word! #TeamWalrus4Ever

Doc

So let's get the marketing news out of the way. Magic Genius Books has generously offered 10 signed first edition copies of The Dent in the Universe for a GoodReads giveaway. If you'd like your book signed by some guy with a cigar, you should absolutely enter. The contest runs from 6/26 through 7/10. Here's the link!

Okay, now that that's out of the way, I thought I'd tell you that my brother, an actual physics professor (retired) has read the book and liked it. He wants to offer notes on the science in the book. I look forward to that cuz I love talking physics with my bro, but here's the thing about science and science fiction. It can never be accurate 100%. See, the priority in science fiction has to be on the story you're telling. So, the science always has to take a back seat. AT BEST, science rides shotgun. The story always drives.

That said, the science in science fiction also has to sort of rhyme with accurate science. It has to be somewhere in the neighborhood so that kids reading it won't walk into physics classes with absurd notions of reality.

Anyway, that's my take.

Doc.